Vetting a backup Plan

[kxcman]

I was recently handed the task of designing a backup strategy for our company. We have a group of 20 servers at 3 locations with about 200 users. The servers are primarily NT workstations and linux NAS's with a few Solaris boxes. Currently we run three Arcserve machines to SDLT tapes which backs up the critical stuff (email servers) but not the bulk.

My current design includes a near-online terabyte backup server with Veritas or Arcserve running on a linux or windows OS at each location with an attached tape library.

I am also considering putting all this stuff on a separate private network running on gigabit ethernet.

That being said, I am having trouble finding the right pieces of Veritas or Arcserve to handle the mixed OS environment. Everyone I talk to wants to be paid to provide proprietary hardware and solutions. I would rather provide a comprehensive system on common hardware with a software package that is easy to license. Anybody want to tell me what they use?

Current favorites in hardware:
Raidzone or Eracks Terabyte Fileserver, 3com gigabit ethernet, Qualstar SDLT tape library.

Looking forward to your comments.

 

[fhatcher]

Try a Nas it can create mirrors of your severs then you just back up the mirrored copies also if you server fails there is an option to run the server from the NAS that can be purchased normally its additional.

 

[TimTang]

What does Nas mean?

Just curios; never heard of it.

Thanks