Hi All,
Looking for a sanity check for updating my backup strategy.
Background:
We are a small family owned manufacturer of machined parts. I am the new admin left with an RS1221+. When I started, it only had 4 4TB drives. I have 6 VM’s across 2 VM host machines. I am using Active Backup to back up the VM’s along with a job to backup critical file shares on one of the VM for quick access file level restores. It did not take long to fill this up and not able to maintain more than a couple copies. This device is for backups only, it does not act as public file share, only accessible by a local account and service account for Active Backup.
Improvements:
Added 4 8TB drives to create another pool in open bays, migrated some of the jobs to the second pool.
Hyper Backup of the VMs and File share to S3 type cloud.
Watching one of the videos, I might be missing having another local copy that would provide a quicker restore than Hyper Backup back from the cloud - its there if we lose the building. Trying for the new version of 3 2 1.
Question:
Should I duplicate my RS1221+ at one of our other 2 buildings on site or is there a better model? Same capacity or more with either 8TB or 12TB (looking for value). And then replicate from builing A to building B across the local network.
That way I am better covered locally if I lose the server room in building A but still have building B.
I appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks
Mike