Feature request - NAS Backup tape support

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

I'm not 100% sure, that I understood the question. Is your question about:
a) NAS backup to disk and then copy to tape (that will be available in V12)
b) direct NAS backup to tape (that will be massively improved in V12. available today, but with limited scalability)

Best regards,
Hannes

[HannesK]

Hello,
as I said above... that's a V12 feature.

Best regards,
Hannes
PS: I merged your request to one of the existing threads around this topic.

[dasfliege]

As v12 RTM is out now, can you confirm this feature is included?

[Mildur]

Yes, confirmed.

Best,
Fabian

[Dima P.]

dasfliege,

NAS backup to tape is included in v12 version of Veeam B&R. For all the users please do not forget to attend Veeam Backup & Replication V12 Launch Event. Thank you!

[Dima P.]

Hello folks,

v12 goes live today and as promised nas backups can be processed by backup to tape jobs. Happy upgrade!

[Samba222]

Today i started the first tests with NAS-2-Tape... first impression still enthusiastic
... and after minutes i hit the wall - am i right that there is no GFS Backup / GFS Media Pool usable or implemented with NAS-2-Tape??

Best regards,
Ronald

[HannesK]

Hello,
correct, there is no support for GFS media pools. One needs to use weekly / monthly / yearly pools for that.

I remember Dima P. has plans for supporting GFS media pools in a future version (no timeline available yet).

Best regards,
Hannes

[Samba222]

Ok, very sad ... do we need an extra Feature Request for GFS-NAS-Backup-to-Tape here - or is it already on the road map?

[HannesK]

"he has plans", means that it's on the roadmap already... but it's okay to push for it again

[dasfliege]

Oh nooooo!
The main reason for having backup to tape for NAS was to have support for GFS media pools. Very disappointed to hear that this has not yet been implemented.

@Dima P
Please make sure that the implmenation is not as basic as file to tape, but also support GFS Media Pools

Does anyone knows any proper workaround to get GFS retention for file-to-tape/NDMP right now? The only way i am aware is creating multiple jobs to multiple pools with different retentions.

[JayDee]

I was also missing the GFS-Option for the NAS Backups. Multiple Media Pools are just not a good solution, so I've build a nice Pre-Tapejob-Script to change the retention time for the media pool, which seems to only apply for future mediasets.
In that way I get a nice GFS Retention with a simple Mediapool.
For now the Powershell-script comes with no paramters (I only got one NAS Backup to Tape job) and all the settings in the top.
It's also only for weekly jobs.

Code: Select all

# Script for automatic setting of the Retention-Time for a Tape-Mediapool
#
# Since GFS Media-Pools can't backup NAS-Backups, this script will do the same
# for a simple Media-Pool by changing the Retention-Time for a Tape-Mediapool
# In this way the Mediasets are secured in the same way as a
# GFS (Grandfather Father Son) Backup.
#
# The Script needs to run as a Pre-Job-Script in the Tape-Backupjob
#

# Settings - Start
$weekly = 5
$monthly = 5
$quarterly = 4
$yearly = 2
$poolName = "Media Pool 1"
# Settings - End

#if only 1 Tape Library is present, no additional parameters are needed
$lib = Get-VBRTapeLibrary


$pool = Get-VBRTapeMediaPool -Name $poolName

$now = Get-Date

if ($now.day -gt 7){
    $periodType = "Weeks"
    $PeriodValue = $weekly
}elseif ($now.Month -eq 1 -AND $yearly -gt 0){
    $periodType = "Months"
    $PeriodValue = $yearly * 12
}elseif ($now.Month -in (1,4,7,10) -AND $quarterly -gt 0){
    $periodType = "Months"
    $PeriodValue = $quarterly * 3
}elseif ($monthly -gt 0){
    $periodType = "Months"
    $PeriodValue = $monthly
}

$ret = New-VBRTapeMediaPoolRetentionPolicy -Period $periodType -Type Period -Value $PeriodValue
Set-VBRTapeMediaPool -MediaPool $pool -RetentionPolicy $ret -Library $lib

No guarantee for the script here, just wrote it today.
What do you think?

[dasfliege]

Any news on GFS support for NAS Backup to tape?

[HannesK]

Hello,
no news, not in 12.1, but still planned (no eta)

Best regards,
Hannes