Environment:
Mirrored SanSymphony SAN's (both on premise, separated by MDF/IDF, different floors)
4 XenServer Hosts
28 VM's, mostly Windows Server 2003/2008/2012
Symantec Backup Exec 2012
CloudBerry Server backup with S3 and Glacier storage
Data:
Daily backups about 100-200Gb
Weekend backup about 450-500Gb
Process:
Backup Exec backups servers and data (BE agent) to local direct attached disks, all backups are first backed up locally. Cloudberry server backup then backs up the Backup Exec files, we call this the duplication process.
Exch, SQL and Accounting backups vary a little. Backup Exec still backs up each of these 3 systems locally, but we then use a RDX disk for the duplicate and that RDX goes home with one of us in IT.
We used to use multiple RDX disks to complete the duplicate process, but have been migrating to S3/glacier for the...