Advice on RAID and backup of new server in CAD office

Hi, I work for an architects firm and we're looking to purchase a new server.
Our current situation:
• Dozen workstations running Leopard, on a gigabit network
• Server running Leopard Server (Standard setup), with one 250GB ATA hard drive (17GB space spare)
• Data files are backed up and taken off site each day with a triple rotation of external hard drives, using Retrospect.
• The server hard drive is cloned to an external drive each week, which stays on site, using SuperDuper.
• User accounts from workstations are all backed up to an external drive, which also stays on site, using Retrospect.
• And I've been trialing Time Machine, backing up the data to an external hard drive, but I can't see this replacing Restrospect backup as Time Machine doesn't compress the files.
To the future:
• What sort of RAID setup should we go for in a new Mac Pro server?
• I'd like to throw it all into performance but I'm thinking we should probably use a RAID to replace our SuperDuper clone from above.
• When you have mirrored drives presumably if one fails the other one just carries on doing all the work by itself?
• Should we run the system on two mirrored drives and the data on the other two? Or if I'm looking for more performance would I be better having 3 mirrored drives for the data and one for the system? Is this even possible?
• Is it possible to get the smaller 73GB SAS drives for the Mac Pros? It seems you can only get the 300GB ones, which are £500 a pop!

Keep in mind that mirrored RAIDs require two similar drives preferably the same make and model. A mirrored RAID only provides drive failure protection, it does not provide data redundancy. If you need a backup then you need two mirrored RAIDs using one to backup the other. This is also true of striped RAIDs which only provide increased storage but provide no protection against drive failure nor provide data redundancy.
These factors should be taken into account when planning your setup.
Personally, I would not recommend using Time Machine. Aside from being fairly basic as a backup utility it is not sufficiently reliable in my opinion for your situation. Retrospect is a much better choice.

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