Greetings,
I'm currently testing Backup Exec 2012 with an Equallogic infrastructure. I have a production EQL shelf and an offsite DR EQL shelf that all volumes are replicating to. The Backup Exec server and it's tape library are located in the DR location along with the DR EQL shelf.
Currently I've only been able to find solutions that involve backing up volumes from the production EQL shelf. I would like to leverage the EQL replicas and backup all volume replicas each night to tape on the DR side. Is this possible to do straight from DR EQL to the DR BackupExec server? Is there a way I can automate bringing the replicas online and backing them up to tape? Since the data on these EQL volumes is all VMFS datastores, how would I get the replicas to a state where BackupExec can read the data and archive them to tape?
Also, are there any other helpful features that Backup Exec offers that could improve the performance of these backups, or improve the restore capabilities of these backups?
I have a WAN link between the sites, but I would prefer to NOT have to backup all data from the production side, as these backups would probably saturate the WAN link.
Any assistance or ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark