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 ...

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 ...

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.

Tape is the Mark Twain of data storage: reports of its death are certainly exaggerated. Tape continues to play a role in the enterprise, and not just because it is a tried and tested technology in ...

Huge hard disks are a boon in today’s world of MP3s and QuickTime movies, but they’ve made reliable backup strategies harder to develop. Back when I bought my first 2.6 GB DAT drive, I’d just added my ...

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 ...

Data backup is a fundamental part of nearly every organization’s disaster recovery and business continuity plans. But long gone are the days when you had a simple tape backup drive connected to a ...

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 ...

According to an EaseUS chat rep. with whom I just spoke, EaseUS TODO Backup (any version) cannot restore files and/or folders directly from tape. This person said that if you want to recover ...