Using a ReadyNAS 3200 for offsite backup.

Many thanks for your reply mdgm.

I note and agree with your comments about a warranteed device.  However in the first instance (for many obvious reasons: School, limited budget) I haven't really got that option.  That's not to say that this will be the case in the future, if I can prove this technology to be sound enough to invest in.  Of course this will mean that it will need to do what we are looking for it to do.

The environment that I am looking to use it in is a Hyper-V virtualised setup.  There are multiple VM's running Windows Server 2008 & 2012.  Of these server there is one MS SQL server, one File Server and one Exchange Server.  I will need to backup all live databases from the SQL server, all user data on the File server and all user email data on the Exchange server ( at mailbox, or database level, or both ).  I could backup complete VM's if easier, but this would increase backup sizes.

I was hoping that the ReadyNAS came bundled with agent software that would run on either the VM's OS, or indeed on the VH's OS.

I am currently using another vendors products to do exactly as you suggest and backup to a site device, which then trickles the data to a second offsite device.  These devices lack capacity though and will shortly be outgrown.

Kind regards,