While tape is used in most datacenters in one way or another, the percentage of companies using tape in any way is steadily declining. Companies are clearly moving to D2D or D2C techniques.

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Tape Types. For almost as long as computers have existed, magnetic tape has been the backup medium of choice. Tape is inexpensive, well understood and easy to ...

This type of backup process will only work with disk as the target, as an individual file could be spread out across multiple tapes if you stored it on tape – and restores would take forever.

The leading tape backup format is LTO and, with the introduction of LTO-8 several years ago, enterprises can store up to 30TB of data compressed on a single tape. But that's just the beginning. In the ...

When virtualization was first born, IT departments went gangbusters using this revolutionary change to get better performance out of their servers. In all the excitement of implementation, something ...

Label each tape with the date of backup, type of drive used, and enough information to identify the contents. For example: “3/24/06 VXA: Personnel Weekly Full Backup.” ...

PCWorld’s art department relied on Retrospect (and tape!) back in the ’90s ... pre- and post-backup operations; filtering (including a copious helping of presets for common file types); differential, ...

Tapes are going to get lost as they always have but this type of attack vector (i.e. stolen backup tapes) is pretty passe with digital crooks. Too obvious and risky.

Full Backup Window Fri9pm-Sunday Realistically looking at 24 hours to get all 55tb to tape. I am concerned with how many drives I will need, the network from drives to server, and the back-end ...

In our tables, backup time represents the period during which data was actually being written to tape. During the verify time, the recorded data was checked against the original source.

Technology, Which Provides "Single-Pass Processing," Significantly Reduces the Time and Cost of Backup Tape Extractions Marketwired Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 9:58 AM ...

Since Iron Mountain stores and manages backup tapes for many major companies around the world, we have fielded questions in recent weeks about these issues. It is our policy not to discuss any ...