| ups | | | | If you already have a Blu-ray drive installed on your |
| Blu-ray is making its way to the backup storage | | | | computer, you probably wonder if there is a backup |
| media market. | | | | solution which can record backups to Blu-ray. Today |
| Blu-ray is a new format of optical disks which brings | | | | there are not so many backup programs that can |
| users more power of backup. The most important | | | | record data to Blu-ray as part of a backup job. |
| thing to decide when you’re doing a backup is | | | | However, you can find this functionality on the |
| where you are going to store it. Until recently, the | | | | market now, if you are ready to do a little web |
| most popular backup storage medium was DVD. It | | | | search. |
| was available in any store and allowed recording large | | | | There are even some backup programs under $40 |
| amounts of data to a single disk without having to | | | | which have the functionality of Blu-ray backup; |
| change disks very so often. However, the new | | | | however they may lack other useful features |
| format of optical disk, such as Blu-ray is quickly | | | | because at this price you can only get a very basic |
| making its way to the consumer market, which | | | | backup solution. If you want to make your backup to |
| means it’s time for all of us to get rid of the | | | | Blu-ray more effective you might want to look for |
| old DVD backup solutions. | | | | such features as backup compression and encryption, |
| What is a competitive advantage of Blu-ray in | | | | task execution scheduler, full and incremental backup |
| comparison with other backup storage media? Of | | | | and other features. |
| course, it is the capacity of a single disk. Having the | | | | Professional software with the Blu-ray backup |
| same physical size, Blu-ray allows recording ten times | | | | feature will offer still more features such as hard |
| more information than a regular DVD. In terms of | | | | drive image backup, database backup, backup to |
| backup, it means that you will have to buy just one | | | | SFTP, running tasks as Windows service. However, |
| Blu-ray disk instead of ten DVDs. Besides, most likely | | | | the price may be twice as much as that of the home |
| you won’t even have to change disks in the | | | | solution. No matter which solution you prefer, you will |
| drive to record a middle-sized backup. Just one | | | | appreciate the advantages of Blu-ray backup as it |
| Blu-ray disk will be enough to protect all your critical | | | | allows you to record so much more data without |
| data. | | | | having to change disks in the drive. |