Veeam Backup To Tape Scenario

[Tommy Armando]

Hi sorry for my limitations in English I use google translate to make this question, I hope you understand what I mean.

I have 20 jobs that have 7 days of retention. I plan to extend my retention to 30 days, but the size of my repository is very limited so storing 30 restore points on a local disk is not possible. that's why I plan to use tape to extend my retention

This is the model i want:

- Restore points days -1 to -7 are stored locally

- Restore points for days -8 to -30 are stored in tape.

is there any way in which the tape is treated as an extension of the local repository?

Can anyone give me some advice, because I am very new to Veeam

Thank you very much.

[PetrM]

Hi Tommy and Welcome to our Community Forums,

You can use backup to tape jobs and configure the necessary retention in media pool settings to preserve data on tapes for the specified period.

Thanks!

[Tommy Armando]

Can you explain to me why every time I restore from tape to repository, more than one file is restored even though I have selected a specific restore point.

i am still very new to veeam, thanks for the help

[Dima P.]

Hi Tommy,

To perform a recovery from any incremental restore point you need the entire backup chain till the full backup. Whenever you select such incremental to be restored from tape media, Veeam B&R automatically adds the backup chain to restore scope to make such incremental restore point operational. Cheers!

[Tommy Armando]

If the full backup or one of the incrementals has expired will it cause the VM at the desired restore point to be unable to be restored?

Thank you for the help

[PetrM]

Hi Tommy,

If you mean the expiration of retention period and some data whether full or incremental related to the specific restore point is no longer available, then this restore point is not available neither.

Thanks!

[Tommy Armando]

Haii,

Can someone help me, my file to tape job asked me to insert a new tape into the media pool, even though there is still 1.2 TB of free space, the file I will backup has a size of 1.02TB.

Thank you very much.

[PetrM]

Hello Tommy,

Could you please clarify which option of media set creation have you chosen in media pool settings?

Thanks!

[Tommy Armando]

Hi, I have 4 backup servers whose storage has reached 85%, I plan to use QNAP NAS as a backup repository. can anyone explain to me the best practice for doing this.
and is there a minimum requirement for the NAS that will be made into a repository?

Thanks

[PetrM]

Hi Tommy,

I guess you may present it as iSCSI LUN to ensure higher reliability and performance. Perhaps, this article would be helpful as well. If you're planning to use QNAP NAS as SMB or NFS repository, then you may refer to this page of our best practices guide.

Thanks!

[Tommy Armando]

Does file to tape use a license?, can it be used without a license?

[Dima P.]

Hello Tommy,

Currently file to tape job does not require any license. Thanks!

[Tommy Armando]

Hi, I want to make an offsite tape backup every week. can someone give me a good sample scenario or job tape setting that i can use. I use a tape library that uses Tape LTO-6

Here are the things I want to achieve:
1. Make offsite tape backups every Friday.
2. Make offsite retention to 3 months

[Dima P.]

Hello Tommy,

It's recommended to use backup to tape jobs for backup file processing. Select backups jobs/backup repositories as job source, setup job schedule to run every Friday and aim such job to the media pool with 3 month retention. Thank you!

[Tommy Armando]

Hii All,
I have about 200 backup jobs backing up about 400 vm. This backup job runs every day from 07:00 PM to 05:00 AM. I want to make an offsite tape backup for all the vm backed up that night. These are the goals we want to achieve:
1. Only backup the last restore point to the offsite tape.
2. Use as little tape as possible (due to resource limitations).
3. Offsite tape job must be finished before 10:00 AM.

can someone help me achieve this. or can anyone give me the best way to make an offsite tape backup.

Thank you

[Dima P.]

I have about 200 backup jobs backing up about 400 vm. This backup job runs every day from 07:00 PM to 05:00 AM. I want to make an offsite tape backup for all the vm backed up that night. These are the goals we want to achieve:

1. Only backup the last restore point to the offsite tape.

Tape job will always need to process all the incremental restore points that were created in between tape job runs. That should not be an issue if you take backups once a say and then tape thos out, but something to keep in mind.

2. Use as little tape as possible (due to resource limitations).

Do not enable parallel processing in case you have multiple tape drives in the library. Make sure that Do not create, always continue using current media set option is enabled to append data to tape.

3. Offsite tape job must be finished before 10:00 AM.

I'd recommend to run a few test tape job runs to understand what could be processed at the given timeslot with your current environment, then you can plan further steps.

[Tommy Armando]

hi dima,

Can you give me the best example for making daily and weekly offsite tape backups. I plan to follow the recommended base practice. and adapt to my needs later.

Thank You
Regards

[Dima P.]

Hi Tommy,

1. Create tape media pool and fill it with tape media. Based on your previous post use 'Do not create, always continue using current media set.' media set creation option and retention settings you need.

2. Create backup to tape job, defined the job scope and point it to this media pool. At the schedule step you need to either select weekly or daily option and the needed time.

Thanks!

[Tommy Armando]

Hii All
We plan to use NAS as our offsite storage media, these are our current conditions:

- We have 1 QNAP TS1273U-RP NAS using firmware version 4.4.3.1381 on each site
- We have 2 Veeam backup servers at each site.

can anyone help me to make an offsite backup using the resources we have now.
Thank You

[Dima P.]

Tommy,

Looks like you need to add this QNAP system to Veeam B&R server as a repository and then configure backup to tape job with either specific disk jobs or entire repository as a source. Please test it in the lab and let us know how it goes. Thank you!

[Tommy Armando]

Hii, For the past few weeks we have been having problems with our veeam server's memory backup, for some unknown reason the memory utilization is above 90% even though no jobs are running.
These are our server specs:
- Type : Dell PowerEdge R720xd
- Processor : Intel Xeon Gold 6242 @ 2.80 GHz (32CPUs)
- Memory: 16 GB
- Veeam Version : P20210401
Can someone explain why this is happening?

[PetrM]

Hi Tommy,

First of all, I'd recommend to find out which process holds memory on the backup server. After that, I believe you should open a support request, upload debug logs and let our engineers to investigate this technical issue. For example, sometimes only profiling or process dump analysis provides information about memory consumption. Please don't forget to share a support case ID with us.

Also, please make sure that these requirements are met if you're using file to tape jobs.

Thanks!

[dgoneau@payments.ca]

great info, thank you.

[Tommy Armando]

Hello, I'm looking for help to use GFS tape properly. This is our current situation:
- Veeam backup server backs up about 250-300 VMs
- Backup policy is divided into two, namely:
1st Policy -> VMs are backed up daily with 30 restore points
2nd Policy -> Vms are backed up once a week in this policy jobs are divided into 7 schedules Monday to Sunday, with 4 restore points.
- Backup jobs start at 6:00 PM and must be completed before 6:00 AM.

Based on the backup policy we are currently using we want on the last day of each month, every last restore point from every VMs that is backed up is put on tape and then stored for 1 year.

I think I can achieve my goal using the GFS Tape method but I'm new to this feature and haven't used it before.
Any assistance or input that can be offered to me will be greatly appreciated
Thanks