Pro Data Backup and Recovery

CHAPTER 9 ■ PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: SAMPLE BACKUP ENVIRONMENTS

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Remote Office Wrap-Up

The RO environment poses differing challenges and design elements as the overall environment grows.

In the RO environment, it is a decision between maintaining infrastructure (deployment of media

writers/targets) and purchasing services (BaaS). When moving to larger environments, such as the RS

and RDC, efficiencies and issues of scale must be considered for all aspects of the backup environment:

servers, network, and storage. The growth of backups into environments requires a complex calculus of

balancing the needs of the backup versus the capabilities of the clients, which has no one way in which

to work. But there are common threads to observe and ...