I am a service provider / Veeam partner.
I have a big concern for one of my end customers, about recovering from a Nas archive (Veeam Data Cloud Vault here).
Context :
- 1 VHR (veeam hardened repository), onpremise
- 1 Veeam Data Cloud Vault
We backup :
- VMware VMs (all is fine with the world here)
- a NetApp Nas filer
with :
- VMs jobs
and
- 1 job for NetAppFiler, with :
-- backup to the VHR retention 30 days
-- archive to the Vault (no move, copy immediately only), with same retention
So we should have (and I think we have) the same Nas data in onpremise repo and cloud repo.
Initially, I wanted to do a backup copy job for the Nas, instead of using archive, but, this is not possible with our Veeam licenses.
Which are... a mix of a sockets standard license for VMware, and a VUL (so, Enterprise +) license, for NAS workload. These both licenses, unified in the same Veeam server, make us being in Standard Edition mode only for all our workloads.... Sad !
I added NetApp Filer in Veeam as.. a Netapp Filer
Sooo, I think it is the best way. It appears in Veeam Inventory in Unstructured Data.And by the way why can't we browse that here in Veeam, but elsewhere yes, that is too sad (feature request?), but sorry, I walk away of my subject.
Is it possible to recover a file or folder from archive only, and not from the onprem repo please ?
because i can't find it.
I saw there is an issue/feature lacking/feature request already about rstoring multiple files from archive.
But me I did not even manage to restore 1, here.
Under File level Restore wizard for NAS, pushing the "All Time" button does not help, it will always offer to restore from the VHR only.
Maybe because we got the same files version at both. Idk.
Plus, if I shutdown the VHR, the File level restore Wizard for Nas does not even launch. Saying "failed to start file recovery: backup meta files are not synchronized with the DB. To resolve this, run repository rescan"
And a rescan on Data Cloud Vault did not help.
So, we could not restore archive when the onpremise repository is dead ? if so, archive seems a bit useless.
The whole thing for now is just to test this new Veeam backup infrastructure.
But, right now the end customer is pretty worried with this, and me too.
But I tell myself maybe I miss something. Or, is this all normal/expected, with the Nas archive feature ?
Thx in advance for your answers.