Hello guys, Just looking for a second, third and forth oppinion on a problem i have. Basically i've got 5 sites all linked together by a slow internet connection. Each site deals with video data so they are writting 100Gb a week or so on to RAID-6 8TB Storage arrays, i have two tasks to achieve 1. Backup all data from the DC's 2. Create a central store for all the data. So in an ideal world i would pull all the data from the other sites over the internet to my central file server and just back that up and bingo!..... but like i said they all are linked together with slow internet links. So i was thinking i could get a single tape drive for each site, get the users to perform an incremental backup on the tapes every week then get them sent them to me, i'll stick them in an auto-loader and restore them to the central location. Thats going to take ages and be boring as *** waiting for the data to restore from the other 4 tapes... is that my only option? can anyone think of another way i could do it? Thanks in advance for any responce because my brain is fryed thinking about it!

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I would look at your link utilisation to see when data can be moved. If you need to copy 100GB per week work out if there is enough capacity in the link. A storage device from a company like Netapps like a NAS could cache data and do block level copies / backups locally and accross a link. Talk to a storage specialist to see what they recommend.