Tape Feature Request

[vmtech123]

Per disk backups. I will have 8 LTO drives, and some REALLY big file servers. I'd prefer not to have to create multiple jobs at different times to utilize parallel writes or restores with tape.

For our super large file servers I have them set to their own backup jobs. but they are still very large. If I were to combine them in the same backup job this would be even worse correct?

With data/video sizes getting big I have many servers in the 30+ TB range now. If I had a server with five 10TB VMDK's it would be nice to back all 5 disks to tape at once or it will take days.

What is best practice for this?

I read that doing file level backups on 100's of TB with millions of files and sending to tape isn't supported with Veeam. I'd LOVE to get rid of TSM but that feature to have file versioning, tape reclamation, and archiving abilities to send files/folders to tape for historical purposes is needed.

Short of creating an "archive" server, moving files to it. Veeamzipping and exporting that to tape is there any options? If I need to restore 1 or 2 files I would prefer to not have to import a huge server to do this as well.

Often I have requests to restore archived files, but it's easy to restore in TSM.

[PetrM]

Hello,

From my point of view, the request is reasonable.

In fact, I wouldn't say that backup of million of files to tape is not supported but the configuration database can grow significantly and some specific queries for fetching information about tape content can be slowed down, hence I wouldn't go this path. I guess the main workaround is to leverage machines backup to tape functionality. As far as I see you already set up per disk backups so you may create several tape jobs as well, for instance parallel processing is supported. One more idea is to use file share backup and to offload data to an object storage instead of tapes, it can be used as an archive repository.

Thanks!

[vmtech123]

File share to object storage may be the best bet for archives. then backup vm's to tape

When I say millions, I mean MILLIONS. haha 100s of millions of files probibly. 100's of TB's of data.

I think VM to tape for vm restores and offsite backup , and archives to object storage sound good. but i'd still want the 3-2-1 rule on that archive data. Preferably on tape so it doesn't work 100%

[PetrM]

Hello,

Ok, thanks for info, the request is noted. So far I have no other ideas besides the ones mentioned above.

Thanks!