DataShield Remote Backup

Backup Tape Drive

Many business owners and managers are under the impression that if they have a backup tape drive located on their network, that they are safe from data loss. Real world experiences of those who have tried to restore lost data with failed tape backup drives tell a dramatically different story.

Having a tape backup is better than having no data backup at all - about half the time. Failure rates of tape backups are very high and have been estimated at 50% or greater, depending on the source. In many cases, a backup tape drive simply provides a false sense of security, and doesn’t provide the needed data recovery in a time of crisis. Online data backup, on the other hand, provides many of the benefits of tape backup without the expensive and finicky hardware - and with dramatically higher recovery success ratios.

Tape Drives are completely dependent on human interaction. Someone in your organization has to manually configure and load tapes, perform server backups, verify the authenticity of the backup, and transport the data backups offsite every day. DataShield^TM Remote Backup, by contrast, runs automatically as either a service or an application with no human intervention or dependency. The data are transported offsite automatically, insuring that even in the worst case scenario your data is available for restore.

If you need assistance with online hard drive backup, DataShield^TM is a great place to start.