Re: Backup or not?

In article <325C2689-6D75-42EE-88D3-9AA118568F46@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
In office, when I request my boss to purchase backup device for file storage,
I suggest Storage Server or Server 2003, but they turn me down because of
budget, then I suggestion portable HDD device for each dept head and they
perform backup by themselves, then my boss suggests to use their desktop HDD
/ DVD for backup instead, but each PC only has one HDD, if this HDD fails,
there is no backup. On the other hands, each dept head can burn all data
files into DVD periodically, but the size for backup is 100 GB. Can they
backup using DVD? Yes, but will they do it? No.
My boss said why?
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to respond this question?
All they need is education!
Thanks in advance for any suggestion

You only need a backup of your data has value, your boss believes that
the company data has no value.

Even a cheap 500GB RAID-1 Snap Drive will cost about $1,100, so a small
file server with tape drive is not a lot more when you consider the
costs:

Server 2003 Standard $800 - licenses as needed
Small File Server hardware - $2000
LTO-2 External Tape drive and 12 tapes - $1300

Benefits - common storage with file security, master backup that can be
taken off site or put in fire safe, easy to use/understand and easy to
check if backups are good or not.

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