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Advice - Back up strategy from Virtual Server to usb keys
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
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
You could backup to bare hard drives using these ... (very simple and quick to fit)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trayless-Mobile-Rack-Drive-Interface/dp/B000FSBVNC/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1302050084&sr=8-20
To store your bare drives use
http://www.wiebetech.com/includes/home/featuredproductx.php?item=10
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HI 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 I doubt if either of the suggestions would be as easy for them to understand and work with, as what they have been used to doing so far.....
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It also depends where you will have the storage. And what OS the physical box is running.
(Hyper-v or Vmware or Xen or ...)
will the storage be in the physical box on which the virtual SBS will run.
Or will you have a NAS that hosts the data disks?
You could implement a NAS with ISCSI and setup 2 volumes.
One used by the SBS and the other on a single disk. And replicate those 2 volumes
Then the single disk can be used as backup media...