Hello,
History...skip two paragraphs if you want....
My bosses had a bite in the rear the other day, employee left and erased some files. Higher ups didn't discover erased files for 8 days. And the higher ups were told backups for employee My Docs were only one day deep.
Company doesn't have a change password/suspend account policy when employee leaves. I think that is going to change.
Question...
We have BUE 9.1, backing up to 875 gig RAID (recently increased,) tape backup capable of 10 gig uncompressed. Employee My Docs are running 217 gigs, with 11-13 gigs of accounting and sales data. Not a problem keeping one full backup each week, plus daily full backup (now.)
Any suggestions on how to implement a Grandfather type backup? Full backup each week for a month, take one weeks backup and archive for a year, and save a yearly archive. Doesn't seem like it would work with our tape system (Onstream, no longer made, can't purchase tapes.) How about weekly, monthly and yearly backups to disk? Initial investment one disk per month, one per week, so twelve tapes for monthly and four for weekly, total of 16 disk initally, plus one per year thereafter. I see 250 gig SATA disk for about $85.
If this seems reasonable, and there isn't any better choices, how do I swap a disk in every week? Could buy hot swap drive enclosures...Promise has some for $110. I don't suspect swapping each drive manually is a good idea.
Am I in left field? What am I missing? I have thought about tape drives, but the cost...drives and enclosures cost aprox. $2000 for first year. Wouldn't some sort of robotic tape library or large tape drive plus tapes cost more?
I am sure there are files which could be archived. I am not sure the savings in overall backup size out weigh the hassle if someone needs an archived file.
Again, what else should I consider?
Would appreciate any and all help,
Jeff
History...skip two paragraphs if you want....
My bosses had a bite in the rear the other day, employee left and erased some files. Higher ups didn't discover erased files for 8 days. And the higher ups were told backups for employee My Docs were only one day deep.
Company doesn't have a change password/suspend account policy when employee leaves. I think that is going to change.
Question...
We have BUE 9.1, backing up to 875 gig RAID (recently increased,) tape backup capable of 10 gig uncompressed. Employee My Docs are running 217 gigs, with 11-13 gigs of accounting and sales data. Not a problem keeping one full backup each week, plus daily full backup (now.)
Any suggestions on how to implement a Grandfather type backup? Full backup each week for a month, take one weeks backup and archive for a year, and save a yearly archive. Doesn't seem like it would work with our tape system (Onstream, no longer made, can't purchase tapes.) How about weekly, monthly and yearly backups to disk? Initial investment one disk per month, one per week, so twelve tapes for monthly and four for weekly, total of 16 disk initally, plus one per year thereafter. I see 250 gig SATA disk for about $85.
If this seems reasonable, and there isn't any better choices, how do I swap a disk in every week? Could buy hot swap drive enclosures...Promise has some for $110. I don't suspect swapping each drive manually is a good idea.
Am I in left field? What am I missing? I have thought about tape drives, but the cost...drives and enclosures cost aprox. $2000 for first year. Wouldn't some sort of robotic tape library or large tape drive plus tapes cost more?
I am sure there are files which could be archived. I am not sure the savings in overall backup size out weigh the hassle if someone needs an archived file.
Again, what else should I consider?
Would appreciate any and all help,
Jeff