Global DeDupe & Replication

[ubern00b]

Hi All

I have 2 Broadberry servers that we use for our backup devices which exist in different locations connected via 1GB WAN link. SQL backups are done in location 1 and deduplicated and replicated to location 2.

Sounds great until you discover that DFS-R re-hydrates deduplicated data before replicating it. Trying to replicated that amount of data (multiple TB's) is simply not working, we have over 10K items in backlog.

My question is, does anyone know of software that will perform a global dedupe and replication? I am sure ArcServe used to provide something but I cannot find the product. ArcServe is preferable only because that is our current vendor. We will of course look at any solution as we are currently exposed due to not having replicated backups for core systems!

Thanks in advance.

 

[ubern00b]

The Broadberry systems are just "cheap storage" so to speak. 36 drives connected with a MegaRAID controller, so there is no storage replication like, say the P4800's we have.

We backup about 100 databases a day totalling roughly 1TB and that is excluding log shipping. DFS-R simply cannot cope with the speed necessary to replicate this amount of data, in my testing anyway.

I upgraded to UDP a couple months back. Fantastic product (In comparison to Backup 16.5) but has it's limitations. Unable to traverse mount points is a big one for me (volumes mounted as folders).

I will contact my ArcServe rep and ask about the replication product. Actually, I think it's called ArcServe D2D, it just came to me!