Poll: The Future of Backup

[djones2002]

Hello.

We have been spinning our wheels trying to find a solution that would work with our SCSI tape drive. We've tried EVERYTHING. Nothing suits us. My question is, should we move away from tape? What is the status of tape today? Are people moving towards CDRW towers? Or some other type of media? What about a dedicated, mirrored backup server, where everything gets dumped?

Thanks for any info.

Dennis Jones

 

[igortsin]

You have to decide for what do you need backup. I mean is it for disaster recovery, may be better to go for RAID 5 instead mirrored server. But if you would need to restore some information, which was deleted - you can not to do it.
I think today TAPE is the best solution for this purpose.
What kind server/workstation do you need backup?