Small business backups solutions?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 5, 2008, at 09:24, Dan Coutu wrote:

> 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.

My goodness.  I saw exactly the same situation at another shop.   
Small techno-world :)

My suggestion to them was to use a RAID-10 with one half on removable  
disks and swap among 3 mirror sets, keeping two offsite, or at least  
one in transit.  e.SATA lets you use S.M.A.R.T so you can know if a  
drive is ailing.

I then run rsnapshot over these.  rsync3 with the renamed-files patch  
is the cat's pajamas.

This is basically how I have my internal backups structured.  That  
job spec is still hung up in purchasing or something...

-Bill

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