System Backups and Veeam?

[rdc373]

Should I be running M.S. System Backups with Veeam Replications and Backups?

My biggest concern is: sometimes Windows Repair Wizard will want to be pointed to windows backups for system recovery (bad update, etc...). And I don't want to find too late - that a Veeam backup will not work.

Has anyone had experience with the particular issue?

[Shestakov]

Hello,
I`d not use system backup along with Veeam B&R, since VBR is faster and more efficient. You can set backup jobs notification, so you always no if backup was made successfully or not.
Thanks.

[Vitaliy S.]

Do you refer to running system backups on the Veeam backup server?

[rdc373]

No, sorry for not being more specific - a server being replicated and backed up by Veeam.

If I ever need to use System Recovery - will Veeam backups work? The System Recovery Wizard will ask for a backup location. Will Veeam backups work in this scenario? Point them to a backup repository?

Case Scenario:
File Severer gets updates and cannot boot after updates (for whatever reason). No Veeam backup or replication has been performed for 4 hours. I have four hours of files on a system that will not boot into Windows. I boot the sever, hit "F8" - to perform a system recovery. I fail-over until I get the primary online (we still have 4 hours worth of data to account for) - so I cannot simply recover from a snapshot. I need to repair the system.

System Recovery asks for a backup to recover system files. System Recovery will look at the backup and try to fix the issue (and usually does a decent job). Will it work with Veeam backups instead of MS System Backups?

Anyone had this scenario?

[nmdange]

Ideally your data and operating system are on different disks, in which case you could restore the OS disk only and not the data disk.

[rdc373]

Good thing I'm ideal - and that hols true. But being ideal I'd just like to boot from my desktop, hit F8, got get a cup of coffee and have system restore completed.

I will probably though out the System Backups and see sometime. Veeam is much more robust. However I'd really like to STILL know if Veeam can support this????? So if does I can use it.

[Vitaliy S.]

Veeam backup performs image level backups, so you will be able to recover a VM (your server) if it failed for some reason. If you want to protect system partition only, then why not backup this volume/disk only?

On a side note, since this is file server, then data doesn't change that often, right? If there is a need you can back it up more often, only changes will be transferred.

As regards the updates scenario, then it seems like a perfect use case for On-Demand sandbox and SureBackup jobs.