[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

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With all this talk of backups... So you all take backups to your chosen
media. How many of you have done a restore from backups? I guess that
very few have. How reliable have you restores from backups been?

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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:17:53 -0600
David Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> David L. Willson wrote:
> 
> > OK, I'm no newbie, and I find myself asking the same damn question
> > every time I get into the Backup & Disaster Recovery design process.
> >  Why does any
> > business with less than a TB of data to backup use tapes?  Why, why,
> > why, when almost any fixed disk media is much cheaper and almost as
> > easy to take offsite?
> 
> In one office, I was using CDs.  When I outgrew that, I switched to 
> external USB drives.  This is nightly full backups taken off site
> every day.  It happens to work in this case.
>