Best Practices for Version 9

[poulpreben]

All,

The long awaited Best Pratices Guide has been updated for version 9.

URL: bp.veeam.expert

Any feedback is welcome - in this thread, by commenting directly in GitBook (preferred), via Twitter, through your local Veeam representative - anything goes.

Huge thanks to all the teams involved -- Solutions Architects, QA and Support.

Regards,
Preben

[jazzoberoi]

Do we have one available for Hyper-V as well ?

[poulpreben]

We are working on a chapter about Hyper-V proxies and transport modes. Everything else should more or less apply to Hyper-V as well.

Thanks for the feedback!

[Gostev]

Please keep the feedback coming, folks!

[GregorS]

Dear All

Planning for Disaster Recovery of Veeam Backup Server

If you have the backup server in the primary site it is recommended to replicate the Veeam backup server VM to the secondary site (verify network and IP mapping settings before you begin; refer to http://helpcenter.veeam.com/backup/vsph ... a_job.html for details). If the configuration database is external, ensure this server is also replicated to the secondary site.

As I remember from training it should not be possible or at least it is not supported to backup the Veeam backup server by itself. From this piece of information I deduced that it should also not be possible to replicate the Veeam backup server by itself since all the same gear is being used as with backup. Please, can someone explain to me where did my reasoning fail?


Regards
Gregor

[poulpreben]

As I remember from training it should not be possible or at least it is not supported to backup the Veeam backup server by itself.

Not sure what training you had, but this is definitely wrong

[foggy]

Gregor, probably you're meaning the fact that it cannot hotadd itself in case the default proxy is used, and CBT cannot be used, but generally, backup server can be used to backup itself.

[GregorS]

... it cannot hotadd itself...

Yes, this is what I must have memorized and falsely generalized.

... and CBT cannot be used...

Do you mean only in combination with [hotadd]? Is there also a reason CBT cannot be used with [san]? Can you elaborate? Thanks!

[foggy]

If the proxy is used to hotadd disks of other VMs, CBT cannot be used during backup of this proxy. No issues with other transport methods.