Need some help with a server backup system!

[Angelos_n]

Hey all,

The office is relocating, and i need some assistance with server backups etc... i was originally given a budget for servers/workstations/laptops etc... and just managed to squeeze in what we need. However after completeing the budget report i realized there was no money left for backup system, so i managed to squeeze some more money from the big man.

Now heres the problem. ive only got £2000 :/

luckily i only have 4-5 servers to backup

with around 4TB data capacity, and we are no where near full yet. But i would possibly like to have the option of having multiple backups, something like 1 taken weekly, and 1 taken and overwritten each day.

for this i was thinking with such a small budget to go some sort of enterprise freenas route. maybe with hotswappable drives that i can take off site(so 2 sets of the same drives, 1 backing up whilst the yesterday one is offsite.)

What do you guys think, any other way i can go with this.

Angelos

 

[Angelos_n]

1st server, i want to do a simple image kinda backup, its DNS,DHCP etc... stuff that wont change and if it does ill re image.

2nd server is the big bad exchange server, which will be the main concern.

3rd server once again needs backing up, its our ACT Database (SQL)

and finally is our web server(will probs just do a weekly rsync or something.

But any advice will be good advise, due to the size of budget.

We might eventually add some sort of sharepoint or collaboration software but thats in the pipes.

Angelos

 

[Angelos_n]

Hey THanks for your answer, you are right my budget is tight. and i think the powervaults, which i was looking at are a bit out of budget, if you start including things like backupexec etc... What i was thinking of currently, is to use something like handybackup, to backup images of every server and workstation over the gig network to 1 of 2 synology SMB diskstations(rated for 160mb/sec read/write, 1 of the diskstations will be a weekly backup, which will be located offsite on a 100Mbps dedicated line and the other will be on the gig network taking a daily image of every server.

How does that sound to you, until i can beg for more money, as ive been told NO

Many THanks

Angelos

 

[Angelos_n]

thanks, yeh luckily in singapore, the net is fantastic, can get 1gbps speed for pennies compared to UK, that 100meg line is costing something like £150/month so yeh, i guess couple of offsite disks etc.. would be good , thanks again matey. and yeh ill probably squeeze in another server with the remaining cash as with both synology stations im only at around £1300 so can fit a nice T310 or something in so act a backup server.