The same here.  I run robocopy jobs each day.  Each day gets into a different 
folder with the /mir switch, then the next week that days's folder get's 
re-mirrored.
 
I also use DFS to for the remote site folders to a DFS server here at HQ, which 
gets backed up nightly.  I run the DFS schedule so that it's done only at night 
right before the backup.  So we have backup to tape at HQ (of HQ and remote 
site files) and robocopy backup to a large USB drive at the site.  
 
Easier and cheaper than dealing with tapes and ArcServe at remote sites.

>>> Ben Scott <[email protected]> 11/19/2009 6:41 PM >>>
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wouldn't mind looking into replicating the changed
> bits in the bkf files over the wan with something like
> rsync.

  Why not just rsync the original files and skip NTBACKUP?

  Our setup has a server that does an NTBACKUP of "SystemState" to
another server, but ROBOCOPY's everything else plain files.  (The
server is right next to it, so I didn't care about bandwidth.  We
backup that other server with tape every night.)

  One of the things I'm not looking forward to with the migration to
2008R2 is having to find a third-party backup solution, as Microsoft
has so kindly decided our backup strategy is wrong.

-- Ben

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