Backup options / strategy for SBS 2003 R2
I am used to backing up to tape, external USB hard drives and starting to experiment with mozy (free for home clients and pro for business clients). People are talking about NAS or CDP (Continuous Data Protection), and/or off-site storage.
And I have some (incorrect?) preceptions I was hoping I could have you correct?
The problem with mozy is that gigs of data, at least initiailly, take days to sync. But after that, it goes quicker I guess (so on-line (off-site) storage shouldn't be shunnged?)
NAS - we are moving from a snap server to SBS. The snap is running fine, and a snap server is NAS? Just back up to that? (install it in a different part of the building?).
Continuous data protection? that's different than the snapshots that SBS does at 12 and 7?
and typically, is there a performance hit if you have more snapshots taken each day? (yes, it'd be more storage, but besides that, does the server slow down much during the snapshot?).
And I have some (incorrect?) preceptions I was hoping I could have you correct?
The problem with mozy is that gigs of data, at least initiailly, take days to sync. But after that, it goes quicker I guess (so on-line (off-site) storage shouldn't be shunnged?)
NAS - we are moving from a snap server to SBS. The snap is running fine, and a snap server is NAS? Just back up to that? (install it in a different part of the building?).
Continuous data protection? that's different than the snapshots that SBS does at 12 and 7?
and typically, is there a performance hit if you have more snapshots taken each day? (yes, it'd be more storage, but besides that, does the server slow down much during the snapshot?).
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ron_goodwyne
Mozy Pro Server version IS intended to backup servers! It can handle open sql databases and the exchange data store as well. Whether you have the bandwidth is another question.
When this question was first asked, Mozy Pro was not a VSS aware backup. Apparently it now is.
Jeff
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Jeff
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