Throw the tapes away - disk backup is here

Posted by Mark on Oct 29, 2008

Data backup can be a nightmare, balancing the demands for instant access against the equally important need for security and reliance. Essentially there are Business Continuity demands that are competing with the requirement to be able to perform a Disaster Recovery.

The same people that patted you on the back because they could get their files back quickly from an online storage system might be the first in the queue to stick a metaphorical knife between your shoulder blades when the disk based backup system is off with the data recovery company, and you don’t have a good old fashioned solid and reliable tape backup.

So are tape backup systems better than disk based virtualized backup systems, do on-line backup systems trump all others? What is best?
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