Backup Central

Hello,

Here is my setup- I have 30+ small offices, each office has between 2-50 GB of data to be backed up. Right now I have BackupExec license running on each server in each office, one tape drive and 10 tapes in each location as well. This is not cost effective at all, and admin overhead is huge - I have to rely on 30 people to swap the tapes daily. Each office has either one T1 or two T1s to the Internet. I also have state of the art DataCenter with 100mgb pipe.
Now the question- I am looking for solution, something like Zmanda, but instead of backing up to Amazon S3 I want to backup data from these 30 offices to my Data Center. I would appreciate any help. I was looking at Data Domain solution but it was too expensive. Ideally Cloud Backup but to my own location would be the best.
Thank you.

Hello,

Here is my setup- I have 30+ small offices, each office has between 2-50 GB of data to be backed up. Right now I have BackupExec license running on each server in each office, one tape drive and 10 tapes in each location as well. This is not cost effective at all, and admin overhead is huge - I have to rely on 30 people to swap the tapes daily. Each office has either one T1 or two T1s to the Internet. I also have state of the art DataCenter with 100mgb pipe.
Now the question- I am looking for solution, something like Zmanda, but instead of backing up to Amazon S3 I want to backup data from these 30 offices to my Data Center. I would appreciate any help. I was looking at Data Domain solution but it was too expensive. Ideally Cloud Backup but to my own location would be the best.
Thank you.

Consider Riverbed and SNAP Server replication if possible. If budget is constraint, you can use that. Each site need a SNAP Server and use Snap Enterprise Data Replicator to replicate data over to HQ. You can use a tape library to consolidate everything and manage on a single point.

Each Snap is barely about 12K for a 4TB and able to scale over 80TB. Let me know if you need me to draw up the proposal...

Hopifan, why not consider solutions like EMC Avamar or Symantec NetBackup PureDisk? They're ideal for cases like the one you described.
You didn't specify if the "2-50 GB" backup for each office was a daily increment or full backup volume? Daily change rate is very important while considering Avamar and PureDisk as both rely on sending only unique increments over the network, thus saving precious bandwidth and time. And they make use of some sub-file-level client-based deduplication engine, so the more static data you have to be backed-up the more effective these tools prove to be. Main backup destination is always a highly-redundant central disk storage, but you may further copy it to tape if you wish.

Kind regards,
Michal

Hi Hopifan,

Have you looked at Continuous Protection Server (CPS) which comes free with BE and facilitates replication over the WAN to a central site? Also next version of BE (BE2010) will have integrated Puredisk at a fraction of the cost of the Netbackup version, so would be worth a look.