There are floppy disks to shuffle, sweating on boot up and a false sense of security. Top of Page Tape Tape backups are nice. Most people automate the backup procedure so it is working away while you are safe at home in bed. Great, providing the tape is in good shape come restoration time. 1.cost 2.transportability Tape has a cost per megabyte of less the one cent, significantly less than any other storage technology.
Tape also has the advantage of being a removable media in a package easily transported off-site.
In the past, backup practices required an operator to remain on premises to change tapes as they became full. Today the need for an operator of tape systems has been virtually eliminated by high-capacity tapes and automated tape changer systems. Top of Page Problems with Traditional Backup Procedure For the PC-based business with no IS support staff, the most widely used method of backing up data is onto floppy disks. More often than not, this is done manually without even using a backup program. While most existing backup programs can identify new and changed files for the user, many users do not use backup software to perform floppy disk backups because the software is difficult to learn and use.