I am in a position were our company data set has outgrown the storage capacity of our backup system. I am new to the business so I guess this is my first major issue to tackle
Current system is D2D2T, Backup Exec 2010 R3, Full backup job every night (Mon-Fri), LTO2 tape drive using 200/400GB tapes. I am backing up a single site with limited offsite facilities available. Internet connection is 50mb down 10mb up. Infrastructure is 1gb backbone.
Our backup job (368GB) has now exceeded the capacity of a single tape and using 2 tapes isn't an option due to a mix of manual input and verification process prolonging the backup past working hours. At 368GB the backup is small but this job has been heavily modified to include only critical components and files which isn't ideal as means a lot of our other systems would require a rebuild from...