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liuyang
Level 6
13 years ago

Back up servers in DMZ

HI, our master and media servers are NBU 7.1 on Windows 2008 R2. We have a few web servers which are in DMZ. My question is: is there a safe way to back up servers in DMZ? What are the best practice?...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    13 years ago

    TCP/IP need port connectivity to function. Two choices:

    1. Open ports to get backups working. Open ports between server and client only.
    2. Add total separate backup infrastructure for DMZ - separate master/media server with own backup devices to backup DMZ clients.
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Will_Restore
Level 6
13 years ago

... Are there any recommendations for this?

 

Pretty much the same as for your web services: allow only trusted IPs to use known TCP ports. 

Marianne's 'two choices' post from Oct 31 lays out the options.