Before you go too far in any one direction - what is the estimated size of your incremental/daily changes? I'm assuming that any full backup will require a physical seeding of your estimated 17 TB of data.
-- Espi On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:53 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 > > >
