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 ...

So, my trusty Dell TL2000 LTO4 SAS tape library in the server rack at home has given up the ghost after 10+ years of daily backups - the picker isn't aligning correctly. I'm a little nervous about all ...

Boulder, Colo., April 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spectra Logic, a leader in data storage and data management solutions, today announced that its entire family of tape libraries and its Spectra ...

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 ...

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 ...

GUEST OPINION: Today, information is one of the main engines of business, because the very existence of a company sometimes depends on the ability to store and process it. In this article, we will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

HP have announced new tape backup products aimed at SMEs. The new StorageWorks DAT 40 and DAT 72 USB tape drives combine the cost-effectiveness of DAT with USB plug and play convenience, claimed HP on ...

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, ...

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, ...