markymark12
New Around Here
Congrats for your work on this forum, definitively a reference for me now.
I am thinking about offering backup services for small companies which I already take care off (as an external IT admin). I want to host a backup server at a solid hosting company which I already found. Since I will play per "U" rack spaces, I need to go with a most "dense" backup server solution.
I found the Backblaze POD very appealing. Here are my questions, any help/comment/advice will be welcome. Thanks already.
1. What about R1Soft backup software for doing the "complete system backup" for allowing bare metal restore ? Have you heard of it, did you use it and did you like it ?
2. How much "usable" space will be left after format + raid setup if using 45x1.5TB in RAID6 ? Calculation method ?
3. Am I right to consider RAID6 as the "safest/easiest" way to "control" disk failures. I'm not sure I understood well the setup they proposed (3 times 15x1.5TB raid6 volumes ?), is it that 2 drives per volume could fail before losing anything ?
4. Bare metal restore: lets say customer server fails totally, let's say it got stolen. They buy brand new one, totaly different server (diff cpu, diff hard disk, different mobo, different raid). How much will those different components affect the bare metal restore ? Will bare metal restore works as long as new OS disk partition are same size or bigger than original OS partition size/disk ? (not sure im clear enough on that question).
I am thinking about offering backup services for small companies which I already take care off (as an external IT admin). I want to host a backup server at a solid hosting company which I already found. Since I will play per "U" rack spaces, I need to go with a most "dense" backup server solution.
I found the Backblaze POD very appealing. Here are my questions, any help/comment/advice will be welcome. Thanks already.
1. What about R1Soft backup software for doing the "complete system backup" for allowing bare metal restore ? Have you heard of it, did you use it and did you like it ?
2. How much "usable" space will be left after format + raid setup if using 45x1.5TB in RAID6 ? Calculation method ?
3. Am I right to consider RAID6 as the "safest/easiest" way to "control" disk failures. I'm not sure I understood well the setup they proposed (3 times 15x1.5TB raid6 volumes ?), is it that 2 drives per volume could fail before losing anything ?
4. Bare metal restore: lets say customer server fails totally, let's say it got stolen. They buy brand new one, totaly different server (diff cpu, diff hard disk, different mobo, different raid). How much will those different components affect the bare metal restore ? Will bare metal restore works as long as new OS disk partition are same size or bigger than original OS partition size/disk ? (not sure im clear enough on that question).