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Backup one VMWare Guest with 2 seperate Veeam Servers?

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Is it possible?

I have a large guest running on VMware, but at the weekend, I want to back it up off site using another Veeam Server.

In the week, the normal Primary Veeam Server will run the backup and this is locally stored, but can I run another backup against this guest?

How will the CBT know who has backed up what blocks or is it much cleverer than that?

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Re: Backup one VMWare Guest with 2 seperate Veeam Servers?

Post by Gostev » 1 person likes this post

This is covered in the sticky FAQ topic.
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Re: Backup one VMWare Guest with 2 seperate Veeam Servers?

Post by kevin_cambs_uk » 1 person likes this post

Thanks for that, just ready it as below...

Q: Will the changed block tracking "break" if I backup and replicate the same VM? Or, if I backup the same VM with different jobs, or from different backup servers, or with different backup products?
A: There will be no issues, as changed block tracking is designed to handle such usage scenarios.

All I can say is that is very clever !

Great product.

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Re: Backup one VMWare Guest with 2 seperate Veeam Servers?

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Can I just ask ,were still on V6, but I assume tis is still okay?

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Re: Backup one VMWare Guest with 2 seperate Veeam Servers?

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Yes, just make sure jobs performed by different Veeam B&R instances do not overlap, to avoid possible issues.
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Re: Backup one VMWare Guest with 2 seperate Veeam Servers?

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Will do
Thanks again, its really appreciated
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