Contracted by private regional hospital for assisting with security issues fpr network of several hundred windows 2000 client computers. Network ran with a central PDC running RedHat linux and Samba. Client was required to implement additional security as part of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996).

Client had 7 offices each connected via a T1. Each office had a Windows 2003 server with nightly backups via tape. Each system had roughly 100 Gigabyes of data to backup. Existing issues were that complete automation was impossible because individual office managers had to replace tapes, recovery was slow and required searching individual  tapes for the correct data, and the high cost of gigabyte tapes.