Network Guru question

[kenyee]

Most of that data is stored as text unless you guys are storing the digital video (are those dash cams even storing it in digital form?) from your cars with the cases, there's no way you ate up 3GB with 23 measly cases. To put this in perspective, 1KB is roughly 1 page of plain text. 1MB stores 1000 pages. 1GB stores 1 million pages of plain text.
A new tape won't make a difference since you're doing full backups which should be starting at the beginning of the tape.

You really do need to get that company to do a directory listing of your tape to figure out where all this space is being sucked up...they should have done this for you already if they were any good :-P

Good luck squeezing the school department stone for money...at this point, it seems like every department for themselves. In Boston, ISD just ticketed everyone in our neighborhood for not shoveling small section of an alley behind our houses (no one has shoveled it for 40+ years over the winter because no one goes out that way). Everyone's doing the money grab :-P

[JohnR]

Bob - what Ken Yee said - 3GB doesn't add up that quick. Go onto the backup exec screen and show us the total byte count for backup for the last couple weeks - like

Monday failed, 21,000,000
Tuesday failed, 21,000,000
Wednesday Success, 18,000,000
etc...

[Bob Thomas]

you know...I did see something like a list of backup items. I'll get that copied as well as the failures. Back in on Sunday....snow coming...good night to stay inside and "work on computers"

[Bob Thomas]

After having people trim their emails, files, pictures (all work related) and anything else they could, we freed up about 4gb. Good start.

With Deval making his announcement later today, we're going to have a pretty good idea as to how much money we WON'T have

[bloocrab]

What about a NAS box?