Hello again,
I have been using glacier for long-term archive storage (at $0.01 per GB/Month) and a small local shop partnered with Cloudsafe backups that provide backup software (with support) and offsite storage ($0.30 per GB/month).
All my local backups go to a Synology 1813+ NAS with 8x 4TB Seagate Constellations in OBR10.
My environment has gone from 6 physical servers to adding 3 ESXi hosts and 13 (and counting) VM guests. I have been systematically migrating services off the crowded physical servers and creating VMs for them and am down to 4 physical servers.
All my physical servers are backed up with Acronis for bare metal/local backups and Cloudsafe for things that I would like to have offsite, like the system state of the DCs, various databases, including Exchange 2010 and the flat files from one of our file servers which is a...