Re: Backup Solutions - Which one do you use...
- From: Leythos <Void@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:44:47 -0600
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:30:18 -0700, Phil E. wrote:
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.
I've seen a number of companies switch to large NAS systems for backups,
but I've also seen those fail. In one case, a server setup with a MIRROR
for the OS and then 1.2TB of space for backups (6 x drives in RAID-5),
failed when 5 of the 6 drives lost their connection to the RAID
controller, and we all know what it means when you have more than 1 disk
go off-line.
I've also seen many instances were connecting a USB cable to a server has
caused it to fault.
I've also seen instances where people thought a single USB drive was all
they needed for backups, and since it was connected to the server and same
power, when they took a power hit, well, they lost the drive and the
server, so they had no live data and no backup.
Tape is expensive, very expensive, but I've not found anything better or
more reliable. Yes, we use external drive system, but, we also use tape.
In some cases the cost of USB drives is more than the cost of a tape
solution - for one client we have a SOX requirement to be able to recover
1 years worth of transactions - tape media is much cheaper than buying
that many USB drives.
In your case, where you have TB of space, I would build a NAS solution and
then I would (since you don't want to use tape) backup the NAS to external
drives.
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Leythos
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