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 ...

If you know how it feels to lose data, you know how important and worthwhile it is to perform backups. And if you’ve been lucky enough so far to never suffer preventable data loss, just the thought of ...

With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape. The amount of data we ...

Despite a variety of back-up systems and media, Sony proves tape provides best value. Tape backup systems predate personal computers and refuse to die. In fact, based on the new Sony StorStation I’ve ...

Quantum, a global manufacturer of tape backup and data archive solutions, recently released the Quantum DLT VS160, a tabletop, half-high form-factor tape drive. The device is part of the company's DLT ...

The benefit of a tape backup is mutliple tapes for backups. A hard drive as a backup is like a CD/DVD, better than nothing. Plugging.Unplugging in a hard drive repeated is not wise. Even a hot plug ...

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 ...

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.

My favorite source of numbers for the tape industry used to be the Santa Clara Consulting Group. They’d been tracking the use of tape in the backup and recovery industry since 2008 and had been a ...

True, vendors are announcing new, lower-priced disk backup systems that can restore data more quickly than tape while almost matching tape’s traditionally low price. But according to customers, ...

There was a time, in computing's not-so-distant past, where magnetic tape was the best way to back up large amounts of data. In the mid-90s, tape could store tens or hundreds of gigabytes, while hard ...

It’s no secret: IT pros absolutely love to hate tape. I’ve remarked on that fact in this column several times over the past few years, and it’s no less true now than it was any of the other times I’ve ...