

In this way, if an IT department is on a tight budget, or there isn’t enough space in a datacenter, you need a good alternative to physical tapes – virtual tape solutions. These systems also may need skilled engineers to maintain them that adds even more to TCO. Even though digital tapes have the lowest $/GB among backup media, digital tape systems are expensive and may require additional investments to be installed. However, there’s a small thing about tape-centric backup environments: their TCO may still be very high. For keeping data locally, everything seems clear: one copy resides on something like NAS or file/backup server while another is kept on some removable medium like tapes. StarWind engineers follow well-known best practices and recommend sticking to the 3-2-1 backup strategy – a backup rule saying that there must be three copies of data on two different types of media with an extra copy stored in a remote location.

How can you make sure that your data are safe? Today, we discuss how you can build a rock-solid backup infrastructure to avoid making mistakes of my buddies. These guys learned a lesson: since that time, they always have a couple of daily backups distributed over different locations. The questions rather are how many backup copies do you have, and where is it better to store them? I remember some of my buddies not sleeping at short summer nights in 2017 because of WannaCry and Petya. I hope everyone who reads this backs up data.


1 Year Subscription Upfront Billing & Production (24/7) Support. Includes Enterprise Plus Edition features. Veeam Backup Essentials Universal Subscription License Do people generally go for perpetual or subscription.? A company we approached suggested we look at one of these two: just started looking at this again and trying to get my head round the licensing options.
