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Tape used to be much cheaper than on-line storage. Not any more. While it is still neither infinite nor free (and it's certainly not free to manage), on-line storage is pretty inexpensive these days. A smaller company needs tapes for disaster recovery (although on-line vendor-based alternatives exist), but daily backups should be on-line.

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