Pick your poison with that stuff - none of them are exactly great to deal with. I have a lot more experience with BE so that'd be where I'd lean as a matter of convenience, personally.
That said just to check here you realize there's some hardware investment here and quite likely licensing on the SAN side depending on what you bought. Also depending on the apps you're looking at potentially doing backups with agents from the hosts themselves so you're not streaming all this stuff over the SAN to the network than back out to tape. You're also going to need to get the tape drives on the SAN probably which is a hardware investment likely in excess of what you're proposing. This isn't cheap if you intend to do it in a remotely scalable fashion. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backing up SAN to tape Ok... looking for software suggestions for backing up a SAN to tape. Yes, I know it would take forever to restore several terabytes of data, but I'd like to have some sort of "oh, crap! My san died" back up. :) Speed of restore is not an issue, simply being able to restore is the issue. I'm looking at a Dell LTO5 tape library and the two options for backup software that *they* offer are CommVault and Symantec Backup Exec. Which of those two would you prefer to use, and which *specific* variety of the specified software would you recommend for backing up a SAN? We will likely be using the SAN for the back-end storage for email (eventually,) but will likely NOT be using MS Exchange (we're a small shop - less than 200 email addresses, and Exchange is too pricey for us!) We will likely be using Kerio Mail Server whenever we bring email in-house. Other than that, it's mainly going to be people's "My Documents" redirected to the shared storage on the SAN, install archives for software and such. [John-Aldrich][Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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