I would like some insight on how other people handle backup and disaster recovery problems. I am tring to get a backup server running offsite. We currently back up to tape every night using veritas. I set up another server at a branch office that is connected via t-1. We set a backup job to run over the weekend using the built in program ntbackup. It is not even comming close to finishing over the entire weekend. We have tried only backing up the most critial data and still no luck. I am looking into using veritas to do this, but I can’t seem to backup to a remote location (this is what we use to do our tape backup).
How do other people out there handle the offsite backup problem? Is there a program out there that has really good compression rate or am I even headed in the right direction.
2 servers
one that does nightly backup with veritas that backs up to tape.
second server that sits offsite and is used to replicate active directory and this is the one I would like to send a backup job to.
Thanks
SW