We recently came into a Dell Powervault 110T LTO drive and a bunch of tapes. We installed the SCSI card in our Exchange server on a PowerEdge 2650. We're using Veritas Backup Exec with the Exchange ...

One alternative is to back up data on disk, which is inherently faster than tape. Some users are taking an extra step by adding tape to the mix, creating disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup systems.

I have one for the Commvault users here, not sure what other vendors support this but all feedback welcome, I'm not sure there's a right/wrong answer I think it comes down to business requirements ...

Druva, which to this point has been known for data protection and backup in the cloud for PCs, laptops and mobile devices, announced a new server backup product today called Phoenix aimed at bringing ...

Tape is definitely not the best choice for primary recovery, but it does have features that make it a credible option for restoring systems and data that have fallen victim to ransomware without ...

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 ...

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One of the most tedious and complex jobs in the world of IT is data backup. Not only is it complex, but the use of mechanical Tape loaders make the system very prone to breakage and the Tapes ...

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 ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...