Re: Was Compressing DVD ISO Images, now Storage solutions

["patrick_o_matic" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "White, Peter"
<peter.white@...> wrote:
>  In my naivety I was thinking a couple of
> Terrastations, 1 mirroring the other, with one in the UK office and
the
> other in Germany.  The key is to keep it simple, and keep it
portable, as
> we'll likely move office within the next year.  All the remote
offices are
> on the VPN, so as long as the device has an IP address, they can get
to it.

Are the offices connected via ADSL, SDSL or leased line? The viability
of your solution will largely depend on what the upstream bandwidth is
to the backup site, and how big the data deltas are.

> The final piece of the puzzle will be automating backups from peoples
> laptops, but we'll eave that for now.

MS have a free utility "synctoy" which does a reasonable job for
my
lappers.

Patrick