Backup Solution Recommendations

[lafleur1977]

Hello,

 

I am looking into improving our current backup solution as our backups are running painfully slow and we are running out of storage. We currently have a HP Storage works disc array directly connected to our file server and run daily backups to disc on this. These are then duplicated to tape on a weekly and monthly basis. All backups are done using backupexec, just short of 2 TB of data on a full backup (mix of user data, shares, server backups, and exchange DB) and all of our servers are physical.

 

As the B2D part of this solution is running very slowly I have been considering alternative solutions, such as a new disc array with more storage, separating our file server and backup server and locating a new backup server in another building for increased redundancy (perhaps then scrapping tapes). The tape part of our backups are running well but we are a using LT03 drive and full backups are using several tapes so I was also considering buying a new tape drive so we could store more on one tape.

 

One solution that has caught my attention is the EMC data domain DD160 which offers inline de-duplication and could decrease the size of our backups and increase their speed. I was just wondering if anyone is using this already or what others backup solutions everyone else is using?

 

All scenarios and thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

[nicholab]

Have you thought of running deduplication on FreeNAS or NAS4free? And running a second server for the windows agent and the tape drive LTO6?

[robjduk]

step 1: find your local Veeam reseller...

step 2: bask in its glory

step 3: wonder just why anyone would ever consider anything else

[sparkeh]

step 1: find your local Veeam reseller...

step 2: bask in its glory

step 3: wonder just why anyone would ever consider anything else

OP states that the servers are physical.

[robjduk]

well I am fairly drunk so please forgive me and let me revise this....

step 1: Install Hyper-v

step 2: install Veeam

step 3: buy new underwear

[lafleur1977]

well I am fairly drunk so please forgive me and let me revise this....

step 1: Install Hyper-v

step 2: install Veeam

step 3: buy new underwear

 

Thankyou, I have heard good things about Veeam and of course about virtualisation but I am not looking to do this currently.

[Norphy]

We're using System Center Data Protection Manager. It doesn't exactly support de-dup but if you're using a Windows 2012 server with dedup enabled, it's happy enough with that. We do disk to disk to tape, we have a 14TB disk array attached to the server and a 50 tape/2 drive Quantum LTO tape library for more long term storage.

 

It's a relatively simple product compared to other backup solutions (We were using Commvault Simpana before, compared to that DPM is ridiculously simple) but powerful enough for what we want from it.