Backup is still a single button-touch affair. Restoring a user directory is till just two clicks in the web command interface. Your Net Integrator is back in action. I idb performs backup compare in 25 minutes. Reliability You must have owned a cassette player or VCR at one point.
Tape heads get dirty and require cleaning and regular maintenance.
The same applies to tape backups. The Idb series of Net Integrators uses standard hard disks as a backup medium. Hard disks do not have an infinite life span, but you have never heard of a hard disk getting worn out because you wrote too much data on it. Suppose that your main hard disk fails. You need a new replacement disk in order to restore your data.