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 Exchange ...

One alternative is to back up data on disk, which is inherently faster than tape. Some users are taking an extra step by adding tape to the mix, creating disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup systems.

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

One of the most tedious and complex jobs in the world of IT is data backup. Not only is it complex, but the use of mechanical Tape loaders make the system very prone to breakage and the Tapes ...

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 ...

When it comes to storage technology, tape and disk have their advantages and shortcomings, but disk has won because, in a nutshell, tape is fast, but disk is quick. Any backup experts worth their salt ...

Tape is definitely not the best choice for primary recovery, but it does have features that make it a credible option for restoring systems and data that have fallen victim to ransomware without ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...