I just landed a job as a Network admin for a medium size company. Currently, their backup plan is backing up critical files to a external hard drive via a robocopy batch file. I am looking to get a proper backup plan in place. I will be using Backup Exec 12 as the software. We have 6 servers to backup; 2 physical and 4 virtual. One physical server is hosting the 4 virtual servers. One of the virtual servers is Exchange. My backup plan needs to incorporate some offsite storage, so i am leaning towards a tape backup. Here is what I thinking:
1. Use one server that is dedicated as the backup server, and install agents on all the other servers.
2. Backup all servers to the external hard drives on the “backup server.”
3. Once the backup to disk is complete, then backup the data that is on the backup server, to a large tape. (LTO-3 or LTO-4?) I currently have about 460 GB to backup.
What are your thoughts on this plan? What would you do different? Do you see any flaws in my plan? Is there a less expensive option to an LTO drive?
Thank you!!