I am about to run a pilot program for centralized backup and restore of data on a small LAN. The approach calls for creating image files of directories used to store the data. If anyone would like to give advice on what to do or not do in the test, I would appreciate the input.
I am running Windows 2000 peer-to-peer. There are two shared 80gb drives on a Fast Ethernet LAN that uses TCP/IP protocol. One drive is used to store images, sound clips, and video clips. Remote users download files from it. The other 80gb drive will have MPEG files on it, and files created with Microsoft Producer. These files are destine for offline media, or otherwise will be moved off the LAN.
After formatting these drives, and leaving space available for defragmentation I would estimate 62gb of storage available for data. Does anyone take issue with this?
If I created one logical directory on each 80gb drive, and replicated a distribution of files of the types I expect to store on the drive, I could make one image file of the directory, and see how large that file would be.
I plan to transfer the backup files from each workstation to a separate workstation on the LAN where they would be moved to offline storage. I am wondering how to log DTRs and automate the movement of the backup files from multiple workstations to a central workstation. I want to make sure a workstation is completely backed-up to offline media before starting transfer of the next workstation?s backup file.
