corsasport.co.uk
  Not logged in [Login - Register]  
You Are Not Registered Or Not Logged In  

Corsa Sport » Message Board » Off Day » Geek Day » Server/Backup People


New Topic
New Poll 		  Subscribe | Add to Favourites

You are not logged in and may not post or reply to messages. Please log in or create a new account or mail us about fixing an existing one - register@corsasport.co.uk

There are also many more features available when you are logged in such as private messages, buddy list, location services, post search and more.


Author Server/Backup People
Aaron
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 21:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
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
Richie
Member
Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 22:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
We use HP storageworks disk array's for 30 days of data. After those 30 days its archived and sent to Iron Mountain.
Aaron
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 22:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Sounds expensive, but its something i'll look into
Richie
Member
Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 22:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Depends how critical the data is
Aaron
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 22:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Quite tbh. its the majority of the teachers and staff in the school.
Richie
Member
Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 22:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Go for some HP dat 72's
Richie
Member
Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 22:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
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
Aaron
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 22:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Sweet, gives me something to go on i guess.
Richie
Member
Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 22:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
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
Aaron
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 22:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
u got any links to this. i can Google if not
Richie
Member
Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 23:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/d2d_bs/index.html
Aaron
Member
Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 23:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Do you have a rough price of what you paid for it?
Bart
Member
Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 23:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
we use the lto ultrium tapes. pretty much new stuff on the market and very good stuff.
Richie
Member
Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 23:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I work for an outsourcing company so we manage them for ourselves internally and for external customers. I have no idea of cost
MikeD
Member
Registered: 18th Aug 02
Location: Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire
User status: Offline
13th Nov 07 at 23:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
go for an ultrium LTO2 will backup 200/400GB so have room for expansion and get it in a nice 1U rackmount kit too
willay
Moderator
Organiser: South East, National Events
Premium Member

Avatar

Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Roydon, Essex
User status: Offline
14th Nov 07 at 07:19   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Tapes are still king of backup I'm afraid. HP solutions are very good.

[Edited on 14-11-2007 by willay]

 
New Topic
New Poll

  Related Threads Author Forum Replies Views Last Post
Computer peeps - backing up Melville Geek Day 9 1318
8th Apr 04 at 15:24
by Melville		  
IT people In ere Bart Geek Day 9 1163
7th Oct 04 at 20:24
by Sims		  
Server People: Backing up Bart Geek Day 3 191
19th Jan 07 at 10:09
by Rob_Quads		  
Shortcuts Brett Geek Day 1 165
8th Apr 07 at 23:13
by Tommy		  
How many people are running a server at home? Bart Geek Day 14 2511
4th Oct 07 at 18:52
by James_DT		  

Corsa Sport » Message Board » Off Day » Geek Day » Server/Backup People 29 database queries in 0.0181520 seconds