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| Positives | Negatives |
| Traditional Tape | - Low cost - Familiar Process - Somewhat Simple - Long Retention - Supported by most backup software
| - Prone to Breaking - Slow - Can be stolen/lost - Requires people - Tapes go bad - Requires a compatible tape drive for future restores |
| Software Replication
| - Disk to Disk based - Fast Backups and Restores - Hardware agnostic - Can work with Hardware Appliances - No user intervention required to replicate - Fairly Cheap | - Requires Bandwidth - Can be complex - Resource Intensive - May effect other services like VoIP, Remote workers etc
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| Appliance (Hardware) Replication | - Disk to Disk based - Fast Backups and Restores - Software Agnostic (in some cases) - No user intervention required to replicate - Deduplication and Compression
| - Requires Bandwidth - Still Requires Backup Software - Can be complex - Expensive - Can be vendor specific - May effect other services like VoIP, Remote workers, etc. |
| Virtualization Replication
| - Quick DR Recovery - Integrated - Snapshot Technology - Change Block Tracking
| - Requires Bandwidth - Can be complex - Expensive - Can be vendor specific - May affect other services like VoIP, Remote workers, etc. |
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Offsite Backup Solutions : Positives & Negatives
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