Greetings,
I have tentative approval to build out a new backup infrastructure, and I have an idea as to what I think would work. But I want some second opinions.
To start, I'm backing up about 5 TB of raw data in total, across two offices (we'll call them datacenter and corporate.) Of this data, about 2TB needs to be retained for a period of 6 years (for HIPAA compliance.) For the rest, 4 weeks is generally fine. All backups are VM's. The archival data is mostly an Exchange database, several SQL databases, and a couple of file servers. File servers are also backed up with Crashplan.
Within the past 3 years, we've outgrown a Barracuda appliance (1TB), and a Unitrends appliance (3.5TB). I'm getting tired of outgrowing appliances, nor have I been impressed with the reliability and manageability of Unitrends. I would like to implement a...