Werby
Well-known member
I'm wondering what folks are using to back-up their servers. We currently have about 10TB of live data that we back up nightly to LTO3 tapes using Retrospect 6.5 running on an xserve.
The problem is that this won't scale too well as our server expands. Right now it takes about 40 tapes to do the initial backup to tape, which takes about 4 days. The subsequent incremental backups that occur nightly are roughly 100 GB so I can get 4 days on a tape. My library fills up after about a month and I have to start over, thus missing up to 4 days of incremental backups.
Retrospect 6.5 is no longer supported by EMC, and version 8 runs 10 TIMES slower! EMC claims they are working on the problem but 8 has been out for over a year and it still doesn't work. I need to switch to a currently supported solution that can back up 10TB in 48 hours or less. I'm going to upgrade my tapes and drives to LTO4, but I still need a software solution that costs less than $1000. Any ideas?
-Todd Shirley
The problem is that this won't scale too well as our server expands. Right now it takes about 40 tapes to do the initial backup to tape, which takes about 4 days. The subsequent incremental backups that occur nightly are roughly 100 GB so I can get 4 days on a tape. My library fills up after about a month and I have to start over, thus missing up to 4 days of incremental backups.
Retrospect 6.5 is no longer supported by EMC, and version 8 runs 10 TIMES slower! EMC claims they are working on the problem but 8 has been out for over a year and it still doesn't work. I need to switch to a currently supported solution that can back up 10TB in 48 hours or less. I'm going to upgrade my tapes and drives to LTO4, but I still need a software solution that costs less than $1000. Any ideas?
-Todd Shirley