Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:43 AM, cindylazz <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

We have about 40 locations worldwide, with a typical data size of about 200 GB per location, with some up to 2 TB. Most sites have 1024 to 1536 Kb/s MPLS links, with a few 2 Mb/s and one 4.5 Mb/s. Central data center has two 45 Mb/s links.
We are looking to remote, online backups to our data center from each location. I'm wondering which products and processes have worked.

Has anybody successfully implemented remote, online backups of Windows servers across their WAN to a central data center?

We're using PureDisk for our remote offices. For smaller offices, we're backing up directly across the WAN to our central data center. For 1 large site, we have a storage location there with replication do the central data center. For other sites, we just have a NetBackup media server at the remote site with a bunch of local disk. For those, we obviously don't care about DR since the backups are at the same physical site as the source data.

Contact your friendly Symantec sales rep for a PureDisk quote..

The biggest gotcha with remote backups is not the backups - it's the restore. You can push a lot of data across a slow line over a long period, but if somebody takes a double-disk failure in their RAID5 set and wants to restore 200GB, be prepared to do a restore to a portable USB drive and to ship that via FedEx/UPS...

..../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

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