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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every company has a need to back up their critical data in case their original is lost or corrupted. This need of archiving gave birth to the external data storage industry. Many leading industrial ...

Yes. Using the camcorder as a data tape drive will put more wear and tear on the camcorder, but you can use digital video camcorders as backup devices for Windows, Mac and Linux computer systems.

Contrary to popular belief, tape is far from dead, said Scott Winslow, president of Winslow Technology Group, a solution provider in Boston. However, the role tape plays is changing as more customers ...

Hey guys,<BR><BR>I have a server that requires approximately 2GB of space to be properly backed up each night and I am looking for alternative solutions to a tape drive. Basically the cost of a tape ...

I guess we have to look at disaster recovery, when it comes to tapes, in order of priorities. So, if we're talking about your most critical applications nowadays -- your most critical data -- tape ...