A backup tape drive is one peripheral where cost-cutting may not be in your best interest. A backup system needs to be as convenient as possible; if it’s a hassle, you won’t be inclined to use it.

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 ...

Tape isn’t close to being the perfect backup, but it is pretty impervious to ransomware.

Multiple data points show a steady decline in the use of tape for backup and recovery purposes, but why is that? There are a lot of reasons, many of which are justified, and some of which are not.

From a purely financial standpoint, tape tends to win for smaller IT shops where the performance requirements are lower than what can be achieved with six to 10 LTO tape drives. Disk-based ...

Backup Exec does not offer Multiplexing. Netbackup does however.<BR><BR>We ran into this as well, and bought some disk storage to backup to disk first then duplicate jobs to tape.

Furthermore, Hard Drive based solutions are MUCH faster than any Tape Backup solution. Having 8 SATA Hard Drives can operate at the same time and have an aggregate throughput of about five times ...

The big boys of backup: 4 tape devices tested The big boys of backup: 3 tape drives tested Written by Steve Turvey, Contributor Feb. 2, 2004, 3:21 p.m. PT ...

The aptly named UNITEX USB LTO-9 drive offers a native capacity of 18TB on one tape with transfer rates of up to 300MBps, far more than any cloud backup or cloud storage service could ever reach.

Hewlett-Packard is moving to convince the channel that tape is still the best backup solution for the small-business space.

To test backup and restore time and throughput, we used a test-bed consisting of a file server containing sample data, a connecting switch, and a backup server running the backup software.