recommandation solution to keep veeam images for 7 years?

[desmond shio]

Hi Guys,

One of my customer (hotel base) would like to request for solution to keep Veeam Images for 7 years?
Any recommend way to do that?

Thanks

[J1mbo]

Tape or USB drives depending on data sizes, and periodically copy of the VBK files onto them. Don't dismiss USB drives if the data set will fit; the cost/GB is very close to tape and of course you don't need a loader now or in the future to restore from it.

[joergr]

Backup yearly to Tape or removable disks and place these in a safe and secured location out of your datacenter.

Best regards,
Joerg

[desmond shio]

we are try not to use tape and removable disk for our customer.

Our proposal will provided three backup storage :
1.local backup storage for keeping veeam images up to a month (using incremental with synthetic fulls backup mode).
2.For primary DR backup storage, we will grab only veeam synthetic fulls (using script/powershell) from local backup storage every week.
3.For secondary DR backup storage, it will sync everything from primary DR backup storage.

Can this solutions work?
Any recommend script or powershell sample to copy only synthetic fulls to DR backup storage?
Also any software to sync primary DR backup storage to secondary DR backup storage?

Thanks!

[joergr]

several ways. one could be to use reverse increments, thus no need to do a synthetic full, and then delete older files on secondary backup target und then copy the very latest,
example....with powershell...let´s say D: is target and T: is source

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echo "kill older than 5 days..."

$a = Get-ChildItem d:\veeambackup1 -recurse
foreach($x in $a)
    {
        $y = ((Get-Date) - $x.CreationTime).Days
        if ($y -gt 5 -and $x.PsISContainer -ne $True)
            {$x.Delete()}
    }

echo "copy latest stuff over to secondary target..."

$date = (Get-Date).AddDays(-1).ToString('M-d-y')

xcopy "T:\veeam\*.*" d:\veeambackup1 /I /C /E /F /H /R /Y /J /D:$date


Best regards,
Joerg

[foggy]

Any recommend script or powershell sample to copy only synthetic fulls to DR backup storage?

With forward incremental backup mode you can use this script to backup the latest VBK file: A script for backing up the latest .VBK file.

Also any software to sync primary DR backup storage to secondary DR backup storage?

The most commonly used software among our customers is rsync. Please search this forum for existing discussions regarding synchronizing backup files offsite.

[dellock6]

we are try not to use tape and removable disk for our customer.

Uhm, 7 years retention and you do not want to use tapes nor usb-disk? Have you considered the power consumption for storage and cooling you are going to pay over a 7 years period, just to keep a storage powered on and receiving worm copies of your backups? Storage replica is great for DR and BC solutions, or for mid-term retention, if you go over a defined period, you are going to pay more than the other two solutions, even with deduplication in place.

Luca.

[cparker4486]

we are try not to use tape and removable disk for our customer.

This may be a good reason to use Amazon Glacier.