Backkup solution

[Michael Osburn]

It really depends on the ammount of data the needs to be archived as well as what 
your current backup tools are. At a previous place of employment we used a 1TB
usb hard disk to store out offsite information and rotated between 4 of them.
The only thing that was an issue then was the multi-drive brick that we were 
moving. Now, I am sure they have single drives in the TB range so it would be 
easier. 

Tape is great as long as you have a spare reader available in case the one
your using gets damaged. Personally, my decisions are determined more by weather 
patterns (high risk of hurracanes, earthquakes, floods, etc) then anything else.
I figure that if we are looking at an offsite disaster recovery center then I 
need to assume the worst case with all of the equipment being destroyed. 

In this case, how available would a new tape drive be? 
Will it take longer then new servers to get there?
How long can you afford to be down?

Another trick that I have done before is have a VPN connection to a server in a
datacenter (one of the drop off your server and they provide it with power and 
internet access) that ran BackupPc doing the weekly backups. This way we could 
get the new server in place and restore it over the internet tunnel with out 
making the mad dash for the media and/or waiting on the location to open up in 
the morning. 

HTH

Michael


On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:02:24 +0000
ammad shah <mammadshah at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  
> Dear All,
>  
> I want to know the backup solution for small office/home office (60-200 nodes). i want to move the backup weekly to Disaster recovery site. should
> i select Tape backup or Disk backup. what is cost effective solution (price and brand(ibm/hp/dell/......) . 
> Any suggesstions 
>  
>  
> thanks. 
>  
> M. Ammad Shah
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