hi,
We are using Microsoft System Center DPM 2012 to back up about 30 servers. About 5 servers are physical and 25 are virtual machines. Of the virtual machines 10 are SQL boxes and about 5 are SharePoint boxes. The rest are much smaller boxes. We have plenty of storage to perform the backups but not all the backups get done every night. Some backups are also pushed back several hours compared to their backup start time.
Our protection groups are laid out in production, development, clients and two other misc groups with smaller servers. The production, development and clients protection groups are made up of all the SQL and SharePoint VMs. The hard drive sizes of the SQL and SharePoint boxes is on average 130 GBs to 250 GBs.
Our current backup strategy is Bare Metal Recovery, System State, C drive backups and SQL database for all servers that apply. We have been experiementing with Hyper V backups because we have 3 Hyper V servers that run the VMs.
Can anyone suggest a backup plan for a Virtualization/Hyper V environment?
Are the Hyper V backups much better than bare metal recovery/system state backups for our VMs and why?
Is our 30 servers too much for one DPM server? I have express full backups and recovery points going every night. Should I limit the number of express full backups a night?
thanks
Michael