Looks like you definitely have some additional information gathering before you can start identifying suitable solutions. Obviously the budget will be a big factor in narrowing down the options. With what you've provided it looks like you may want to focus on a single solution that can address both Physical and Virtual environments, provide application aware support for SQL/Exchange, and possibly include remote agent-based media servers to provide local de-dupe/compression to reduce impact to the MAN/WAN links.
It's been awhile since I've been involved with a backup/data protection design project, but I do believe some of the following products may be worth looking at. Disclaimer, I've been in a larger enterprise environment for quite some time so some of these products may not be suitable for smaller environments: Microsoft DPM Vmware VDP CommVault EMC Avamar/Data Domain Veeam NetVault (Dell) As well as several cloud-based solutions from various sources. It may be worth looking into more DR oriented solutions (Zerto, Atlantis, etc) for the Virtual environment (if there's a focus on moving from physical to virtual). - Sean On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Art DeKneef <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
