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Backup to Disk... many brands currently have hot swappable backup libraries which use disks.<br />
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It also depends where you will have the storage. And what OS the physical box is running.<br />
(Hyper-v or Vmware or Xen or ...)<br />
will the storage be in the physical box on which the virtual SBS will run.<br />
Or will you have a NAS that hosts the data disks?<br />
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You could implement a NAS with ISCSI and setup 2 volumes.<br />
One used by the SBS and the other on a single disk. And replicate those 2 volumes<br />
Then the single disk can be used as backup media...<br />

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You could backup to bare hard drives using these ... &nbsp;(very simple and quick to fit)<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trayless-Mobile-Rack-Drive-Interface/dp/B000FSBVNC/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1302050084&sr=8-20" rel="ugc">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trayless-Mobile-Rack-Drive-Interface/dp/B000FSBVNC/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1302050084&sr=8-20</a><br />
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To store your bare drives use<br />
<a href="http://www.wiebetech.com/includes/home/featuredproductx.php?item=10" rel="ugc">http://www.wiebetech.com/includes/home/featuredproductx.php?item=10</a>
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HI &nbsp;and thanks - - -to potentially further complicate matters - the users who swap out the existing tapes are admin assistants in a solicitors firm - absolutely non technical - completely. they take teh tapes to the bank each day and this is their legal requirement. So what it needs to be is something as easy as taking a tape out and putting a new one in for the next backup. Which is why I was thinking of usb keys etc &nbsp;I doubt if either of the suggestions would be as easy for them to understand and work with, &nbsp;as what they have been used to doing so far.....<br />

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Hi,<br />
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I am about to go into virtualization with esxi on a clients sbs server and it will be the first time for me. I'm looking forward to learning about it. Anyway at the moment the old server backs up to a DAT 72 tape drive and the tape is changed daily and taken to a bank for safe keeping. The new server does not have this drive and so I am wondering about the strategy for daily backups and the fact that they must take some form of media to the bank each day - its a legal requirement.<br />
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So we will have SBS2011 on a virtual server and what I am thinking is that the backups could go to changeable usb drives via Backup exec? Or is there a better strategy? Looking to the experts for advice. Thanks
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Hi,

I am about to go into virtualization with esxi on a clients sbs server and it will be the first time for me. I'm looking forward to learning about it. Anyway at the moment the old server backs up to a DAT 72 tape drive and the tape is changed daily and taken to a bank for safe keeping. The new server does not have this drive and so I am wondering about the strategy for daily backups and the fact that they must take some form of media to the bank each day - its a legal requirement.

So we will have SBS2011 on a virtual server and what I am thinking is that the backups could go to changeable usb drives via Backup exec? Or is there a better strategy? Looking to the experts for advice. Thanks

Advice - Back up strategy from Virtual Server to usb keys

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.

Storage Software

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).