What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

For decades, tape has been the mainstay of regular backup and recovery functions, with price and portability keeping it from falling into obsolescence. However, disk-based backup methods have been ...

The debate over whether disk or tape is the better solution for backup has been going on for some time now, and it seems the answer you get typically depends on who is responding to the question.

I'm part of a team standing up a new server farm. The team has no plan for backups. I'm trying to convince them that we need to use both SAN-based snapshots and a tape library to do backups right.

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Solution providers, on the other hand, called the tape and its contemporary counterpart, disk-based backup, complementary technologies, and are glad they can offer both to their customers. "Tape has ...

DPX 4.14 brings simplified web-based tape library management, automated event cleanup, and smarter job scheduling to simplify long-term data protection and strengthen hybrid backup strategies.

Full Backup Window Fri9pm-Sunday Realistically looking at 24 hours to get all 55tb to tape. I am concerned with how many drives I will need, the network from drives to server, and the back-end disk to ...

We used Symantec’s BackupExec 11d running on a Windows 2003 server to back up 2TB of data from a 2Gbps storage system to each device. We backed up the same data a second time, and ran a script that ...

Tape libraries recently experienced a dramatic evolution, changing from monolithic brontosaurs that you had to carefully size according to present and future demands, into more congenial devices, ...