I am asking for feedback from those that backup between multiple sites. What were the good things and what would you do different? First time I've had to look at this in a very long time.
Talked with a potential new client looking to backup up between the two offices and possibly cloud backup. Current data size is estimated at 17 TBs. A disaster recovery type of thing. Besides have the backup local another copy is off-site. Main office has several Windows Server 2008 physical servers along with 15-20 virtual servers. They are running VM Ware (unknown version). Included in the mix is an Exchange Server (probably 2010), couple SQL Servers (unknown version), file and print and AD. The remote office has a few servers. Each site is on a fiber network but speed is unknown at this time. He is checking. Their previous IT guy just quit so they asked for a proposal to go in and document the network and implementing a remote backup solution. Right now we're focusing on this backup solution but I'm sure it will change as we get further into our discussions. I could use a couple of enterprise NAS devices or put in a couple of Server 2012 R2 servers as a storage and possibly turn on de-dup to reduce data transfer size. Thanks for the help. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile
