Perfect for the customer who needs to backup their corporate servers. Intended for low administrative backups, this tape drive inside of an enclosure holds a magazine with eight data cassettes or seven data cassettes and a cleaning cassette.

overview

The 20/40-GB DAT DDS-4 8 Cassette Autoloader is perfect for the customer who needs to backup their corporate servers ranging from the workgroup to departmental server environments. The DDS-4 Autoloader is a tape drive inside of an enclosure that holds a magazine with eight data cassettes or seven data cassettes and a cleaning cassette. With these configurations native capacity can range from 140 GB to 160 GB; with a 2:1 compression ratio the capacity increases with up to 320 GB of storage capacity.

Autoloaders are intended for Low Administrative Backups which means the customer loads the magazine and the software does the rest for an entire week. Meaning, the tape drive will perform a total system backup on the first day, incremental backups on day two through seven and a cleaning on day seven. This ensures the customer has the most up to date data in a reduced backup window situation. The software is configurable in many ways to meet the customer backup demands; this is only a sample configuration.

If the customer’s backup window is not restricted, a total backup can be performed on days one through seven with a cleaning on day seven. This will save time incase of a restore because now you only have to restore one tape.

key features

• Backward read/write with DDS-1, DDS-2, and DDS-3 media
• Lower cost of ownership based on price per gigabyte
• Investment protection for those customers who have standardized on DDS technology
• Eight cassette magazine for higher capacity 160/320-GB with DDS-4 media