I manage two offices, one in New York and one in Florida and I would like to take advantage of the offices being geographically diverse to setup a strong remote backup and DR setup.
Here is how the offices are currently setup:
New York
50Mbps download / 80Mbps upload
Two physical servers
11 virtual servers with around 4TB of data and
Florida
40Mbps download / 10Mbps upload
Two physical servers
7 virtual servers with around 2TB of data
Sonicwall Firewalls at both locations with a VPN connection between the two offices.
I have Symantec Backup Exec 2010 Standard in both locations handling my backups.
In New York, if I backup my domain controller and replicate the data to storage in Florida the job takes 1:45hr/mins to complete for 25.7GB worth of data. One of the problems then is, the Florida Backup Exec software will not recognize the data from New...