I'm trying to find a good way of introducing nearline backups into my environment. Right now, I have a server that backs up to an internal tape drive. Thus far, rather than hassling with incremental backups and all that, I do full backups to tape. The only problems with this are speed/server overhead and the capacity of the tape. I would like to increase my server's storage capacity beyond that of what a single tape can handle. So I figured adding a NAS device or something similar would do the trick. But since this is new territory for me, I'm not sure which direction to go.
What I had in mind was increasing the server's online storage to around 500GB. I would then like to backup that data to disk on the NAS device or whatever, which would be my nearline storage. Then periodically I would like to backup the nearline storage to a tape library, which would be my offline storage.
Any advice or recommendations on the hardware/software that can make this happen (preferrably on the cheap)?
What I had in mind was increasing the server's online storage to around 500GB. I would then like to backup that data to disk on the NAS device or whatever, which would be my nearline storage. Then periodically I would like to backup the nearline storage to a tape library, which would be my offline storage.
Any advice or recommendations on the hardware/software that can make this happen (preferrably on the cheap)?
