[Feature Request] Veeam Agent for Windows and HPe StoreOnce

[TedLaurent]

Desperately seeking this feature ... just installed VB&R and still can't do this.

[cruis]

+1 for this request

1. Yes
2. Yes

[Gostev]

This feature is included in the next release. Thanks!

[buk3ta]

Hi guys, in the "next release" do you mean by VBR V10 with AFW V4?

Kindly confirm. Thank you in advance ya.

[Gostev]

That is correct.

[buk3ta]

Thanks Gostev for the confirmation. Cos I am planning to upgrade to VBR10 and VAW4 due to the previous limitation to backup to StoreOnce Catalyst just like VM backup.

Cheers!

[StoopidMonkey]

Just to be clear, does this mean that during a bare-metal restore I can boot a server up using Veeam Recovery Media and it can directly access Veeam Agent backups stored on an HP StoreOnce without the need for a running gateway server?

[Gostev]

You can connect to a Veeam backup repository, behind which is a HPE StoreOnce. But you cannot connect directly to StoreOnce, as the backup agent is pretty light-weight so it simply does not have any knowledge of different storage devices or how to interact with them (not it carries the required libraries which are storage-specific).

[StoopidMonkey]

Hi Gostev, I'm not sure that I'm following what you're saying. From what I see in VBR you add a StoreOnce appliance AS a backup repository in Backup Infrastructure. Are you saying that if we set up a StoreOnce as our primary and only backup repository (which would store VM and agent backups) and we had a complete bare-metal wipe situation occur, we could NOT point the bootable Veeam Recovery Media to the StoreOnce to retrieve an agent backup to restore a single bare-metal server? Said server would likely have the install of VBR on it from which we could further access StoreOnce to retrieve VM backups, but I need to plan on where we can retrieve agent backups from assuming NOTHING but the ransomware resistant StoreOnce appliance survives, along with an offline copy of Veeam Recovery Media. In this situation what would you suggest?

[Gostev]

In this situation you install a fresh VBR and configure a StoreOnce backup repository in it, using your existing backup location. Then agents will be able to connect to backups stored on StoreOnce.

BTW it's always good idea to do such "DR test" at least once using a sample repository with a few test backups, so you know what is the process exactly.