Anyone recommend software for OFFSITE backup of Windows Servers?

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We have a main office with some windows servers in (Running MS SQL, Exchange, file servers, domain controllers) Basically your typical MS windows network.

We also have another remote office with some further servers in with a fair amount of disk space. We are toying with the idea of running backups from our main office to our remote office (so this will be a backup over WAN). Anyone know if there is any software that will do it? Most google searches throw up online backup services, but these are for backing up onto their servers. Essentially we want to be our own provider so back up from our server to our server over WAN.

We already have Backup Exec doing Tape backups - someone said Symantec's Continuous protection server may do this, but I've installed a trial and can't see how.
 
Continuous protection server is meant to be a constant stream of data being sent over to your other site so its always up to date. It sounds like what you need but I've never used that part of BackupExec before. I think it might actually be only for Exchange data in the latest version as they have a new product called Replication Exec.

Something I have used is called Double-Take. You specify the location to monitor and the location to place the files and it will duplicate the data as its changed.
 
what bandwidth you talking between sites? and how much data to backup?
 
If this data is just files and so on you might look at somehting like RSync - its primarily a Linux/Unix tool but works well on Windows.

In your environment, you would probably want to create backups in the remote office and then use RSync to have them mirrored elsewhere.

We use it to create distributed file shares in sync (useful for things like standard company documents and policies etc.).
 
As said bandwidth and amount of data will be your 2 killer points.

Your going to need a lot of bandwidth to get a small server farm backed up. You dont want that running during the day so that leaves you say 10 hours to get it run at night. Would it all complete in that time? Or you could set it up to back up say a couple of servers each night.

Either way bandwidth is your limitation.
 
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