No Tapes Tape backups require your constant attention. Changing tapes can either become a daily time consuming ritual, or, worst still, can easily be forgotten. Very often the backup is performed overnight and the tape is ejected from the drive at the end and is ready to be replaced in the morning. Sometimes these backups fail, but who checks the log file! Tape drives can be unreliable. Having many moving parts means that a tape drive is an item of hardware that fails on a computer system most often (ask any computer engineer). Also in a recent survey it was shown that over 40% of tape users had experienced a failed restore due to tape corruption in the previous 12 month period. Tape backups can be expensive. Based on the average cost of tape drives it can be seen below that online backup can be highly cost effective:
In addition to savings on cost, remote (offsite) backup have many additional advantages. For more information Contact Us , or, try it yourself by downloading our client software for a FREE Trial for one month. Back |
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