backup suggestions

[manick]

Hi all,

 

I have the following setup:

 

3 x clustered vmware (v6.0) hosts all using a backend SAN (storing all VMS and data)

1 x vmware host which hosts a Windows 2012R2 server using all 7.2TB of HDD space running Veeam for backups (reverse incremental with 30 restore points and backup space used is around 1.9TB).

 

At the moment I have no offsite backups and want to try and correct this. I have an External USB Tandberg RDX Quikstor 8428 unit and 6 x 2TB 'tapes' as well as spare server with 1TB of storage space with an internal Quikstor device. As far as I can see the USB Quikstor 8428 is not supported by VMware. At a very basic level i just want to at least backup the backups, does anyone have any suggestions how best to use these devices and Veeam to achieve this?

 

Cheers

 

Nick

[Ertech]

You could use the backup copy function in Veeam for offsite backup - this should make a copy/backup your primary backup repositories

[manick]

I think i may just install Windows server on the spare box, map the drives to the veeam box and go from there using, as you say, the backup copy function and get a third copy onto the Tandberg cartridges.

 

Cheers

 

Nick