backup solution

[Gaz1988]

Hello,

Friend of a friend has asked me to help them out with backup solution for their small company.

The network consists of one server with 160gb worth of data and 5 windows XP machines.

I was thinking a tape drive is probably a bit OTT for the size of the network and thus was going to suggest external hdd's as means of backing up.

any suggestions would be grand,

thanks.

 

[Gaz1988]

Secure remote backup all the way!

for 160gb worth of data? wouldnt that take months to transfer on your average ~8mbit connection?

 

[Gaz1988]

my calculations show just under a month to upload 160gb worth of data on a standard 768kb upload speed. i think the local nas box/external hard disk drives might be the way to go.