How to reduce jobs to tape

[Michy P]

Hi,

I am new to Veeam and am currently setting up the whole backuptheme and replacing our old backup software. For this I would appreciate help with a few questions that the online help did not fully explain.

I need to backup 3 different areas and also offload them to LTO tapes.
1. VMs (a VMWare environment)
2. network shares of a physical Windows server
3. a Microsoft 365 backup from Veeam for Microsoft Office 365

a) Is it correct that I need to create a separate job for 1. and 2. each? Or can I combine both a Windows Server and a VM backup into a single job?

b) I would start a backup to tape job afterwards. If I have to work with 2 Job, then I also always have 2 Backup-To-Tape Job and therefore always 2 Tapes? Correct?
Or could you somehow write the two backup jobs (VMs and network shares) to a single tape?
I am using GFS Media Pools here.

c) And could you also somehow integrate the backup of MS365 to the tape as well? I am currently backing up the MS365 repository via file-to-tape to a standard media pool.

d) Is there any way to write a File-To-Tape job to a GFS Media Pool? The wizard does not offer me this option.

Our current configuration creates 3 tapes for the respective backup jobs, each of which uses only a small part of the tape storage.

I am trying to understand the possibilities of Veeam and hope for your experience to better customize Veeam to our needs.

Thanks a lot
Michael

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

2. I assume that you use the Veeam Agent for Windows.

a) you can combine them... just create a new backup to tape job and select the vmware / veeam agent for windows jobs.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

b) it depends whether the two jobs write to two media pools and whether you allow multiple media sets on one tape: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100 https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

c) the most common way is to back up the VBO VM like a normal VM. I'm not sure how a file-tape of the VBO database can work

d) no

Best regards,
Hannes