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What are you using for your backup technology?

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by Former member

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I am currently using Symantec BackUp Exec 12d. We have for the hardware portion a DELL 136T that has LTO-3 drives. This Tape robot has been out of warranty for 6 months

I want to upgrade the Tape robot to DELL ML6020 Control Module with LTO-4 Tapes.

Our customer complains that this upgrade is to exspensive. He says tapes are outdated. Now our contract states that we have to have storage offsite for up to 12 months. I do not know of a cheaper better technology than hardrives or DVD's only sound more exspensive.

I thought DELL could give me a hybrid solution of hardrive storage for one month and then off to LTO-4. But none of those solutions seemed be exactly what I was looking for.

So what do you use that is cheaper and better?

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by nimmo

Just grab say 5 TB USB drives (pretty cheap these days).

1 x mon/wed
1 x tue/thur
1 x friday
1 x monthly
1 x past user/email archives

Some good imaging software and roate the setup as the example above shows.

As an example say your clients server has 2 drives the first containing 50GB (system data) and the second containing 200GB (business data).

When you do the calculations you can keep four copies on each drive, and also with this setup you have a huge amount of fall back if some thing goes pear shaped.

Of course you'll have to modify retention policies as the data grows.

Hope this gives you some idea's on what you can offer the client.

(5x1TB drives + imaging software is pretty cheap)

by Former member

I agree for a small site(less than 200 users) your solution is perfect. I am already using Symantec System Recovery Option for Server's like DC's and Sharepoint I need to have live in less than 12 hours by regulatory agreement.

But I back up over 15 Terebytes of data in a Month and by contractaul agreement need to store it offsite.

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