Tape Backup

Hi All,

I have just been to a Microsoft seminar on Small Business Server 2008. I
hear they are removing support for tape because of the failure rate. That is
very, very annoying. Is this just with Microsofts new backup system?

It got me thinking about tape backups though. How often do they fail. I run
tape on most of my sites and never really had a problem. I run DDS4 on one,
ilo3 on another etc.

Experiences welcome.

Thanks

Sorry, posted to the wrong group

"Hayden Kirk" <> wrote in
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> Hi All,
>
> I have just been to a Microsoft seminar on Small Business Server 2008.
> I hear they are removing support for tape because of the failure rate.
> That is very, very annoying. Is this just with Microsofts new backup
> system?
>
> It got me thinking about tape backups though. How often do they fail.
> I run tape on most of my sites and never really had a problem. I run
> DDS4 on one, ilo3 on another etc.
>
> Experiences welcome.
>
> Thanks
>

Microsoft is right. Tape backup is ****. The drives usually come with their
own backup software anyway so you don't need Microsost support.