Hi there,
I'm migrating from Veeam to Symantec BUE 2014 and struggling to find the best type of backup strategy. For any Veeam users out there, you'll more than likely be used to the forever incremental concept. What I really liked is that I could simply backup, every night, the Veeam .VBK file to tape and voila full nightly backups to tape, leaving full and incremental backups on disk.
With Symantec however I'm struggling.
I have two BUE 2014 servers connected by 1Gbps fibre (site A and site B). My intention is to backup to site A and then duplicate that information to site B. To satisfy our auditors (and for belt and braces protection) we also have a tape robotic library connected to site A. Ideally I'd like to have at least 1 weekly backup to tape.
I have a couple of questions though:
- with disk based backups (going to dedupe disk storage), how often to do do full backups?
- Is it possible to do reverse incremental?
- How do you create the job in BUE...is it backup, tape, duplicate?
- Do you tend to create individual backup jobs for each server, or group them?
- If doing full backups, do you alternate the days that each of the above servers completes its full backup?
- For VMware servers, do you prefer to use the agent and if so, why?
Sorry for what may seem like daft questions...but with Veeam my backups start and finish ultra quick and frankly the concept of completing full backups is, well, a one time activity. My ongoing backuop windows are really small...even with the 5TB of data being written to tape every night.
Thanks in advance,
Danny