How often do you plan to do backups? first day of the month full BU for archival? then daily incremental BU for the whole month? and then again full BU on the first day next month? how much data do you expect on daily incremental-- means how much of 40TB do you expect to change on a daily basis? do you want the daily incremental BU be also DR'ed? depending on this and your SLAs commitments you can choose VTL, D2D2T or D2T2T. Thanks

 

Ravi

 

All,

 

I have a question I would like to pose because I respect the vast amount of knowledge

associated with this forum. We are creating a new backup environment due to some changes

and needs.

 

Currently we will be backing up about 40 terabytes of data with a foreseen growth of 30-35% of data annually.

Data being backed up includes, Windows File systems, Unix File systems, Exchange, Oracle and SQL.

Having a Production site and a DR site using present day Best practices and current available hardware

what strategy would you use to set this up? This is even considering purchasing a new library and using LTO4 drives.

The backup system will have a dedicated connection. We currently have 8 HP prolient servers as our media servers

which may stay.

 

We have some thoughts as to how and what we will do including using vtl's and replication for the catalog

but since this forum has so many experienced people I want to get some other professional opinions.

If you could set up (from scratch) a Production backup site and DR site based on those data numbers which hardware and strategy

would you use considering future growth?

 

thanks

-Jackson 

 

 

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