Qic backup file reader for mac software#

When talking about backup, IT administrators often use the term вЂњair gapвЂќ meaning that data cannot be wiped out by a virus or other accidental software or power incidents. Tapes have no electricalВ connection to the drive whatsoever, even during operation. Happened to be subject to a massive electrical surge or lightning strike while your one and only copy of data on a tape was in the drive? Once again, no problem. Good luck doing anything like that on a hard disk! Just buy another tape, undo the four Phillips screws on the bottom and transfer the tape spool to another shell, and youвЂ™re back in business. The physical spool of tape is also very robust, unlike the glass platters of a hard disk.Дropped your tape and smashed it? Somehow managed to kill that RFID chip? No problem. Tape media is purely mechanical (aside from the RFID chip on the side) meaning that thereвЂ™s no electronics which can be damaged. There are other significant benefits of tape вЂ“ particularly in the robustness and simplicity of the media.

The low cost of the media also allows me to have a history of my data (say, a copy from each year), because sometimes, things get lost or corrupted, I donвЂ™t realise it, then end up overwriting a good (backup) copy of data with bad (or no) data. If like me you buy older generation drives second hand for personal backup, I find it actually works out cheaper than having say, two or three (or more) USB hard disks.

For quite some time now IвЂ™ve been doing my backups (including all of the content on this website) by Tape.