Anilrgowda

Question: I am looking for some feedback. I have a customer running a Windows 2003 Server. One department wants to start recording MP3 files to the server to the tune of 30GB per year and another departments wants to start scanning documents to the server to the tune of 30GB per year. Everything must be on-line 100% of the time and nothing is to ever be removed. EVER!

That is 60GB per year. So in a five year time period they will have accumulated 300GB of data. How are people backing this kind of data up? 1) Very few tape drives will hold this amount of data 2) The ones that will cost a million dollars and 3) Will take a day to back it up!

How do you handle this situation? 300GB is just for five years. How are people adding this kind of capacity to a server and how are they backing it up? Is there a standard? Thanks!

Anilrgowda

You don't need to backup 300 gb on a nightly basis.

From your description,the data should be static for the most part.

You run a differential nightly and a full once a week.

If yhey have the money ,you set up a disk to disk to tape backup using something like Backup Exec 11d.

750 gig drives RAIDed set up as iSCIi targets are cheap these days and the use of eSATA is another method of cheap, fast, efficent backup to disk.