- Joined
- Dec 17, 2000
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN
Ok so we've recently lost some data here at work. Unfortunately our IT department is about 150 miles away and has pretty much said "sorry we do full daily backups, since this was lost more than a day ago we can't access it anymore". I'm not going to get into how bad that is or on how many levels its bad. I'm looking for a reasonably priced alternative to relying on their backup that we can get equipment for and do here in house. We have just over 20 Gigs of what I would consider "mission critical" data. I don't need any offsite storage or anything like that, if the building burns down or someone steals all the PCs we'll have their full backups.
I'm thinking either a DDS-4 tape (native capacity of 20GB should be enough for all the "must haves") incrementally backing up the folders in question, or a large hard disk with full or incremental backups. My big question is what kind of software can I get to utilize the hard disk method and do the backup on a regular schedule without user intervention, given the current price of DDS drives and tapes it looks as cheap or cheaper to just buy a 500 gig SATA and software to use it as a backup, and we can add in other critical folders as necessary, or even extra drives if we need to expand capacity.
I'm thinking either a DDS-4 tape (native capacity of 20GB should be enough for all the "must haves") incrementally backing up the folders in question, or a large hard disk with full or incremental backups. My big question is what kind of software can I get to utilize the hard disk method and do the backup on a regular schedule without user intervention, given the current price of DDS drives and tapes it looks as cheap or cheaper to just buy a 500 gig SATA and software to use it as a backup, and we can add in other critical folders as necessary, or even extra drives if we need to expand capacity.
