backup question

[lowbot]

Hello,

Ive started a new position and in my new environment we arent doing a lot with backups. I'm looking to build a solution for 25 servers. Ideally we want to take images of these servers as well as data copies (both flat files and sql).

Is BackUp Exec still good for this or are there newer/better/cheaper solutions? Is there a current popular or price-effective 2-5 terabyte NAS? This is a mix for win2000, 20003, and a couple legacy nt4 machines.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[Ceez]

We use backupexec11d to backup our servers, 32 total. This includes domain controller system states, file servers, SQL, sharepoint, exchange03.
All our servers run 2003 enterprise, I dont believe 2000 would be much different. It's somewhat costly, depending on your companies budget of course.

I would go with a SAN instead of NAS, terrabytes are costly. The and I recently went to a conference in which the displayed a dell equallogic SAN unit man that was sweet. And we have some NAS's at work and I hate them, they are slow and sometimes unresponsive, and these are only 1 year old HP NAS's, wouldnt recommend.