What we're looking at doing is having two NAS/SAN devices which will back up our primary and secondary server. Basically the NAS/SAN in our primary location will back up the two Windows servers and then will be mirrored on the remote SAN/NAS device. I suppose we could split the desktop backups, but seeing as to how few there are at the remote office, it would hardly be worth it. :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mirroring Backup Server? Has anyone ever heard of a backup server system that works in two or more locations where the backup server in location 1 will back up all the systems there (desktops and servers) and the backup server in location 2 will do the same for its location. The two servers should also back each other up, so if one office burns down, we'll have an off-site backup elsewhere. Right now desktops are primarily Windows XP, with a few *nix boxen, servers are a mix of *nix and Windows, so I don't think Microsoft makes a solution that will work. For legal reasons we don't want to use a third party like Mozy, Carbonite, or Amazon S3; since we have multiple locations, why not use them for our offsite backups? Total number of workstations is 25-30 in primary office, 10 in satellite offices; when we're done, we will probably have 1 Windows or SAMBA file-and- print server in each satellite office plus several in primary office. Not sure if we're going with Exchange Server for our mail server or something FLOSS. Please don't suggest BackupPC, although it would work perfectly for an in-house solution, its reliance on hard links means it's not feasible to use rsync to mirror it to an offsite location. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
