Security of Tape Backups

Michael beat me to it; the first question that I would ask is if you should still be using tape.Tape was popular primarily because you could get a lot on a tape, much more than on a disk; one tape was often sufficient to backup several drives. That changed quite a while agoandthere are disk drives that contain a lot more data than can be put on a single tape.Add to that, disks were expensive compared to tapes,but disks have come way down in price, whilst tape remains about the same.For this reason, it makes a lot more sense to do disk-to-disk backup, possibly then disk-to-tape. However, I'd suggest that unless you have a really crappy broadband connection (quite possible in the North of England) that it might be quicker, easier and overall cheaper to use an online backup service.Usually, this can also provide a bit more security and...

Dear all,We currently run Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 (Changing to 15 in the next month or two) to backup our 6 physical servers and each night I take our tape off site in the event of a fire. This has been done for at least the past 8 years, but suddenly our sister company has a problem with the security of it and have given us two options.They've asked us to use eitherIron Mountain Offsite Vaultingto collect the tapes. We were given a rough quote of about 4,500 / $7,000ish for their service which is more than we are willing to pay. Their second option was to use a bank vault for the storage, however in the North of England this seems to be difficult. No one seems to offer safety deposit boxes as a service anymore.We came up with a compromise of purchasing a fire safe and storing it in somebody's home. We are yet to decide who's home...
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