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| Thread ID: 125313 | 2012-06-20 00:24:00 | Backups for Servers | ronyville (10611) | Press F1 |
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| 1282894 | 2012-06-20 06:01:00 | I take it you would run BEX along side Shadow protect, so you still have off site backups? If so then that's a pretty good solution. Our plan is to replicate shadow protect backups to another SAN about 400km away for DR along with tape backups also. How do you replicate your shadow protect backups to another SAN? Just a file sync software? |
ronyville (10611) | ||
| 1282895 | 2012-06-20 06:24:00 | Shadow Control Image Manager | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1282896 | 2012-06-21 04:19:00 | Yeah Shadow Protect is the real deal. I had to restore a server that had never even tested the back up on. Worked a treat. I am in the same boat Rony and need to get our server iamges off site, currently only doing data I also am moving away from shadow protect to PHDVirtual Dedupe soon once our external office is set up |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1282897 | 2012-06-21 06:42:00 | Ronny, I saw a great NAS unit several months ago that is supported by ESX, if you get one of those, you could p to v the critical servers to that, wipe the physical box and then use the free VM explorer to snapshot backup the VM to other media for DR...Virtualisation is the start of DR I can get back to you with the name of the unit... |
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| 1282898 | 2012-06-21 07:44:00 | Thecus? | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1282899 | 2012-06-21 21:31:00 | Thecus? Nah...Drobo...get a couple of the replicating units, and they will do block level replication across sites...DroboProFS.....we were looking at this one...but as I said, in the end we just used Windows DFS |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1282900 | 2012-06-21 21:47:00 | ...Drobo... Just googled it... very nice. unfortunately it all comes down to $$$. (how much we are allowed to spend). My current plan was just to get a HP server with 4TB space and 12GB Ram ( something like HP ProLiant DL360 G7), so all the storage craft images sit on this and in case of server crash, we can easily just boot the last image using virtual boot and have the server back online in less than 20 mins. And also a NAS that will be a backup of all the images on the HP server. The main idea is just to get the servers online asap. Will definitely look at that Drobo option also. |
ronyville (10611) | ||
| 1282901 | 2012-06-21 21:49:00 | Yeah, always comes down to $$$, however $3k for a replication NAS unit isnt much for DR, with a ADSL line to off site.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1282902 | 2012-06-21 21:56:00 | how do you replicate your current data/backup to offsite location? We did have an offsite location a while back, it was at the telstraclear data center, may have to revisit that later on. www.telstraclearwholesale.co.nz |
ronyville (10611) | ||
| 1282903 | 2012-06-21 23:06:00 | how do you replicate your current data/backup to offsite location? We did have an offsite location a while back, it was at the telstraclear data center, may have to revisit that later on. www.telstraclearwholesale.co.nz Rony, we use Trilead VM Explorer to snapshot VM maybe 1 every 2mths maybe or if we have done system upgrades to a big SATA drive, where we then put on LTO4 tapes and send to the other site, then are restored to a host. Data is backed up every night full @ 350GB, and we have DFS replicating the shares and backups of the SQL DB to the other site.....This is reciprocated back to us for the other office. I think Ive got our details blanked out here...! We are actually in the process of upgrading from a 2MB WAN to 5MB |
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