Thank you for response. To clarify, my current setup is: about 30 remote offices with between2-50gb of data each. Each office has Symantec BackupExec running ($700 initial cost), each server in each location has a tape drive ($800 initial cost) and 10 tapes ($300 initial cost), so basically to backup these 30 offices locally cost me 30x1800=$54,000 first year + admin overhead and time, etc. so the question is: what can I use to backup data from these 30 offices to my central DataCenter in Wisconsin? I was doing some testing backing up one of the offices using BackupExec over the WAN I got 200mgb/hr transfer ratio, not too good. SO I need some software with good compression or other algorythm to pump data over the WAN, is Amanda or Zmada the answer?
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