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Protecting your data with tape backup solutions

On-site damage to your business technology infrastructure could result in catastrophic data failure. With Dell’s tape-based backup solutions, you can implement a low-cost backup and recovery system that provides you with a reliable archival recovery method for records that have been deleted or destroyed.

Business Need

With tape backup solutions, you can automate and schedule backups during off-hours to help reduce the impact on IT resources during peak operations and create:

Reliable backups of large amounts of data for off-site archiving and audit trails
Nightly backups of a single server and weekly backups of multiple servers
Time-based snapshot of your business data to meet regulatory requirements

Dell Solution

Based on industry-standard technology, Dell™ PowerVault™ tape-based data protection solutions are engineered to handle the daily demands of business activity. From single, direct-attached tape backup to complete enterprise-class tape library systems, you choose the solution that fits your business backup demands.

Benefits

Low entry cost to set up and start making backups
Small form factor
Multiple redundant backup sets to create archival libraries
Easy off-site media storage
Available in write-once, read-many (WORM) media to protect your data from being altered or changed

Why Dell?

Dell understands that your business needs tape backup solutions that are easy to manage and engineered to meet the rigorous demands of your unique environment. With reliable products and the services to help you plan, implement and maintain your solution, you can rest easier knowing you have a data recovery strategy in place.

	Also see Entry-Level Data Protection, Cloud-Based Data Protection and Disk-Based Data Protection

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Dual Rackable Tape Drives PowerVault 114T/114X	Rackable Tape Automation Systems PowerVault 124T	Tape Library PowerVault TL2000
GREAT FOR Weekly backups of one or two servers with less than 3.0TB.	GREAT FOR Centralising backups to simplify operations and improve utilisation.	GREAT FOR Entry-level, LAN backup, iSCSI environments and archiving. Easy to use library that is a great alternative to tape autoloaders.
Technology Highly rack-optimized external backup. Single tape cartridges per drive. Manual tape cartridge swapping.	Technology Multiple tape cartridges per drive. Automatic tape cartridge swapping.	Technology LTO-3-060, LTO3, LTO-4, LTO-5. Storage Capacity Up to 36 TB native capacity. Backup Rate 1008GB/hr max with 2 drives. Number of tape cartridges Up to 24.

	White papers IT Consulting for Data Archiving Tape Automation Comparison Chart Dell PowerVault 124T Tape Autoloader Dell PowerVault TL2000 Tape Library iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries Dell PowerVault TL4000 Tape Library
	Articles Tape or Disk Choosing the right backup for your business

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