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Just about every big organization on the face of the planet does backup to tape as part of a disaster recovery scheme.

Anecdotally I currently backup about 100TB of data each month that get shipped off to a secure storage facility. I would love to be able to back up to HDDs/NAS and ship that out but the equipment cost is much higher and hard drives are not reliable for long term storage as the heads stick to the platters.



Or they backup to a disk appliance that replicates deduped data across a WAN segment to a DR site...




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