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“I plan on selling my expensive tape back up and
software on eBay.”
— Linda Slater-Dowling
ASAP Promotions
“Our experience with Remote Data Backups has been
outstanding. Previously we endured the hassle of backing up our large files
onto tape...and many times we would not remember to perform the backup...or we
would elect to "forget" to do the backup. It would take 15-25 minutes of time
...so it was more than inconvenience to back up files...It also was costly to
take the time as that time could have been devoted to customers and more
business.”
— Brian Hogan
AIA Owner
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Disadvantages of
Tape Backup
Tape drives are expensive to buy ($350 to thousands),
install, administer and fix and they are not nearly as reliable as you think.
Just the tapes themselves are expensive to buy ($50 to $100 +),
expensive to administer daily, expensive to take offsite and can be expensive
to store offsite . . . if you even do take them offsite.
There are many variable costs associated with
admininitering your own local tape backups. Once you recognize them you will
see that Remote Data Backups is hands down the most cost effective, secure and
convenient way to automatically back up your data offsite every night.
Local tape backups are done on small magnetic medium tapes that are
very suseptable to things like fire, flood, theft, or sabotage. Unless you have a regular offsite
backup solution, if your backup tapes go away with the very computer it is
backing up, then you will have wasted every dollar and every
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*$10 more for monthly billing.
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Disadvantages of tape drives:
- Drives are very expensive ($350 to literally
thousands): Many times more expensive than our 10 GB offsite data storage
at two mirrored data
centers.
- Tapes are expensive ($50 to $100+). You need a
minimum of 5 tapes for a Monday through Friday routation (5 x $50 to $100 =
$250 to $500) plus an additional 4 tapes for weekly offsite rotations (4
x $50 to $100 = $200 to $400). Daily and weekly rotations equal 9 tapes x
$50 to $100 = $450 to $900 in just media costs alone . . . one to three years
worth of our 10 GB automated offsite backup
solution.
- Tape drive installation is expensive. Most importantly
they need to be installed correctly by qualified technicians who
typically earn $20 - 200 per hour.
- Daily tape backup administration is expensive. Even if you
only spend 5 minutes a day rotating tapes, that equals one hour every two
weeks, which equals 25 hours a year, multiplied by about $20 per hour minimum
for IT time and that equals $500 . . . more than a year's worth of our
automated 10 GB offiste backup solution.
- Tape storage is expensive. Tapes are extremely susceptible to damage
by heat, light, humidity, dust and magnetic fields. They should be stored in
climate-controlled locations only.
- Tape offsite storage is expensive. Just how do you take
your backups offsite? Do you actually do it and how often? Does your expensive
IT person perform them or does your least paid employee do it? Where does it
end up? In a safety deposit box, a glove compartment, a night stand, a purse,
or you don't know?
- No data security. Data is stored in un-encyrpted format on portable
media.
Tape Drive Overview
Drive costs $240 to thousands, tapes cost $50 - $100+ each
- Is it setup properly and how often do you actualy use it?
- Is it an older or obsolete model (More than 3 years)?
- How old are the tapes you are using (Are they more than one year
old)?
- How many tapes (at $50 to $100 each) do you use? (A minimum of 5
to 9?)
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