Re: DVD's for Backup
- From: "Gary Demi" <gdemi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 05:30:21 -0700
Thanks for the comments.
We are using 4 160GB SATA's ) with a promise FastTrack SX150-M running RAID
5 on 3 drives with the 4th being available as a hot spare or to use when
building a new system. The hard drives and the Promise where right at $600,
our Dell PE1400 handles them well with more than adequate cooling We have
only a few GB (under 5) of drawings that change daily. I anticipate doing a
full backup to DVD once a month, with Mod backup every day to a single DVD.
(including the AD which I believe is covered by the System State)
The veritas BE V10 only uses DVD's through UDF writers which I have found
very unsatisfactory , prone to errors and a lot of aggravation (waiting an
hour to format one for instance, the reason many people gave up on formatted
tapes).
Didn't get much feedback on people using DVD's, I am still trying to find
the right Disk to DVD SW ( not a backup, just a spanner, with good verify
and error recovery ).
--
Gary R. Demi
Software & Communication Concepts, Inc.
(602) 445-6321
"Rick Dilley" <rdilley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O$7Syz%23WFHA.3540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I realize tha tyou desire to archive to DVD.
>
> However, have you considered taking an older no-longer user desktop,
> preferable a PII or better, loading it up with 2 or 3 80GB IDE drives and
> adding it to the network.(minimal cost for a couple of drives and put a
> DVD
> or CD burner on it too)
>
> You can do an incremental daily of all dynamic user folders(i.e. word
> excel
> PPT documents).
>
> If you manage this scenario you with Veritas you have a viable backup of
> all
> documents that have changed for a long time.....
>
> You can mirror the 1st and 2nd drive to give you further redundancy.
>
> At periodic intervals, you can age off really old data to tape DVD or CD
> and
> store offsite.
>
> By doing this you have a ready backup of all dynamic user docs on DISC on
> the network and can recover very quickly AND you have a "burned" archive
> as
> well and it is offsite.
>
> In my case, I have (2) buildings less than 200 feet apart and have setup a
> wireless bridge between them and the "backup" system is in the other
> building.
>
> Beside this backup, I do a 10 tape rotation of the main server and take
> the
> current tape offsite to the other building each morning.
>
> Hope this Helps.
>
> RickD
>
>
> "GR Demi" <msnnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:efRkpC7WFHA.2256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Does anyone have experience ( good or bad using DVD's for backup). We are
>> planning on using NTBACKUP for full and incremental backups then taking
> the
>> bkf files and transferring them to DVD for medium to long term storage
>> (months to years)..
>>
>> Our total storage need are well under 50GB and we have 480 GB online
>> including a RAID 5 (Promise SATA)
>>
>> Any ideas on a DVD writer program that will span DVD's . (not a backup
>> because the tru backups tnd to create trouble with shadow copy.
>>
>> --
>> Gary Demi
>> S&CC
>> Microsoft Registered Partner
>>
>>
>
>
.
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