Why tape backups are bad

Alot of our customers always ask why we dont do offsite tape backups or tape backups of any kind at Tier 3. The answer is many fold but what it comes down to is the non stop risk that it has.

Here is another reason why we use disk to disk to an offsite data center for backups:

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If you are using tapes be very careful to encrypt your data. Even with our solution we encrypt certain backups to ensure that data is protected.

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