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

[David Holden]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Stuart Burns wrote:
> 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


We backup > 1.5 T daily using rsync to one NAS server, and backula to another 
NAS server (each was probably about 4 grand). These are then backed up to LTO 
3 tape system which has a 6T capacity 
(https://secure.dnuk.com/systems/backup/16x1-lto3-2u.php  ~ 3500 pounds)


bacula is a pretty sophisticated for a free system.


For a commercial system http://www.arkeia.com/ may be worth a look.


There are also some commercial online backup systems that look good the 
advantage of these is that they really do go to great length to secure 
multiple copies.

 Dave.


  


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