Offsite Backup Solutions

Traditional Tape

Positives

• Low cost

• Familiar Process

• Somewhat Simple

• Long Retention

• Supported by most backup software

Negatives

• Prone to Breaking

• Slow

• Can be stolen/lost

• Requires people

• Tapes go bad

• Requires a compatible tape drive for future restores

Software Replication

Positives

• Disk to Disk based

• Fast Backups and Restores

• Hardware agnostic

• Can work with Hardware Appliances*

• No user intervention required to replicate

• Fairly Cheap

Negatives

• Requires Bandwidth

• Can be complex

• Resource Intensive

• May effect other services like VoIP, Remote workers etc

Appliance (Hardware) Replication

Positives

• Disk to Disk based

• Fast Backups and Restores

• Software Agnostic (in some cases)

• No user intervention required to replicate

• Deduplication and Compression

Negatives

• Requires Bandwidth

• Still Requires Backup Software

• Can be complex

• Expensive

• Can be vendor specific

• May affect other services like VoIP, Remote workers, etc.

Virtualization Replication

Positives

• Quick DR Recovery

• Integrated

• Snapshot Technology

• Change Block Tracking

Negatives

• Requires Bandwidth

• Can be complex

• Expensive

• Can be vendor specific

• May affect other services like VoIP, Remote workers, etc.