One Step Ahead

DR advisors recommend storing off-site backups at least 40 miles away; many recommend at least 200 miles away. Obviously, if your data is stored on tapes and kept 200 miles away, restoring it would be neither quick nor easy. So, obviously, tapes are not the answer. Tapes degrade with significant temperature variations (extreme heat or cold) as well as humidity. They also degrade over time. So tapes have fallen out of favor as a storage medium.