We use Avamar here for backup and replicate the backup data across our WAN. It works well, particularly given the modest bandwidth we've got. It's not a low cost solution though. There's going to be a tradeoff between how smart the backup compression/deduplication is (Avamar's is very clever) and how much bandwidth costs. If you've got fiber, and the data change rate isn't huge, you should have a bunch of options.
----- Original Message ----- > 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 > -- Thanks, Joe Matuscak | Director of Technology Rohrer Corporation | Office: 330-335-1541 717 Seville Road | Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 www.rohrer.com | A Better Package
