What can I do with my existing tape library?

Existing investment

You already have an investment in your current tape backup system and it may not be feasible or desirable to toss it out and replace it with all disk based backup system due to your requirements for storing data offsite of in a data safe. Your existing tape technology might also be struggling to cope with the additional and increased workloads of the business.

How to utilise both tape and disk technologies

In fact, the two can be used together for a more effective backup solution. By deploying a disk to disk solution you gain many of the advantages previously mentioned within this web site. Once the data has been written to the disk solution you can then use your backup software to write the data from the virtual disk library to the tape library. As the backed up data is now local to the backup server the advantage of using a disk to disk to tape (D2D2T) system greatly improves the speed of the tape drives and there ability to stream. The transfer operation can be carried out at time to suit the business.