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Hello all,
I am hoping I can leverage some of your expertise to get some ideas for a solution for our company backup solution. We are a managed services company and so the setup below is duplicated many times over.
Current Setup
We currently use image based backups (Servers & Desktops) and shoot them over to a 6-Bay NAS Appliance (2x2TB Disks in RAID 1). Add more sets depending on the amount of backup data there is. We then have a script that runs that copies all changed data to another single disk 2TB NAS for daily swaps. Every 30-90 days we will also swap out one of the disks of the NAS Appliance for long term offsite backup.
Challenges
-Size of the disks we can use is 2TB as currently the daily swaps have just has enough time to finish when performing a full copy. This is a speed limitation of the single disk NAS.
-The script does not provide any visibility other than email however this is not scalable and can be missed.
-No NAS vendor I have seen offers a central dashboard for management or visibility of the appliance. (SMART status, alerts, RAID status etc.)
Needs
-Larger drive capacities 3-4TB and beyond
-Ability to see the status of the NAS Appliances in a single pane of glass and vital stats
-Remove the script for the daily or greatly improve it for ease of visibility
-Have a NAS appliance that has 8-12 disks.
-Daily swaps must keep up with the demand full copy in less than 12 hours. Should be able to maintain 100MB/sec+.
I have been thinking of ways to accomplish many of the tasks. Like creating a web service that the script can update to for each site. So one single view would give you a snapshot of the daily backups. To using a 3 disk RAID 1 set and have one of the drives as a daily instead of using the script entirely. Using SNMP from the NAS appliances to poll into a central dashboard. The latest idea was using SuperMicro 10-12 bay servers as the NAS appliance and running Windows Server so I can then run an agent like Labtech on each one to pull into a custom dashboard.
Anyway any suggestions would be great. However the one thing we can't do is use tapes in this setup. Thanks in advance!
I am hoping I can leverage some of your expertise to get some ideas for a solution for our company backup solution. We are a managed services company and so the setup below is duplicated many times over.
Current Setup
We currently use image based backups (Servers & Desktops) and shoot them over to a 6-Bay NAS Appliance (2x2TB Disks in RAID 1). Add more sets depending on the amount of backup data there is. We then have a script that runs that copies all changed data to another single disk 2TB NAS for daily swaps. Every 30-90 days we will also swap out one of the disks of the NAS Appliance for long term offsite backup.
Challenges
-Size of the disks we can use is 2TB as currently the daily swaps have just has enough time to finish when performing a full copy. This is a speed limitation of the single disk NAS.
-The script does not provide any visibility other than email however this is not scalable and can be missed.
-No NAS vendor I have seen offers a central dashboard for management or visibility of the appliance. (SMART status, alerts, RAID status etc.)
Needs
-Larger drive capacities 3-4TB and beyond
-Ability to see the status of the NAS Appliances in a single pane of glass and vital stats
-Remove the script for the daily or greatly improve it for ease of visibility
-Have a NAS appliance that has 8-12 disks.
-Daily swaps must keep up with the demand full copy in less than 12 hours. Should be able to maintain 100MB/sec+.
I have been thinking of ways to accomplish many of the tasks. Like creating a web service that the script can update to for each site. So one single view would give you a snapshot of the daily backups. To using a 3 disk RAID 1 set and have one of the drives as a daily instead of using the script entirely. Using SNMP from the NAS appliances to poll into a central dashboard. The latest idea was using SuperMicro 10-12 bay servers as the NAS appliance and running Windows Server so I can then run an agent like Labtech on each one to pull into a custom dashboard.
Anyway any suggestions would be great. However the one thing we can't do is use tapes in this setup. Thanks in advance!