Robin Howard

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Tape backups are expensive, require a lot of manual intervention, leave gaps in protection and have high failure rates. If you can’t afford to lose time and data, software-based replication and restoration may be a better solution. Is tape right for you? Tape backup used to be the only option for backing up servers. However, tape backup has inherent problems that can go quickly from inconvenient to disastrous. Consider some of the issues and how they would affect your business in a disaster or system outage: Tape backup hardware and software are expensive, especially if you have multiple offices. Making backups every day requires manual intervention - it’s easy to forget or skip it. Tape backup always involves downtime - you can’t backup a system that is in use. Tapes are easily damaged, lost or destroyed. A... (more)