Re: PC backup best practices

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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