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Fall 2000, Volume III, Issue 2, Page 4 |
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Tape Drive Backups Tape backup drives have been around almost as long as Floppy Disks. The major benefit of tape is that it holds a lot of data on a single tape. The downside is that tape drives are slower than the other methods.
Like Zip drives, Tape drives can be installed internally (placed in an open drive bay inside your computer) or externally (connected to your computer by a parallel or USB port). These drives come in many different capacities. Try to match the capacity with the size of your hard drive. Then if you decide to do a complete backup of your entire hard drive you will be able to fit it on one tape making unattended backups easy. On the other hand if all you want to backup is your important data then a smaller capacity drive will suit your needs. Tape backup drives all come with their own backup software. The software will let you specify whether you want to backup your entire hard drive or choose just the data files. Page 4 of 6 |
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