Best Backup Solutions
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Best Backup Solutions
Hey guys,
I'm working on a setup for a retail store. I've ordered an HP RP5700 Workstation with a Raid 1 setup preinstalled. I know that that will help a lot for reliability but am thinking it might be a good idea to have one more backup incase of data corruption or something like that. Do you guys have any recommendations for that use. Right now they have an old tape drive but I am wondering about a USB external hard drive or a Drobo?
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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- Knight Rider
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I think a portable backup solution would be better than one attached to the same network. In the case of a flood or electrical storm, they're all susceptible to the same fate. Exactly how much data is mission critical? If it's something small enough to fit on like a 4gb flash drive, that'd be a great option assuming nobody loses it.
For what you're doing, I'd say that a secured off-site backup would be best and that you probably only need to backup crucial files for them and not the whole OS, as that is already mirrored and in a worst case senario, you would have all critical data. Then again, depending on the budget, a full system backup could potentially be done as well.
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Yeah, from what I know (and I'll know more in about a week) the system has a database with all the POS info in there. Thats the only thing we need secured. Maybe a off-site backup every other day would be the best idea.
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