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offline storage

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Refers to disks and tapes that are kept in a data library. Offline data cannot be accessed from a computer or terminal until it is mounted in the drive.



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They combine the speed of online storage with the economy of offline storage (such as tapes).
The previous options for this plethora of data--online storage (optimized for performance, not capacity) with its relatively high cost-per-Gbyte; or offline storage (optimized for capacity, not accessibility) with its slow, labor-intensive data retrievals--was inefficient, wasting either costly hardware or overtaxing IT staff resources.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager protects an organization's data from hardware failures and other errors by storing backup and archive copies of data on offline storage.
 
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