Offsite Backup Solution Needed
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What are you trying to backup, I'm guessing your VM's.
If so can you back them up to a local storage unit like a Synology NAS, and use that as the push device for your off-site?
A 5/5 line is pretty slow but should be enough if your only doing delta backups to whatever you have offsite.
As for off-site what are you trying to backup to, another location or a storage provider like Amazon or BackBlaze?
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Crashplan would also work for this.
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Sorry I'll add more info to my original post as well.
Yep, backing up 5 hosts (VMWare) with a bunch of VM's each
Its going to one of our retail locations that has just a simple Synology there actually.
"If so can you back them up to a local storage unit like a Synology NAS, and use that as the push device for your off-site?"
I guess the best answer I can give to this is we'll do what we have to -
@Sparkum But going to one of your retail locations is not the same as going to something on the same LAN.
If you can get a Synology NAS in house with your servers, and backup to that first, and have that push the backups to your retail location you should be better off.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@Sparkum But going to one of your retail locations is not the same as going to something on the same LAN.
If you can get a Synology NAS in house with your servers, and backup to that first, and have that push the backups to your retail location you should be better off.
Is there a built in feature with Synology is that why you are saying that/that brand or just simply for the fact that it can sit on the Synology until the backups complete.
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The speed of recovery is not an issue here.
What you need to do to get a faster "off-site" is to backup to something local that can handle the upload to your Retail location.
@Sparkum said:
@DustinB3403 said:
@Sparkum But going to one of your retail locations is not the same as going to something on the same LAN.
If you can get a Synology NAS in house with your servers, and backup to that first, and have that push the backups to your retail location you should be better off.
Is there a built in feature with Synology is that why you are saying that/that brand or just simply for the fact that it can sit on the Synology until the backups complete.
The Backup's to a local NAS (whatever brand) just using Synology as they're pretty good units is that the Backup process will run at the speed of the LAN. Versus the speed of your Internet.
Which should be way faster (1GBps) and then once the backup finishes, let it take all night to upload to your other location.
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Rather than trying to perform your nightly backups over your 5/5 you'd backup to a local NAS first. Once the backup finishes it kicks off the job to push that night's backup to your other location.
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I agree with Dustin, Backup local first, then sync/push to a remote location.
I think Veeam paid will do this. You create the backup to any kind of NAS you like, then you a sync process that syncs the local backup store to a remote one.
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Additionally, by using a local NAS, you could take multiple backups during the day if you wanted, and only push the last backup of the day over the sync connection.
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So I guess the next question is then, with what software.
So Symantec has essentially that option built in
"Upon completion replicate to"
But the problem I was having is I would do the backup, and the replication would take so long that 1 or 2 backups would then fail, creating this large snowball affect (That I do assume would eventually fix itself as initial backup completed and we moved onto small partial backups...))
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Can you bring the other NAS onsite to your location, seed the initial backup locally fast, then take it back, and do sync's only?
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@Sparkum Veeam should do this for you.... but as you've describe you're attempting to backup however many VM's you have in one shot, over your 5/5 internet connection.
This will never work.
If you change your backup target from your Retail location, to a on-premise NAS that will create your daily backups.
Fulls or whatever (presumably you're not creating full backups nightly, but maybe) and then on the NAS you create a replicate job to run once the backups are done.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@Sparkum Veeam should do this for you.... but as you've describe you're attempting to backup however many VM's you have in one shot, over your 5/5 internet connection.
This will never work.
If you change your backup target from your Retail location, to a on-premise NAS that will create your daily backups.
Fulls or whatever (presumably you're not creating full backups nightly, but maybe) and then on the NAS you create a replicate job to run once the backups are done.
By no means was it in one shot.
I was going server by server, 2 worked successfully, the third the snapshot outgrew the server and crashed it.
My IDEAL would be to be able to do a full virtual backup that I could just turn on if shit hit the fan.
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@Dashrender said:
Can you bring the other NAS onsite to your location, seed the initial backup locally fast, then take it back, and do sync's only?
Yes, and the only reason I havent done this yet is because jobs are running for ~12 hours, failing, having only backed up like 8GB.....not even enough to be an incremental backup yet.
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It's still effectively one shot (unless you're running this by hand)
The best solution would be to get another NAS on premise, have this take the load of your backups daily, and then have the same NAS push to your retail location's NAS.
It should have more then enough space for your backups.
Are you performing full backups daily, or what?
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You will need to use Replication not Backup. Additionally, you will likely need to make a local seed replica first then move it offsite and resume replication.
Paid Veeam can do this for VMWare or Hyper-V using the backup sets.
VMWare can do this natively with the right subscription I believe.
Hyper-V can do this natively with no additional licensing.
I would assume XS can do it natively, but you need a tool like XO to make it easy to do.
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@DustinB3403 said:
The best solution would be to get another NAS on premise, have this take the load of your backups daily, and then have the same NAS push to your retail location.
This is not a good solution. The first time you ever make a new full backup you kill the internet.
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Well he'd be making the full onsite, and seeding to the other (left that part out) with both NAS on premise.
Removing the internet from the picture.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Well he'd be making the full onsite, and seeding to the other (left that part out) with both NAS on premise.
Removing the internet from the picture.
But a NAS to NAS replication is still going to transfer a crapton of data when you do a local full backup the first time after everything is seeded and the NAS moved back offsite.
Replication at the hypervisor level or the VM backup level is needed to provide enough intelligence to transfer replication offsite.
