Re: Preferred backup strategy for virtualized SBS 2008?
- From: Mesan <935main@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 12:45:10 -0700 (PDT)
On May 23, 3:05 pm, "Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]"
<crisnospamha...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Strongly suggest you post this over in the SBS 2008 NG
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"Mesan" <935m...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:d1cd43bb-7bbe-4759-ab2c-9e48a5c66773@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm sure I'm not the only one that really likes the idea of putting
both SBS 2008 Premium servers on one box, and therefore I'll bet I'm
not tho only one wondering what the best way to handle backup rotation
and off-site backup would be.
I'm turning our old server into a Windows Home Server, and I'll be
having the new SBS and WS2008 back up to it, along with up to 8 of our
key workstations.
Because of how difficult it is to get a USB drive hooked up through
Hyper-V to the SBS host, I'm tempted to just have 1 drive permenantly
hooked up to SBS so the native SBS backup can run (and therefore clear
out the exchange logs and keep things happy). That would mean there's
1 backup on the attached USB hard drive, as well as a history of
backups on the Windows Home Server.
That doesn't cover off-site backup though. For off-site backup I was
thinking of using TrueCrypt in "traveler mode" to set up a USB drive
that, when you plug it in, automatically prompts for the password to
decrypt the drive. An employee would plug that in to one of their
personal workstations and mount the TrueCrypt volume. I'd then have
them double-click on a script that would share the newly created drive
on the network. Then they'd open up the Windows Home Server console,
and using the WHS BDBB add-in copy the WHS Backup Database over the
network onto their newly-shared truecrypt-encrypted drive. After the
Backup Database has been copied over, the employee would close the WHS
Console, dismount the Truecrypt volume and take the drive off-site.
Would that work? It's obviously more complex than "take the tape
drive home and put the next tape in", but since SBS is running on top
of Hyper-V it's kind of difficult.
What other methods do you guys have to manage backup and off-site
backup storage?
In what ways can my proposed backup plan be improved?
Are there established best practices in the SBS2008 community that I'm
not aware of for backup up virtualized servers?
Where is that? This has been the newsgroup I've used faithfully for
years. There's a new one?
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