[THIN] Re: OT: Disk-Based Backups for Small Companies
- From: "Matthew Shrewsbury" <MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:50:56 -0400
Give these same people any type of technology and you can expect the same
issues. The two main issues I find with tapes are 1) people don't know how to
use them or 2) they go cheap and buy a sub $1000 drive that is junk. Often
people never test the tape drives to make sure they can restore and that is a
disaster waiting to happen. Of course after the company data is lost no one
ever says "I forgot to test the tape drive" no they say "the crap tape drive
didn't work".
Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+
Network Manager
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BOURHIS Laurent
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:30 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Disk-Based Backups for Small Companies
Hi,
Just remember having read an article on Sunbelt.com on the « The Tape
Reliability Challenge ». Even if it's rather old, I thought it was interesting.
Here's an extract :
« Today, tape continues to be one of the most commonly used storage mediums for
backup, archiving and remote site disaster recovery. In addition, the emergence
of new compliance regulations has significantly raised the stakes in data
protection for both large and small-to-medium customers. A Yankee Group and
Sunbelt Software survey of 362 IT executives in March 2004 found 42 percent of
respondents had been unable to recover data from tape in the last year as a
result of tape unreliability. As a result, customers now rank tape reliability
as a key buying criteria for tape cartridges. »
Full article can be found here :
http://www.wservernews.com/archives/w2knews-20040405.html
Hope this helps,
Laurent
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Matthew Shrewsbury
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A lot of people are under the impression that tapes are old technology. The
truth of the matter is tape is still one of the only real reliable ways to
backup large amounts of data. I would feel much safer with a disk to tape
backup solution over just trusting disks.
Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+
Network Manager
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Luchette, Jon
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:59 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Disk-Based Backups for Small Companies
we might make that recommendation but client has stated they would like to stay
away from tape for some reason. It is still early in the discussions so I am
limited as to understanding why they feel this way...
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Jon Luchette
Emerson Hospital
Technology Specialist III
Work: 978-287-3369
Cell: 978-360-1379
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Matthew Shrewsbury
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:52 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Disk-Based Backups for Small Companies
If you're willing to spend up to 5K why not go LTO?
Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+
Network Manager
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Nick Smith
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:01 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Disk-Based Backups for Small Companies
You could look at the Sonicwall CDP range. It has some gaping flaws IMO, but
might suit.
Otherwise www.peersyncsoftware.com <http://www.peersyncsoftware.com/> their
product is fine for backup - synch less so.
Finally avail, which is similar to persync.
Nick
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From: Luchette, Jon [mailto:JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 April 2006 19:14
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] OT: Disk-Based Backups for Small Companies
Hello,
Anybody know of any good disk-based backup systems for a small company (5
Windows Servers) Ideally I would like to keep it under $5k.
Thanks!
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Jon Luchette
Emerson Hospital
Technology Specialist III
Work: 978-287-3369
Cell: 978-360-1379
jluchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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