Hi
We have recently purchased some data domain boxes but no proper thought has gone behind the design of backup exec environment and I've been handed the job after the decisions to buy have een made.
Currently we have standalone backup exec servers (windows 2008 servers and BUE 2012) at all our remote sites which backup to local tape devices. We will replace tape devices at all remote sites with a data domain box.
Backups will be written to a CIFS share on the dd box and then replicated to a central dd box in our main site.
We want to be able to write monthly full backups to tape at our central site from the replicated copy.
The remote backup exec servers cannot see the tape device at our central site.
The question we have is do we need to redesign our environemnt - i.e. move to a CASO environment to be able to drive the duplicate to tape from a backup exec server at our central site (central master server with several remote media/slave servers).
Any simple advise greatly appreciated.
cheers