Re: tapesuck.com - or - Just A Bunch Of Disks (JBOD)...
FWIW, we have been running w/o tapes for about a month. We backup all
sites to two backup servers, one on each side of town. Disaster Recovery
thinking - it is unlikely that a tornado would hit both sides of town at
the same time.
Software
Each server holds one month's nightly full backups, driven by Veritas'
Backup Exec for Novell. (Novell has unlimited server OS licensing.) We
therefore just licensed the Veritas twice for servers, and once for each
remote server client, be it netware, windows, or linux.
Hardware:
Backups that used to take 10+ hours now take about one, max. Restores
take about 30 seconds to launch the utility, 30 seconds to replace the
lost file(s). We considered SATA, but Netware doesn't do SATA, (yet), so
we ended up with IDE.
The cost was...
200 gb hdd x 2 = $260
P4 mobo x 1 = $115
2.8 ghz CPU x 1 = $185
512mb DDRAM = $140
Rackmount case = $230
CD-ROM = $35
FDD = $15
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$980.00
We're liking this a lot - no more stressing about the backup window
shrinking, no more tapes; and now no more off-site backups - it's
automatic every night!
Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
Storm Lake Community School District
419 Lake Avenue
Storm Lake, IA 50588
712.732.8100 fax:8101
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http://mail.storm-lake.k12.ia.us/~sscarbrough/
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