so I have two exchange 2013 servers in a DAG group at a single site, being backed up daily to tape using backup exec 2014.
backup exec backs up from the passive database.
so here is the change. we are moving the 2nd exchange server to a DR site. currently the DR site does NOT have tape drive system, just the main site. so although I would ordinarily make the DR site the passive server, that might not be my best option due to backups.
it is a 50 MB want connection between the two sites, and this would slow the backups down to a crawl.
so my question is this, should I make the exchange server at the main site to be the passive copy, so backup exec 2014 backs up from that server, or should I just change the backup exec settings so that it backs up from the active server?
eventually we will have tape drives at the DR site, but not sure how soon that will happen