Offsite Advice

[seans1969]

Hi All
Wondered if anyone could give me some advice please.
We are currently running one ESXi server and 2 VM's for production services.
We have another ESXi Server running VBR 8 that backs up every evening onto this server. Then every morning we run a backup copy job onto an external USB drive which is taken offsite every evening.

I would like to dispose of using the external USB altogether, and have this scenario.

Take the ESXi backup sever offsite totally and either have this backup or replicate our production VM's, this way we do not need to run a backup copy job.
Which is best to use backup or replication?

Is it possible to achieve?

Thanks

[PTide]

Hi,

Which is best to use backup or replication?

That depends on your RTO. If you want to recover faster then you'd better stick with replication. If you choose to backup VMs then you don't need to transfer the whole host offsite for that - one windows/linux based machine would be enough to setup an offsite repo and keep copying your backups every morning. Please describe what production storage do you use and a link between sites.

Thank you.

[seans1969]

Hi
Thanks for the reply.
For DR purposes we would obviously want to be back up and running as soon as possible, that way I thought the replication would be best. we have a 50mbit link out and 30mbit from the DR site. Production storage is within the ESXi server where the VM's are stored

[PTide]

want to be back up and running as soon as possible

Then replication is the way to go. Also consider deploying extra VMs on both hosts to use them as a backup proxy for better performance.

Thank you.

[seans1969]

Good news, thank you.

are there any guides on how to achieve all this please?

[PTide]

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Thank you.