Present setup:
- HP ML370 G5 running Server 2012 R2 Datacenter with Hyper-V role installed.
- 4 Virtual machines running (DC, File Server, Spiceworks, and Unitrends UEB)
- Synology DS411slim NAS for backup repository
The serverhas 4 500GB hard drivesconfigured withRAID 10. The Synology NAS has 2 1TB Western Digital Red drives configured as RAID 1. We have only 8 users here so the work load is not very high. The file server holds the company file for Quickbooks as well as a database file (less than 50MB) used by a donation tracking program.
The file server and Spiceworks server are backed up using Unitrends UEB in a full/incremental setup throughout the week (full on Sunday, incremental Monday through Friday) with a retention setting of 14 days. The backup job starts at 1:00am and typically completes within couple of hours (typically no longer...