Back Up system architecture

[jpinto1167]

In our company we have over 60 pcs that have hard drives of about 40 Gigabytes each. Because of the nature of our business we are constantly changing data in each one of them(We could say each one of them is a data server). We need to implement an efficient, easy and low cost backup solution. Our IT people decided to buy some backup devices that holds up to 10 tapes to do incremental backups rotating the machines being backed up every night. I though that maybe there are other acceptable architectures for the backup. Any ideas? or web resources

Thank you

 

[birky]

Hi

If you are constantly changing data on the pc's then you could look at evault.

Evault backs up data at block level rather than at file level & goes to disk, so you could be backing up the pc's at regular intervals during the day without impacting the network....you could then stage the backups to tape.

 

[jpinto1167]

Thank you,

How expensive is this system? How safe is to backup the data with it?

 

[birky]

As far as backup solutions go it is quite inexpensive..they have different solutions depending on your data volume.

You can look at their site which has quite a lot of info about architecture, agents etc.