Using tape for data archiving and disaster recovery purposes is still quite common, although with the cost of large-capacity drives coming down, data is often archived on disks or other storage media now.
I don’t get it. Maybe I’m too old and tapes to me are these large, round things you put a plastic cover around and stickers for ID you have log.
Small, dat types in a server I understand. Had those in my safe in a big hotel. But now with massive digital servers and backup sites, etc. makes no sense.