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 ...

So, my trusty Dell TL2000 LTO4 SAS tape library in the server rack at home has given up the ghost after 10+ years of daily backups - the picker isn't aligning correctly. I'm a little nervous about all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 virtualization ...

Dell Computer has released a new tape-backup system, the PowerVault 122T, a 3.5-inch thick automated tape library that can use up to eight cartridges for a maximum capacity of 320GB of uncompressed ...

In the backup world today, the conventional wisdom is that disk is fast and tape is slow. While it is usually true that introducing disk into the backup storage chain increases performance, it is not ...

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.

Tape libraries recently experienced a dramatic evolution, changing from monolithic brontosaurs that you had to carefully size according to present and future demands, into more congenial devices, ...