How to Back Up File Shares to Tape with NAKIVO

Nov 10, 2026

Keep a copy of your file share data offline for years without paying for primary storage. This tutorial shows how to back up SMB and NFS file shares with NAKIVO Backup & Replication and copy those backups to tape. You will add a file share to the inventory, create a backup job, send a backup copy to a tape device and recover file share data from tape.
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Learn more:
NAS backup: https://www.nakivo.com/nas-backup/
File server backup: https://www.nakivo.com/file-server-backup/
Backup to tape: https://www.nakivo.com/backup-to-tape/

0:00 Why back up file shares to tape

1:16 How the disk-to-disk-to-tape workflow works

2:08 Add a file share to the inventory

2:57 Create a file share backup job

4:15 Tape device requirements

4:42 Add a tape device and media pool

5:38 Create a backup copy job to tape

6:52 Run the tape job and check the cartridge

7:16 Recover file share data from tape

8:03 Summary