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 ...

Network Appliance, Inc. is collaborating with backup application vendors to integrate their solutions with NetApp NearStore VTL Shadow Tape technology. The integration will significantly accelerate ...

Going on adding a lot of new data to backups very soon. Going from about 15tb fulls to 55tb fulls. All new hardware is in the works. That is where I need some guidance. I have had a lot of experience ...

The SL500 modular tape library, unveiled at the StorageWorld Conference in Long Beach, Calif., is a rack-mount system that can be easily expanded with additional slots and drives, said Gerry ...

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 ...

Hi All -<BR><BR>This is probably the right place for this, and since the search is offline, here goes:<BR><BR>I've got a lovely new rack server with 1.3 TB of RAID storage up, running Suse 9 Pro as a ...

Dell Computer has released a new tape-backup system, the PowerVault 122T, a 3.5-inch thick automated tape library that can use up to eight cartridges for a maximum capacity of 320GB of uncompressed ...

One of the newest tools in the fight against ransomware comes from one of the oldest technologies: tape. Having a physical backup of your data, in addition to backups in the cloud or on unconnected ...

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, ...