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| Samuel 2006-06-28, 7:14 am |
| Hi everyone,
I have a problem that probably most of you have seen. We have a an app
which archives thousands of jpeg images daily(<4000). They are stored
in a Dell PV220S. I chose this kind of storage (I am not at all an
storage expert) because high end SAN's were too expensive(a NAS was not
an option due this problem), and I thought that block level backup was
common.
Until now, file level backups to a NFS share have done the job, but I'm
reaching the point where this is not longer true. I never thought that
I would reach it so fast, so I need a software for windows which can do
efficient backups in this scenario.
I know that I should have done my homework *before*, but I have had too
much work in this months, and, to be honest, this app is important but
not critical to our company, and I'm budget costrained.
Every recommendation about software and hardware will be appreciated.
May be I could justify a much higher cost if the solution works for
backing up iSeries, DB2 and SQL Server Databases.
Thanks in advance,
Samuel
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| mishka 2006-06-28, 1:14 pm |
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FilesX solution features block level incremental disk or tape based
backups.
http://www.filesx.com/
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| Ed Wilts 2006-06-28, 1:14 pm |
| Samuel wrote:
>
> I have a problem that probably most of you have seen. We have a an app
> which archives thousands of jpeg images daily(<4000). They are stored
> in a Dell PV220S. I chose this kind of storage (I am not at all an
> storage expert) because high end SAN's were too expensive(a NAS was not
> an option due this problem), and I thought that block level backup was
> common.
>
> Until now, file level backups to a NFS share have done the job, but I'm
> reaching the point where this is not longer true. I never thought that
> I would reach it so fast, so I need a software for windows which can do
> efficient backups in this scenario.
>
> I know that I should have done my homework *before*, but I have had too
> much work in this months, and, to be honest, this app is important but
> not critical to our company, and I'm budget costrained.
Veritas NetBackup has a FlashBackup option as part of the advanced
client. We use it to back up filesystems with over 10 million files on
them.
If you're not already a NetBackup user, I don't know if this is going
to be within your budget but that's what sales reps are for.
.../Ed
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