Re: Secure backup solutions

[Mark Berman <Mark.I.Berman () WILLIAMS EDU>]

Just faculty/staff; an offering to students would be more disk space than we
can afford! We have been talking to one of the Internet based backup
providers about a discounting deal for students but haven't finalized it
yet. Since we're targeting staff and faculty with a particular need for the
service, the disk space is not bad. You can use pretty much any storage
system on the backend and there are some pretty inexpensive high volume
devices available these days. We're using Nexsan.



 - Mark



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From: Matthew Stublefield [mailto:mstublefield () MISSOURISTATE EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Secure backup solutions



Atempo looks very interesting. Do you have it just for faculty/staff, or do
you have it extended to students as well?

I'm worried that the storage space for livebackup would be more than we're
looking to invest in, but the de-dupe sounds promising.


Matthew Stublefield
Centralized User Support Specialist
Computer Services
Missouri State University

Phone: 417-836-4898
Email: MStublefield () MissouriState edu



Mark Berman wrote:

If you're looking for a centralized backup solution, we're using LiveBackup
from Atempo. We're very happy with it. It does de-duplication and
compression and encrypts everything it backs up. (both in-transit and
on-disk). The administrator DOES have the ability to decrypt for restore,
which may bother you or please you depending on your security requirements.
:-)  De-dupe is at the block level rather than the file level so infected
files would only be restored to the client they were backed up from;
although I assume the preference would be to not back up infected files at
all!



 - Mark

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Mark Berman, Director for Networks & Systems

Williams College, Office for Information Technology

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From: Matthew Stublefield [mailto:mstublefield () MISSOURISTATE EDU]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:40 AM
Subject: Secure backup solutions



Our Help Desk is looking for a secure backup solution for two purposes.
First, for backing up data that has been infected by viruses (and keeping
that from our network and/or other backups). Second, for backing up
sensitive data, such as medical or financial records.

Has anyone been through this process and have some recommendations they
could share?

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Matthew Stublefield
Centralized User Support Specialist
Computer Services
Missouri State University

Phone: 417-836-4898
Email: MStublefield () MissouriState edu