Actually, for any small buisness I wouldnt recommend a tape drive. As things are currently, it's _far_ cheaper to plop in a few disks, or even get a whole separate 'backup' server, and dump out the data onto a file type device on disk rather than real tapes.
This, in my opinion, is a bad idea. Backups aren't only for protecting against hard drive crashes. Ideally you'd rotate your backups to locations offsite. If your building burns to the ground you still have your data fairly current. The above scenario you're flat out toast.
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Actually, for any small buisness I wouldnt recommend a tape drive. As things are currently, it's _far_ cheaper to plop in a few disks, or even get a whole separate 'backup' server, and dump out the data onto a file type device on disk rather than real tapes.
This, in my opinion, is a bad idea. Backups aren't only for protecting against hard drive crashes. Ideally you'd rotate your backups to locations offsite. If your building burns to the ground you still have your data fairly current. The above scenario you're flat out toast.