Thursday 5 December 2013

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

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