At the moment, we have some sites that we are backing up over the WAN by using DFS R2 to replicate the data (one way) to a central server and then backing up that server. It works well and take very minimal bandwidth to keep the remote site synced to the central server. The initial replication took a while for some sites (we throttled to minimize the impact to users) and with 5 TB you might consider prestaging it. -Brian
________________________________ From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backups Over WAN For those of you who are backing up over the WAN: Wwhat types of hardware and software are required for this to work efficiently? Does it only work well with deduplication? Would I have to rethink my nightly/weekly/monthly backup strategies? I'm currently working with BE 12 soon to be 12.5 and would like to stick with that if possible. And we have about 5 TB total data stored right now. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ "Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results." - Jerry Flint, in Forbes ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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