Christopher, I enjoyed reading your thread, it brings back memories of when I first got started in information technology. I remember seating in class and having to build a computer from ground up, loading the 13 1.68 Mb DMF floppy disk for windows 95; that made a it a two day process. LTO tapes is probably the cheapest and fairly reliable tape backup nowadays, but organizations that are required to keep records for multiple years or medium to large organizations may want to look at other solutions. The current most reliable backup solution is hard disk, SATA, Solid State or Flash drives storage arrays. One of the leading solutions is EMC AVAMAR or Data Domain; both of these solutions can be replicated to another alike device at a DR
