Using Backup Exec 2010 to backup more than 1 server

[SkreeM1980]

Where on Earth did you get an 8 Hour data safe from??

 

Think i may have been wrong, can't find the manual right now, it's been here for about 4 years now, but was approx £4500 when new and is very shiny. We actually have 2 safes, each capacity about 100 tapes, mon-thurs are reasonably local to the server room and Fri/Weekend tapes are at the 2.5km site

 

If something happened in this area which had all of our buildings destroyed, or happened in your area which did the same (2.5km away!)

 

Quite possibly, but i used to be from commercial IT, and if the data hadn't been available to recover the companies would have probably been bust, this happened to quite a few after buncefield explosion. Although the premises etc were insured they couldn't trade without data and had cashflow nightmares. Education is different i know, but it is still a business with cashflow, and products (courses) and customers (pupils/students) so i try to apply similar logic.

 

You obviously draw your line higher than I do in the probability vs price exercise.

 

Probably, we also probably have different budgets and different priorities from management.

 

 

stop using tapes due to the manual labour requirements, and therefore the possibility that things *won't* get backed up when someone forgets, or is off sick etc...

 

This is most likley a scale thing, i have a team of 5 including mself so virtually no chance of no-one being in. Then it is a scheduled job on helpdesk system to change tapes and part of our morning routine to check back-up.

 

good post and interesting

 

Yes it has been quite interesting.

 

 

Skr

Edited May 13, 2011 by SkreeM1980
Messed up tag on one of the quotes, now fixed

[m25man]

We use a NAS target for backups with a monthly job targeted at removable USB drives.

The objective is to be able to recover data to any point in time in the last 6 years.

The recovery of a specific server (OS included) is limited to the last 3 months.

 

The NAS target can be replicated over a WAN Link using RSync or another hosted solution which as soon as we have the funds will be our next job.