So, my trusty Dell TL2000 LTO4 SAS tape library in the server rack at home has given up the ghost after 10+ years of daily backups - the picker isn't aligning correctly. I'm a little nervous about all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DPX 4.14 brings simplified web-based tape library management, automated event cleanup, and smarter job scheduling to simplify long-term data protection and strengthen hybrid backup strategies.

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.

Tape libraries recently experienced a dramatic evolution, changing from monolithic brontosaurs that you had to carefully size according to present and future demands, into more congenial devices, ...

True, vendors are announcing new, lower-priced disk backup systems that can restore data more quickly than tape while almost matching tape’s traditionally low price. But according to customers, ...

Nutter offers advice on moving from one tape library to another, while moving to a new version of the software. Due to added demands for backing up our servers, a new tape library was purchased. Since ...