[Chester LUG] Backups on a huge scale. HELP!

[Stuart Burns]

Hi Everyone,

I'm just going to put this question out there and see what comes back.

We currently use a proprietry backup solution that is costing us several
thousand a MONTH to keep only 5 days worth of information. The total data
store is approximatly 2 - 3.5 TB of data. Now the marketing droids at
another company that shall remain nameless is trying to sell us all manor of
crap, from vtl systems that start at 60K (I kid you not) to multi hundred
thousand pound solutions.

In essence we want to achieve 5 things.

Consistant and good local backup of data
Replication of data off site to our off site site server
Backup laptops over DSL connections into the system.
Quick and straightforward use esp regards restores.
Reliability

This is a clean sheet exercise. With a large 5 figure budget to make it
work. Does anyone a) have any ideas b) know a firm that can do this type of
system without pushy sales droids but with an SLA. Our boxes are Windows
servers (20 -25) Redhat  server (1) Opensuse server (2) Netware Boxes (2)
AS/400 iSeries.

Any advice welcome.

Stu
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