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Want to get rid of tape drive and Norton Symantec, Veritas, this stuff is to overblown for our small network
HI, I take care of a small network, 1 Gateway server, running win server 2003. 6 work stations, running win pro 2000 office edition. At present we use a tape backup, backs up daily about 9 gig of info. Here is what I want to do. Get rid of Veritas backup software, get rid of the tape drive. I want to install a REV 35 G external harddrive backup unit by Iomega.
Is this a good way to go. Also want to get rid of Symantec and go with Kaspersky antivirus. The system now with the older equipment and software is a pain and I think it is to invasive, also just want to simplify things. I think the way this is setup is way overblown for a small business like ours. Thanks for your opinions and I will wait to here from you.
Is this a good way to go. Also want to get rid of Symantec and go with Kaspersky antivirus. The system now with the older equipment and software is a pain and I think it is to invasive, also just want to simplify things. I think the way this is setup is way overblown for a small business like ours. Thanks for your opinions and I will wait to here from you.
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Keep on using veritas backupexec. The builtin ntbackup of windows as far as I know, doesn't support compression on devices other than tapes, which BE does, so it can compress when you backup to your rev. Otherwise you could have used the builtin ntbackup.
I don't know kaspersky, but another AV software you could use on the server (I think this is one of the best AV software around) is avast!
http://avast.com
I don't know kaspersky, but another AV software you could use on the server (I think this is one of the best AV software around) is avast!
http://avast.com
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Thanks to all for your help. Pat G's answer is what I was looking for and good links to. Kooool
Tapes are much more resilient than disk when it comes to transport, and you need to take your backup off site if you're serious about it. - eg, a fire would wipe out the computer room or someone can steal the server and any on-site back-ups (or just the back-ups - plenty of opportunity for fraud there).
Personally, I'd stick with tape. By all means replace the back-up software, but remember Veritas have been in the game a looooong time and have lots of functionality, compared to ntbackup (the free backup utility that comes with all NT based windows). ntbackup was originally based off seagate backup which veritas acquired many moons ago and it developed into backup exec.
As to AV - each to his own. My experience of kapersky is as one of four engines we used in Antigen: we turned it off due to too many false positives. My workplace uses symantec now, but our engineering guys lament the day we replaced Mcafee.
Bear in mind two things before you make up your mind either way. 1) companies exist to expand and 2) the average word document today is around 60KB compared to aroud 5KB with Office 6 (personal experience based on 8 years with same comapny). Both of these things point to the same inevitability: your data volume will grow. Having an oversized solution now is a boon believe me. I'm always struggling to gain funds to keep up with the growth - my funds are usually about 9 months behind the 8 ball with my team forced to over-manage the system as a result: it ain't pretty.