Offsite Backups Who uses this

[scoobs]

Hey all

Looking at getting a offsite backup of my servers and workstations, This is just from a contingency point of view

What do you guys use and how good is it

Thanks

 

[GoneWithTheWindows]

Hey all

Looking at getting a offsite backup of my servers and workstations, This is just from a contingency point of view

What do you guys use and how good is it

Thanks

Where are you based.

What amount of data are you looking to backup and have taken offsite.

Depending the amount of data have you looked at a cloud type backup?

 

[scoobs]

Where are you based.

What amount of data are you looking to backup and have taken offsite.

Depending the amount of data have you looked at a cloud type backup?

In pretoria lets say around 2TB for now, guess backup to tapes are something of the passed now hey ? although i like the idea because it gives me more control in the sense of security and restoration but i would need a whole new setup then
making it an expensive option

 

[R4ziel]

In pretoria lets say around 2TB for now, guess backup to tapes are something of the passed now hey ? although i like the idea because it gives me more control in the sense of security and restoration but i would need a whole new setup then
making it an expensive option

Tape backups are still widely used, although it does get a bit cumbersome should you need to restore. Have you got virtual servers at all?

For cloud based backup 2TB if not too much, you can do the initial seed backup with an external drive and then just replicate from there, there are plenty of companies that offer that kind of service if you are interested

 

[PsyWulf]

Soteria offers some nice options including an Onsite Appliance with Offsite mirroring,and initial seeded backup so you only back up incrementals over the internet afterwards

 

[scoobs]

Tape backups are still widely used, although it does get a bit cumbersome should you need to restore. Have you got virtual servers at all?

For cloud based backup 2TB if not too much, you can do the initial seed backup with an external drive and then just replicate from there, there are plenty of companies that offer that kind of service if you are interested

been checking the data its over 10TB and yeah got 2 hyper V servers.

 

[Titanse]

@scoobs

Depends on Budget, but RedStor is fantastic. They allow VM's and also have an instant restore option where if your vm crashes you can "spin up" a vm at their location while it is busy restoring and run like that until the restore is complete.

I am using them for Pastel at the moment and been looking at moving my current servers from standard to VM as this option is really appealing.

I have used tapes for a long time, but as mentioned by R4ziel it is cumbersome to restore and you need to make sure that you test the tapes at least once a month incase of corrupt data / tapes/

There are probably cheaper options for backing up, but I have found that to restore from the "cheapies" becomes rather expensive.

 

[envo]

Also consider the cost of "cheap" failing if you need to restore and in terms of work lost / man hours lost if you ever need it.

It can become extremely expensive for a company if you skim on your backup and failover/restore processes.

Cloud backups are one thing to consider in the overall scheme of things, but needs to be in combination of offsite tape backups as well as redundancy built into your server setup.

We had a major outage (lightning yay) and because we had, not only tape backups, but cloud backups AND a failover site, were able to be up and running within 6 hours with no data or loss to business except for the man hours. The impact of something like that was minimized greatly...

But if you can afford to let your business come to a standstill for several days and not be able to do business, sure, cloud storage and a prayer cost way less...very cheap indeed

 

[PsyWulf]

@scoobs

Depends on Budget, but RedStor is fantastic. They allow VM's and also have an instant restore option where if your vm crashes you can "spin up" a vm at their location while it is busy restoring and run like that until the restore is complete.

I am using them for Pastel at the moment and been looking at moving my current servers from standard to VM as this option is really appealing.

I have used tapes for a long time, but as mentioned by R4ziel it is cumbersome to restore and you need to make sure that you test the tapes at least once a month incase of corrupt data / tapes/

There are probably cheaper options for backing up, but I have found that to restore from the "cheapies" becomes rather expensive.

Nice thread revive bruh

As for RedStor,do they have a local PoP? For a full site recovery it would be quite a long time to recover if you had to download everything from scratch

IMO if you do go the cloud route go for somebody that can do ingestion/restore from disk with a local presence

 

[irBosOtter]

We are busy running a trail on Cibecs cloud backup, for company laptops, but they also have a solution for servers. Works 100% so far, cheap compared to the rest of the quotes we got so far and also local in SA.

Servers we still backup locally to disk via Veeam, then replicate with EMC Data Domains to second site, then off to tape, then tapes off site. We don't have the bandwidth yet to offload 15Tb of backup changes a day to an offsite cloud location

 

[wizzypow]

Check out Acronis Backup 12.5 from Synapsys - they can put you in touch with a reseller close to you.
You get full system imaging of physical and virtual servers with RTO as low as 15 seconds (with restore from any to any (p2p,p2v,v2p,v2v,p2c,v2c,c2v,c2p,c2c)

Really nifty feature is Active Ransomware Protection!