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Disk to Disk Backups

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by gsysmanc

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Currently we are using disk to tape for primary backups and then tape to tape for aux copies.
We're interested in doing disk to disk for primaries. 90% of our stuff is on Magnitude SANs.

Anybody have any recommendations for disk to disk primary backups at a reasonable price. We're looking at about 2-3 terabytes necessary.

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by microsoftne

We currently utilize D2D backup's. It has definately shortened the backup time as well as given us the ability to restore in a much shorter time...

by john.a

We use an online backup provider for our data. However, that same online backup provider has a D2D turn key solution (SW and HW) for $50,000. The cool thing about it, is it does NOT do incremntial backups. It does Block Level backups. Only the Blocks that have changed are backed up, not the file. It will decreased you daily backup size by 97%, not to mention your backup window. AND you only have to do a full backup 1 time! Drop me an email with if want to talk to them.

by ashahidi

Hi,
I am using a 2TB NAS for my off the site disk to disk backup realtime via internet, but for doing this you need to also use a backup softwar (I am using peersoft because it is easy to use and cheaper than others). My NAS is from Dell and their price for the service and product is reasoable, but Iomega is cheaper. I hope this give you some ideas.

by freddubon

I've used a low cost SATA solution that allows me to scale to 4.8 TB, and we've included a software that took my exchange server from 80GB down to 30 and archived the rest in 2nd tier storage.

send me an email if you want to discuss what we've done.
freddubon@hotmail.com

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