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.

I'm part of a team standing up a new server farm. The team has no plan for backups. I'm trying to convince them that we need to use both SAN-based snapshots and a tape library to do backups right.

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 ...

Data storage solutions specialist Dynamic Solutions International has announced the availability of its next-generation virtual tape library offering for data backup and recovery, DSI9000 Version 2.1, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

<p>New Continuous Disk Backup Functionality Delivers Rapid Recovery with Reduced Data Loss and Minimal Downtime to Help Customers Achieve RPO and RTO</p> <p>Sydney, Australia – 30 May, ...

Contrary to popular belief, tape is far from dead, said Scott Winslow, president of Winslow Technology Group, a solution provider in Boston. However, the role tape plays is changing as more customers ...

When the time came for Jeff Machols to find a way to trim and better control CitiStreet LLC’s data center costs while simultaneously improving the performance and speed of backup operations, he ...