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.

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Tape has remained a popular backup solution because of ...

The recent well-publicized backup tape losses at the likes of Bank of America and Ameritrade appear to be pushing some companies to consider alternative storage technologies such as virtual tape and ...

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 ...

A high-quality tape can keep your data for decades without succumbing to corruption. You need to protect tapes only against adverse weather conditions, such as extreme temperatures and humidity. 8.

The best thing about using your tape backup system as a secondary solution is you can run backups whenever you want because you will be backing up from the central backup server. You will not use any ...

A backup tape drive is one peripheral where cost-cutting may not be in your best interest. ... the HyperDAT does have hardware-based compression and benefits from low media cost.

We recently came into a Dell Powervault 110T LTO drive and a bunch of tapes. We installed the SCSI card in our Exchange server on a PowerEdge 2650. We're using Veritas Backup Exec with the ...