Veeam as a Tivoli TSM replacement

[rimvydukas]

Hi,

Till we purchased Veeam, we used Tivoli TSM for all of our virtual machines backups. Now we think about a possibility to completely retire Tivoli. Is it possible at all with current implementation of Veeam? Problem is that we have backup policies defined that servers logs must be kept lets say for 2 years, oracle databases - for 5 years and so one. In Tivoli we could define that particular pats os OS (logs, databases and so on) are assigned to different Tivoli management classes (each class represent different re-tension period). And with Veeam if I want to have good deduplication ratio - I must place a lot of one type machines into one job. And in Veeam it is possible to set re-tension period only per job. So I wanted to know - is there any solution which can allow me to achieve something similar to what I have with Tivoli?

[foggy]

Image-based solutions like Veeam B&R perform backup of the entire virtual disk, there's no ability to specify different retention periods for different folders inside VM guest OS. You can, however, utilize backup copy GFS functionality to keep VM backups for the required period of time. File Copy jobs allow to copy folders inside the VM, however, this type of job copies files as they are (always full), doesn't track changed blocks, and has no retention settings.

[rimvydukas]

So as I can see we can't retire tivoli if we want to comply to our backup policies ( In other case we need to have huge amounts of additional free disk space to be able to use some kind of workarounds you offered.

[Gostev]

Correct, not at this time at least.