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Re: Removable backup targets ... or is that too old-school?

25660 — 2012-05-20T23:05:58-05:00

dtbullock wrote:[merged]

This is a pre-sales question. As I understand the Veaam B&R product from the product description, it uses 'Backup Proxies'. I have a small customer who wants to backup a single vSphere server and take the backups offsite (approx 3 x VM's @ 80GB ea). Is there a removable-disk target scenario that's supported by a Veeam backup proxy, or would one use replication here instead? Customer only has 768kbps upstream on their ADSL internet connection.

Apologies if I've misunderstood the whole backup architecture :-O

I have exactly this scenario for many of my customers.

I would like to backup to a NAS drive, which I am guessing is simple enough to setup. However, I would also like to somehow copy my backups that are stored on the NAS to a removable USB drive once a week so that we could take them offsite.

Does anyone have a hardware recommendation...

Statistics : Posted by davidkillingsworth • on Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:55 pm • Replies 52 • Views 6981

Re: Veeam Exchange AIR restore to pst , to onother user

5133 — 2012-05-20T18:41:24-05:00

Honestly, the easiest way to do this is to simply connect to the Exchange server running in the virtual lab with Outlook. Then you can pull out whatever mails you like into a PST by using the export feature.

Statistics : Posted by tsightler • on Sat May 19, 2012 10:28 am • Replies 3 • Views 38

Re: Error "Direct SAN connection not available" multiple dis

2012-05-20T05:26:53-05:00

Sure, just force your backup proxy to using the network mode (or force the job to network mode backup proxy). By the way, in 6.1 failover to network will not result in warning status for the job, so you may as well just wait for 6.1 if these warnings are what troubles you. Thanks!

Statistics : Posted by Gostev • on Sun May 20, 2012 10:23 am • Replies 1 • Views 30

Re: Veeam One Free SMART monitoring

2459 — 2012-05-19T16:45:01-05:00

Hi Darion,

No, we do not monitor SMART hard disks health, however you can use hardware sensors to monitor hardware status of your ESX(i) hosts.

Thanks!

Statistics : Posted by Vitaliy S. • on Sat May 19, 2012 8:01 pm • Replies 1 • Views 24

Re: What is the best way of protecting the Veeam Backup serv

2012-05-19T16:10:37-05:00

jgar wrote:How can this be possible, as I've read a lot of times through the forums that this doesn't work, period?

What you've read is for previous versions. Starting v6 patch 3 and later, this scenario works fine, because the engine no longer communicates with the configuration database during the periods when it might be frozen. Thanks!

Statistics : Posted by Gostev • on Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:38 pm • Replies 45 • Views 7459

Re: Removing Snapshot warning

2012-05-19T16:07:07-05:00

Best is to open a support case with VMware, and ask them to troubleshoot ESXi server logs for when snapshot removal failed. Thanks.

Statistics : Posted by Gostev • on Sat May 19, 2012 3:55 pm • Replies 1 • Views 28

Re: Replication Job and backup job overlaps

2012-05-19T13:00:48-05:00

Bernard - actually, while this scenario would definitely cause problems with B&R v5, it should work absolutely fine in v6. In fact, this was causing our very own IT some problems and v5, which is why addressed it in v6. If you are seeing any issues with this scenario and v6, then please open a support case as we would certainly like to investigate this. Thanks!

Statistics : Posted by Gostev • on Sat May 19, 2012 6:50 am • Replies 3 • Views 57

Re: OVERALL-->MEMORY

2459 — 2012-05-19T09:07:29-05:00

Hi Simon,

You can review your clusters memory usage via our predefined reporting dashboards - VMware Trends, Hosts and Clusters. In addition to this, you can check memory utilization across all clusters at the Memory Tab (Datacenter level) and "Child objects" chart view.

Let me know if that helps!

Statistics : Posted by Vitaliy S. • on Fri May 18, 2012 6:40 pm • Replies 1 • Views 27

Re: Veeam Backup v3 no operating system found after restored

2012-05-19T04:11:27-05:00

Typically, you should use customer support portal at "http://vee.am/support"
Although again, the version you are using is no longer supported, unfortunately.

Statistics : Posted by Gostev • on Fri May 18, 2012 4:10 am • Replies 7 • Views 93

Re: Calculate change rate

2012-05-18T16:03:23-05:00

Oh, so you already have some backups created. This certainly makes everything much easier. Please see here, this should get you started. Thanks!

Statistics : Posted by Gostev • on Fri May 18, 2012 4:39 pm • Replies 3 • Views 59

Re: Direct SAN on one, network on others

2012-05-18T15:58:14-05:00

Thanks for the explanation. Backup repositories is WHERE you are backing up, not FROM WHERE. For backup repository, you should specify a local drive, or NTFS LUN (must be mounted to backup repository server, and assigned letter before you can pick it as destination). However, you should NEVER make VMFS LUN a backup repository, as mounting VMFS LUN in Windows will just corrupt all data there.

