Looking for an in-house cloud backup software / hardware

[johnny77]

We have a single file server running Windows 2008 / Exchange 2010 / Backup Exec 2010. Currently, we are backing up to external USB hard drives and is working well. We would like to look at creating some redundancy with the current network and am not sure which way we should go with this. VMware would have been a good fit but we've purchase the new hardware a year ago and now and don't have the budget to move to VMware. We do have the budget for another server though.

Has anyone got some suggestions to create a redundant system so that we can keep our main system up and running with some sort of fail over which would be instantaneous?

[pkh · Accepted solution]

You would not be able to get instanteous fail-over with BE.  It is not designed for this.  You can look at SDR/IDR which will help you recover your server in an automated way.

You said that you are using BE 2010, but you have tagged your discussion as BE 2012.  SDR is for BE 2012 and IDR is for BE 2010