QUESTION POSED ON: 05 March 2003
We're about to implement a our Managed Enterprise Storage Strategy (or M.E.S.S) to its friends! We currently have many disparate stovepipe type systems and each with its own backup schedule, media and device.
I want to consolidate all of this and come up with some ideas. However, I absolutely loathe tape and all the problems that it brings and I'm looking for an alternative.
Obviously, with the introduction of a SAN, we can hold say 24 hours worth of backup on disk either the SAN or cheap (really cheap) disk arrays hung off the back of backup servers. Bu, we do have requirements to keep backups for long periods of time although this may well change.
I've looked at Thinking Safe, i.e. offsite storage, and this looks quite promising but it's not cheap and obviously there are implications on bandwidth, etc. Any other ideas?
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