VMWare, Veeam and Offsite Backups?

[ajf]

For those using VMWare and Veeam backup, how are you handling offsite backups?
What hardware/software/media are you using?

Obviously Veeam is fine for quick recovery but we have been struggling to develop a good plan for offsite backups, either via tape or replication to another site.

Speed and available time are the main problems encountered due to the amount of files Veeam sees as 'changed'.

 

[ajf]

I have spoken to the guy involved in this for more info as it hasn't been something I have dealt with too much yet.
I was just testing the waters in case the answer was 'good luck'!

It is a bit more than simply the line speed at present as it is something we are still testing.
Even across the internal LAN we are finding it takes 6 to 7 hours for Veeam to backup around 150Gb to a NAS - a QNAP TurboNAS TS-869L.
The network is gigabit.

The setup is as follows:
Main Veeam server.
Data changes (incremental daily) pulled from SAN (Dell equalogic)
Compressed by Veeam.
There is then an additional server running a Veeam agent and the NAS is attached as local iSCSI.
The main Veeam server then pushes the compressed data to the agent to write to the NAS.

The one question that has come up is that 150Gb of daily changes seems an awful lot. There are around 250 networked users.
Total live data is 6Tb.