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What's your company's Backup solution ?

Asked by mxgong in Windows 2003 Server, Backup & Restore Software, Removable Backup Media

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Hi All Experts

I am working at a software development company. Our company has around 200 servers & clients, 65 users. Currently, we are using vbscript to copy all user's workdata and server data to backup server, and then backup to external hard-disk.

we are going  to start looking at a tape backup solution for our infrastructure systems, the various options & the requirements of a backup system that could be used for:

* windows servers
* desktop systems
* unix servers

Ideally it needs to satisfy the following (& more, which is the hard part)

* Able to conduct full restores of a windows server within a day (assuming like a disk failure or something)
* Able to conduct full backups of windows server in a reasonable timeframe not exceeding say 4 hrs per server
* Able to conduct incremental backups
* Manage & mark media for offsites etc
* Possibly change tapes if capacity exceeds a single tape
* Able to be used by unix systems (via some sort of agent or otherwise)
* Able to be used for workstations on isolated directories
* Needs to be usable via network infrastructure (ie ethernet)

I'm sure there's more than this, but we need to come up with at least the requirements & a semi plausible proposal for the type of equipment we might need to do it.

Can anyone give me any information about this? such as: product name, what's the backup solution or backup products you are using in your company and what's your suggestion?

Thanks for your help.
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