Central backup solutions?

[RichardHuang]

Hello, I am not sure if this is the right place to put this question. So please forgive me if I shouldn't ask the question here...

I am in a small/middle sized company with about 180 employees(full backup will be 1.4TB data). Currently we are using distributed backup strategy, which means I need to change 9 tapes a day. Recently we are thinking to implement some kind of central backup. Can anybody share some ideas what kind of software/hardware I should look for? What do you do in your company? We are using Arcserve backup software on each major server now. Thanks.

 

[Davetoo]

You could do a backup-to-disk/backup-to-tape strategy. Implement a backup server to which you backup everything to disk, then utilize a tape library and do a backup to tape from your backup server.

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[Cstorms]

We use tapes as well as CPS from symantec on a raided storage setup. The CPS is for instant recovery and the tapes are for offsite DR situations

 

[RichardHuang]

Thank you for your reply. I'll check the CPS with Symantec.