[MACEP] Backup Management

[Darrin King]

Hi Mike,
The cost per gigabyte basically is the cost of a lower end xServe w/ fibre channel card, the biggest xServe raid and a copy of Retrospect.  That roughly works out to $16,000 for 7 terabytes of storage or about $2.29 per gig.  You could shave a
couple of grand off the price by dropping maintenance agreements or using an old workstation with a fibre channel card to run Retrospect , but that will increase the amount of time it takes to do backups and recoveries.  We opted to go the xServe
route to get the fastest speed possible and it gave us the added option of an additional box we could use for other things during business hours.

Darrin


Mike Ely <mely at rogueriver.k12.or.us> on Friday, January 20, 2006 at 4:44 PM -0800 wrote:
>What kind of cost per gigabyte did your storage solution come to?  I'm 
>looking at different options to replace our current (nonexistant) backup 
>solution.
>
>I have to second the idea of using quotas.  Currently, I've got a few 
>users in the 2-5 Gig homedirectory range.  I'm not saying that's never 
>neccessary, but in those cases it's probably useful to come up with 
>alternative solutions.

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