Looking for a bit of advice...
We are currently about to upgrade all our servers with Windows 2008 R2 and replace the hardware however we can't decide what's the best process for backing them all up.
We have 10 sites each with at least one server which runs as a DC, Exchange, File/Print, and soon SharePoint Services. In total we have about 2TB of file data and about 500Gb of Exchange stores across all the sites (increasing fast).
Currently each site is backed up via BackupExec to a tape on the local server, this relies on a user in each office swapping the tape which they often forget. It also costs a fortune to buy 21 tapes (Mon-Thur, Friday x5, Jan-Dec) for each of the 10 sites. On top of that we have no maintenance on our current BackupExec licenses so we will need to purchase 10 new/upgrade licenses (plus Exchange/File/SQL agents) for Windows 2008 compatibility.
We'd like to be able to back up all the sites to a single file server at our HO and then either back that up to a tape or perhaps to another remote site, for resiliency. However even with our upgraded connections it won't be possible to be transferring 600Gb of OS/File/Emails from each site every night, not to mention restoring servers remotely if a server failed.
I was wondering if anyone had encountered a similar setup and how they resolved it...
Thanks
We are currently about to upgrade all our servers with Windows 2008 R2 and replace the hardware however we can't decide what's the best process for backing them all up.
We have 10 sites each with at least one server which runs as a DC, Exchange, File/Print, and soon SharePoint Services. In total we have about 2TB of file data and about 500Gb of Exchange stores across all the sites (increasing fast).
Currently each site is backed up via BackupExec to a tape on the local server, this relies on a user in each office swapping the tape which they often forget. It also costs a fortune to buy 21 tapes (Mon-Thur, Friday x5, Jan-Dec) for each of the 10 sites. On top of that we have no maintenance on our current BackupExec licenses so we will need to purchase 10 new/upgrade licenses (plus Exchange/File/SQL agents) for Windows 2008 compatibility.
We'd like to be able to back up all the sites to a single file server at our HO and then either back that up to a tape or perhaps to another remote site, for resiliency. However even with our upgraded connections it won't be possible to be transferring 600Gb of OS/File/Emails from each site every night, not to mention restoring servers remotely if a server failed.
I was wondering if anyone had encountered a similar setup and how they resolved it...
Thanks