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Originally Posted by Mad Mel
Related question for you real IT people out there...
Anyone using online backup for business disaster recovery purposes? Long story short, it turns out that if our building flooded and our servers floated away, we'd have been hooped. Cause: stupid people who don't know how to do their soon-to-be-ended jobs.
My thought is that regular offsite full tape backups combined with incremental online backups to a reliable service provider (Amazon?) would be effective. But I don't know disaster & recovery planning very well.
I'd like to sound a little knowledgeable even though I'm not when I go have a freakout at our national IT leader later this week.
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Were there no tape backups being used?
If you are a small office you might just want to invest in a few external hard drives and have someone take them home with them on a scheduled basis, if you have no backups and work in a company where you actually have dedicated IT staff then its wholly unacceptable.
It depends how much data you are working with, IMO an LTO3 (800GB/Tape) system is the way to go if you have that much data. This is the backup system we use. For the Calgary location(s) we look after we go though roughly 18 LTO3 tapes/week for full backups. Normally we only go through 1 or 2 for differentials durring the week, at the Engineering location with CAD they go though 3-4 differentials during the week.
Differentials M-F Full on Saturday. The monthly full are kept offsite for 365 days, the weekly (non monthly) full are kept offsite for 14 days. Noe tapes are reused for 365 days.
With takes being roughly $40/tape pre labeled it can get expensive. In Calgary Iron Mountain charges $30/ scheduled trip (pickup drop off) + minimum storage cahrge $117. Normal monthly bill for a 4 full tape location is roughly $375/month.