We have/had a VXA-1e SCSI tape backup drive for a couple years now. About a month ago it broke, and we had to RMA it. Nevermind the whole RMA process taking almost a month to get us a replacement drive, then having that drive being DOA, and now waiting on an expidited RMA of THAT drive....we're starting to look at other solutions. We're thinking of picking up a used VXA-1 drive from ebay, but also looking into some other alternatives. This is where I'd like some help or advice. We have maybe 60 gigs total that is fully backed up each weekend, and then a differential backup that is run each other night. We're backing up two Win2k server systems and a SQL2000 database, and using Veritas' BackupExec as the software. What other backup alternatives are out there that might fit?
We're looking into these online backup services, which seems good, and signed up for a 1 month trial with one service. The problem is that the initial full backup is/would take forever. Like I said we have probably 60gigs of info to start with, and even with a fractional T1 we're not getting a great amount of upload speed to this company's servers; its not looking like we'll even get the whole thing upped within the month. It seems like a good enough plan to do differential backups online if there was a way to get them all of the base data faster.
We're still a fairly small company, so we can't really plunk down a couple grand on a large complex tape robotic system, etc. We really just want a basic drive that we can manually swap tapes each morning and have it do its thing. This whole ordeal with Exabyte/VXA and their RMA services has totally disgusted me, though, and I really don't want to support them any more by buying their products. What else is there in the lower/mid range tape backup solutions? Or is there something else we might look at? Thanks for any help!
We're looking into these online backup services, which seems good, and signed up for a 1 month trial with one service. The problem is that the initial full backup is/would take forever. Like I said we have probably 60gigs of info to start with, and even with a fractional T1 we're not getting a great amount of upload speed to this company's servers; its not looking like we'll even get the whole thing upped within the month. It seems like a good enough plan to do differential backups online if there was a way to get them all of the base data faster.
We're still a fairly small company, so we can't really plunk down a couple grand on a large complex tape robotic system, etc. We really just want a basic drive that we can manually swap tapes each morning and have it do its thing. This whole ordeal with Exabyte/VXA and their RMA services has totally disgusted me, though, and I really don't want to support them any more by buying their products. What else is there in the lower/mid range tape backup solutions? Or is there something else we might look at? Thanks for any help!