DPM 1807

[staylor1972]

Hello

 

We currently use Veeam to backup our Servers but have just started to look at DPM as a way of saving a few pennies but i've got a few queries.

 

With Veeam we currently backup up our data to a Nas box with a secondary job that then replicates the data to another Nas box in a seperate location. Is this possible with DPM as it seems to only allow me to replicate the data into Azure.

 

The only option i can see for long term storage is to copy the data to tape. Is it possible to put this data onto disk storage for monthly retention?? I've seen software that creates virtual tape drives such as Starwind but wondered if i've missed something native to the software.

 

regards

 

Steve

[Bruce123]

Hello

 

We currently use Veeam to backup our Servers but have just started to look at DPM as a way of saving a few pennies but i've got a few queries.

 

With Veeam we currently backup up our data to a Nas box with a secondary job that then replicates the data to another Nas box in a seperate location. Is this possible with DPM as it seems to only allow me to replicate the data into Azure.

 

The only option i can see for long term storage is to copy the data to tape. Is it possible to put this data onto disk storage for monthly retention?? I've seen software that creates virtual tape drives such as Starwind but wondered if i've missed something native to the software.

 

regards

 

Steve

 

The way to do it in MS DPM world is to have two DPM servers; one primary DPM server backing up your production servers and another (off-site) DPM backing up the primary DPM server.

 

You can't backup to tape naively, only using some third-party software, which does leave a bit of a problem as regards longer-term backups.

 

Thanks,

 

Bruce.

[k-strider]

I tend to recover file shares and important workloads like DCs to a 6TB external encrypted Disk every 1/2 term or so to take off site.. for longer term backups that works.. i've probably got disks going back about 4 years in the archive cupboard.