Need backup solution advice

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nitrobass24

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Ok so my firends business, is in need of a new backup solution.
They currently backup to tape everyday, and he takes the tape home with him.
So at any given time he has 4 days worth of backup at his house.

Problem is the Tape is starting to become unreliable.
Backups failing at least once a week. I told him to get new tapes...No dice.
I grab a random tape and attempted a restore, it also fail.

So essentially they have no backup system right now.

A couple months ago we tried Mozy, logmein, etc. but the internet is slow and it said it was going to take 45 days to transfer.
I am thinking of doing hotswap HDD's.

This is a small business -6 employees.
They have around 200gb of Data.

What should I do for them?

Ninja Edit: This solution should be completely automated. No one at this business know shit about computers. At most the instructions I give them should be take xxxxx home with you.
I also need backup software for them.
 
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for 200 gigs, sheesh, just set up a synctoy operation to a couple of cheap externals daily/hourly/whatever. I've also used flexraid to mirror data to other drives before, and that has the added benefit of parity.

as it stands now, I take a parity snapshot nightly with email confirmation, and a mirror a few important sections of data to an external every couple of weeks or so.
 
nitrobass24 said:
Problem is the Tape is starting to become unreliable.
Backups failing at least once a week. I told him to get new tapes...No dice.
I grab a random tape and attempted a restore, it also fail.

So essentially they have no backup system right now.
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Sounds like you already proposed the proper solution.

It's up to him to take care of it.
 
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