As long as VMFS LUN holding the VMs you want to backup is mounted to the backup proxy and can be seen under Windows Disk Management (no need to initialize or assign drive letter), there is nothing else you need to do to enable direct SAN backups. The backup engine will figure out this is the LUN it needs to read from to backup certain VMs on its own.

Hope this answers your question, if not, let me know what else is not clear?

Statistics : Posted by Gostev • on Fri May 18, 2012 12:56 pm • Replies 5 • Views 49

Re: Veeam v6 and StarWind Global Deduplication

2012-05-18T15:07:52-05:00

Tan, you might be better of asking StarWind related questions on their forum, instead of here. At least until this community accumulates enough StarWind knowledge to assist all Veeam users

Statistics : Posted by Gostev • on Thu May 17, 2012 7:25 pm • Replies 10 • Views 231

Re: New replication jobs all fail!!

2012-05-18T15:02:42-05:00

Hi Pierre, from the error it does not looks like you are using v6 replication at all, because it does not use VRB files. It looks like you are still on legacy application engine (v5 jobs), which is about 10-20x slower and less reliable. For best results with replication, I would definitely recommend to re-create jobs and leverage the new v6 proxy architecture with backup proxies in both production and DR site. You can re-use existing replica VMs as seeds (using replica mapping functionality) to avoid full re-sync over WAN. Thanks!

Statistics : Posted by Gostev • on Fri May 18, 2012 6:30 pm • Replies 1 • Views 37

VMware licensing requirements for hotadd

28766 — 2012-05-18T12:26:18-05:00

[merged]

Hello Team,

Can someone please tell me what level of licensing is required to perform a scsi hotadd backup or replication?

Is essentials plus or standard high enough licensing?

Thanks,

Bo

Statistics : Posted by latchyman66 • on Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:02 pm • Replies 12 • Views 706

Re: Job exceeding set restore points

26601 — 2012-05-18T09:47:38-05:00

Thanks Gostev. I will get that process started and post back with any findings.

Statistics : Posted by amacbeth • on Tue May 01, 2012 3:12 pm • Replies 4 • Views 74

Re: Current operation of a backup job

22257 — 2012-05-18T09:19:13-05:00

Just what I was looking for. Thanks Seth.

Statistics : Posted by pizzim13 • on Tue May 15, 2012 6:48 pm • Replies 2 • Views 38

Re: RPC function call failed

15361 — 2012-05-18T08:59:28-05:00

johnlong wrote:Got this error just now. New install, with version 6.0.0.181 64bit server 2008 R2, linux VM. First backup over the WAN. Guess I need to open a support case.
Does this error make the backup invalid?

My problematic VM is a Linux one as well. Last night I noticed log truncation was enabled for this VM - I disabled it and the it was successful. But the failures are very sporadic so it could be a few days before I know if this had any effect.

Statistics : Posted by lobo519 • on Mon Apr 16, 2012 1:23 pm • Replies 15 • Views 480

Re: Jobs freezing

11755 — 2012-05-18T08:09:50-05:00

I have the same problem here with backup jobs freezing at a certain percentage during backup... VM's beeing on snapshot.... I have a ticket open with support ID#5190966

I also have one job that was freezed on "Transforming previous full backup chain into rollbacks" for 31 hours before I noticed it... Don't know if its the same issue causing it as for freezes during backup..but it was frozen.. VIB was "only" 11 GB and normaly transformation for that job completes within 20-30 minutes.

Since this thread is from February... its kind of worrying for me that there might not be an available solution for this problem yet... cause we just started to get this problems last week and were more or less forced to disable all backup jobs since I cannot "babysit" all backups during the night...

Our Veeam is latest version/fully patched.

Statistics : Posted by Davd • on Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:08 pm • Replies 16 • Views 730

Browsing backup and replicas failed

3532 — 2012-05-18T06:53:26-05:00

When I want to browse backups or replicas windows I have this error:

An error occured. Please contact Veeam Support.
Error information:
obj_type

I open a support case 5192090.

With the restore wizard it's OK.
First time I have this problem for one of my customer.

Regards,
Boris

Statistics : Posted by NightBird • on Fri May 18, 2012 11:53 am • Replies 0 • Views 36

Re: Feature Request - Improving application-aware image proc

24277 — 2012-05-18T06:52:32-05:00

Good news to know!

Thanks

Statistics : Posted by fsecchia • on Fri May 18, 2012 8:51 am • Replies 2 • Views 46

Re: Replication from HO to DC

23666 — 2012-05-18T04:46:21-05:00

Just to be on the same page, do you run both jobs against the same VMs? And have you performed the full job run after changing the settings on the second job? If you are doing everything right, the amount of transferred data should be less for the second job.

Statistics : Posted by foggy • on Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:13 am • Replies 18 • Views 412

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