Tape Back Up | Vodacom Business

Never lose valuable information - simply write your data to tape.

- Data is backed up and written to physical tapes for future retrieval
- Back up your data daily, weekly and monthly
- Easily restore your data for the last seven days (with older data available on tape)
- Get dedicated back-up tapes

To get Tape Back-up

Call 082 1960 to speak to a sales consultant, FREE from a Vodacom cellphone

What is Tape Back-up?

Tape Back-up is a scalable data back-up service developed for business applications and housed in the Vodacom Data Centre.

This fully-managed service writes your data - including files and databases - to a readable, writable magnetic tape drive for future retrieval.

It also stores your data virtually for seven days so it can be restored easily in case of loss or system failure

Why should I get Tape Back-up?

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Saves time and effort

We manage the service for you so you don’t have to store data on your premises or maintain it in anyway.

Offers extra security

Along with a secure data storage facility, you can also choose to have drive-based encryption on your data back-up.

Scalable

You can scale your solution to match your changing business needs without any downtime.

Scalable

The service consolidates and saves data from all your applications in a single system, making retrieval easy.

How much does Tape Back-up cost?

The cost of this service depends on your business requirements
To find out how much this service will cost, request a call back

Cost-effective and quick

Tape is a relatively inexpensive medium that offers unlimited storage capacity
The cost of storage is also relatively less than that for other back-up storage media
The solution enables critical data to be backed up quickly

Saves time and effort

As a Tape Back-up customer, you can back up your data to tape automatically on a predefined schedule:

Daily - with an incremental virtual tape library back-up, which can be accessed virtually for seven days
Weekly and monthly – with full tape back-ups that are shipped for off-site storage
You can also trigger data back-up manually at a time of your choice

Offers extra security

Once backed up, your data is stored in the Vodacom Data Centre.
It’s a 1000m² facility built specifically to provide the latest in data storage security and reliability
Has multiple power generators with a 50 000-litre reserve fuel supply, advanced climate control, parallel redundant UPS systems, emergency shutdown systems and advanced fire control systems with early sensing devices
Uses biometrics, double-access doors, photographic identification and camera technology to ensure that your data is accessible exclusively to users specified by you
Has a redundant power supply guaranteed by uninterruptible power supply systems with battery back-up

Scalable

The Tape Back-up solution is compatible with Windows, UNIX, Redhat Linux and SUSE Linux servers. It provides:

A Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
A Tape Library
LT04 Media – backward compatible down to LT02

Please note:

In the event of a disaster, you will be able to restore seven days’ worth of data directly from the Virtual Tape Back-up library.

Data older than seven days can be recovered from physical tapes; the restoration time depending on data size.

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