Hi,
I am new to Backup, DR and Dedupe and have a question about full backups, data dedupe and restore.
In the company I work, one of my coworkers is pushing the idea of implementing data deduplication. Currently, we are required to do daily full backups to send to Iron Mountain. We use a two weeks rotation on our backups and store a month end and yearly backup on permanent storage.
I agree about data dedupe as an option to reduce the backup time window but I have a few questions about it.
1) On a total DR, if I don't do outside replication, is it possible to recover from backup tapes? If so, how?
2) If I do data dedupe with my daily full backups, do I then copy the duduped data to tape to send to IM daily?
3) Is Outside replication my only option for DR purposes?
I have not been able to find answers to all these question, so your help will be really appreciated.
JD
