You’re right on needing more information on the environment. It’s hard trying to design something without knowing everything that is already in place. As for the budget, there isn’t a specific amount in place but what they feel the project will be worth. The previous IT guy put something together in the $80,000.00 area the company felt was too much. Since I don’t know what was in that package for sure I can’t comment on its worth. Obviously, they felt it a little much.
I’m familiar with Microsoft DPM and the Veeam product. Since they are using VMware they might have VDP. Thanks. Art DeKneef Avanti Computers Mesa, AZ 480-649-4430 Office 480-529-4430 Mobile From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Sean Martin Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 1:29 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Backing up between main office and remote site 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 <art.dekn...@cox.net <mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net> > 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 <tel:480-649-4430> Office 480-529-4430 <tel:480-529-4430> Mobile
