[itdiscuss] Backup Software Revisited

[Jason Hand]

You really ought to look at the Amazon S3 with Jungle Disk as an option for
offsite.  It is very inexpensive.  It does bit level changes and I have it
running for a school that has about 150gb of data stored on the S3 account
and uploading changed and new data nightly for about $35/month.
 
You can look at all of the costs involved and estimate how much your monthly
cost would be on the Jungle disk site:  http://www.jungledisk.com
 
-Jason

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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org]
On Behalf Of Dan Barber
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:39 PM
To: 'IT Discussion Forum'
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Backup Software Revisited



We have just added space (or are least in process) for disk-to-disk backups
(though probably only for incremental during the week). We will still
probably use Tape and transport it offsite, simply because the online
storage/gb is not cost-effective yet. 

 

Dan

 

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On Behalf Of Tony Dye
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:28 AM
To: 'IT Discussion Forum'
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Backup Software Revisited

 

Dan, are you planning (wanting?) to stay with tape backup, or would you
consider a remote backup solution?  (or a mixed on-site/off-site
disk-to-disk, or whatever)

 

 

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On Behalf Of blloyd at buskercom.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Backup Software Revisited

 

I currently us Retrospect from EMC and it works well.  It is especially good
at restoring data.  

 

I'm looking at something called StoreGrid, http://www.vembu.com/index.php,
because it promises to backup data at the bit level and with its replication
server software it gives you the ability to replicate the backup to an
off-site location.  It also appears to take a less-resource intensive backup
of Exchange mailboxes.

 

 

 

 

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IT Manager



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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org]
On Behalf Of Dan Barber
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:02 PM
To: 'IT Discussion Forum'
Subject: [itdiscuss] Backup Software Revisited

 

I am again revisiting the question of backup software. I have been using
most recently Commvault Galaxy Express, and am finding it significantly
difficult to use. I am looking for something easy to use, reliable, will be
doing disk-to-disk daily and tape on weekends. I also want something with
decent notification abilities; I don't want to have a lot of false alarms.

 

What do you use and how has it been for you?

 

Dan Barber

Kirk of the Hills

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