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In this article, we'll be discussing the history and importance of backup and disaster recovery solutions, or BDR solutions. These technologies have progressed quite significantly over time, and monitoring the past of these solutions can give you a better idea of where we are now and where we can go in the future. The importance of proper data security is fairly difficult to understate, and the best way to help employees and business owners understand that is by exploring their history.
Additionally, we'll be talking about a concept that goes a little bit beyond backups: business continuity. This is the concept that a business should have as little downtime as possible, which means business owners should be using different metrics to choose their backup solutions.
The Old Ways [Physical Media]
Since the 60s, businesses have started backing up their data with formats a bit more advanced than punch cards. The format that changed things was tape -- yes, - that could be used to safely store data en masse for long periods of time, well before hard drives took over the scene in storage. The primary issue with tape was that accessing that data took ages, since it needed to be stored sequentially and be rewound/fast-forwarded. (The restrictions of your VCR are the same ones that restricted tape as a backup solution.)
