http://www.greshamstorage.com/home/ http://www.greshamstorage.com/backup-versus-dr/#PageComment_6 Fred, tape isn't necessarily the perfect solution for everyone. However, it is very hard to argue the cost of ownership of tape versus other technologies particularly when the reason for backing up your data is for long term archive. Further, although I can't argue that tape is "old school" at this point in time, it works! Newer technologies offer alleged improvements but they often come with a lot of problems too. So, in terms of overall cost and reliability (accepting that you need to make sure you laid the data down correctly in the first place), I still haven't seen a new technology that can claim to be a viable replacement for tape in the area of data archive for large businesses. Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:51:38 -0600 Christopher Young http://www.greshamstorage.com/backup-versus-dr/#PageComment_6 http://www.greshamstorage.com/backup-versus-dr/#PageComment_5 I'm perplexed, what makes you so sure offsite and *tape* make your solution so perfect for my needs of secure data? Tape is so old school. Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:10:04 -0600 Fred Guthrey http://www.greshamstorage.com/backup-versus-dr/#PageComment_5