Small business data protection question

pete1552 · Jan 8, 2014

I need to come up with a storage solution for a small business, I have 3 basic needs:

Backup/Recovery
Central data storage
Data Protection

Would I be better off using a NAS? Or just building a Server and running something like CrashPlan?

I'm looking for something >2TB in raid 1, and have the ability to work on documents with multiple users.

I'm pretty much open to anything at this point so any suggestions are appreciated.

13thmonkey · Jan 8, 2014

if it was still around i'd have windows home server.

pete1552 · Jan 8, 2014

13thmonkey :

Like this?

http://products.ncix.com/detail/microsoft-windows-home-server-2011-64bit-oem-dvd-da-62432.htm

13thmonkey · Jan 8, 2014

yep, it'll backup every machine (up to10) every day, provide a bare metal restore capability, allow duplication of declared folders, and sharing...

13thmonkey · Jan 8, 2014

personally i prefer whs 1.1, not 2011 as it allows for disk pooling, which also allows for simple expansion by putting another disk in, and adding it to the pool.

popatim · Jan 8, 2014

There are add-in's available for 2011 which bring storage pooling back

13thmonkey · Jan 9, 2014

popatim :

and they are meant to be stable now, would i trust them for a client? Dunno. If win8 was able to backup other clients you could use that.

pete1552 · Jan 9, 2014

Can WHS pull a backup from a connected PC? If so, I think this may be the way to go since I don't want to rely on the users to bakup their data.

13thmonkey · Jan 9, 2014

WHS will backup every machine every day without user intervention, it'll keep incremental copies and slowly get rid of versions based on how old they are, so you'll have daily copies for the last 2 weeks, weekly for the last 2 months, and so on. I;ve been using to maintain 3 laptops, a HTPC and my main machine for the last 3-4 years now. No problems, have been able to rebuild a machine from a corrupted OS in 2hrs over GBe.

pete1552 · Jan 9, 2014

13thmonkey :

I'm all over this. It's exactly what I'm looking for. What hardware specs should I be looking for? (CPU speed and # of cores, Ram, HDD space, etc...)

13thmonkey · Jan 9, 2014

I'm using a dual core athlon II, with 2Gb of ram but thats for WHS1.1 and a light workload, and I wanted low power (50-60W total)

low end quad, 4GB RAM should be fine. The Mobo pick is important from the point of view of SATA ports, I'd also ensure you have 4 ram slots, as then you can add another 4GB if needed, i'm not reallu sure what it uses the RAM for, mine idles at just under 1GB usage, get the 'lights out' add in and you can programme on and off times too.

13thmonkey · Jan 9, 2014

Oh and the other benefit over a NAS, this is all perfectly std hardware, std psu, std mbo etc. if you need to replace the mobo and reinstall, the libraries will still be in place on the other disks.

13thmonkey · Jan 10, 2014

please note 10 machines only (I think). have a mooch around 'we got served' they've loads of stuff on WHS.

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