Re: Backup Solutions - Which one do you use...

Hi Phil

Can you elaborate more as you say some backup is 600GB!? This is big for a tape solution.

What would be general backup strategy, assuming 600GB isn't required to backup every day, just an incremental solution ( changed files)

What files are these, wondering if compression will play a part in solution.

If backup 'whole server' how big is the data?


"Phil E." <Groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u%23TFHFQRHHA.2252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am in a quandry. We have had a lot of grief with Symantec/Veritas and their new licensing portal. A lot of that on our own time.

While that grief was happening, we setup the stock SBS backup to a USB hard drive large enough to handle the data (some are over 600GB).

SBS 2K3 Premium SP1 or R2 on all of our client's boxes.

I have grown somewhat accustomed to swapping out the drives, and so have my clients.

Is a Symantec/Veritas solution based on tape and/or tape libraries (many $$$) justified in this day and age of cheap storage?

I understand that Enterprise is moving away from tape and into hard drive media based backups for archiving. Is that right?

I hope all y'all can help me out here, as I would like to make some recommendations.

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Phil E.

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