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tape backup

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tape backup

Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. Companies use magnetic tape in combination with additional magnetic disks and optical discs in a backup management program that automatically moves data from one storage medium to another (see HSM). See magnetic tape and storage virtualization.



Tape Comes Big and Small
From the popular Ditto tapes to StorageTek's massive Powderhorn library, there are tape archives for all requirements. The Ditto uses QIC-style cartridges that hold 400MB and up, while the Powderhorn can hold 6000 cartridges and 300 terabytes! (Images courtesy of Iomega Corporation and Storage Technology Corporation.)



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Traditional tape backup methods are simply not capable of keeping up the increased size of Message Stores and the limited backup window.
Traditional backup software is no match for Exchange by Spurzem, Bob / Computer Technology Review
Because it supports automated export of standard format backup tapes, Pathlight VX provides these performance gains while it retains all of the advantages of traditional tape backup, including long term data security, low cost scalability, and portability.
Adic expands Pathlight VX disk-to-tape solutions by EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
While there are expensive wasy to safeguard data, none is cheaper or easier than a tape backup system, in which all computer data are copied onto a magnetic tape.
Computer backups checklist by Wolfe, Larry / Journal of Accountancy
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