LTO Tape Backup and Long-Term Archive Recovery

i need to improve and streamline how our projects get archived and backed up.

I need some advice regarding software solutions for running backups to an LTO drive.

Our two Flame suites have local storage on each.

Currently we have two Synology Raids (one onsite, one offsite) that hold the backups for disaster recovery purposes. These are big, and getting bigger all the time as (until now) we have stored everything we have ever done. Not deleted anything and still have rushes and all files for projects going back 16 years!

The graphics dept also uses this system for a working drive and backup.

The Synology use the Syncovery software to run the backups.

I used to use LTO 5 tape library, but the amount of tapes required to alternate on a weekly basis was getting to much to handle, and I was convinced by our IT dept to go the Synology route. I now realise that was not planned out as thoroughly as it should.

Now I want to evolve to a hybrid, where the Synology raids are used for Disaster recovery purposes, ie, backing up the daily projects and work files, and to look into getting a new LTO drive and using tape for long term storage.

The idea being that I can set up the backup system to no longer store everything forever, but to keep a 30day snapshot rota and a backup type that retains a duplicate of the current drives. Hopefully this will then delete any files no longer on the local drives and help to keep the data load to a more manageable size.

For software I have used Retrospect in the past but found it a little flaky once the backups got too large. Synology is not easy to understand, and after being setup by the install engineer, I have been stumped by some of its settings. Documentation for it seems non existent!

The main question is …What software are you using to run your backups?

Has anyone got alternate strategies for backups that might be more workable?

Thanks for any insight you might be able to offer…

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