If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

OptiVault reduces the need for magnetic tape backup, Clear Choice Tests show. Primera Technology’s OptiVault aims to help IT managers solve the problems of long-term e-mail and critical file backups ...

Those of us old enough may remember the heyday of the text adventure game genre from the first time around. London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering company producing titles for the first ...

The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary medium ...

The LTO-9 open standard boosts the transfer speed of magnetic tape, which seems like an improvement, but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup. Magnetic storage tape has’t been ...

For the life of me I can't find a good guide on the Intarweb about doing tape backups, so I figured I might as well start a thread here about doing Tape Backups regarding the commands, strategies, and ...