For a similar size (3T) backup system I used in the past various systems. I
found that the simplest and the most well known (and relatively reasonable
priced) was BackupExec. When we tried more complex, higher end systems the #1
problem we ran into was the lack of knowledge and expertise; that is, we had a
hard time to find people (contractors/employees) with in-depth knowledge of the
systems. BackupExec seemed to be very popular (many IT guys have used it) and
pretty simple.
Good luck,
Laszlo Zeke
The National Gallery of Arts
Manager of New IT Initiatives
601N-456
O: (202) 842-6628
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:51:15 -0400
From: Matt Wheeler mwhee...@pmm-maine.org
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Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Backup Solutions for Small Museums / Archives
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Alex--I'll follow this thread with interest. After checking fee structures for
a couple of big digital archives, we are considering a similar collaboration
with small museums and historical societies in the area. I pitched the idea of
jointly funding the startup costs with grant money to the head of the Digital
Curation program in our state university system, thinking that they have enough
technical muscle to make them an ideal partner in an endeavor like this.
Haven't heard back yet.
I assume you're considering an OAIS-modelled system which would contain a
method of fixity checking archived data periodically.
Best regards, Matt
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Matt Wheeler,
Photography Archives,
Penobscot Marine Museum
Archives (207) 548-2529 ext. 211
5 Church Street, PO Box 498
Searsport, Maine 04974
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Alex Privee aprivee at gmail.com wrote:
I represent a historic house museum looking to design a suitable
backup system for our digitized records but lack an IT professional on
staff or contact to design a system for us. We plan on using AWS
Glacier for disaster recovery but we require the technological
infrastructure for onsite backup. Our current systems involves manual
transfer of files to a RAID external hard drive that backs up to a small
non-RAID network drive.
It's clunky, prone to user error and above all makes me nervous. Does
anyone have recommendations for hardware/software to backup around 3
TB of data (our current usage is 1.5 TB but will grow to 3 by the time
we have completed digitization). I have read a lot of information
regarding the requirements for such a system but no discussion of an
actual implementation of it. I'd also be interested in hearing of any
consortium's of small museums / archives that pool data backup system costs.
Thanks,
Alexander Privee
Archivist
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
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Subject: [MCN-L] Fwd: [ARLIS-L] Early Conference Registration Ends
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Early registration for the ARLIS/NA 42st Annual Conference ends March 20th!
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