Optimizing Your Backup Tape Rotation Strategy

By Yan Fortin
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Adopting an effective tape rotation strategy is not something everyone has in mind when they start backing up their files, whether it is on tapes or CDs. You would be surprised about how many SMBs just stick a media in their tape drive once or twice per week, and just overwrite them each subsequent week after. What happens then if they want to restore a file that was deleted the previous day or a few months ago?

To help you maximize the effectiveness of your backups, the [Geeks Are Sexy] team has pubbed a nice tutorial showing you the best way to rotate your tapes, letting you keep your data as long as you can, on the least number of medias possible.

Read the complete tutorial over here.