Planning Storage Environments › Enterprise Storage Requirements

Enterprise Storage Requirements

To determine your need for vault space, storage hardware, and storage media, you have to translate your high-level plan into a set of concrete requirements. You need to decide:

• How much you have to spend on media, hardware, and network improvements?
• How much data you really need to protect?
• When can you run backups without interfering with other work?
• How much traffic your network can handle during backup periods?
• How long you can wait for an average file or file system to be restored following a data loss?

The following sections discuss these issues in more detail.