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by hallsmint

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I would like to ask if the DLT 8000 tape drive is the best enterprise back-up solution? i've been searching for the best back-up solution for our company because i want to be sure that my recommendation will be useful and cost-effective for our company. with the recent economic downturn, we should be very careful on huge investments or capital expenditures. can you please provide me the best back-up solution in the market today? thanks.

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by cg it

Depending upon your backup and disaster recovery policy/program, your network configuration, Storage media setup all plays a role in deciding what is a best medium to use. [Tape, CD, etc]For tape backups,[full, incremental, and differential, there are Travan, DDS 1,2,3, SCSI DDS, AIT 1,2,3, and so on. There are autoloaders/changers, libraries, [the backup and recovery hardware configuration can be made up in a variety of setups. Tape drives can run anywhere from $300.00 (single tape drive for 3to 6 GB to Sony's AIT3 260GB. [there are even more expensive drives and setups that can go into the 6 digit range. Deciding on what course to follow again depends upon the backup and disaster recovery program taylored to your network. To recommend abest tenterprise solution without knowing the particulars of your network and backup plan would be remiss.

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