Hmm. I guess one advantage of using BESR would be that I could also use it to drive a tape library at the D/R site for an additional "off-line" backup. Hmm. something to think about.
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Backup Exec System Restore 2010 BESR is a "ghost" like product that works while windows is running. Once the initial "ghost" image is created, it can do incremental images after that, and you can control how often it starts over and does a new full image. You can easily do a bare metal restore, and they support restores to different hardware. It also supports copying the backup data to a second location (say an offsite file share) for redundancy of the backup data. You can make the initial backup to a locally connected drive or something over the network. When you restore, you can restore everything (bare metal restore) or browse for individual files or folders. You don't need to worry about the incremental backups as it "synthesizes" a view of a full backup for each of the incremental backups. I use it to backup the OS partition on all of our servers and run it every night (and keep the latest two images). I am running the 2009 version (on Windows 2003 servers). The new 2010 version adds support for Windows 7 and server 2008R2. I think you can download a trial and give it a good test before purchase. Tom From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Symantec Backup Exec System Restore 2010 One of my vendors is proposing using Symantec Backup Exec System Restore to mirror two SANs. That seems like it would have a LOT of overhead and would want to take a backup of the "primary" SAN and restore it to the D/R SAN every time. Considering I'm trying to do this over a WAN link, and not a dedicated point-to-point link either, I don't think I want to try backing up and restoring several terabytes! Am I mistaken in my understanding? All I want to do is copy the changes from the "main" SAN to the "D/R" SAN. Would Backup Exec System Restore do that? John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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