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Med-Biz Backup Strategy

I am working to build an appropriate backup strategy for a medium size business. The company primarily handles Solidworks drawings, along with the typical office docs. The current server arrangement includes...

HQ Office
-2 domain controllers
-1 file server ~1TB data

Remote Office
-1 file server ~500GB data

I planned on enabling DFS to replicate files from the remote office to the HQ file server to make backups easier. I was thinking a few 3TB external drives would be decent for keeping the most recent backups offsite, but I'd really like to be able to keep at least 6 months of data. I'm not sure if finances would allow for a tape drive and media, but I'll press if that is the only option.

Thanks!

Chad

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Joseph Daly

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Thanks for the reply xxdcmast. I've been running demos of Zetta and am happy with how that functions. I haven't had a chance to compare the costs of all of the options out there, but I've been looking at Azure and Amazon as well.

The trouble comes down to money...I know the finance group is not going to want to spend a lot on this. I currently have a Dell NX3100 with 8 empty slots, so I have quite a bit of room locally. I could expand storage there and use 2 external drives to swap out from week to week so I could hold on to week old backups offsite. Another issue exists with business continuity. The building does not have sprinklers, there are no fire suppression systems in the data center, and the data center also does not have firewalls.

So how does that plan sound to EE? Expand the NAS to allow for deeper onsite archives, and cycle out external drives weekly to take offsite?

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