This recipe will cover the basics of tape usage for backups. If you are new to backup and restore solutions, this recipe will provide you with the core concepts presented in the easiest manner.

All organizations or companies have important production data that is either online or accessible, which needs to be protected and archived. System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 will provide you with the features needed to let you have a rich experience providing archiving and backing up your product data to the tape. The most important part regarding tape backups is to determine the production data that should be archived in some manner. The organization must have a classification done prior to the actual implementation; the production data that is critical or has major impact on the company's business continuity plans should be archived. A rule of thumb, never archive production data if there is no need. It will only incur more cost on the organization...