I work for a small company (15-20 employees). Currently, our Windows based server backs up to one of three computers in our office building, about 40-50G/night. We would like to backup to a remote location, ideally. I don’t know enough about it, but my personal vision for the setup is to have a machine at another location, here in the same town, that would be connected to our network, preferably not over a VPN line, but if necessary that would be alright, that we could run nightly backups to.
The guy company we hire for “tech support” says that our backups are too big to do them the way I would like to. His suggestion is that we buy three 500G external USB hard drives, and have someone switch them out and store them in the offsite location. Quite frankly, that’s why we switched from our old server that used tapes. I don’t want to mess with it.
Any suggestions or advice?