Backup/Recovery advice: Evaluating tape drives for backup and DR basics

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Backup/Recovery advice: Evaluating tape drives for backup and DR basics

Site expert W. Curtis Preston has had some good insights to share this year on a variety of backup and recovery questions posed by our audience. Brush up on your backup and recovery knowledge. Take a look at Curtis' three most popular expert answers for the year and see if you agree with his insights:

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W. Curtis Preston, Founder, The Storage Group
SearchStorage.com category: Backup/Recovery

In addition to being a founder of the The Storage Group, Curtis also founded the Web site, Storage Mountain (previously known as Backup Central). Curtis has been designing, managing and implementing enterprise-wide storage systems for many Fortune 500 companies including Intuit, Standard & Poors, Amgen and Geico. He is the author of, "Using SANs and NAS," published by O'Reilly. Not only can he provide you with top tips, tricks and tactics to select, design, implement and audit storage systems,he can also share his years of experience in designing effective backup and recovery systems.