I just got brought on with a small company with two locations. They're using SQL 2008 for their primary application, and it's a biggun, between 250-300 gigs. Right now their awful backup solution is to do a nightly backup through SQL Manager onto an external USB drive. Because of this, they only have 2-3 days worth of backup at any given time, and it's obviously on-site only.
I want to get in a NAS and connect it to the server as an iSCSI device for better backups, and I want to get a NAS in the second location to mirror the first NAS to on a nightly basis. The difficulty I now face is that they're using Comcast, so the Internet connection is only around 20 megabits, and every time SQL Manager does a backup it plops a 300 gig file on the drive, which would take a small eternity to send offsite. Incremental backups are only a temporary band-aid as full backups would still be required eventually.
Is there a better way to get a database replicated offsite for disaster recovery? I've been considering setting up a schedule to take the database offline at night and back up the entire server with Windows Server Backup, which ought to result in smaller nightly data transmission. The business is just 9-5, so there's no need to have the database online 24/7.