Traditional backup methods don't meet today's decentralized data needs. Here are five common mistakes associated with protecting endpoint data.
Tape-based backup
Some companies attempt to back up endpoint devices to tape, but this approach has many shortcomings. Tapes are a fragile medium, subject to damage from both heat and light exposure. Doing a full restore may require multiple tapes and it could take days simply waiting for the right tapes to arrive.
After a failure, the backup is now the only copy of the data. If an organization only writes backups to tape, and for whatever reason the organization can't restore from that tape, it will have lost all of its data.