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Hi there,
I have been researching a backup solution for our company and I would appreciate any comments/advice others might have on my situation.

1. Our company has two sites about 1/2 hour apart from each other. Each site has cable internet service with 16 Mbps download and 2 Mbps upload.

2. Site 1 has approximately 10 clients drawing data from a new Windows 2008 server 5-drive raid configuration (approx 2 TB of storage). The server holds data only (NO Exchange Server or database programs). Critical data currently amounts to about 250 GB. Client favourites, MyDocuments, Desktop info is stored on server so clients don't require backing up.

3. Site 2 has data centralized on a NAS drive (mirrored) with 2 TB capacity (current data load is 75 GB).

Hardware Question: I realize Acronis cannot answer this question but perhaps an end user might. My research indicates that Synology and DNAP are two of the better NAS devices for backups. Would any end user have some real word comments/advice?

My Proposal
I would like to use (2) NAS Raid units for our backups (1 at Site 1 and the other at Site 2)
Using Acronis
1. Backup Site 2 to a NAS Raid unit on Site 1 through our VPN.
2. Image the Server at Site 1 to the NAS Raid unit on Site 1.
3. Then clone the NAS Raid unit on Site 1 to the other NAS Raid unit on site 2.
4. Optionally backup the NAS Raid unit on Site 1 to the cloud.

This would give us two complete backup ups at separate sites and possible the cloud as a third (optional) backup.

IMPORTANT! - We need to EASILY restore single files as far back as 1 year.

Question to Acronis and others:
What capacity hardware would you recommend?
What Acronis licenses would I need?

Thank you in advance for your replies.
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Phillip

Wed, 01/22/2014 - 14:05
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1. If data on Site 2 NAS is accessible to from site 1 you can use the same agent as in 2).
2. License for Advanced Server or Server for Windows will be required to install backup agent on the server on Site 1.

Point 3 may be a problem or confusing terminology - 'cloning' in at least Acronis terms is a disk-level operation creating a copy of file system of disk 1 on disk 2. Both disks must be connected to a Windows machine at the moment of cloning. So if the disk is inside NAS it can't be cloned. However you can copy Acronis backup files 'as files' from one NAS to another. Or you can set up 'staging' where backup files will be copied to the NAS at Site 2 by Acronis software too.

File recover is possible from disk and from file backups. To restore single files as far back as 1 year, it's enough to make one copy that will measure 320 GB and forget about it for one year - but it's probably not what you intended to do. If you need to take backups daily, daily incremental backups will reasonably frequent full backups (e.g. every month) will work, but full copy of 250 GB will take about 10 days to be transmitted to other site (2 Mbps upload is 2 megaBits, right? ). If built-in staging capability will be used, all other backups on this agent will be postponed until its completion. Full file backup from Site 2 (75 GB) will block other backups too while it's in progress. Total amount of storage required depends on amount of data that is changed between incremental backups - but you need at least 3.5 TB (if data can't be compressed) for full backups in case of monthly fulls. The longer the chain of incrementals is, the less it is safe.

Wed, 01/22/2014 - 19:07
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Thank you for your reply Fedor,

1. ANSWERED - Yes, data on Site 2 is accessible from Site 1.

2. ANSWERED - Yes, I expected we would require the Server License.

3. Clarity - I would define the backup on Site 1 as the Main Backup.
Site 2 would be a backup of the Main Backup on Site 1. In the event of a catastrophic event on Site 1, we would have a reserve backup at Site 2. Could you recommend how best to implement this?

File Recovery - "... is possible from disk and from file backups". I'm not exactly sure I understand the difference between the two but from the video I watched it seemed like file recovery was pretty easy.

Are full backups each month and incremental adequate or would you recommend weekly full backups?
Can the full backups be transported and copied from Site 1 to Site 2 using a portable drive? Then transmit only the incremental backups over the internet?
Incremental backups would be quite small and easily transmitted. I would expect under 100mb?

Cloud Option - Can we be selective on what gets copied to the cloud?

Thank you again for your assistance and your patience.
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Wed, 01/22/2014 - 23:25
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3 - if you plan to copy full backups to site 2 on physical media (copied from the backup location on site 1) then I'm not sure if it's possible to use built-in staging functionality, as backup meta information may be different for main backup and the second stage, and you will need to copy incremental backups manually too. It must be possible to automate it easily - just copy all files in vault which are newer on site 1 than on site 2.
Disk backup differs from file backup - when backing up data from a local disk, both are possible. Disk backup operates on sector level so it will treat data as new after e.g. disk defragmentation. Backing up data from network share is only possible using file backup.
Monthly full backups seem adequate.
4 - If you select replication to the cloud as the last stage of the backup plan - it's impossible to select what is replicated there (the whole backup will go there) and it will block other backups when it's in progress. Also resuming is not possible - if the process was terminated you start the cloud portion from start. It's possible to use Initial Seeding (available not in all countries) option to transfer full backup to the cloud on a physical media and then do only incrementals - but I'm not sure if it's possible to initial-seed the backup intended to be used as a second stage, not a primary location. Resuming backup to cloud is possible in True Image Home 2014, so if you can expose the data to some network folder on each site and setup a workstation PC to copy it from there - you can set up it independently.

Thu, 01/23/2014 - 07:14
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Building on this discussion, I am wondering if anyone can offer advice on configuring Acronis True Image 2015 to backup to a Synology NAS over the internet. We are a small office (<10 people) and are currently using Acronis TI 2015 to backup our machines onto a NAS that is on our local network. However, we are unable to backup outside of the local network. We need a solution that will allow us to perform offsite backups to the NAS when we are traveling/working remotely.

Can this be achieved via Acronis TI using a VPN?

Thank you,
Dylan

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Hello CSP,

Thank you for your posting. Acronis True Image supports backup to network shares specified via UNC (e.g. \\myNAS\myShare\). More information you can find here.  If share is generally available from the backed up machine, it should work also in Acronis True Image. I would also suggest testing Acronis Backup Advanced.

Thank you,

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