Introduction

In nowadays, the IT world is moving from decentralized data locations to servers-based applications. People prefer to keep their data on central well-protected locations available 24/7 from any location. As example, you can see as google.com is building web-based applications and how many customers they get every day. Even for small companies, management chooses to locate all company's data on servers to use highest safe standards offered by professional hosting companies.

And in these days data located on servers is becoming very valuable and this is IT department's responsobility to keep data safe. One piece of safety stragety is backup solution. You can choose most expensive hardware, high skilled system administrators, armed security guars, but you will never fully prevent disasters such as

• fire
• hackers' activity
• hardware failure
• End users' mistakes

So you need to have a solution that would allow you to backup your valuable data. In this article we're going to describe one of most widely used backup solutions – tape backup system.