Small business backups solutions?
Brian Chabot
brian at datasquire.net
Wed Feb 6 22:57:53 EST 2008
Lots of good info...
But here's one suggestion for REALLY small businesses....
How convenient that I, too, am looking for just such a thing...
In my case I have a small shop I'm putting together. I can't see my
total data that I need to back up exceeding a couple huhundred gigs
...for a VERY long time. (Not much more than a handful of gigs unless I
grow exceptionally fast...)
So I've decided on the hard drive back up routine. My server (I'm
ordering it in parts now in another window...) will have a 500GB SATA
hard drive. I'll be adding a removable SATA enclosure from
http://www.cru-dataport.com and getting carriers for a total of 3 more
500GB hard drives. In total, I have the live one (with I may or may not
set up as a RAID array) with 500GB, and three backup drives of 500GB
each in removable SATA carriers. Using any system I please to
sync/mirror the removable to the live drive and then I'll have it able
to have a recent on-site backup, an off-site backup, and one in the
server at any given time. At the end of the day, I take the drive out
and either replace it with the local or off-site backup.
Total cost not counting the initial server:
Software: Free.
CRU DataPort 3 Complete package: $23.41
CRU Dataport 3 Carrier (2): (2 @ $23.45) $46.90
500GB HDD (3): (3 @ 99.99 on sale @ Tiger Direct) $299.97
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Total Cost: $370.28 plus shipping.
When your data grows beyond the example 500GB your upgrade costs are the
costs of 3 more HDDs as long as you're still using SATA at that point.
I REALLY don't see any reason to spend the time, money, and hassle on a
tape drive system for anything smaller than the biggest HDD on the
market right now.
Brian
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