Thanks in advance to everyone for any assistance with this. Does anyone know if there would be any worthwhile benefits to using it? Of course the simpler the setup the better so I'm thinking it's best not to use this unless there is a real benefit. I have a QNAP TS-221 that I was originally going to setup for the off site backups but since l learned I need a Veeam proxy at the remote site I have switched to the server, so I was thinking I could use the QNAP with an iSCSI link to the server instead of direct storage, I'm not sure if this would be better, worse or make no difference. Will I be able to run Veeam on this box using the local drives for the repository along with it being the AD?Ĥ. The offsite server is a Physical 2008 R2 Standard (64-Bit) Dual Xeon box with 4GB RAM, 2x 500GB RAID 1 for OS and 2x 2TB RAID 1 for the Backup Repository. I know there are some ReIP functions in Veeam, but there's also some DNS issues that would have to be addressed if the off site server is on a different subnet.ģ. I assume I would I use a VPN between the office and the off site server, would the off site server be on the same subnet as the office or would it have its own? This DC would just be offsite on stand by to handle the VM's being started if our office was gone, so I don't know if it should be considered a seperate 'Site'.Ģ. Do I add the domain controller to the the existing domain or create a new domain in the existing forest? My knowledge is limited on all these things and it seems the more I investigate what to do the more little things I find out that I need.Īt this point I have built a Windows 2008 R2 Server and have begun the AD setup, which brings me to my questions:ġ. We currently have 3 VMWare ESXi Hosts (2 run our Windows Production Servers and the 3rd is running vCenter and Veeam 8.0)įrom watching videos and reading different posts it seems the best way would be to have another AD/DC at the remote site along with Veeam for a local proxy. The goal being that if the office burned down or something then we could rebuild from the backups at a new location, and of course this would need to happen as quick as possible. My boss has asked me to have our Veeam backups go off site (to his house), so I've been trying to figure out the best way to do this.

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