Pro Data Backup and Recovery

CHAPTER 9 ■ PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: SAMPLE BACKUP ENVIRONMENTS

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While this can be somewhat alleviated through clustering and protecting the backup server in other

ways, the net effect is that an outage by a single central server ingests an adverse situation that is not

acceptable to the organization. The continued expansion of the backup environment to support more

and more clients with a reliance on a single server, even with a modicum of protection offered by

clustering and WAN redundancy, will render the central solution unacceptable.

The centralized management of backups is the preferred configuration. However, centralization

simply for its own sake or to maintain a single model for the environment will produce environments at

a larger ...