Lawrencejr
asked on
What is the best current backup solution
I have a company I support and they want tape backup for 200GB of data
Is there something better for onsite backup. If not can you recomend a good one that has 5 tapes
Is there something better for onsite backup. If not can you recomend a good one that has 5 tapes
200GB? I recommend Hard-drives.
Cheaper, faster, no changing necessary.
You can even clone you servers to them.
for OFFSITE backup, you might want to stick with tape (or use a ruggedized HD).
Cheaper, faster, no changing necessary.
You can even clone you servers to them.
for OFFSITE backup, you might want to stick with tape (or use a ruggedized HD).
ASKER
He would like to use tape. I already use mozy but he likes overkill and does not really care about price.
Does no one use tapes anymore.
Does no one use tapes anymore.
If you are looking at a new implementation, stay away from tape and go to disk. Purchase a decent size NAS and invest in good imaging software like Acronis or Paragon for Full, Incremental and Image backup capabilties.
Backups are much faster, storage costs less, and you can copy the backups off to a removable media (external hard drive) for easy off-site storage. With imaging, you can restore entire partitions or individual files in a fraction of the time too.
Backups are much faster, storage costs less, and you can copy the backups off to a removable media (external hard drive) for easy off-site storage. With imaging, you can restore entire partitions or individual files in a fraction of the time too.
ASKER
you mean an image of the whole server?
How much does this cost?
can you point me to a good NAS that can handle 200GB of storage per night
How much does this cost?
can you point me to a good NAS that can handle 200GB of storage per night
ASKER
and can I backup exchange to it nightly like I can tape
Yes, you can use your current backup solution (backup exec or whatever), and specify in destination to be your NAS, attached USB whatever.
Since everything is on one device (and you dont need to keep swaping tapes to do a restore), you can use incremental backups.
Tapes and Hard drive are both magnetic media, only in the last couple of years have harddrives surpassed tapes in the cost/byte category. I'm not sure about the life expectancy of data on the two, but you should also check out optical storage (like DVD's) if data surviving nuclear blast EMP's interests you.
Since everything is on one device (and you dont need to keep swaping tapes to do a restore), you can use incremental backups.
Tapes and Hard drive are both magnetic media, only in the last couple of years have harddrives surpassed tapes in the cost/byte category. I'm not sure about the life expectancy of data on the two, but you should also check out optical storage (like DVD's) if data surviving nuclear blast EMP's interests you.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
If is is a PC and If it were me, I would suggest that they use 2 external hard drives - swtiching between them at some defined interval and take the one not being used off-site.
Then I would suggest an on-line backup service (I use Mozy.com) which keeps as much as they want off site and can backup automatically during the day.