Currently, we have a hodge-podge of different backup strategies. Most of the problem stems from consolidating 9 different sites into a single (primary and backup) datacenter.
Current environment includes 9 IBM Power systems running AIX with their own tape drives in each server, 18 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems with 5 tape drives spread between them (4 of the drives are in two robotic libraries), and 37 Windows servers with 14 tape drives between them (most of the servers without tape drives are not currently backed up at all).
Backup software is AIX Sysback for the Unix Servers, and varying versions of Backup Exec from 8.5 to 11d for the Windows servers, with One instance of HP Data Protector and one old scripted tar/cpio/dd backup thrown in for good measure .
Tape hardware includes 9 LTO2 drives, 4 LTO3 Drives (in libraries), 6 8mm Mammoth Drives, 2 8mm Mammoth2 Drives, 1 8MM AIT drive, 3 4mm DDS/DAT drives, and two DLT drives.
Total data is in the realm of 2.2TB currently.
I'm wanting to consolidate it all down to a single standard if possible, though I'll probably still end up with two (the Data Protector install is backing up a mission-critical Oracle RAC database, and I probably won't mess with that right now, though in the future, I'll want the ability to bring it into the centralized backup scheme), for easier administration, fewer tapes to change and take offsite, and easier DR planning (One type of drive available instead of 7 currently).
I am buying the backup solution to support a new VMware project that we're currently implementing, but I'd like to build it big enough to eventually be able to move everything into the fold.
Am I crazy for this?