Tape Elimination with Veritas Access
A significant number of my NetBackup customers are currently looking to eliminate tape within their environments. For a long time people have been saying that tape is dead but until recently I never ...
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As I see it, S3/cloud will not be a replacement for tape, it will be yet another layer between live data and backup data.
While tape offers great capacity for the bucks, there are some tiresome attributes to tape.
- Soft (correctable) read/write errors are masked until the tape drive go really dead.
- unpredictable restore speed often depending of average file size.
- shoe shining - as tape drives go even faster this is and will continue to be a issue
- Tape is not a random access media - this create "locks" on resources.
