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Tape Backup has been the predominant backup media for almost
50 YEARS! And it's really starting to show its age. Today,
we wouldn't even consider purchasing or storing your music
on tape, so why do we trust it with our mission critical
business data? Here's a list of common complaints
about tape backup solutions we hear from our clients all the
time:
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Tapes Fail – fragile media
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Tape Drives Fail
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Outgrow the Tape (very hard to consistently
get a good backup once they are spanning
tapes)
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Hard and time consuming to recover the
entire system
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Hard to backup remote users
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There are other concerns as well, specifically in the area
of disaster recovery and business continuity. This is a Top
3 Issue for CIOs. Recent Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina
and 9/11 have brought this issue to the forefront of CIO's
worries. And with 43% of all companies who experience a
disaster never reopening, and 29% closing within 2 years,
these worries are well founded.
Disk to Disk Backups use massive hard drive arrays to store
your backup data. Typically, the goal is to provide a 30-day
window of backups for your critical systems – this means, we
can go back up to 30 days to find the data you need to
restore, whether it's the complete system or just a file or
two. This solution immediately relieves you of all issues
regarding tape – the frailty, the size limitation, the
mechanical issues around tape drive failure (hard drives are
dramatically more reliable than tape drives), as well as
drastically speeding up the backup and recovery times of
your systems. Also, it's much easier to look for data in a
D2D solution than in a stack of tapes.
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