Safe (or safer) than backup to tape: HP StoreOnce
When talking to SMB customers, most of them don’t want to talk about their backup strategy. It’s paradox: They know that data loss can ruin their business, but they don’t want to invest money into a fully tested recovery concept (I try to avoid the word “backup concept” - Recovery is the key). Because of tight budgets and lacking knowledge, many customers use traditional concepts in a virtualized world. This often ends in traditional backup applications with agents deployed into guest OS, and backups that are written to tape (or worse: On USB disks).