Offsite Backup Solutions Justin Paul Senior Virtualization Engineer

Offsite Backup Solutions Justin Paul Senior Virtualization Engineer / VMware v. Expert http: //jpaul. me – jpaul@smsprotech. com

What is Offsite Backup? • • Traditional Tape Software Replication Appliance (Hardware) Replication Virtualization Replication for DR

Considerations • What problem are you trying to solve? – Need better RTO/RPO? – Eliminate possibility of stolen/lost tapes? • Are your servers virtualized? • Can you get adequate bandwidth? • Do you need a DR site? – Or can you send your data to a cloud? • Do you have enough disk space for retention?

Other Considerations • • How far away is far enough? What are your RPO and RTO requirements? How many times a day do you backup? How long of retention periods are needed?

Traditional Tape Negatives Positives • • • Low cost Familiar Process Somewhat Simple Long Retention Supported by most backup software • • • Prone to Breaking Slow Can be stolen/lost Requires people Tapes go bad Requires a compatible tape drive for future restores

Software Replication Negatives Positives • Disk to Disk based • Fast Backups and Restores • Hardware agnostic • Can work with Hardware Appliances* • No user intervention required to replicate • Fairly Cheap • • Requires Bandwidth Can be complex Resource Intensive May effect other services like Vo. IP, Remote workers etc

Software Examples with Replication • • Veeam* Appasure Replay Quest v. Ranger* Acronis *Virtual Machines only

Appliance (Hardware) Replication Positives • Disk to Disk based • Fast Backups and Restores • Software Agnostic (in some cases) • No user intervention required to replicate • Deduplication and Compression Negatives • Requires Bandwidth • Still Requires Backup Software • Can be complex • Expensive • Can be vendor specific • May effect other services like Vo. IP, Remote workers, etc.

Appliance (Hardware) Examples • • Exagrid Data. Domain HP Store. Once Dell Power. Vault

Virtualization Replication Negatives Positives • • Quick DR Recovery Integrated Snapshot Technology Change Block Tracking • • • Requires Bandwidth Can be complex Expensive Can be vendor specific May effect other services like Vo. IP, Remote workers, etc.

Virtualization Replication Examples • Veeam • Zerto • VMware Site Recovery Manager

Minimizing Bandwidth Needs Hyper. IP by Netex

Minimizing Bandwidth Needs Helps reduce WAN load by 60%

Tips • Without adequate bandwidth replication will never work – Consider a dedicated circuit just for replication if your have a lot of data or a lot of daily change data • Even with dedupe and compression you will need a massive amount of disk space! – Retention will require as much storage space as your backing up times the number of weeks you want to retain that data • Deduplication and Compress is resource intensive. Get a good backup server or a hardware appliance

Questions? Slide deck located at http: //jpaul. me/ under the Presentations section Justin Paul Senior Virtualization Engineer / VMware v. Expert http: //jpaul. me – jpaul@smsprotech. com