The Real Cost of Tape Backup
When we ask our customers what they spend on tape backup and storage, many don’t really know – or at least they don’t want to think about it. We thought it might be helpful to document the real costs of tape backup. Whether you are putting together a new backup plan, or considering how to cut the cost of your current plan, these numbers should help you better understand the real cost of tape backup.
Our Model Environment and System
Our example will be a typical SMB with 12TB of data to back up. We will break the process down and cost out each item in the process then combine all to derive the set up and annual costs. The standard drives that we will use will be LTO4/5 and the same with the tapes. We will also assume that a normal backup schedule would be one full back up each weekend, and a single daily incremental backup of a volume.