- with disk based backups (going to dedupe disk storage), how often to do do full backups?
Regardless of the target media, you should do full backups as often as possible because when you do a restore from incremental backups, you need to restore the last full backup and ALL the incremental backups since then. This can take a long time.
- Is it possible to do reverse incremental?
No. BE does not have reverse incremental.
- How do you create the job in BUE...is it backup, tape, duplicate?
It can be all the above. It depends on your need. Of course, to have a duplicate job, you first need to have a backup job to either tape or disk.
- Do you tend to create individual backup jobs for each server, or group them?
Again it depends on your need. Having individual jobs means more work scheduling them, but they are easier to rerun when one of them fails. When a job backs up multiple servers and one of them fails, then the entire job fails.
- If doing full backups, do you alternate the days that each of the above servers completes its full backup?
It depends on your backup window. If your backup window allows you to do your full backup in one day, why not do them in one day.
- For VMware servers, do you prefer to use the agent and if so, why?
You need to install the remote agent in the VM, if you want GRT restore for applications like Exchange, SQL Server databases, etc.
