small company requires cost effective network back up?

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antonioconte

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Hi, we run a very small design company, just the four of us. We really don't think we can afford a xServer or anything and are just wondering what cost effective solutions there are out there. I guess we could get ourselves a terrabyte external hard drive but just wonder how we can all hook up to it at the same time. Also, it would need to be fairly fast to back up and transfer files. what do you think? any ideas? thansk in advance
 
antonioconte said:
Hi, we run a very small design company, just the four of us. We really don't think we can afford a xServer or anything and are just wondering what cost effective solutions there are out there. I guess we could get ourselves a terrabyte external hard drive but just wonder how we can all hook up to it at the same time. Also, it would need to be fairly fast to back up and transfer files. what do you think? any ideas? thansk in advance
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I'm facing the same question. We use file share on a G3 with two 80 GB hard drives that are setup to mirror each other, and then we back up nightly with one of the standard backup tape drives. It's kind of a pain. I'm thinking of using an old G4 with XServe software for about $400?. Use an external HD for nightly backups, but this would require manually transferring files, but it would be cheap.

From the message board discussions I've seen, XServe takes some techie to keep it running smoothly, just like Windows NT. How techie, I don't know.
 
If I'm not mistaken, the Terabyte model of the Buffalo gizmo refers to a total of 1TB disk space, over four disks. So, if you set up RAID level 5 (which you should, to avoid losing data to disk failures), you only get about 750GB of usable storage.
 
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