After the big Michelangelo virus scare a few weeks back, I decided it was time to practice what I’d been preaching and buy a tape drive to make consistent backups of my hard disk. I hadn&#821… ...

Despite advances in the size and speed of tape backup hardware, in many cases the offerings just do not cut the mustard, with a major complaint being that they are still relatively slow. When you ...

Despite advances in the size and speed of tape backup hardware, in many cases the offerings just do not cut the mustard, with a major complaint being that they are still relatively slow.

Easier, more streamlined management of backup and archiving increases efficiency because most new options comply not only with other hardware and software options but also with tape, says Steve ...

In the end, I’m not only happy with the VXA-1 drive, I’m extremely pleased with how it has compared to my old, slow DAT drive and its teetering stacks of tapes. If your backup strategy is suffering ...

Virtual tape isn’t necessarily the entire answer to backup. It still doesn’t address the requirements of off-site storage and disaster recovery, but it can be used with a hierarchical storage ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "Tape is King." So says Maxell, which recently canvassed over 4,000 IT professionals about their ...

Most organisations have two or three backup products deployed, while many have tapes up to 20 years old – and they don’t know the contents. Meanwhile, tape storage hardware, maintenance and ...

When tape was slow and backup windows were shrinking in mainframe datacenters three decades ago, somebody smart came up with the idea of "front-ending" the tape system with a cache of disk drives. You ...

Tape libraries may actually cost more upfront than disk systems, but they can be scaled at a much lower cost for each incremental amount of storage, according to this article for SNW Online. Topics ...

For the life of me I can't find a good guide on the Intarweb about doing tape backups, so I figured I might as well start a thread here about doing Tape Backups regarding the commands, strategies ...

Are there any inherent limitations backing up a vSphere 5.x environment directly to tape? Or to phrase it another way... What are the specific reasons I would not want to backup my vSphere 5.x ...