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Last Updated: Dec 17, 2004 
It's not hard to see that tape is here to stay and disk is definitely in the game. But, when you're planning your DR strategy, which way do you go: Disk, tape or both? Our experts can help you with these issues. >> What is preferable, disk, tape or both for disaster recovery backups?
>> Discussion forum: Building disaster-tolerant storage infrastructures
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>> Tape, disk or both in a SAN environment?
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I will be setting up a SAN environment in the next few months. I was warned not to combine both disk and tape on the same ...

>> Protecting against failure of a disk array
ASK THE EXPERTS :What do you recommend for protecting against failure of a disk array? We have replication via EMC SRDF, but failover is not ...
>> Alternative tape storage management
ASK THE EXPERTS :I'd like to know if there is any non-tape hardware storage management solution, one that would be able to store data ...
>> Backing up with tapes and disks
ASK THE EXPERTS :Here is what I'm trying to accomplish. Each night we backup all our servers to two separate DLT tape drives equaling about ...
>> Tape vs. mirrored backup
ASK THE EXPERTS :In a typical data center today do you have any hard line data that shows the percentage of backups stored to tape vs. ...
>> Trusting your offline storage DR and archiving to a tape solution
ASK THE EXPERTS :Why would I trust my offline storage disaster recovery and archiving to a tape solution? Is tape recovery reliable?
>> Tapes and arrays
ASK THE EXPERTS :As cheap as these arrays are, they're still as expensive as a tape library. How is this solution any better?
>> DR consideration when building a SAN
ASK THE EXPERTS :When building a SAN, what are the DR considerations? Do you need a separate SAN for DR or a NAS?
>> Building disaster-tolerant storage infrastructures
WEBCASTS :Find out what really needs to be done to achieve a robust, disaster-tolerant infrastructure and get expert insight on ...
>> From the trenches: DR planning war stories
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>> How to save money when data archiving
TIP :How data changes its value over time and affects where you should put it.
>> Determining how long your tape drives might last
TIP :Simple ways to figure out how long your drives might last.

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