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Windows Agent to backup Veeam Physical Server

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This may be a dumb question.

Is there any reason I cannot use a windows agent to back up the C drive and system state of a windows physical Server that is acting as a veeam repository and proxy ?

Are folks doing this. ?

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This should be fine!

A bit of history (but now sorted), there used to be logic issues on which product would handle the .VBK if like double-clicked or such. That's been fixed, and even cleaner because you are only using it as a repo and proxy.

Double-up the Veeam away Steven!
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Re: Windows Agent to backup Veeam Physical Server

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StevenMeier wrote: Feb 22, 2019 1:07 am Are folks doing this. ?
Been doing that for quite a while, no special issues with that.
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Hi Steve,

This approach is used by many customers even to protect the Backup server itself, so you are good to go! Thanks!
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Thanks folks appreciate the feedback.

The main backup Server has only the Veeam database and mgmt. is done from it and is a VM so I can replicate it to the secondary datacenter and power it up in the case of Disaster at primary DC.
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Moreover, you can schedule Configuration backup on a regular basis (it's recommended approach), prepare Veeam backup server at the DR site and in case of disaster all you need is just import the config. Thanks!
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