OK, the DLT drive at work has gone dead — again (this will be the 3rd DLT drive I’ve been through here). The primary reason for using tape here at our office is so somebody can take it home nightly so we can have an off-site copy.
I’m looking to ditch the tape drive, and move to a permanent off-site solution. I’m looking into either an outsourced off-site (online backup) solution or rolling my own and just keeping the server in my garage at home until I can find cheap co-loco in Bend.
Have anybody rolled their own off-site backup system or used an outsourced provider? Has anybody used a reBYTE system for off-site use? What about using something like Ahsay’s off-site software? Or does anybody else have any bright ideas? I’m all ears.
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At work here we have a firewire drive for each server that the backup gets done on. Then all of those backups get put onto one huge firewire drive, and those get rotated daily. Our IT manager takes one home each night, and we have 7 daily backups of all of our systems. We also keep a monthly backup just in case I guess. There is always at least 1 drive offsite. Its not a cheap setup, but in the long run, its probably cheaper than paying for an off-site backup service. I havent priced them though, so who knows for sure.
Yeah, at the office I’m at we’re still using tape too. The server’s drive is around 50gigs of data, so it’s not too bad, but it’s grown each year and the tape soon won’t cut it anymore. I like the firewire drive plan, but that’s got to be a bit on the pricey side.
It is a bit more pricey I imagine, but we were having so many problems with tape backups, and having 70 people doing nothing while restoring a backup from a tape costs a lot more than while restoring from firewire, should we need to.