Hi, hoping someone can help me out.
I am running BackupExec 2012 and am in the process of refining our SQL backups. I have progressed to the point where I have a full backup running once a week, a daily incremental (differential) running every night, and an hourly incremental log backup running. This, as i understand is the ideal scenario for backing up SQL data. I have approx 1.1TB across about 10 DB's.
The issue that i have, which i'm not sure if there is a way around, is the length of time my full backup takes. It's backing up to a SAN volume and takes around 20 hours to complete including verification. It averages around 3,600MB/min (60MB/sec) which isn't fantastic over 1Gb network but i'm happy with that speed for now. My concern is that whilst the full backup is running, the incremental logs backups are not. The idea of the log backups being i can restore to any given time within the space of an hour in the event of failure. As the full backup takes apporx 20 hours, and this will likely only increase over time, i effectively have a 24 hour period of potential data loss should something happen.