Tape makes more sense the larger you go, as it help amortize the fixed/upfront costs. The incremental costs of buying more tapes (that are re-usable) isn't that

Tape makes more sense the larger you go, as it help amortize the fixed/upfront costs. The incremental costs of buying more tapes (that are re-usable) isn't that much at scale. It's often relatively cheap insurance against data loss for many organizations. A lot of 'enterprise' backup software is also now coming with hooks into cloud storage (e.g., S3 APIs), but then you have to worry about bandwidth and the time it takes to get the bits offsite at "x" bits/second. Of course you also have to worry about retrieving the data in case of disaster per the Recovery Time Objective: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_recovery#Recovery_Time_Objective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_recovery#Recovery_Tim... Also: a backup has not happened until you try and succeed your recovery process.