Re: Offsite backup options
- From: "Frank McCallister SBS MVP" <anonymous>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:23:37 -0500
DVD is definitely out of the question for many reasons! Conventional wisdom
among IT Pros still goes with Tape as the preferred solution but with SBS I
have put most of my clients on USB 2.0 external drives. Believe it or not
the majority of my clients Backup problems have been with my clients who are
still running Tape. I wouldn't have believed this 3 years ago but after 3
years of experience with SBS that has been my experience. In 3 years of
using USB drives I have had one drive failure on all of my clients. I have
the Clients get 2 of these drives at total cost of under $250 for the pair
($125 ea) and do a Total SBS Wizard backup every night. The drives are
rotated daily so that a drive is always off site in case of a disaster.
My Church had a server Raid controller failure which managed to wipe both
drives. After Dell replaced the Controller I installed CD1 and restored the
Backup from the previous night from the USB. Not counting the time for
hardware fix the server was up and running in less than 2 hours. Forget
about incremental, DVD and other partial Backps. Total Daily backups are the
only way to go for a Small business!!!
BTW I would like to see you backup 1 TB to DVD in my lifetime :>)
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Frank McCallister SBS MVP
MCP Microsoft Small Business Specialist
COMPUMAC
"mswlogo" <geomills@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can folks describe what they are using for not so expensive off site
backup. I assume running SBS there are a lot of folks that are in the
same situation that it's a small business and they are try to control
cost and time involve in maintaining the system. Currently the system
is 1 TB Raid 5 (~.7 TB actual space) Single Partition.
Would like a system that someone once a week would just change media
and take a copy home or online backup.
My current choices I know of:
1) Backup to DVD-RW. Can only do critical data (Source Control System)
and Common Shares. Would last a while (6-12 months) before we out grew
it. I don't know of burning software that does scheduled backups. Or
command line way to burn so I can schedule it. Unless I use something
like DirectCD but that probably wouldn't work great.
2) Online service. Probably be limited to critical data only (same as
above). Limited by upload bandwidth of DSL (768kb).
3) Tape system. I expect to do more than just critical data only and
want to do a full image backup. But it gets pretty expensive pretty
quick if I want to image whole system hands free (without switch tapes
in the middle of a backup). I might go with just critical data only
here also which would get us to 20/40 GB fairly cheap. Also not sure if
I want to get into adding SCSI to an existing SATA Raid system.
4) Some folks here suggested standard external USB drives (or network
drives) and rotate them but I don't like the idea of carrying around
Hard Disk drives and you are limited to only 1 rotation without going
crazy.
5) Home grown on-line off-site storage, putting mirror server up at
home. Again bandwidth may be an issue.
.
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