Data in Vault System

Many modern solutions can write at 1TB per hour. You need help.

Let me guess, an old DEC system writing to 4mm DAT tapes?

You can mirror network stations so that any thing on one is on the other too. This basically happens with real time backup. Since my IT guys work on it, no idea how it works.

It is unclear whether Productstream ADMS and Vault ADMS 2008 supports incremental/ differential backups or not.

It sounds like something might not be configured quite right. Since one of my partners had recently copied ~200GB to a fresh (empty) usb drive and it didn't take anywhere near as long. I was surprised to hear that. Now, I am trying to re-configure.

What are you using to perform the backups? What is your total backup window? Is this all going to be in one location or in multiple locations as far as different servers?

Have you tried Riverbed's Steelhead appliance product (www.riverbed.com)? They accelerate VAULT services over slow WANs and make sharing CAD data as fast as it would be on a LAN.

My preference is to expend time on the front end [creating the backup], rather than on the back end.

Acronis True Image Echo Workstation creates an exact disk image of your office desktop and allows you to backup key data files and folders. You can run backup jobs on multiple machines simultaneously on both 64-bit Windows and 32-bit Windows systems with the centralized remote management capabilities.

We have three offices that are sharing project files and our only solution was Riverbed Steelhead. It's true that they are expensive but the amount of time and headache that is saved is worth every time.

There are some unsupported ways to backup the vault using standard enterprise backup tools but you need to be careful as to how you go about this - the biggest concerns are:

1) Do not backup the SQL database when it's live
2) And make sure to test your disaster recovery scenarios

I equally versify with what ?katiekafs9? is sharing for Riverbed?s Steelhead appliances. They are performing well in accelerating VAULT services over slow WANs. They have rattling awful solution.

The reviews for Riverbed are positive from all sides. The solution they provide looks very promising. In the test trial, we found that it addressed all the issues that we were facing, especially sharing large graphic and design files.

Looking forward to get these products in, in the coming time.