backup and disaster recovery planning on a budget

8/13/2019 Backup and Disaster Recovery Planning on a Budget

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Backup and Disaster RecoveryPlanning On a Budget

Presented by: Najam Saeed

Lisa Ulrich


2/19

Aging Backup System

Symantec Backup Exec 11

Hardware

Dell PowerEdge2950

Overland REO9000 7.4TB

Overland REO4000 4TB

LTO3 Tape


3/19

Why do We Need to Upgrade?

Needs Not Being Met

Running out of space

Unable to keep previous job

Takes too long to backup orrestore - slow

Small storage capacity on tapes -400gb

LTO3 transfer rate is slow 80-

140 mb/s

Hardware Issues

LTO3 Tape drive starting to fail

Hardware warranties running out

High cost of warranties

Other Factors

Storage demands keep increasing

More servers and data beingadded continuously

Decreased retention period

Backup jobs overlapping

VTL technology is out of date


4/19

Plan to Start Upgrade

1 Received Funding from Tech Fee for $50,000

2 Researched to see what options were available

3 Scheduled Demos and Meetings

4

Shortlisted to 5 solutions

FalconStor, Symantec, CommVault, NetApp, Evault


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Questions we asked solution providers

What are the products/features that your company has in Storage Solution such as

deduplication, Email Archives, CDP, System Recovery, Disaster Recovery, High Availability,..

along with the product name?

Do we need to purchase the agents for each server that we want to backup the data? If not,

does it licenses based on the amount of data that we want to backup?

What is the differences between your product and FalconStor or Symantec?

What is needed to send backups to another location?

What backup software is used by each solution? ex: netbackup, backup exec or it has its own

proprietary software

How does deduplication feature help us reducing the backup time?


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Questions we asked solution providers Cont.

Which solutions are utilizing deduplication?

If the solution does not support deduplication then what compression does it have if any?

Do you have tape backup system in your solution?

If so, what is the appliance, and the backup agent & how do they work?

What are the future growth options?

What are the server requirements for each solution and how many?

What do we need to do to implement this project faster?


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Pros Cons

Cloud BackupEVault

CommvaultWith

QuantumNetApp Symantec

Continuous

Data Protection

Appliance is

doing

Deduplication

SOLUTION

SELLING

Pros

Uses Backend

Deduplication

They provide

redundancy

You are not

responsible for

hardware

Remote

Disaster

Recovery - lets

your servers

run from Evault

in a disaster

Can revert to

file versions

that were

weeks or even

months in the

past

Continuous

Data Protection

Server is doing

Deduplication

Appliance can

run as your

server in a

disaster

Easy migration

No setup

charge

Server is doing

Deduplication

Continuity in

back ups when

migrating

All hardware is

by the same

vendor

Falconstor

Continuous Data

Protection

Appliance is

doing

Deduplication

Backups go

directly to an

appliance

Can boot and

restore a VM to

any snapshot

Appliance can

run as your

server in a

disaster


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Pros Cons

Cloud BackupEVault

CommvaultWith

Quantum

NetAppWith

SyncSort

Symantec

Includes multiple

vendors in the solution

- This adds to cost

- Makes warranty and

troubleshooting

more complex

Would still need a

server and Symantec

license to backup to

tape

SOLUTION

SELLING

ConsAll Data has to be

sent via internet

causing long

backup and restore

windows.

Per GB cost adds

up to A LOT!!Would have to

send initial data on

an external hard

drive due to the

large amount.

Initial uploads will

take long time and

additional cost.

Can only upgrade

by purchasing an

additional

appliance

Software and

licensing are

costly

Can not run as

your server in a

disaster

Can not boot

VM to snapshot

for restore

Falconstor

Can only

upgrade by

purchasing an

additional

appliance

Would still need

a server andSymantec license

to backup to

tape

Costly warranty

needs to be

purchased for

appliance, LTO5

and expansion

unit


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10/19

Met with each companys sales team to learn about thebackup solution.

Several in depth discussions with data calculations, andreview of our environment with each solution provider.

Attended live demo or webinar of each solution provider.Each vendor designed a customized solution for ourenvironment .


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Selection Criteria

CO$T A Major Factor

Performance

Knowledge Transfer

Migration & Setup

Upgradeability

After Sales Support/Warranties


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FalconStore

Affordable

GreatSolution

High

UpgradeCost

High YearlyWarranty

NetApp

GreatSolution

Extremely

Expensive

CommVault

Quantum

SolutionConsisted

of 3Vendors

Each

Vendorneeds

Warranty

Cloud

ExtremelyExpensive

Charged byData Stored


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Company

LOGO Finally, Why Symantec

Has all the features we needed including Deduplication

Bought LTO5 tape drive and PowerVault 24 Tb SAN from Dell

Easy Migration and Setup we did it ourselves

No Knowledge Transfer Needed

Easily Upgradeable & future expansion

Came with 3/5 year Warranty

All for less than our budgeted $50,000


14/19

Implementation

We setup new system in conjunction with ourold system.

All jobs were recreated on the new system

Both servers ran simultaneously for the first 2month

We maintained continuity until all backups were

migrated to the new system Moved REO 9000 to DR site for offsite backup


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16/19

SAN: 24 TB RAW, 18.1 TB Usable, 9.3 TB Used

Deduplication

Took 6 to 8 weeks for dedup to stabilize; size of the backup reduced

gradually

Took a month for backup windows to shrink (due to reduced size)

LTO5 - Amazingly Faster504GB per hour

Backup Window much smaller, do not overlap, do not need to delete

old backups

Some features of backup are automated e.g. Retention period and

reuse of media

Storage 2800 Gb now takes 2 hours vs 24 hours, less space also

Restore is also very fast when needed


17/19

Upgrade @ DR LocationSince the implementation of new back up system the

warranty expired on the REO 9000.We replaced this with a the exact same Dell SAN as ourmain campus.

Warranty renewal for 1 year on the REO 9000 was $4,500

whereas a new Dell SAN with 5 yr warranty was $8,500It was easily installed and added and additional 24Tbraw storage .


18/19

Things Learned AboutDeduplication

You will gain space over time usingdeduplication

The deduplication calculators from vendorsshowed we needed less space than what weREALLY needed.

You do not regain a lot of space by deleting a

deduplicated backup job. Purchase as much storage as you can afford.


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