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Onsite data back up any suggestions?
We currently use a DVD burner to back up our servers and office data. The process is time consuming and wastes a tremendous amount of media at filling 600 disks per month. We are a small organization with 11 employees. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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Jason,
Do you need to keep this data for archival purposes? If not I would go with a disk backup system and purchase a NAS or DAS to store the data on. This would cost you money to set up but would save you time and money over a short period of time.
Since you state that you are a small organization with less than a dozen employees, you might even be able to save money over your current DVD backup strategy by using a simple disk to disk backup rotation.
There are a number of low cost external USB and eSATA drives with multiple terabyte capacity ( versus the handful of gigabytes a DVD holds ). Also you can find a number of inexpensive small business class NAS drives with RAID capability ).
My recommendation would be to use multiple external drives in rotation as your primary backup. You could still burn DVDs from these backup drives for long term offsite storage on a monthly basis, or as often as your retention requirements dictate.
The larger benefit of disk to disk backup in your case is the near immediate availability for restoring your data at hard drive throughput speeds versus optical media throughput.
Do you need long term retention of your backed-up data? If no, then a Disk Backup is ideal.
You can use a Disk Imaging software such as ARCserve D2D to take incremental snapshots of you data. It is then possible to recover individual files or do a Bare Metal Recovery of the whole machine.
Here are some technical videos: https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpdocs?filePath=0/8363/8363_vide...
If long term retention is required, a lot of companies use backup Tapes to store data. The Tapes can even be sent out for archieval purposes. CA Technologies have the ARCserve Backup product for this requirement. You can find more information on the website.
http://www.arcserve.com/us/default.aspx
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