I'm looking for some input on what would be considered "best practice" in terms of setting up backups from BackupExec v12.5 so that they go first of all to our SAN and then we take a 2nd copy offsite via USB HDDs.
As things stand currently, the server that runs BackupExec is not connected directly to the SAN. So I am thinking of setting up a completely new install of backupExec v12.5 on a different server, one that is physically connected to the SAN. I assume that we can then run "Backup To Disk" to a folder on the SAN.
My question is really more about how to get a 2nd copy of the backup on to the USB drives, so that we can store offsite. In reading this forum, it looks like its recommended that we run a 2nd set of backups in order to achieve this. However I am confused about this, as there are going to be a couple of dozen different physical USB HDDs in use. Do I need a separate backup-to-disk folder for each physical USB HDD?
If so, this seems to be really, really clunky. In an ideal world I would configure one (1) backup-to-disk folder on the SAN, then just use a batch script to replicate that data off to the USB HDDs. But I suspect this is not what I should do.
One further complication: in order to meet disaster recovery requirements, I will need to have the ability to recover all my data direct from the USB HDDs in our Disaster Recovery site, from a different server that will only have a clean install of BackupExec v12.5 on it, so I need to be confident that I can grab the most recent USB HDD, connect it to that server, catalog the disk, and recover.
Can anyone shed any light on best practice to suit this scenario?