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Here's the second part to this important overview: more care-and-feeding for your backup tapes and tape drives.

1. Tape Life

A good rule of thumb is to use 4mm, 8mm and Travan tapes no more than 52 times before retiring the tape from active use. Although tape manufacturers may state that their product can be used more often, we prefer to emphasize reliability.

We've said it before and we'll say it again: backups of your critical data can ensure the ongoing success of your business. Here's some care-and-feeding for your tape backup components.

Overall guide to tape and tape backup units:

You have spent a lot of time on your computer, and created a lot of files. Unlike your programs, they are unique, you created them. What happens to them if something happens to your computer?

One of today's modern tragedies is loosing one's computer data. All those months, or even years of work - gone! Unfortunately, it's not something many people think about until it's too late.

So what can you do?