Tape BackUp v External Hard Drive BackUp?

svan · 5 Apr 2011 at 19:36

Dear All,

Our LTO2 200/400 internal backup drive has gone **** and the cost of a replacement is shocking :eek:

We used Backup Exec 10d.

1. What are the main advantges of tape over external HDD backup?

2. If we use ext HDD, whats is the best approach?

3. Is Backup Exec 10d upto the job of backing up to Ext HDD's

Thanks for any help and assistance you can give.

Cheers

svan

svan · 6 Apr 2011 at 00:19

Thanks for your help.

I have sourced some new LTO2's and will buy a replacement. They don't use the full 400GB atm

I will look at System Recovery, but do currently backup system state. I use Acronis at home, so might see what offering they have for servers, as i'm familiar with it.

Just out of interest, with System recover, can your back up to a machine of different hardware?

oh and do LTO3 use the same tape sizes at LTO2's?

Thanks

svan

svan · 6 Apr 2011 at 08:28

Venares said:
LTO is backwards compatible as far as reading goes.

LTO-4 can read LTO-3 tapes.
LTO-3 can read LTO-2 tapes.

You get the idea

i do... So not write then?

cheers

svan

svan · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:36

Jakeee said:
How much you back up and how often, if its small then I'd suggest renting out a cloud server for backups, so much easier than daily tapes that might fail. Pity my company has such large backups, ****ing tapes haha

They have about 350GB of data, is it worth using a cloud?.. Can anyone recommend any good companies?

Many thanks

svan