Will Backup & Recovery work for this 25 TB situation?
Hi there, wondering if Acronis Backup & Recovery is the right solution for this...
Here's our issue:
We have a client who has tons of data. About 25 TB of file data. Windows (NTFS). No databases, but the files are hard to deal with... There's tons and tons of small files.
The client is a very small business so their budget it limited.
Questions:
- In the event of a disaster, they need to be able to immediately restore access to 5 TB of data. With traditional archiving, this is impossible because it would take days to de-archive 5TB of data back into a normal file system. Is there some feature in Backup & Recovery that lets you access backup data nearly instantly? Ex: "mount" specific backups instantly onto a virtual drive for intense read/write access? Please send a link to more info if this is possible. I want to emphasize, the idea would be that servers would be rapidly writing thousands of files. (Slowdowns during that situation is fine, but corruption or loss of data is not.) Not sure if this is possible.
- The data is spread out on about 5 Windows servers. If we had one backup server with one license to Backup & Recovery, would that be enough to perform these backups over network shares?
- Just checking, I think they would want the deduplication option. It's expensive for them, but worth it, I think. Just I want to ensure the dedup is stable for these situations of massive amounts of data.
We've been burned with backup software that just can't handle data on the 25 TB level with millions upon millions of small files, so we want to ensure this works for them.
Thanks!
Hmm.. So deduplication isn't right for us then.
Having a license for each server likely won't work with the budget. We're unconcerned about the OS. We just need to access the files rapidly since all the OS does is run FTP software for automated processes.
We also use QNAPs for the storage of these files and access them over shares or iSCSI.
The setup, simplified, is:
- Many mission critical FTP servers with a total of 25 TB of data. The FTP servers store on external storage via shares or iSCSI (ex: rackmount QNAP NAS devices). Partitions are often 5 TB in size.
- One backup server, which is attached to many QNAPs to store all the 25 TB.
What we want to do:
- If an FTP server's disks lose data, [forget OS issues, that's rare] we (1) instantly mount the ~5 TB files backup image on the backup server and (2) connect it to the affected FTP server using a network share for read/write access.
- If the OS of an FTP server fails, its a basic system, so we'd just use VMware to create a new VM with the FTP software, and point it to the FTP data. (In other words, we aren't very concerned about OS data, just disk files.)
The main thing we want to do is this:
- Back up 25 TB of files (not OS) FROM: a variety of local and network locations TO: QNAP NAS devices. We want to keep 30 days of backup copies and mount those daily snapshots within minutes in the event of failure.
Ideally, we could mount snapshots on the QNAP NAS. But if that's not possible, it might be possible to mount it on local drives. BUT the source of the backed up data would be the QNAP.