History of Data Backup Storage Tapes

INTRODUCTION:

Computer Backup tape is a most essential and important field of data backup need. Now a day’s most organizations are using backup tapes for the purpose of restoring the data after loss event. Backup tape trend is increasing just because of the major issues of hardware failure events. With the increasing risks of computer viruses, cyber-damage and hardware failures, implementing a systemized backup data plan is a most necessary part of any business plan for risk management.

HISTORY OF BACKUP TAPE:

In 1951, backup tape was a nice idea but the reality is also little scary. With the passage of time it became a reality and more reliable data storage field. It was a great effort by inventors who created this advance tape technology on that time and also was the great achievement for source of data storage. Data tapes were more efficient and affected because of their storage capacity, reliability and also for design.

Backup tape is the activity of copying files or databases, so that their additional copies may be restored in the case of the data loss happening. So, we can generally emphasize first two aspects of backup tapes the first is use for storage of data and the 2nd aspect is backup tapes also use for storage of backup media.

 The first computer backup tapes were made on big reels of magnetic tape, and even paper: punch cards and paper tape. In the next age, backups were mostly stored on floppy disks of various sizes. But today’s PCs don’t even have floppy drives, not to mention punch card processing devices also. Backups are now just written on CDs, hard drives, flash drives or also via network and data tapes. But on that time and until now some old and efficient technologies, such as tape backup, still remain very popular and developed. So, here is some type of data storage devices for backup.

There are different mediums of data storage: 

•     Magnetic Tapes
•     Hard Drives
•     Floppy Disks
•     Punch Card
•     CD-R/RW
•     DVD - New Backup Media
•     Flash Drives
•     Blu-ray Disks - The New Generation of Backup Media
•     Data Backup Tapes

Economically Backup Your Data with HP DAT160, C8011A Tape Solution

The exponential growth in volume of corporate databases, introduction of new commercial applications and rush to E-commerce have amplified the data protection challenges. Customers of medium & small businesses have long depended on DDS tape media technology to secure their sensitive business-critical data.  DDS format, sometimes referred to as DAT (digital audio tape), provides the robustness, performance and capacity to handle the stiff challenges in a cost-effective manner.

HP Hewlett-Packard is not only the co-inventor of DDS format, but also has co-invented the DAT 72 tape (DDS-5), DAT160 (DDS-6) and the latest DAT-320 tape generations.

Multiple DDS tape generations enable the IT managers to economically manage the increasing data amounts with minimal investment. Higher operating efficiency, robust data protection, scalable roadmap and exceptional compatibility are the str

HP DAT 160 tape continues to be the leading backup solution for workstations, midrange storage management, complex networks, enterprise workgroups, small computing systems and departmental servers.  HP DAT160 helps the data administrators meet the stiff compliance demands at a low cost per GB, while providing exceptional compatibility to a variety of business enterprises.  80GB native and 160GB compressed data can be housed onto a DAT160 cartridge.  Exceptional quality and robustness of HP C8011A, DAT160 tape provides customers complete peace of mind and confidence that their business-critical information is safe.

Good news is that HP DAT160 drives have been designed as internal, external, array and rack mount models. HP DAT 160 drives provide economical and superior backup performance with the market-leading hardware and software platforms.   The media choice becomes even more flexible with the introduction of SCSI ultra160 and USB 2.0 host connectivity interfaces. In native mode, the speed of HP DAT-160 drive reaches up to 6.9MB per second.  The users of previous generations DDS-5 and DDS-4 are provided a seamless path for system up-gradation. HP DAT160 drive can read and also record data to DDS4 and DDS5 tapes, which helps to extend your prior DAT investments. Furthermore, the scalable DAT/DDS roadmap ensures long term investment protection.

HP’s portfolio of backup media technologies is the most comprehensive within the industry. RDX cartridge, SDLT tape, LTO ultrium3 tape, AIT tape, LTO2 tape, Travan tape, LTO ultrium-1 tape and DLT tape are some of the other popular HP backup solutions that are well-suited for small to mid-sized organizations. 

OBDR (one button disaster recovery) is an intelligent feature that has been incorporated in HP DAT-160 drives to provide easy, efficient and reliable method to retrieve the backed up information. Therefore in event of a system crash or software malfunction, you can recover the data just by pressing a single button. The unbeatable 125,000 hours MTBF makes HP DAT160 the most reliable technology for time-critical applications.  Thanks to the automated cleaning system, the need for manual cleaning of HP DAT160 drive has been significantly reduced. HP C8015A, cleaning cartridge has been designed for DAT 160 drives.

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