Yes, I guess that would make sense. I forgot about RAID's speed increase. Even though I don't care for Tape Backups as I find them much more difficult to use and maintain, I'm sure they will be around for years to come. Since I don't deal with many Enterprise Level backup solutions I haven't had to use but one or two tape loaders and when I did they just seemed very confusing and complicated.
Obviously if you worked with them all the time I'm sure that wouldn't be the case. I do know however that we have replaced almost 100% of the small single drive tape backups we encounter in our customer's machines with either online backup or external drives with great success.
Granted they are dealing with a few GB of data max, but products like Acronis' True Image and Symantec's Livestate Recovery or Ghost have matured into very robust and reliable backup solutions. Even if you are a big tape fan I would recommend you play with them as they offer more than just traditional backup. I know that Livestate has saved me a ton of time 3 times in the past two years by allowing me to recover from a complete machine failure in a couple hours rather than a couple days.
Not trying to bash tapes, just had plenty of bad experiances with them that are probably more the user's fault than the tapes, but none the less, the part of the industry I'm in you can't get rid of the EU.
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Yes, I guess that would make sense. I forgot about RAID's speed increase. Even though I don't care for Tape Backups as I find them much more difficult to use and maintain, I'm sure they will be around for years to come. Since I don't deal with many Enterprise Level backup solutions I haven't had to use but one or two tape loaders and when I did they just seemed very confusing and complicated.
Obviously if you worked with them all the time I'm sure that wouldn't be the case. I do know however that we have replaced almost 100% of the small single drive tape backups we encounter in our customer's machines with either online backup or external drives with great success.
Granted they are dealing with a few GB of data max, but products like Acronis' True Image and Symantec's Livestate Recovery or Ghost have matured into very robust and reliable backup solutions. Even if you are a big tape fan I would recommend you play with them as they offer more than just traditional backup. I know that Livestate has saved me a ton of time 3 times in the past two years by allowing me to recover from a complete machine failure in a couple hours rather than a couple days.
Not trying to bash tapes, just had plenty of bad experiances with them that are probably more the user's fault than the tapes, but none the less, the part of the industry I'm in you can't get rid of the EU.
-Ashley
OK, so if you can only sustain 84mbps to a hard drive, how can you write to a tape at faster than that? Do hard drives read faster than they write?