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Advice on Offline Backups
by mac cebu on Feb 12, 2009 at 1:20:05 pm

Hi All,

Don't know if this is related..

We are a small creative agency using all macintosh. we'd like to have some advice on offline backups wether tapes, hard drives or whatsoever on what to use and want to hear also some other companies on what's their experience using them. An offline backup that we can take at home and feeling secured that we have all the backup that is also easy to use and friendly. A backup that we can rotate weekly or monthly.

Currently our data is just less than 500 GB and the user's data for 20 macintosh clients & databases are about 500 GB. Per week it will grow like less than 150 MB. Our target is to backup all the Data and user's file and emails.

I am new to this offline backups and I do not know where to start. We are having Retrospect 6.1 on our small studio that is temporarily backing up all the data and users data to a firewire 800 disk configured as RAID1. any advice on what to use?

BRU or Retrospect? Firewire or ScSi tape devices? Firewire drives? Blu-ray I don't know. Please share your experiences.

any advice?

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Re: Advice on Offline Backups
by Peter Wiggins on Feb 26, 2009 at 7:03:08 pm

Check out these guys :-

http://www.object-matrix.com/

Peter

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Re: Advice on Offline Backups
by mac cebu on Feb 26, 2009 at 7:28:43 pm

thanks for this peter I'll check on this later. Quick question are tapes good enough for offline backups? how much is the data rate transfer on these tapes? and how much is the biggest capacity on a single tape?

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Re: Advice on Offline Backups
by Nick Pearce on Mar 2, 2009 at 9:56:45 am

Thanks for the plug Peter..

In terms of backing up or archiving your content you need to set down what that data maybe needed for in the coming weeks, months, years.

If you will rarely (if ever) need to access that content then some form of LTO solution may be an option. Saying that, data tape has its own problems and limitations which I will not trawl through here but you may be interested in the following posts which explain the ups and downs of archiving/backup to various platforms, from USB disk to the cloud:

Building a data Archive
http://www.matrixstore.net/2008/02/11/building-a-data-archive/

TCO considerations (Tape vs Disk)
http://www.matrixstore.net/2008/03/03/problems-with-total-cost-of-ownership...

Disk Efficiency
http://www.matrixstore.net/2008/11/12/towards-100-times-better-energy-effic...

If you want to get quick access to your assets with little or no management effort then you could take a look at clustered storage solutions, one of which is MatrixStore (our product). It takes the priesthood out of managing large volumes of data but more importantly give you access to your content when you need it.

Please do contact me directly if you would like to know more..

Thanks

Nick

http://www.object-matrix.com

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Re: Advice on Offline Backups
by glenn jones on Mar 11, 2009 at 2:15:05 pm

LTO4 (800gb native) is perfect for pro-video archive http://www.craystone.co.uk

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Re: Advice on Offline Backups
by Ernesto Sanchez on May 1, 2009 at 10:46:58 pm

For an inexpensive solution you can setup and manage yourself without breaking the bank I like Bru Server, some FW drives for "staging", and a LTO4 standalone or 1x8 autoloader. I'm very happy with my Atto SAS HBA, HP 1760 desktop LTO-4 drive, and of course Bru.

Ernesto Sanchez

Cheers,
Ernesto Sanchez
Post-Production Workflow Consultant
XSAN Professional
O/C - 949.690.3680
ernesto.sanchez@mac.com

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