Food for Thought:
Are You Backing up to Tape Only?

If you are backing up to tape only, have you considered disk media? UltraBac offers you the ability to do both.

UltraBac provides users with the flexibility of designing file and image-based backups to local disk, local tape, local libraries, remote libraries, UNC share paths, FTP devices, and TSM servers. UltraBac is a general-purpose backup product with every competitive feature and function available to the Windows server market, and also works as the engine that performs image backups for UBDR Pro and Gold disaster recoveries. UltraCopy then provides an extra level of protection by allowing end users to seamlessly schedule copying disk-based backups to tape for inexpensive redundancy and off-site backups.

Disk-Based Backup Benefits Include:

1. Users are no longer relying on tape as the primary storage medium
2. Backups can be faster depending on the type of network
3. Restores are almost always faster (no tapes to find and mount)
4. Network backups provide superior disaster recovery protection

Tape-Based Backup Benefits Include:

1. Inexpensive and virtually unlimited media size (via libraries)
2. Small form factor
3. Multiple redundant backup sets
4. Easy off-site media storage

There are pros and cons to using either method as the sole strategy for protecting your data assets but with today's low hardware and software costs, there is now compelling justification to incorporate both backup strategies for a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup regime.

Disk & Tape Backup Benefits Include:

1. Every disk and tape benefit quoted above!

History has taught us many times over that a single strategic backup or restore failure can be devastatingly harmful to any organization. Disk and tape backups are no longer mutually exclusive and should be viewed today as a dual safety-net approach at reducing backup failure liability. The ability to use both backup processes now provides both large and small organizations the most comprehensive continuity and data protection available. UltraBac can be used to provide the best of both worlds by allowing disk to be your primary backup medium with tape being the secondary storage medium. This solution provides organizations with fast, reliable backups and restores, multiple backup redundancy, and low cost off-site storage.