Re: PC backup best practices

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another option is Quantum's SuperLoader 3 tape library.  For about $4,200,
you get a system that will copy 36 gig (uncompressed) per hour to tape with
a total capacity of 1.1 TB with no manual intervention.

The price of the drive is actually $3,000, but when you add in cleaning
tape, 10 blank tapes, warrantee extension to 3 years, Ultra-320 HBA SCSII
adaptor, it ends up being $4,187 (MSRP) out the door.

It uses Symantec's BackupExec and includes a copy in the box along with the
client software to do backups one server and as many workstations as you
want.

For $995, you can double the total capacity of the system.  They also have
other drive options that will get you up into the 6.4 TB uncompressed area
without for only $8k.

Of course, compression is supported.  We are seeing compression ratios of
about 1.55 to 1.

<Shameless Plug>

You can get this from the major vendors like CDW or Cornerstone is also a
reseller for them.  We'll charge you MSRP whereas CDW will probably discount
it a bit.

</Shameless Plug>

We've been very happy with the drive, software and support.  Happy enough to
resell it to our customers.

Bob Crothers
Cornerstone Communications

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:42 AM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] PC backup best practices
>
> Sure there are better ways. How about:
>
> 1) The native windows backup client (NTBackup)? It can backup to any
> file location including unc names (\\server\backups\PCxxx), it can be
> scripted and stuck into the job scheduler on XP, and it knows how to
> backup system state (both user settings, and os settings). This is what
> we use for workstations and servers.
>
> 2) A 3rd party backup (winzip is archiving, not backup) product that
> does the same thing. Say something like backupassist, or Symantec's
> BackupExec. Something like backupexec will let you do bare-metal
> restores too.
>
> -Walden
>
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