[CentOS] Tape drive recommendations

>>I can do a bare metal restore of any of our servers
>>with tape in around an hour, don't know why it would take days?
> 
> 
> It may take days to get a functional bare-metal machine ready.
> Even overnight Fedex is still a ~24 hour down time.
> 

Ok, I guess I wasn't thinking that everybody doesn't
stock spare parts for their severs. In that case at a
hardware level, it would take time to get the parts.