Miguel, Thanks for the reply, we already have 3 sets of external drives, so I will not be spending any more money on that.
My original message said we had 2 arrays, but it is actually 1 set of 500GBs and 2 sets of 250GBs Thank You ~Doug Rooney Sonoma Tilemakers IT Manager 7750 Bell Rd. Windsor Ca, 95492 i...@sonomatilemakers.com <mailto:i...@sonomatilemakers.com> From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 10:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: System Back-up solution. I'd go disk to disk backup buying a NAS device (maybe a cheap one) that lets you to extract/replace hard drives in a bay so you can take them offline. Going in the USB direction is very time consuming (USB bus is quite slow and you can overflood the device easily) and can prompt to failures. If you don't want to go to extractable-HDs way, you can use an old server, stick big HDs (1 Tb or so) and backup everything over the network and plug an USB disk that you can swap every week and take it offline. Miguel --- El lun, 7/6/10, Doug Rooney <d...@sonomatilemakers.com> escribió: De: Doug Rooney <d...@sonomatilemakers.com> Asunto: System Back-up solution. Para: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Fecha: lunes, 7 de junio, 2010 13:13 Greetings all. We currently have DLT VS1 tape back-up as well as USB 2.0 connected external drives. We are using Backup Exec for the tapes and custom batch programs for the external drives, which by the way are connected on a separate back-up server. Our tapes are old and have many failures, upper management has decided to abandon tapes and go only with external drives. My question is, has anyone done this? What software do you use, Pros / Cons. The problem I am experiencing now is in order to back-up the data bases, I need to take them off-line. Thank you for any advice you can offer. (Exchange 2003, Windows 2003, one set of external drives are 500GB the other is 250GB) Thank You ~Doug Rooney Sonoma Tilemakers IT Manager 7750 Bell Rd. Windsor Ca, 95492 i...@sonomatilemakers.com
