New DLT or Portable HD? 2

[Phylis]

Hi

I work for a small firm with around 60 employees and as we don’t have an official IT Manager I tend to get stuck with most of the problems that occur with our servers - therefore I apologise in advance if what I ask seems like a daft question!

The problem is that the DLT drive on our dataserver (Dell Poweredge 2600) has broken and I have been given the task of finding a replacement.

We are currently backing up around 50gbs of data per night (90% of which are ms word docs)

My question is - with the price and size of portable hard drives being so small, would we not be better off buying 5 of these (one for each work night of the week) rather than replace the expensive dlt drive?

Would the backup be as good as a dlt tape?

Thanks in advance

Phylis

 

[Tightpants]

The advantage with tape backup is you can have multiple copies of your data. You can also keep some of these copies off site.

Are you proposing to swap the portable drive each day? This might get tiresome.

Also consider how you are going to automate the backups to the external disks. Veritas Backup Exec might get confused if you continually swap the "backup to disk" destination.

I hope this helps.

 

[Tekmazter]

I think you could find a 'nice happy place' right in the middle using both. Try looking for info on implementing a backup to disk to tape solution, or get crafty with two separate jobs ... one which backs up to disk and then the next which backs up to tape. You'd have redundancy there with an off-site solution and an in-house data restore solution present in the event someone needs a restore.


TIGHTPANTS
BTW ... at my last firm, we did every-single-day offsite tapes while keeping in in-house ON-SITE tape set as well. We ran every job twice. 911 prompted this, so it's not as uncommon as one might thing

 

[Tightpants]

Thanks Tekmazter. I also noticed this other similiar post on the general backup forum... thread531-1068583.