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Are you setting your version history? &nbsp;Also, a de-duplication program would help. &nbsp;<br />
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Who is your backup provider, they might have this option. &nbsp;Same with the cloud provider, if they are not the same.<br />
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I think it would be a mistake to not use cloud for images. &nbsp;I would reduce the occurances of backups to the cloud, and work on the versioning to help mitigate storage costs.<br />
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We use a Synology RS2416+.
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So the issue here is how fast is your network link between the two locations?<br />
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Now consider the following points:<br />

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<li>How much data are you going to be passing across the link to achieve your backup?</li>
<li>Are you going to be doing Full/Incrementals/DeDup?</li>
<li>How long will it take to move this amount of data across the link (NB assume 10 bit Bytes on the link and max 50% utilisation of the link) ?</li>
<li>What effect will this have on your current traffic across the link?</li>
<li>How will you seed the NAS in the first place - across the link? and how long will this take?</li>
<li>How will you do the restores - across the link? and how long will it take?</li>
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The seed will be done at the Main location over several nights. We are currently backing up to external drives anyway but I want to eliminate the user intervention as well as protect the data from fire, theft, etc. (employees forget to change drives or take them home &amp;&nbsp;forget to bring them back, etc.)<br />
The Cloud incremental backups are currently scheduled to run every other night &amp;&nbsp;the Full Server (bare metal) local backups run on weekends, thus having no impact on traffic. Everything has been running just fine &amp;&nbsp;I have restored a Server from this configuration &amp;&nbsp;don't want to change the scenario; I just want to relocate the physical backup hardware to another location for safety &amp;&nbsp;create my own Cloud storage backup solution.
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We currently have 2 office locations. The main office has 3 Windows Servers (2 DCs &amp;&nbsp;1 File Server/Storage).<br />
We are backing up locally in our main office to removable HDs as well as to a cloud backup service. The size of files are getting very large &amp;&nbsp;cloud backup is getting too expensive for us. I am thinking of placing a Backup NAS at our satellite location to do the Server bare metal backups. We currently store approx. 10TB of data/OS files.<br />
Any suggestions as to best way to accomplish this &amp;&nbsp;who's hardware works best?<br />
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Thanks
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We currently have 2 office locations. The main office has 3 Windows Servers (2 DCs & 1 File Server/Storage).
We are backing up locally in our main office to removable HDs as well as to a cloud backup service. The size of files are getting very large & cloud backup is getting too expensive for us. I am thinking of placing a Backup NAS at our satellite location to do the Server bare metal backups. We currently store approx. 10TB of data/OS files.
Any suggestions as to best way to accomplish this & who's hardware works best?

Thanks

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