December 17, 2007

when backing a hard drive to a tape drive can you legally include your software in the backup?


Yes, the end-user license for the software allows you to make copies of the software as you are the only person who will use it. So backups on any form of storage is permitted.

Haider0311 and the standard .... Tape Drives are still a very common form of backup media. They are cheaper than hard disks expecially large amounts of data. I saw tapes that individial contain up to 8.32 terabytes. The tape cost $ 4500. An option of hard disk storage will be an array of hard drives and many would cost a LOT more. I did a quick search and it would need 8TB thirty-two 250GB readers not to mention an enclosure for these readers. The one I found cost 75K. Band is much cheaper.

4 comments:

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
Yes, the end-user license for the software allows you to make copies of the software as you are the only person who will use it. So backups on any form of storage is permitted.

Haider0311 and the standard .... Tape Drives are still a very common form of backup media. They are cheaper than hard disks expecially large amounts of data. I saw tapes that individial contain up to 8.32 terabytes. The tape cost $ 4500. An option of hard disk storage will be an array of hard drives and many would cost a LOT more. I did a quick search and it would need 8TB thirty-two 250GB readers not to mention an enclosure for these readers. The one I found cost 75K. Band is much cheaper.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
You still have a tape drive operational? Yes

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
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However, the software on your hardware has yet to be legally entitled

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
;-) You can save all the software you own legally.

Are you really using a tape drive?