Here's my plan - we have two offices that are physically separate (about 60 miles apart). We have a 3mbps vlan link between them over our ISP's network (Not a VPN, it's entirely within their network).
I would like to set up a NAS (or some other form of storage) in office 2 to backup our servers which are at office 1. The intent is to use Windows Server Backup to use this as a destination and do away with tape backups.
I would want to be able to attach to this offsite storage as a drive vs. as a network drive so that WSB can backup to it as a "drive" vs. as a network store. When WSB backs up to a drive it can do versioning while on a network share it just overwrites.
That brings me to the two main options I'm seeing:
1. use iSCSI to connect to a NAS
2. Make a VHD file that's stored on an NTFS formatted server in office 2 and attach to it
Am I better off getting a NAS that supports iSCSI and attach to that, or set up a small windows server that has NTFS formatted hard drives using an SMB share and put a VHD on there which I would attach to?
I'm not familiar with iSCSI at all. Would it suit my needs? I know that the VHD on an NTFS share does work, I've been testing with it already.
Thanks
I would like to set up a NAS (or some other form of storage) in office 2 to backup our servers which are at office 1. The intent is to use Windows Server Backup to use this as a destination and do away with tape backups.
I would want to be able to attach to this offsite storage as a drive vs. as a network drive so that WSB can backup to it as a "drive" vs. as a network store. When WSB backs up to a drive it can do versioning while on a network share it just overwrites.
That brings me to the two main options I'm seeing:
1. use iSCSI to connect to a NAS
2. Make a VHD file that's stored on an NTFS formatted server in office 2 and attach to it
Am I better off getting a NAS that supports iSCSI and attach to that, or set up a small windows server that has NTFS formatted hard drives using an SMB share and put a VHD on there which I would attach to?
I'm not familiar with iSCSI at all. Would it suit my needs? I know that the VHD on an NTFS share does work, I've been testing with it already.
Thanks
