Tape is definitely not the best choice for primary recovery, but it does have features that make it a credible option for restoring systems and data that have fallen victim to ransomware without ...

If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

When it comes to storage technology, tape and disk have their advantages and shortcomings, but disk has won because, in a nutshell, tape is fast, but disk is quick. Any backup experts worth their salt ...

One of the most tedious and complex jobs in the world of IT is data backup. Not only is it complex, but the use of mechanical Tape loaders make the system very prone to breakage and the Tapes ...

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.

For the life of me I can't find a good guide on the Intarweb about doing tape backups, so I figured I might as well start a thread here about doing Tape Backups regarding the commands, strategies, and ...

Last month we looked at a few methods for backing up data. This month we will discuss what types of data backup systems are currently available. While it is possible to backup data directly to ...