I am looking to move away from tape as the initial backup, I am looking to backup to Disk and then backup up to tape. We currently have an HP Storage Works SAN attached to multiple servers via fiber. We also have a CAS server and 6 media servers which are all plugged into the SAN, this enables these servers to backup directly over fiber.
When adding in disk based backups, should each media server be given a its own local drive on the SAN to backup to, or is there a way to create a shared storage drive off of the CAS server.
Any thoughts on this or current examples would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Dennis