I have been doing some reading.. We are on the basic VMware Esxi 5, I have been trying to work out a test back up strategy
we have the following servers up:
All are on Server 2008 R2 64bit, except 2 open vpn and win7
Exchange 2010
File Server
DC
OpenVPN access appliance
BES
Sharepoint
DPM
Win7 vmw
we are trying out DPM.. but do not have umteeen amounts of storage on the local hosts, working on geting a NAS In the pic in the next few weeks.
the only full proof... entirly free strategy that i can think of is using windows back up to a network share.. (full machine back up)
then use DPM to do a long term tape write.
any feedback would be great