Small business backups solutions?

[Frank DiPrete]

There are some relatively low cost and reasonably high capacity NAS
appliances out there that I think are attractive for this application.

linksys example:

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C1&childpagename=US
%2FLayout&cid=1115416945617&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper

I haven't used them personally, but would like to hear from people who
have.

NAS + rsync + cron = backup 


On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 09:24 -0500, Dan Coutu wrote:
> 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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