Small business backups solutions?

[Dan Coutu]

I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is 
struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides 
bare-metal recovery capability without costing over $10K. It's easy to 
find expensive solutions that work wonderfully.

The primary challenge so far has been hardware. They used to use 30Gb 
tapes but now that the servers are bigger this doesn't work. Minimum 
capacity for the smallest system is 80Gb and the largest system requires 
~200Gb to backup everything onto a single medium. I've tried to use the 
Iomega REV autoloader as  a solution and it sort of but not quite works. 
In other words it isn't reliable, you can't count on it to work every 
single time. The thing seems tempermental in that it sometimes wedges 
the SCSI bus. Not useful.

The backup solution needs to be reasonably portable so that it is 
possible to carry the medium offsite each day for offsite storage.

What types of solutions have worked for others?

Dan
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