Backup procedure for small business

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I'm doing consulting work for a small clinic that had no backup procedure. They have about 10 gigs of information that cannot be lost. I am trying to plan some new backup procedures. I was thinking when they get the money; a new server with raid 5, an external drive for backups and then CDs for cataloging.

I would like suggestions but the expected budget is low, maybe 2-3k including the new server. Also is raid 5 the best or would raid 1 suffice. It's be nice to have a failover drive with no downtime.

Also I've heard about online offsite backups, not sure if those are good or not.
 
For 10GB? I think a few large drives in RAID 10 would be enough, unless your clinic is planning to do store a LOT more information than 10GB in the foreseeable future.
 
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For 10GB? I think a few large drives in RAID 10 would be enough, unless your clinic is planning to do store a LOT more information than 10GB in the foreseeable future.
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RAID is not a backup.. at all.

I think Mozy would be a great idea., and of course you can just burn a few DVD's and take them home.
 
Ok so mozy is probably the next step. Fwiw, I don't think they need raid 10 because performance is the least of concerns for now.

What kind of cost and difficulty is associated with tape backups?
 
criccio said:
RAID is not a backup.. at all.
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Well, I never said that at all, but I figured if the OP listed RAID 5 as a possibility to guard against disk failures, then RAID 10 wouldn't be a bad scalable solution considering the amount of data to be backed up right now. ;)

And besides, no one ever said you can't just back up the data on the RAID array again on optical media or some other storage medium. :)
 
Why RAID 5 or 10? How about RAID 1 for this data size?! Less drives, easier, cheaper.

Plus a modest tape backup system and you're set.
 
Setup R1 to give them uptime in case of a drive failure

For 10gb, you can get a used tape backup sys off ebay or somthing, and then do offsite with Mozy.

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If they have a SCSI server, you can get like a Dell PowerVault 100t for probably less than $100. It backups 36gb on a single tape. Get 5 Tapes, have the owner/manager take one home everyday. Easy and Cheap
 
I was looking at raid 1 as a possibility for zero downtime after a drive failure. Do I need dual controllers or is a single raid controller enough to know to switch over?
 
[LYL]Homer;1033786392 said:
"insert XYZ" and you're set.
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Probably the most dangerous phrase in data integrity known to man. There is no "and you are set" in data integrity...it is just minimizing probabilities.
 
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