Guest stjoe5373@news.postalias Posted September 27, 2007 Posted September 27, 2007 Hi, I know this isn't "Windows" specific but I'm just looking for the best practice for backing data up. I'm only backing data, and system data, not the whole OS. I have multiple customers ranging from needing to backup 20MB of data to one that is requiring about 120GB of data. I for the most part use external hard drives with USB 2.0 and rotate the drives every few days. Is there something "better" (better being relative) out there that I'm over looking, tapes, NAS, SAS? I've gone from tapes to hard drives due to hard drives having less issues, being MUCH faster to backup and restore ect... Was that an ok move? Is the industry standard becoming external hard drives? I mostly use NT Backup it seems to work just fine. I do have a few with Veritas etc... Thanks in advance, Craig
Guest Adam N. Posted September 27, 2007 Posted September 27, 2007 RE: Best practice for backing up Craig, I have been using a 2 TB NAS to backup multiple sites and it has been working well. The NAS comes with a webbased interface that has a utility to setup the backup jobs. "stjoe5373@news.postalias" wrote: > Hi, > I know this isn't "Windows" specific but I'm just looking for the best > practice for backing data up. > I'm only backing data, and system data, not the whole OS. I have multiple > customers ranging from > needing to backup 20MB of data to one that is requiring about 120GB of data. > I for the most part > use external hard drives with USB 2.0 and rotate the drives every few days. > Is there something "better" (better being relative) out there that I'm over > looking, tapes, NAS, SAS? > I've gone from tapes to hard drives due to hard drives having less issues, > being MUCH faster to backup > and restore ect... Was that an ok move? > Is the industry standard becoming external hard drives? I mostly use NT > Backup it seems to work > just fine. I do have a few with Veritas etc... > > Thanks in advance, Craig > > >
Guest Ken Zhao [MSFT] Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 RE: Best practice for backing up Thanks Adam. Thanks & Regards, Ken Zhao Microsoft Online Support Microsoft Global Technical Support Center Get Secure! - http://www.microsoft.com/security <http://www.microsoft.com/security> ==================================================== When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue. ==================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -------------------- | Thread-Topic: Best practice for backing up | thread-index: AcgBSIkYZ6Cz0pZqQ3qv9uygXdmU8A== | X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 207.46.19.197 | From: =?Utf-8?B?QWRhbSBOLg==?= <AdamN@discussions.microsoft.com> | References: <u#8LKpQAIHA.4828@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl> | Subject: RE: Best practice for backing up | Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:54:02 -0700 | Lines: 30 | Message-ID: <A0C0CC30-8E2A-4F24-98E9-411EFEB1A335@microsoft.com> | MIME-Version: 1.0 | Content-Type: text/plain; | charset="Utf-8" | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit | X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 | Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message | Importance: normal | Priority: normal | X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.2929 | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.general | Path: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl | Xref: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windows.server.general:23337 | NNTP-Posting-Host: tk2msftibfm01.phx.gbl 10.40.244.149 | X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.server.general | | Craig, | | I have been using a 2 TB NAS to backup multiple sites and it has been | working well. | The NAS comes with a webbased interface that has a utility to setup the | backup jobs. | | "stjoe5373@news.postalias" wrote: | | > Hi, | > I know this isn't "Windows" specific but I'm just looking for the best | > practice for backing data up. | > I'm only backing data, and system data, not the whole OS. I have multiple | > customers ranging from | > needing to backup 20MB of data to one that is requiring about 120GB of data. | > I for the most part | > use external hard drives with USB 2.0 and rotate the drives every few days. | > Is there something "better" (better being relative) out there that I'm over | > looking, tapes, NAS, SAS? | > I've gone from tapes to hard drives due to hard drives having less issues, | > being MUCH faster to backup | > and restore ect... Was that an ok move? | > Is the industry standard becoming external hard drives? I mostly use NT | > Backup it seems to work | > just fine. I do have a few with Veritas etc... | > | > Thanks in advance, Craig | > | > | > |
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