4TB to backup, your advice please

[MobileGeeks]

Hi Guys,

I hope you are all well, I have a client that has the following setup below that needs to be backup 7 days a week. Im not to sure how to approach this and looking for some suggestions.

Clients current backup needs

1 x Small business server 2008 (approx 200gig includes exchange store)

1x Fileserver Windows Server 2008 Standard (approx 2.7 TB of art files / documents). Archive is not an option.

1x Windows 7 Professional (running a small database time billing app)


Currently I have a 10TB Lacie NAS that is working fine doing everything. The client would like to have an offsite backup incase of theft/fire.

Im trying to avoid suggesting buying another big nas box.


What would you suggest?

P.S the data on the fileserver grows approx 10-20GIG a working day.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

With DattoBackup, what they do....soon as I bring a client onboard with them, setup the local backup appliance...get the servers doing a full image backup to them..then they ship me an external Lacie drive...I plug it into the Siris backup appliance...it copies the full image backup of the servers..I ship it back to Datto..they "mount" it in their cloud servers to begin the offsite backup chain. This "Seeds" the offsite backup with the first initial large chunk of data..and their inverse chain technology does the bit differentials after that..keeping offsite data stream small. I have a client with about the same amount of data...although spread across 6 servers. I have them on a 50/10 meg pipe.

 

[tkrabec]

Backing up that amount of data is "simple" even for offsite. It will probably cost a fortune, in terms of Bandwidth
and then in storage fees.
storage of 4tb is going to run about $1000/month
+ the cost of bandwidth to upload 20+gb/day

 

[300DDR]

May want to check out Retrospect. http://www.retrospect.com/en/products/win
You can backup to one large drive over the local network. For the "large" drive, maybe consider an upgradable RAID 5 or Drobo (drobo.com).

 

[OfficeTechs]

what about another similar lacie box that has their data continuously copied to it over the course of the day? The box is then taken home at night and stored in a safe.

Assuming they are not going to stretch to the costs that having that kind of offsite datacentre storage is going to set them back, a solution similar to the above is going to be pretty much your only option.

 

[drjones]

Netgear ReadyNAS Replicate is an option, though I'm not sure how well it would work if they are truly changing 10-20GB per day....