09-21-2012, 04:38 PM | #15 | |
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lol... you would love my company (I'm the CIO BTW) everything in the network that is attached (be it desktops, servers, NAS, drives, etc) gets backed up nightly to an 8TB NAS, then gets copied to a second 8TB NAS where a split is done, profiles (desktops/workstations) are backed up to the cloud and the Servers (email, sql, sharepoint, file, etc) gets written to tape (Ultrium 4 1.6tb per tape) in a 16 tape shuttle, and taken offsite. I got tired of end users not saving their crap on the network drives and keeping it in "My Docs" because they are too lazy (or stupid) to change the save location, so I just do it all.. Then I pull the magic Mr. Scotty trick when they need a file restored, because company policy says DO NOT SAVE TO LOCAL COMPUTER. So I let them sweat it out for awhile then pull a miracle and "find" it.. My backup solution is intense, takes about 4 hours to do the first run, which is done when everyone is gone, then another 4-6 to do the copy and split, then 12-16 hours to tape. The advantage though is the first run to disc is pretty quick and doesn't really affect the end-users, and then the rest is all behind the scenes as not to affect network performance. Oh yeah and the SQL and Email servers run a transaction log backup bi-hourly to another NAS server.. I have 5 8 TB NAS containers here, Hard Drives are cheap for the most part, so I have hot swap drives for everything, sitting here on 32 brand new drives that have only been installed to set up the hot swap, and then re-boxed and labled for each server.. When a HDD fails here, downtime has been less than 30 minutes. overkill? yes, but I have a 99.8% network uptime and a 100% file recovery record over the past 7 years. So this works for me. |
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09-21-2012, 05:49 PM | #17 |
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