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 ...

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 ...

The IT department at PinnacleHealth in Harrisburg, Pa., operates more than 300 servers, ensuring that applications are continuously available for 5,000 employees. But backing up eight terabytes of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many in IT believe that the future of storage is entirely disk and that tape is just for archiving -- but not IBM. The company this week launched three new tape drives, including a tape virtualisation ...

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.