Aaron
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It seems that our AIT Tape Drive on the Domain Controller has bitten the dust. It’s been throwing up errors in the backup logs for about a week now and tonight it’s finally given up.
Using tapes is a bit "old" and "analogue" now. There are loads of different backup systems out there now and I was wondering if people could give me an idea of what systems you use.
It will be backing up a maximum of 60 GB every week night. I have some budget left to spend so all is good 
Thanks
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Richie
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We use HP storageworks disk array's for 30 days of data. After those 30 days its archived and sent to Iron Mountain.
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Aaron
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Sounds expensive, but its something i'll look into
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Richie
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Depends how critical the data is
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Aaron
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Quite tbh. its the majority of the teachers and staff in the school.
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Richie
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Go for some HP dat 72's
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Richie
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ignore that
Thing is the new up to date solutions do carry a price tag.
The HP stuff is amazing. Anything in the past 30 days its just a case of clicking a few buttons to get data back.
Any archived stuff has its own environment where we get the tape same day and pull it off
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Aaron
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Sweet, gives me something to go on i guess.
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Richie
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There's nothing better than someone calling up crying cos they've accidentally deleted something and then getting it back in a matter of minutes then you become da king
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Aaron
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u got any links to this. i can Google if not
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Richie
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http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/d2d_bs/index.html
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Aaron
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Do you have a rough price of what you paid for it?
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Bart
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we use the lto ultrium tapes. pretty much new stuff on the market and very good stuff.
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Richie
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I work for an outsourcing company so we manage them for ourselves internally and for external customers. I have no idea of cost
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MikeD
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go for an ultrium LTO2 will backup 200/400GB so have room for expansion and get it in a nice 1U rackmount kit too
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willay
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Tapes are still king of backup I'm afraid. HP solutions are very good.
[Edited on 14-11-2007 by willay]
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