He owns and uses an Ecrix VXA tape drive for his personal backups. Getting The Most From Your Tape Drive. If you didn't add backup software when you got your new VXA tape drive, you're only seeing some of the advantages of this new technology. Data backup is one of the most important tasks that we perform today. Not because it is fun to back up your data, but because it is sometimes critical to restore it.
Nothing gets the heart pumping like the prospect of the loss of days or months of work.
Yet most restores fail to restore the lost data completely. And it is rarely the fault of the hardware. Typically, your backup software isn't doing the job it should. Chances are, unless you're already using quality backup software, you're not taking advantage of the full capabilities of your VXA drive. I'm talking about maximizing your VXA drive as a resource.