I work for a small company (technically two) and have wound up in the position of the go between for our outsourced IT and internal computer stuff.
I feel like my IT company is pushing the online backup solutions on us w/o exploring other options as the subscription dollars are more attractive to them than other options.
Currently we have about 20 workstations all running xp pro and ms office along with some other cad, adobe and accounting programs depending on the workstation.
We have 3 physical servers;
VM – two sub domains (one for each company)
Root – i dont know what this meas
NAS –
I believe technically we have 4 servers because of the VM but flattening the network is on the list of things to do so long term we will have 3.
On a scale of 1 – 10 our backup situation currently is about a 2 which is why I’ve spent 6 hours today surfing the web until finally coming acros this page.
We have an external tape drive running a daily backup and weekly backup of 100 gb. We need to do a daily backup of about 200gb worth of data to not be committed should a disaster happen.
We have an archive folder of about 100 gb that could be updated two – four times/year for backup purposes.
So now for my question:
Our old server has a raid 5 config; could I replace the current drives with a higher cap drive and use it as a backup destination remotely?
For local backups some kind of similar set up but just over the lan instead of the net?
Then use the tape drive to update just our accounting information on a daily basis?
This is all just me stabbing in the dark as I have no clue as to where to start with this.
Any input, insight, suggestions or even some pointing and laughing at my situation will be appreciated. Thanks all –