I pitched tapes a few years ago, and never looked back. I back up exchange over the network with NTbackup run from a scheduled task script on W2k3 server. The backup destination has $20 drive trays attached to a hot swappable SATA controller. I put in my own Sata Drives and rotate them by hand weekly. Very reliable. Almost free. I do a test restore weekly and have not had a failure in two years. I think many more people spend thousands on a backup solution for exchange than really need to.
-Bill On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Doug Rooney <d...@sonomatilemakers.com>wrote: > 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 >
