Backup Server DR

[saloobahi]

I would like to seek your guidance regarding our current disaster recovery setup and restore procedures.

In our production environment, we are running workloads on Nutanix infrastructure, while our DR site is hosted on an HP Blade server environment. We have configured Veeam Backup & Replication to perform daily backup copy jobs from the primary site and backup copy job will copied to the secondary (DR) site, and this process is currently working as expected.

However, we would like clarification on the following scenarios:

In the event that our primary Veeam server becomes unavailable, how can we restore or access the backup jobs from the secondary (DR) site?
What is the recommended approach to recover and import these backups on a DR Veeam server?
If we take image-level backups of our Nutanix-based virtual machines, is it possible to restore these workloads onto the HP Blade server running Hyper-V?
Are there any specific steps, limitations, or best practices for cross-platform recovery (Nutanix AHV to Hyper-V)?

We would appreciate it if you could provide detailed guidance, best practices, and any relevant documentation links to help us design a reliable DR strategy.

[Mildur]

Hi saloobahi,

Please don’t hijack the configuration backup copy topic with unrelated questions
I’ve moved your question to our dedicated Nutanix AHV forum.

In the event that our primary Veeam server becomes unavailable, how can we restore or access the backup jobs from the secondary (DR) site?

Use Configuration Backup / Restore — or, starting with v13, High Availability (available only on the Veeam Software Appliance).
Please review this Help Center article and let me know if you still have questions afterward: help center article

What is the recommended approach to recover and import these backups on a DR Veeam server?

Restore your configuration backup.
Keep in mind: the backup repository containing the backups must be reachable. If your backups were stored on local disks of the failed primary backup server, those backups likely won’t be available after restoring the configuration. But you will still see your backup copies.
Please also note, you can’t continue primary backup jobs using backup files created by Backup Copy jobs—you’ll need to start new backup chains if the original primary repository can’t be used anymore.

If we take image-level backups of our Nutanix-based virtual machines, is it possible to restore these workloads onto the HP Blade server running Hyper-V?

Yes, with Instant Recovery.

Are there any specific steps, limitations, or best practices for cross-platform recovery (Nutanix AHV to Hyper-V)?

Yes, you can find them in our Help Center. Start with these pages:
- Instant Recovery
- Considerations and Limitations

Best,
Fabian