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I am in the process of planning a Hyper-V deployment with SCVMM 2008 R2. I have several VMs on VMWare Player (temporary solution) for stuff like Sharepoint 2007, 2010, and a couple of other server apps.

I want to develop a resilient backup plan for this. On the software side, Data Protection Manager 2010 will support all of the server apps I run (sQL Server 2008 R2, Sharepoint, Exchange, etc). But on the hardware side (storage), what is the best way to go? Drobo seems to have issues with Hyper-V juding by a few threads on here and doesn't support DPM 2010 (which is in beta anyway) but not even the 2007 version (see http://www.drobo.com/support/best_practices.php).

What storage device would work well? Do I need a home server or just an external usb drive? Capacity wise, 2tb will probably be best so I can have a small archive and implement a round-robin system.

Thanks

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DPM 2007 doesn't support backing up to external/removable devices.

How many servers do you need to backup, it sounds like only a couple? Have you thought about using Windows Server Backup, instructions on how to register see this video - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/dd775213.aspx

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  • There is actually a 3rd party product which allows backups to external devices.
    – GurdeepS
    Mar 5, 2010 at 21:14
  • Hi Blade, do you have any details on the 3rd party product that allows you to push DPM backups to external devices? Mar 9, 2010 at 12:19
  • Also, you can connect to a Drobo, as long as it's over iSCSI. DPM doesn't allow backup to removable drives, but I've used DPM and a DroboPro before. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for larger shops, but for backups you might be okay. Buy smaller drives and more of them to get more speed out of it. Aug 20, 2010 at 23:07

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