In a disaster scenario, what’s a fast way to recover data from LTO-7 tape?
Hello,
We’re a small business with roughly 50 knowledge workers and around 50 TB of data housed in a single building. We currently run a tape-based backup system in our server room using Backup Exec and LTO-6/LTO-7, and it works well for day-to-day protection.
Our concern is disaster recovery. If the server room were destroyed, we wouldn’t be able to restore data from tape until new hardware and a new location were in place. The resulting downtime would be unacceptable for the business.
To reduce recovery time, we’re exploring the idea of maintaining a minimal off-site system with a tape drive installed. The goal would be to restore selected data quickly so staff could continue working on reports and other tasks from home using our existing O365 environment. I asked our vendor for a quote, which led to a conversation with Quantum, and the response I received was essentially that this is “not how it’s done.”
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Your disaster recovery thinking is solid—the gap is not strategy, but execution. Tape is reliable and economical for backups, but it isn’t built to deliver fast recovery on its own, especially when the original infrastructure and backup catalogs are gone. By pairing your existing LTO setup with a small off-site system and Stellar Data Recovery for Tape, you gain a practical, catalog-independent way to restore critical data within hours rather than days. This approach keeps costs under control, avoids a full environment rebuild, and gives your team timely access to the files they need to stay productive after a worst-case event.