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Why choose an external tape backup?
- by Per Strandberg
These days, it is essential for businesses to keep and preserve important data files and keep them protected and safe while also at the same time make this data obtainable for both internal and external clients of the company. Secure data policies is essential for businesses that want to compete in the market. As a result, secondary storage space devices have become an important standard for storing large volumes of important data. The increasing volumes of data should be stored and handled in a good storage medium which deliver high level of performance with high data storage capability and that can store data delivered at high transfer speed. The volume of data and information that can be stored and protected is increasing as data transfer speed and data recording capacity of tape disk increases.
Backups of important files are normally done using tapes or external hard disk drives. External hard discs are becoming more popular because of the speed of this backup media. External hard drives can basically imitate your internal hard drive and it is very identical. On the other hand, you do not have the redundancy or multiple copies of the disk files that you could obtain with tape unless you purchase several disk drives. An external drive can just copy the folders from your data system drive to your external drive and you have a fast data backup that is safe and very easy to recover.
The other popular method for doing backups and securing data is by using tapes. Tape backups have been around for a long period of time and offer several benefits. You can store huge amounts of data files on one tape and you get the advantage of being able to keep this tape in storage. You can store it at some good location so that you can recover the data files in case some substantial disaster and calamity such as fire, theft, flood or tornados happens.
One of the most used and low price storage medium is "Digital Linear Tape" backup tape. DLT tapes are intended and designed for excellent performance, high transfer and recording speed and high data reliability. DLT is a useful storage space device that lowers operational costs, provides the best results and protects your business investments. DLT system fulfills these requirements and the powerful attributes of DLT tape drives are patented. DLT will help with fast transfer of data files with a large storage capacity. DLT tape design is based on good technology and is best matched for server client working environments.
If you store an external disk drive in unprotected area then you would lose the advantage of being able to use that drive. There are 2 disadvantages in using tapes: The first is that tapes raptures and breaks much easier than an external hard drive. The second is that tape drives come with proprietary software in order to pack together and transfer data files to the manufacturers' drive. Tapes are not directly compatible to operating system like Microsoft Windows. Instead you generally need to install compatible tape driver software on your computer system to recover data.
There are many differences between backup solutions for tapes and for external disk drives, but the thing to keep in mind is that you cannot recover important data files if you do not back up correctly. You should always test your recovery preparation so that you a sure that you can make recovery in case something happen.
About the Author
Per Strandberg gives advice on data storage techniques on his website. Get more information on how to apply external tape backup and to take data backup.
