FWIW, I do this. I robocopy our file shares, and then local backups of database backup files off to RDX media. My entire backup takes 45 minutes, because I have a pretty low delta, but a fair amount of data we have to keep for regulatory reasons.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Matthew W. Ross > <[email protected]> wrote: > > How do you accurately measure Volatility? My best guess would be "Not > very volatile". Most data is saved and unchanged. > > That's fairly easy, IMHO. How much data do you gather in your daily > increment/diff backups, as a percentage of your full backup? You can > measure it in bytes, or in number of files. > > <snip> > > >> But frankly, with only 1tb of data to preserve, it's looking more and > >> more to me like a few 1-4tb USB disks and robocopy might be all you > >> need, along with a spreadsheet and a set of labels to keep track of > >> it. > > > > Agreed. This should not be a difficult solution. For some reason, when > you try to do something beyond the robocopy solution and have a "industry > backed" solution, things tend to get difficult/expensive. > > Which is why I think using Robocopy and a few USB disks is your ideal > solution. No commercial products required, IMHO. > > Kurt > > >
