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what are you looking to back up? large? small? single PC? many servers?
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Please see link:<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup" rel="ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup</a><br />
<a href="http://free-backup.info/choosing-backup-media.html" rel="ugc">http://free-backup.info/choosing-backup-media.html</a>
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What do you mean with &quot;Backup Media Options&quot;? Is this something your Backup Software mentions? If so what backup software and what OS?
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Backup media options:<br />
1) Disk<br />
2) Tape<br />
3) Optical<br />
4) SSD<br />
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These can then be split into the following non-inclusive list:<br />
1) Disk - RAID, (RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-10, RAID-3, RAID-5, RAID-6), FibreChannel, SAS, SATA, SCSI (various flavours), MAID, Firewire, USB.<br />
2) Tape - DLT, SDLT, LTO, DAT, Various STK flavours, Various IBM flavours, lots of miscellaneous formats.<br />
3) Optical - CD (various writeable flavours), DVD, other optical.<br />
4) SSD - Traditional SSD (very fast and includes a hard disk), modern SSD (USB memory stick)<br />
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What is the background behind your question, what problem are you really trying to solve?<br />
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G
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I'm trying to see what would be the best for a business with a little over 1k GB.
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1k GB?<br />
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1000GB (aka 1 TeraByte) &nbsp;or &nbsp;??
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Anyone know where I can get a complete list of backup media options? Or rather can someone just tell me?
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Anyone know where I can get a complete list of backup media options? Or rather can someone just tell me?

Backup media

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.