Backup Data to Tape with Tape Backup Software

How to backup data to tape?

Working as a server administrator or business owner, you may think about how to protect your servers and even wonder where you can save your important files. You may save them to a central server, maybe a Windows 8, 2003 or XP server, or Apache/Linux. But what are you doing to ensure your files won’t be lost or your servers won’t fail in the event of a fire, a mal-operation or other disasters? The tape is a safer place for business users to protect their data security with backups.

To make a disaster recovery plan for your business in case of an unexpected disaster is quite necessary. Many people fail to realize the importance of backing up server system state and critical files to another storage medium such as tape, removable hard disk, CD/DVD, network share, etc. Among them, tape drives remain the leading technology used by organizations or companies for backup and archiving. You may be thinking that performing tape backup is a complex task. However, with a tape backup software, tape backup will be an easy task to protect your server data.

Solution: Use tap backup software – EaseUS Todo Backup to backup data to tape

EaseUS Todo Backup is the perfect tape backup software that supports backing up data or system state to tape. It is typically used for offline, archival data storage. Tape media generally has a favorable unit cost and long archival stability.

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Other advanced features, such as one-click system backup and recovery to protect the system, one-click recovery system to different hardware, incremental backup to save storage space, fast files and disk partition backup and recovery, advanced backup scheduler to simplify and automate backup can also help you fix a lot of backup problems.

Being well compatible with Windows Server 2012/2003/2008, EaseUS Todo Backup simplifies both basic and advanced server backup & recovery management while minimizing server downtime as well as ensuring business continuity.

How to backup Server with EaseUS Todo Backup

With EaseUS Todo Backup, you can backup individual files and folders, also backup all word, excel, etc. documents on your computer, even if they are open now, it still backups them without problem for it supports the hot backup method. See File backup and recovery, there is a slight difference between the tutorial and the actual steps, select tape when choosing a backup storage location.

If you need to backup Microsoft SQL Server or Exchange Server, please refer to our EaseUS SQL server backup.
Let’s see detailed steps to SQL backup and restore an Exchange backup and restore now:

SQL or Exchange Server backup

1. Launch EaseUS Todo Backup, click “NEW TASK” –> SQL

2. Select the SQL Server database that you want to back up on the left window.
You can customize the basic information for your Server backup with name, destination and even create a plan for it.

3. Click Proceed to start backing up your SQL Server data.
All you need is to wait patiently and do not perform any extra operations while you are using this best SQL Server backup software to create the SQL Server backup image. 

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SQL or Exchange Server restore

1. Launch EaseUS Todo Backup. Select Recovery and select an image file to recover.

2. Click Proceed to execute the recovery task.

Tip: If enormous images are stored in tapes, it may be difficult to figure out what is included in a tape without a physical label. So we provide “Tape management” to help you better manage all image files in tapes. By clicking it, our program will list all detected tapes in a pop-up box. Here you can get a clear idea of what content in each connected tapes or select an obsolete image file and click Wipe to free used space.