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I am looking to replace my broken DAT drive with an RDX drive. We run full and incremental backups daily. With our DAT drive we rotated the tapes everyday. We have run into issues in the past with DAT drives failing and tapes going bad, etc. Now we are ready for something more reliable. What are the best practices when using RDX? We back up about 80G and the data will be increasing as time goes on. Do we need to have Media for each day as we did with the DAT drive? Purchasing RDX media for each weekday will end up being pretty expensive on top of the drive itself.
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I am looking to replace my broken DAT drive with an RDX drive. We run full and incremental backups daily. With our DAT drive we rotated the tapes everyday. We have run into issues in the past with DAT drives failing and tapes going bad, etc. Now we are ready for something more reliable. What are the best practices when using RDX? We back up about 80G and the data will be increasing as time goes on. Do we need to have Media for each day as we did with the DAT drive? Purchasing RDX media for each weekday will end up being pretty expensive on top of the drive itself.

What are the best practices for RDX backup ?

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.