
Given my lack of understanding how Veeam works, and how we'd like to ditch BE if possible, what are our options for backing up the vms in a way where we can take the backup results offsite every day? Our differential BE jobs go to a different 2TB eSATA drive every weeknight...one drive for each weekday night + two drives that rotate every other weekend for the full BE jobs...then we take the drive home the next day. These jobs NEVER succeed...never.
Is it a viable solution to do a FULL Veeam backup of all vms to our huge Buffalo drive array or to another SAN or location on the same SAN, then copy those full backup files to the weekend eSATA drive? Then, every night, Veeam will do its DIFF backup to the Buffalo/SAN, and those diff backup files can be copied to the day's eSATA drive? How would a restore work with the Veeam files in at least two different locations? How do block level backup and deduplication factor into our situation?
Our main thing here is that we'd like to take the backups offsite with us every night. We don't have a hardened server room.
Thanks for any help.
Gary