Hi,
I am trying to solve a remote backup issue and I need some help. We have a fileserver that needs to be backed up on site and have another backup offsite. Our onsite solution is currently covered by Backup Exec 2012 and works fine but sending our current job over WAN is too costly in resources. Therefore, we purchased Enterprise Server Option for the Synthetic backup thinking that we would only need to have an initial full backup then only incrementals thereafter. However, we did not know that the Synthetic full backup happens in memory of the media server then sends the full back over putting us back to square one. My objectives are not to spend more than I have to and have a current full backup offsite using the least amount of network resources as possible.
From what I can tell, I see two solutions:
1) Have the media server offsite on the remote unit pulling over incrementals and doing a full Synthetic backup offsite. Buy another Backup Exec 2012 license for the onsite backups.
2) Buy the deduplication option and have the backups deduplicated offsite (because from what I understand there is optimization in deduplication that will only send over the differential information to the remote storage unit).
I am considering the first option as best because it will be less expensive to buy another BE2012 license than a Deduplication Option license.
Should I go the first, second, or an unmentioned third route?
Thank you for your time.
