Greetings,
I am excited to hear your thoughts on the following simple last minute DR plan? In short. One mirrored NTFS partition dedicated as a backup staging area before going to tape via Backup Exec 10.
The Plan: To run a onetime Full Backup from staging partition to external USB 500 gig storage device. From then on run nightly incremental backups from the staging partition to the USB Storage Device. We will continue to use tape as well.
Facts:
USB External Drive to Dell Power Edge 2800 Server.
Data Base is not expected to exceed 200 gigs.
Sybase Data Base.
Storage Device is a “Store-It 500GB External Hard Drive”. Fat32
In DR scenario the external drive would be secured at another location in order to continue operations.
I know that this scenario is like using chewing gum to stop a leak in a dam. However, has anyone experienced this type of low budget DR plan before? I would like to hear your thoughts on the good and bad reasons for using it or not. I would love to hear of a better alternative. I?m sure with the information I get from hear I can motivate the business unit to find the funds needed to secure this database and ensure its availability in a disaster scenario. I have thought about online backups. But not quiet sold on them yet.
Kind Regards,