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This is the first month in my new company who charged me to make a case study for our backups. Actually, only directors can access to the backup server hosted into the company, each one is allowed to backup only 50GO.

What we try to look for :

  1. Backup our informations daily (we have about 1000 employee).
  2. Look for a professional datacenter
  3. Look for a type of server that must be scalable and support a huge amount of data of all employees

What is the best solution for that ? Buying server and host it on a datacenter or look for a unique solution with a datacenter ? Maybe trying "Cloud" ? is "cloud" the best solution ? (I think we have to pay only for what we are using). Is there who provide an unlimited bandwidth ? What can you advice me ?

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The sky's the limit re: what you're looking for. We'd need a lot more specific information in order to provide you with any kind of recommendation. – Evan Anderson Apr 13 '11 at 16:50
What info you want to know exactly ? – Julien Apr 13 '11 at 17:00
like @Evan Anderson has stated the sky is the limit. Is the data financial? What's your budget? – egorgry Apr 13 '11 at 17:29
No data is not financial. Each employee will have a directory named "ToBackup" that contain his important files and will be backedup automatically thanks to our software to servers hosted outside. What I'm wondering, what type of server should I think to ? Cloud system ? Or some dedicated server ? – Julien Apr 13 '11 at 17:54
Come back and edit your question with more specific info and I'll gladly vote to reopen. – GregD Apr 13 '11 at 17:57
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As previous comments have said, there's many many details that have been missed out from this. However, I know a lot of people have had some luck with Crashplan. They do a 'Pro' enterprise version, and it seems to work well for small-scale deployments. I've not seen it work on 1000 clients, but there's no reason it wouldn't scale, necessarily.

Of course, this hugely depends on what data you're trying to back up and what legal, regulatory and business drivers you have. Crashplan might be wholly unsuitable if you're looking at certain types of sensitive data covered by various regulations and laws.

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