Comments on: backing up across subnets http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/backing-up-across-subnets/ Sat, 25 May 2013 15:46:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: wrobinson http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/backing-up-across-subnets/#comment-50693 wrobinson Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:27:26 +0000 #comment-50693 Something that I forgot to point out is if you consolidate the backups, you must also think through how doing so will impact your backup window. Backing up a lot of data, especially across a WAN will take time.

]]> By: wrobinson http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/backing-up-across-subnets/#comment-50692 wrobinson Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:26:45 +0000 #comment-50692 So long as the backup host can reach the backup targets — that is the subnets are routable, then this should not pose an issue. Like our friend ESPETTIT suggests, check and watch your WAN throughput.

I assume that the backup solution that you intend to use has the capacity to backup all of the target servers.

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