Backup Systems
Backup has become one of the most vital processes in the business world today. With businesses having multiple servers with 100’s of GB’s of important information, losing it all would surely ruin the business. That’s why backups are important weather they are full backups, daily, or even incremental. There are many different technologies out there, each with their own pros and cons.
The most common backup method is by using tapes. Tapes are just what they say, they are magnetized cassette tapes with large storage capacities in the 100’s of GB’s. These tapes allow the server(s) to be backed up on either 1 or few tapes depending on the size of your business. While this technology stills remains the dominant force in industry. A lot of the other backup technologies are quite expensive and come with a lot o overhead, which why a lot of companies like to stick to Tape drives. Sun has recently released a tape drive that will hold up to 1 TB of compressed data, which......
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