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6.5 Disaster Recovery Plan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 A centralized Backup Server gives an enormous boost in capacity and backup planning. In a fragmented environment, each of the application and workgroup administrators would plan for backup, offsite storage, drive space for the backups, etc. This results in numerous backup plans, offsite storage plans, excessive capacity, and unneeded hardware across the environment. By providing a centralized Backup Server, each of the application and workgroup administrators know they have a central repository where all backups are routed to. The Enterprise backup software can then periodically sweep the contents of the Backup Server to tape. Backup storage capacity can be globally administered and added as needed. The offsite tape rotations are centrally administered. The largest time and money saver in the whole setup is with tape drives. If each application and workgroup administrator has to backup the systems individually, a tape drive could be required on every server. By having a central Backup Server, an office can purchase one or two tape drives to service all servers. Tape drive capacity can also be expanded and managed much easier. It is possible that two or more servers could just exceed the capacity of an individual tape drive. This would require the addition of one more tape drive on each server. If they were aggregated together, the extra tape drive might not be needed. In a large environment this can amount to a significant cost savings just for tape drives and tapes.
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