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Zlatan Andreev
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Resource availability - backup proxy servers

Post by Zlatan Andreev »

Hello,

General question about proxy servers: how does Veeam select which proxy to use on what backup job?

I'm asking because i see the following on some of my jobs this morning:

4-5 jobs are on 0%, waiting for resource availability

I want to make sure that the proxy servers arent the resource that is being waited on.
4 proxys are configured in total, one has no limitations for max number of jobs, but another has a limitation of "2 max concurrent tasks"
*Sidenote - does 2 tasks mean that the proxy can run 2 backup jobs at the same time, or 2 VMs from a single backup job?

So is it possible that 3 backups use the proxy with maximum 2 tasks, and that's what is holding the jobs back?

Thanks in advance
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Re: Resource availability - backup proxy servers

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2 tasks = 2 VM disks as far as i know. Why not just increase the max tasks to 4 and see if it helps.

Our proxy is set to 32 on a 5 year old server (with 16 cores) and never reaches any CPU limits.
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Re: Resource availability - backup proxy servers

Post by DGrinev »

Hi Zlatan,

You can review existing discussion about what is Proxy and how it works, especially this post by Tom with the useful links.
Please keep in mind you can set a limitation of concurrent task in the Repository settings too. Thanks!
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