Hi All
After two weeks of struggling to get Backup Exec, our new ESXi host and our SCSI tape drive two play nice we're now looking into alternative backup solutions. I've done a bit of poking around but tape vs cloud is a pretty contentious subject at the best of times so I figured I'd open our situation to the community.
We currently have the following:
- An LTO4 SCSI tape drive
- 20 LTO4 tapes
- A Synology Rackstation with 5 x 2TB drives RAID 5 (Forgive me, I was young and stupid)
And need to backup 4 x VMs (SBS2011, SQL 2008 R2, Win 7, Server 2008 R2 RDP host) totalling around 1TB of total storage on a single ESXi 5.5 host
I had the tape drive working happily with our previous ESXi host but the new one has a serious dislike of it (you can read more about it here). I've spent the last week working late nights and early mornings keeping an eye on...