Question In Regards to Repository Features

[HJAdams123]

Hello and Good Day Veeam Community...

A simple question. I am looking into transitioning from Windows 2008 R2 based repositories to just regular CIFS based repositories. Question is, the ability for a backup job to create synthetic fulls, and the ability to covert previous incremental backup chains into reverse incremental backup chains, can I still do those two things using a CIFS based repository? There is nothing about the Veeam agent on a Windows 2008 R2 based repository that makes those things possible correct? I just want to make sure I can continue to use those features when I move my backup to a network CIFS share....

Thanks for any info you can provide!

Harold

[foggy]

Harold, please look at this post, should answer your questions in detail. You will be able to use those features with a CIFS repo, however most likely will significantly lack performance.

What is the reason for such transition? New storage device?

[HJAdams123]

Yes, new storage device. Looking at utilizing Coraid as a remote backup target for Veeam.

[Vitaliy S.]

Just a small tip - when you using WAN connection and CIFS based repositories you can install a proxy server that will host Veeam processes responsible for transform operations. This proxy should be deployed on the same site with your CIFS repository.

[HJAdams123]

yeah, the Coraid appliance in located in the same site as the backup proxies and virtual machines getting backed up. So, this proxy agent, is this something that is specified in the wizard when adding a CIFS target as a repository? (just asking because we have never done CIFS repositories, up to this point our repositories are virtual Windows 2008 R2 servers with the backup storage direct attached. (RDM)

[HJAdams123]

Never mind, I stopped being lazy and just went through the wizard. I see where you specify a "agent" for the CIFS target. I imagine this is still not as good as having the agent on the same server as your storage, but hopefully it closes the gap in not having that agent at all. Thanks guys!!!

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes, you're right. Having agent on the same site is much better then not having it at all The transform traffic will go from the specified proxy to the repository within the site over the network with this kind of setup.