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Need help setting up Backup Strategy
I have a Overland Storage LoaderExpress Ultrium2 (200/400GB) with 11 SLOTS (1 used for cleaning tape)
I currently have a total of 32 tapes available
I am currently running Full Backups M-Fri with Fridadys taken offsite.
Elapsed time with verify on Backups is about 9:54 Hours and around 177GB written.
Can I please get some insight on what would be the best backup plan to use when implementing a brand new Veritas Backup Exec 10.0 Implementation. I am building a brand new server with two NICS, 3.2Ghz Xeon, Mirrors 36.4GB U320s and on a Gigabit Backbone. Also we have never done a backup across the Gigabit yet, so i don't know how much that will increase performance.
to clarify all of this. I'm looking for tape rotation suggestions and reasoning - also the type of backup to run.
Backup window is from 7:00 P.M till 5:00 A.M. which is flexible. We have to backup a File Server, Exchange Server, and two DC's
We do not currently have the disaster recovery option.
I currently have a total of 32 tapes available
I am currently running Full Backups M-Fri with Fridadys taken offsite.
Elapsed time with verify on Backups is about 9:54 Hours and around 177GB written.
Can I please get some insight on what would be the best backup plan to use when implementing a brand new Veritas Backup Exec 10.0 Implementation. I am building a brand new server with two NICS, 3.2Ghz Xeon, Mirrors 36.4GB U320s and on a Gigabit Backbone. Also we have never done a backup across the Gigabit yet, so i don't know how much that will increase performance.
to clarify all of this. I'm looking for tape rotation suggestions and reasoning - also the type of backup to run.
Backup window is from 7:00 P.M till 5:00 A.M. which is flexible. We have to backup a File Server, Exchange Server, and two DC's
We do not currently have the disaster recovery option.
If time and speed are an issue then you may want to consider doing incremental M-T and doing a full backup on Friday. YOU can then ship your friday full backup (not the most recent but one at least a week old) to offsite storage such as iron mountain.
The other option is to backup to disk then backup to tape at your leisure. This way the whole network is not sluggish when you backup during the day. It also allows you to monitor what's going on.
To be quite honest if I could I would run full backups every day. But my current network does not allow that. It would take over 24 hours. Exchange takes forever to backup.
The other option is to backup to disk then backup to tape at your leisure. This way the whole network is not sluggish when you backup during the day. It also allows you to monitor what's going on.
To be quite honest if I could I would run full backups every day. But my current network does not allow that. It would take over 24 hours. Exchange takes forever to backup.
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Since you have Gigabit Lan and Backbone, you won't need to worry about the performance issue.
Hope this helps !
Best Regards !