Client had 7 offices each connected via a T1. Each office had a Windows 2003 server with nightly backups via tape. Each system had roughly 100 Gigabyes of data to backup. Existing issues were that complete automation was impossible because individual office managers had to replace tapes, recovery was slow and required searching individual  tapes for the correct data, and the high cost of gigabyte tapes.

Incremental full VM backups from running systems. 

Setup scripts to increment through all VMWARE VMS that needed to be backed up and sent to NFS share attached to removable hot-swap (USB attached) spinning disk media.

Setup 7 day rotation and monthly backup schedule to allow full backups and to have quick and easy removal/replacement of media for offsite storage of complete daily snapshots of VMs.