Server backup solution

Prophet · 12 Mar 2009 at 15:09

Looking for a 500GB backup solution for one of our servers. We have used REV drives and DAT72's in the past but the capactity falls short of our current requirements.

TIA

madman045 · 12 Mar 2009 at 15:17

LTO-3/4 would meet your requirements, however it depends on what sort of budget you are working with.

Sin_Chase · 12 Mar 2009 at 15:17

Ultrium-4 would cover your needs and give you headroom. Would also provide sufficient throughput assuming you have a decent HBA to put it on.

Sp00n · 12 Mar 2009 at 15:20

LTO4 + decent sas card.

iaind · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:37

Agreed on the LTO idea, although it depends on the data, the retention/rotation you require and whether it needs to go off site.
A NAS may be suitable if you dont need to take it off site, or hot swap disks if you dont need much in the way of retention

FaceplantSi · 13 Mar 2009 at 08:12

On a budget you could try external HDD's through eSATA or Firewire. We put that in for one of our home workers who hosts an ftp server (being in Cornwall he has better connectivity at home than in our main office lol!

). Using a Robocopy script scheduled to run overnight and it works lovely with minimal user intervention.

A bit 'clunky' perhaps but for smaller data sets it's a good and far cheaper alternative to an LTO especially with the price of ext HDD's dropping all the time.