BE will have dedupe built-in in the next version due out later this year. Who knows if it'll be any good, but there is a beta coming out next month.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/prbz7n From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk based backup Hi guys, I wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions... I looked at Exagrid, DataDoimain and FalconStor, and I think I left out a key fact in my email... budget! My apologies! Exagrid and DataDomain were in the $18k to $22k range from what I saw (with their lowest-end offerings) and I didn't get a chance to see the cost of FalconStor. I paid about $5500 for my Tandberg T24 library which gave me 38TB of compressed storage (800GB/1.6TB per tape.) As far as off site storage, I hadn't actually thought about that when thinking of moving to disk based backup. That could complicate things a bit as I was just taking one backup tape per month on a Sunday and moving it off-site. Software-wise, I'm using Backup Exec 12 and it isn't killing me, so I'll probably stick with that as I still have support and maintenance agreements for it. I'm able to get a quote of about $3500 for a Tandberg T24 with a 12 slot magazine (instead of the 24 slot my current one has, where I only use 12 slots anyway) for $3500, which seems to be a good buy for the route I want to go. It's cheap, and I'll get an extended warranty with this one. Make sense to people? Thanks again for your time and help! Evan From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk based backup Do you want to do pure D2D? Or would you want to look at Virtual Tape? Do you have any plans for off-site storage? Or will you replicate to a separate site? Exagrid is one option, as it FalconStor. On the software side, you can look at products like Ultrabac, unless you're happy with your existing backup vendor. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Evan Brastow <ebras...@automatedemblem.com> wrote: Hi guys, I did a search on subject headings for this year to see if I could find anything about this, but nothing jumped out at me. I have a 1-1/2 year old Tandberg Data T24 storage library and the drive just bit the dust six months out of warranty. Tandberg has told me (as expected,) "If it turns out the repair and service agreement is close to the cost of a new unit, that might serve as an option for you as well." Before I go down the route of fix or replace I'm wondering if I should look into disk based backup? I'm looking to backup about 1.5 TB per night in a window that is about six hours in length between backup and verify. Anyone have disk based backup that's fast and working for them? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
