[FEATURE REQUEST] - Solaris Backup/Recovery

[rwheeler]

Solaris server backups are very slow. We have very large Oracle databases on our Solaris servers around the world that require daily backups. Our manufacturing sites rely on these servers being available 24x7. Any outage needs to be resolved quickly, so production can resume. We use the Flash Recovery Area (FRA) for these backups. All that we want to do is backup the FRA very quickly to a repository. The Solaris agent only provides for network backup. What we need is either Fibre Channel (FC), or Synthetic Full Backup (SFB) to be able to back these up on a daily basis. Adding either, or preferably both, to the Solaris agent backup would resolve all of our issues. The SFB would be the preferred method since it eliminates full Solaris backups which kill our servers and networks. The SFB is one of the best innovations that Veeam has for Linux/Windows. If it could be extended to Solaris, it would resolve all of our backup/recovery issues.

All that we need is a simple filesystem backup of the FRA on these servers that is fast and reliable. The current network backup that requires frequent full backups and incrementals is inadequate.

Best regards,

Rick Wheeler
MEMC LLC
rwheeler@gw-semi.com

[PTide]

Hi,

Well, good news is that Synthethic Full backup is already available for VAU in the most recent version of VBR (v13.0.0).

As for the FC usage - the agent can send backups to a locally attached storage.
Is your backup storage connected to your Solaris machines via FC? If so, then you can try this option.

Thanks!

[rwheeler]

Are you saying that Synthetic Full Backups work for Solaris 10/11 servers in Veeam version 13? They have never worked before. If so, that would be reason enough for us to change to version 13.

No, our repository storage is not local, but on an HPE StoreOnce. If we could backup directly from the Solaris servers to the HPE StoreOnce directly over FC (LAN Free backup), then that would fulfill our requirement. Our local Solaris storage is on HPE storage (Alletra/3PAR).

If those two things are available, then we would have no issues with Veeam at all.

[PTide]

Yes, v13.0.0 offers synthetic full backups for Solaris, page 18 here.

If we could backup directly from the Solaris servers to the HPE StoreOnce directly over FC (LAN Free backup)

I am not sure how you expect it to work without connecting the repository storage directly to your Solaris servers. The backup agent runs directly on your server, hence it must have access to the FC storage for LAN Free to work.
If you connect it via FC, your Solaris box will see the storage and you will be able to mount it locally and specify it as a backup destination in the job settings wizard.

Thanks!