Backup remote host to host's USB drive
Found an answer to this question, but since the post was from 2009, I thought I'd check to see if the answer is still the same:
I have two sites: site A and site B. Backup Exec 16 is installed at site A, our main datacenter. One server (a host) is setup at site B. Sites A and B are connected via a site-to-site VPN tunnel, which runs fairly slow. I'd like to backup the host at site B with Backup Exec, but I want the host at site B to backup to a USB drive it is directly connected to. Essentially, I want data to flow from host->USB drive. I don't want data to flow from host (site B)->backup exec (site A)->host (site B)->USB drive.
Is this deployment possible with only 1 backup exec server sitting at site A? If not, does anyone have any other alternative suggestions?
Backup Exec writes to media connected to the Backup Exec server - so you need to make the host at Site B into a BE server - if you want to control the jobs frmo the BE srever at site A you could use a CASO setup to manage Site B. (as long as your WAN links are persistent and reliable)