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Hidden Costs of Tapes

Rapid Recovery by ebackup Inc. is an on-line backup and data recovery service that eliminates the administrative hassles and hidden costs of tape-based systems.

Tape backup is a cost-effective way to archive data. But . . .

"As part of a recovery solution, tape backup is slow, cumbersome, labour-intensive, and expensive. It substantially increases the length of time required to restore data and in the worst case scenario, an extended data recovery window could mean the difference between business survival and failure."

Rapid Recovery by ebackup Inc eliminates the following costs associated with tape-based backup and recovery:

Labour Costs

  • Costs of lost productivity due to longer recovery times
  • General physical tape management, both on-site and off-site
  • Tape maintenance costs i.e., tape rotation to maintain reliability and shelf-life
  • Verification of data integrity residing on tapes

Data Retrieval Costs

  • Costs associated with the time it takes to retrieve tapes from an off-site storage location.
  • Costs associated with locating files to be restored, including searching through tape catalogues and cumbersome lists.

Media Costs

  • Costs associated with tape media, proportional to the amount of data to be backed up

Hardware Costs

  • Costs of tape drives
  • Maintenance of drives

Software Costs

  • Costs of tape backup software
  • License fee or price per target computer, with agent approach
  • Costs of upgrades
  • Costs of verifying compatibility between the tape backup software and the operating system, and all its future service packs and versions

Service Costs

  • Courier or transportation costs to pickup and deliver tapes between your company and your storage site
  • Tape storage costs in a secure off-site location