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Old 01-03-2009, 12:30 AM   #1
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This might be for John or anyone that might be able to offer some insight.

I'm the "IT Liason" for a small Police Department in Central Mass. I know very very little about computers but could type so I got defaulted to the position.

We have 10 workstations, a domain controller, an Exchange server and another larger server for our records management system. This particular server is about 5 years old, IBM and is fairly large, from what I can recall. At the time, we had IBM install a DLT tape drive for our backups. Now, we're about to or are, in fact, exceeding our tape sizes. Second tapes are not an option as it currently takes 10 hours for a backup and really not feasible. Purchasing a new server (which we intended to do last year) is definitely out of the question...we're having enough problems trying to prevent a layoff.

What are my options as far as having a new backup installed? Can I get another sort of tape backup installed in the existing server or is there a better option?

I've heard about "online backups" but we're concerned with the security aspect and court cases.

Thanks for any and all info!!

Happy New Year

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