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I am not new to Veeam in general and I am using the products for some time now but I did not yet implement anything with tape.
Now I have to implement a tape infrastructure.
Normally I am working with SOBR and S3 storage.
I already took a look at the documentation and it is kind of overwhelming at first.
I would like to buy the required hardware to test everything in a lab environment first.
Therefor I have to get the sizing right.
I thought about a tape loader which is sufficient for one tape and the tape is switched daily.
So I have to store a full backup on every tape, right?
Is this a recommended approach in general?
How fast do you typically write to a modern tape?
And how do I calculate the amount of storage - based on compressed or uncompressed capacity?
We got an infrastructure consisting of one Hyper-V host (which is also the B&R server) hosting some Windows Server VMs and some Linux/Windows Agents deployed via B&R.
One full backup of all resources is approx. 8 TB right now.
Thank you very much for your thoughts
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