RE: Backups Over WAN

2009-02-24 Thread Sam Cayze
Roger, I have had a few processes in place for some time, and I have slowly been adding more and more backups to my WAN replication process. I have about 2TB of data, and also use BE 12.5. (However, BE doesn't offer much help to me in this arena). - Currently, I ship 2 critical SQL database

RE: Backups Over WAN

2009-02-24 Thread Webb, Brian (Corp)
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 to

RE: Backups Over WAN

2009-02-24 Thread Roger Wright
: RE: Backups Over WAN 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

RE: Backups Over WAN

2009-02-24 Thread Webb, Brian (Corp)
an upper bound for the amount of data that would need to be replicated in a day. -Brian From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups Over WAN How much data is tra

RE: Backups Over WAN

2009-02-26 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I think the bigger question is what are you trying to replicate and how do you plan to restore? Exchange/SQL/AD Restore: Turn on in the WAN location? Bring systems/data back ??? So some general products that have used: XOsoft WANsync , Symantec Netbackup, DRBD (SAN), Datacore (SAN w/ l