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 ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

I'm part of a team standing up a new server farm. The team has no plan for backups. I'm trying to convince them that we need to use both SAN-based snapshots and a tape library to do backups right.

If you are looking for the right software to ease your backup pain, look no further. Despite advances in the size and speed of tape backup hardware, in many cases the offerings just do not cut the ...

Despite its relatively slow speed and overall bulkiness, tape has its strengths. After all, it’s inexpensive compared with most disks, it’s portable and has been used in data centers for years. Still, ...

According to an EaseUS chat rep. with whom I just spoke, EaseUS TODO Backup (any version) cannot restore files and/or folders directly from tape. This person said that if you want to recover ...