While cloud storage and SAN snapshots have their advantages in random and partial restores, tape backup solutions are faster, more efficient, and much more accessible, especially when it comes to long-term cold data storage.
Backup tape drives provide the most cost-effective way to store cold data
While cloud storage and SAN snapshots have their advantages in random and partial restores, tape backup solutions are faster, more efficient, and much more accessible, especially when it comes to long-term cold data storage.
In NovaStor, it is believed that data protection should not have a size limitation, that the cost per gigabyte should be low, and that the data should be stored in the most indestructible way possible. That's why NovaStor maintains support for tape backup.
Why companies still use tape drive backup:
Tape backup is still relevant and should be supported
Tape backup offers hidden advantages by offering an accessible offline backup of data that is truly inaccessible to hackers and corruption. Keeping data impervious to modern threats such as ransomware is only 100% guaranteed when exposed systems are disconnected. Tape backup drives provide a viable offline source for data protection that is secure and suitable for long-term storage.
Even in times of private cloud services, SAN snapshots, SSDs, and inexpensive public cloud storage, tape backup is largely relevant. Legacy data is still saved on Windows backup tape at Fortune 100 companies and government agencies around the world.
While many of NovaStor's competitors no longer support tape backup or have never, NovaStor supports tape backup from its inception and continues to support this poorly served market. Instead of getting users to choose between storage technologies, NovaStor supports a wide variety of devices to help companies build a tiered backup strategy tailored to their unique needs, including:
If you have large amounts of data to store and want a fast, efficient, and affordable storage method, our backup experts can help you explore the best tape backup software to use.
Efficient use of tape libraries
Today's tape libraries achieve huge recording speeds. They read or record at more than one hundred MB per second and several hundred GB per hour. If during the backup process only a single stream is writing to the tape drive, the backup cannot even begin to use the full speed potential of the drives.
Using a tape drive in a tape library without being able to fully benefit from its capacity simply does not justify the investment.
With multitransmission (also known as multithreading), backup occurs at the maximum speed of a tape drive because it allows data to be transferred over multiple parallel streams rather than in a long data stream. To make the best use of the high recording speeds of the devices, backup data is sent to the device at a constant data rate. If the data rate drops, the device can also reduce its read speed, making the backup slower.
With client multitransmission, all backup data is transferred to the backup server in a short period of time. On the server, the full backup data load is kept in the buffer, which allows the backup server to select as many data packets from the buffer as the tape library can write. This ensures that the tape drive reaches the maximum recording speed. As sufficient backup data becomes available in the buffer, the backup server maintains the speed of data transfer.
System requirements:
CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor
RAM: 2 GB
HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit
Resolution: 1024×768
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