A physically separate backup network is a good idea when you need to avoid flooding the public/production network with backup data. However, with deduplication and such technologies nowadays, the amount of backup data that actually gets pushed over a network has reduced a lot, plus networks are a lot faster now than they used to be, so a separate network no longer has the same advantage. Plus it doubles the amount of physical infrastructure (cables and such) and complicates network management.
SurajPujari
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August 9th, 2018 10:00
I have seen people segregating network to avoid slowness on their critical server, whats your big reason for aggregating them.
Bit confused with physically separate network for Backup.
brastedd
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August 9th, 2018 11:00
A physically separate backup network is a good idea when you need to avoid flooding the public/production network with backup data. However, with deduplication and such technologies nowadays, the amount of backup data that actually gets pushed over a network has reduced a lot, plus networks are a lot faster now than they used to be, so a separate network no longer has the same advantage. Plus it doubles the amount of physical infrastructure (cables and such) and complicates network management.