

They are highly scalable, all that a user needs to do is simply buy and add more tapes to the library.

Tape backup is the best way to transfer a large amount of data where time isn’t critical. Tape media generally astounds user with its favorable unit cost and the long archival stability. LTO tapes (Linear Tape-Open) is having a steady growth and has moved to its eighth generation of tapes, still business users and enterprises move forward for high capacity tapes and libraries. The usage of tapes has declined over the years with the big screens to hard disk drives, but it doesn’t sound like the end of the tape. Tape drive is the data storage that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape, tape backup provides sequential access to data storage, unlike the hard disk drives which provide direct access. Post any system crash or major disaster, the retrieval of data can be done easily with tape backups. Tape backups are the long-established way to store backups in long term and are less prone to disasters. Tape backup allows the user to have their redundant copy of backup data in magnetic tape and is one of the best practices to maintain an archival data storage and an offsite copy.
