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Hi,

We are running standard streaming backups (configured in Command Center) for virtual machines. We have 3 backup copy destinations for virtual machines:

  • primary site - disks
  • primary site - tapes (monthly fulls) - extended retention
  • secondary site - disks

We would like to configure and run Disaster Recovery and Replication jobs for some of our protected virtual machines to replicate them from primary site and create replica in secondary site. We would like to run this as periodic(daily) replication with VM - hot site type.

What is a best practice in scenario, where we need traditional backup and also replica in secondary site? Only DR and replication jobs with longer retention or coexistence of backup and DR and replication jobs in the same time?

 

regards,

Przemek

Hard to say as it depends on what you want to achieve. Typically I’d recommend short term retention for your DR copy - you are more than likely just wanting to boot the latest working copy of the machine in a disaster. You could keep a couple of recovery points around in case you replicated something bad and need to boot a slightly older replica.

Hi Damian,

I think most important question for me is:

Should I run traditional backup job for VMs which has DR jobs configured?

 

regards,

Przemek

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