Hello everyone,
I am starting to research replacing our old tape system as the media is getting harder and harder to find. I was a little intrested in what everyone else is currently using for their backups? Still using Tape, usb hdd's, internal hdd's, flash drives? Any suggestions on a new system?
Thanks in advance,
-Sean
We have a dedicated backup server. Running Symantec Backup Exec 12. It performs a full backup to disk nightly and then duplicates to tape. It also performs 2 hour differentials and 15 minute log backups to disk. This way we can always perform a restore to a point within the last 15 minutes. The same server is also used to backup our domain controller and several other servers in the organization. It has an 800gb raid5 array for the backups and a 400/800 LTO tape drive for the duplication. By going to disk first we have our full backup window down to about 20-25 minutes. The duplication to tae can take as long as it needs without effecting anything. Differentials take about 5 minutes and log backups take about 2 minutes. Just to give you an idea of size our databases are about 17gb total. Using this setup our entire organization can be backed up onto a single tape which only needs to be changed out on Fridays for the weekly and on Mondays to start of the dailys. The other plus to our setup is that since the last backup also exists on the RAID array we can restore our database in approximately 25min in the case of disaster. If you have any more questions about our setup or topology feel free to drop me a line.