RAID 0 or 5?

[arthurleung]

You should consider a Megaraid 300-8x over a 150-6. Since the 150-6 got a far slower/older processor, your raptors will saturate the 150-6 easily, even only with 4 disks.

[mikpeirce]

( I know it may seem expensive to have to buy a second server that you'll most likely never use - but its probably a lot cheaper than a failed busines ! )

Already have the old server which is normally at my brothers home, with a permanent vpn between the 2 router boxes we use.

Is it possible for the back-up to duplicated automatically to the off-site server after the tape run had been done, down the vpn?

Mik

P.S As far as the errant JCB, read into that, tractor, as our office is based on a farm and the owner has a very long waiting list of people eager to have a drive!

[aidanjt]

You could schedule an ftp transfer of sensitive files over the VPN to the old server, if you were using Linux I would have recommended running rsyncd on the new server and a cronjob on the old one..
Although I'm not into Windows networking so maybe there's a better (more efficent) way than ftp

[mikpeirce]

Although I'm not into Windows networking so maybe there's a better (more efficent) way than ftp

Windows and efficient, there's 2 words not often seen in a single sentence!

Mik

[aidanjt]

Touché

[Moby-Dick]

mik - you could always run a robocopy operation after the backup has finished.