Pro Data Backup and Recovery

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Physical Backup Media

Chapter 2 discussed the two main pieces of backup software. In this chapter, we will discuss the most

common pieces of hardware that are used as backup targets.

In general, backup media can be broken up into two major categories: physical and virtual. The

difference is how the underlying hardware is addressed. Physical media do not have any abstraction

layer that presents the hardware in a format or manner other than its native format. Virtual media do the

same thing as physical hardware, but use a combination of software and hardware to make disk storage

look like physical tape hardware.

There ...