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PcAid_Roei
Level 3
13 years ago

Archive to tape

Hello all, I'm looking for a solution to archive files to a tape drive. The reason we want to use tape and not disk is the capacity of the information we need to move into archive and to cost of ...
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    WiTSend
    13 years ago

    EV provides the capability to migrate archived data to tape.  The initial archive location must be discs, but there is a process to migrate older archived data off to a 3rd level of storage.   However, I would strongly recommend revisiting the decision to archive to tape.  Retrieval from tape can be a very onerous task for several reason.  It would more suitable to use some very inexpensive storage platform for the "final" resting place for the archived data.  This is true of any archiving solution.

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WiTSend
Level 6
13 years ago

EV provides the capability to migrate archived data to tape.  The initial archive location must be discs, but there is a process to migrate older archived data off to a 3rd level of storage.   However, I would strongly recommend revisiting the decision to archive to tape.  Retrieval from tape can be a very onerous task for several reason.  It would more suitable to use some very inexpensive storage platform for the "final" resting place for the archived data.  This is true of any archiving solution.