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Posted on Sep 20, 2017
Companies Look to an Old Technology to Protect Against New Threats
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Grasshopper, when you can snatch the pebble from my hand it will be time to leave. We have now gone 360 degrees: When I first started working with computers in the late 1980’s we were performing tape backups; now almost 30 years later, with all the high-tech stuff we have, we find it’s the most cost-effective way saving data… time for me to leave.
Grasshopper, when you can snatch the pebble from my hand it will be time to leave. We have now gone 360 degrees: When I first started working with computers in the late 1980’s we were performing tape backups; now almost 30 years later, with all the high-tech stuff we have, we find it’s the most cost-effective way saving data… time for me to leave.
Companies Look to an Old Technology to Protect Against New Threats
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Companies really depend upon The Cloud to back-up their data? The Cloud means that all your data is shuttled around to different servers depending on where you access it from. That means more copies floating around, as well as the Cloud itself, which can be hacked.
Tape backup via NAS and SAN and off-site storage really is pretty secure. Your digital tapes locked away at an off-site location cannot be hacked, and in the event of a catastrophic loss at your place of business, as soon as you can get your computing systems up and running again, you can restore and drive on.
Tape backup via NAS and SAN and off-site storage really is pretty secure. Your digital tapes locked away at an off-site location cannot be hacked, and in the event of a catastrophic loss at your place of business, as soon as you can get your computing systems up and running again, you can restore and drive on.
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All around good advise. It's funny me talking about computer backup because in my life I have probably waxed more computers systems than anyone.
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PO1 Richard Cormier
Helped prove the State Department and the DOJ lied.... They found the tapes... LOL
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Once upon a time I had a tape backup in my personal computer. I don't know if such things are even made these days. So, I have two external hard drives that I use instead and, for good measure, store important data on two CDs, one of which is kept in a bank safe deposit box. What do I have that I consider so important? Family photos, of course.
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SFC (Join to see) - Any of yall care to recommend some great brands for tapes?
SSgt Mark Lines and SN Greg Wright ?
SSgt Mark Lines and SN Greg Wright ?
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SGT (Join to see) - The tape backup I had on my 1st home computer was a Colorado Tape backup that was a metal cased cassette that plugged into a unit installed in my tower. That was the name back then. Now I don’t know. I currently use a combination of external hard drives, CD’s, and flash drives to back up everything from full system to selected personal files like photographs. Like CPT Jack Durish I find this to be most effective.
Full system backups I do on an external hard drive. We can reinstall pretty much any programs, up to an including operating systems, independent of any backup so it’s just insurance. I keep copies of pictures and other personal files on a combination of CD’s flash drives. I keep a copy locked up in our home and one at the bank. The only thing to figure out is how often to back up, or how to conveniently add files to back up you have. Everyone has different comfort levels; the trick is to work at it until you find a method/schedule that is comfortable for you.
Full system backups I do on an external hard drive. We can reinstall pretty much any programs, up to an including operating systems, independent of any backup so it’s just insurance. I keep copies of pictures and other personal files on a combination of CD’s flash drives. I keep a copy locked up in our home and one at the bank. The only thing to figure out is how often to back up, or how to conveniently add files to back up you have. Everyone has different comfort levels; the trick is to work at it until you find a method/schedule that is comfortable for you.
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SGT (Join to see) - Back in the day... one company I worked for didn't have a robust back-up/disaster recovery system. Then IT happened. The servers crashed. So TPTB gave us a blank check (almost literally) to order and install the best back-up/disaster recovery system. So we ordered a Compaq NAS server that was a "Mirrored RAID 5" (a system with dual 5x 10K RPM HDDs that separated the data over the five HDDs so that a single failed HDD could be completely rebuilt by the remaining 4 HDDs) and then dumped everything to digital tape, which was picked up each afternoon by Iron Mountain for storage inside their literal mountain that was proof against any natural disaster and a small nuclear explosion. Everyone slept a lot better from then on.
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SSgt Mark Lines
SGT (Join to see) I honestly would not even know where to begin looking. I know about 10 years ago I had a drive made by Dell that used DAT tapes.
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