New future developments

[GianlucaCroci]

Hello,
currently as File Server we're using Microsoft Windows, but we would like to switch to keeping and sharing documents from Storage (yet to be decided how).
We already do some SMB or NFS backups, using a license every 500 GB.
Having documents for several TBs, do you think about revising the dismissal policy for this type of backup?

Furthermore, we currently, in addition to saving these documents to disk, also have to put them on tape, because we've to keep them for 20 years.
This procedure is only possible by going to reread the data, and not going to take a save already made previously, as for all other saves (VM, Agent, Exchange, SQL, ...)
Will anything change in future releases?

Thanks in advance for the replies.
Kind regards
Gianluca

[HannesK]

Hello,

Having documents for several TBs, do you think about revising the dismissal policy for this type of backup?

I'm not sure what that means. NAS backup is licensed in 500GB steps, yes.

If it's only a few files (less than 1 million), file-to-tape can do that today for free. File-to-tape has limited scale and we improve that in V12. With V12, file-to-tape from NAS shares will also consume Veeam Universal Licenses (same like NAS backup)

In V12, you can also do NAS-to-disk-to-tape. Only NAS-to-disk needs to be licensed then. Backup from disk to tape is free.

Best regards,
Hannes

[GianlucaCroci]

Hello, thx for your reply.

I know that NAS backup is licensed in 500GB steps. But when it was introduced it was a 250GB license.
Are there any plans to increase this further, perhaps to 1 TB per license, in the future? given the evolution of the size of NAS

The info that the file to tape is free, it's important but it was not what I wanted to know.
We already backup the file servers to disk, and when we go to put these saves to tape we don't commit the file servers again, because we take the save made previously to disk. This's because we backup the entire VM.
When "tomorrow" we migrate these File Servers directly to NAS, we'll always have to save them to disk, but then at the end of the month, when the time comes to put a save on tape, we'll still have to use NAS resources, instead of using the backup already made .
Could this change? that is to put on tape a backup made previously on disk, as you do with VMs or Agents, instead of going again to read the entire NAS.

Thanks again
Kind regards

[HannesK]

Hello,
No 1TB steps are, not planned in foreseeable future. If you have hundreds of TB or PBs, please contact your Veeam sales rep. They can create special pricing.

Could this change? that is to put on tape a backup made previously on disk, as you do with VMs or Agents, instead of going again to read the entire NAS.

yes, that's what I described above. NAS backup goes to disk to tape in V12.

Best regards,
Hannes

[GianlucaCroci]

Hello Hannes,
Thanks a lot for your reply.

Kind regards
Gianluca