Are there any plans to integrated Veeam O365 into VBR for tape functionality?

[cerberus]

We use both Veeam Backup and Replication and Office 365 to backup our on-prem/cloud workload.

In VBR we run B2D2T jobs, and heavily leverage the tape functionality for air gapped backups.

Are there plans to integrated the two products or bring tape support to the O365 component? It would be great if we could run a B2D2T job in Veeam O365.

Right now we get around this by having a B2T job in VBR that backs up the local directory where Veeam O365 backs up to.

[Mildur]

At the moment, best practice for 3-2-1 rule would be:
1. Install VBO365 on a VM or physical Host
2. backup the vbo365 server with Veeam B&R (Agent or VM Backup) with Guest application aware Processing
3. Write the vbk/vib chain to Tape with Backup to Tape or File to Tape Job

VBO365 stores its backup data in jet databases.
For creating a second copy, VBO365 has a VSS Writer for doing a consistent backup of this databases.

You are able todo VBo365 restores directly in Veeam B&R console, if you have backuped the vbo server with Guest Application Aware Procession.

Have a look at the Best Practice Guide:
https://bp.veeam.com/vbo/guide/design/3-2-1.html

The vbo backup directory isn‘t enough for a consistent copy of vbo365 data. You have to backup Config and Proxy DB too:

The configuration (ConfigDB) and Proxy (ProxyDb) folder on the VBO Server and VBO Proxy installations are very important. They include all the information and details for the VBO infrastructure configuration. Restoring these components from a backup is the quickest way to maintain the existing (running) configuration without affecting the rest of the VBO deployment and its jobs.

[Mike Resseler]

Thanks Mildur for the response.

[cerberus]

Our Veeam Office 365 and VBR are installed on the same standalone physical machine with locally attached disks for storage.

We don't backup the backup server using VBR, it sounds like I would have to find a new home for VBO to get consistent backup through guest application aware processing? Can one backup the VBR server using VBR (for the purpose of backing up VBO with app aware processing, excluding the VBR B2D files) or will that create issues?

Being able to restore from VBO365 from VBR console is news to me, that's wild and definitely something I would like to try and get to.

[Mildur]

If you have installed vbo365 on the vbr server, and the vbo365 backup data is on a dedicated drive, you should be able todo a volume level backup with veeam agent. O365 Backup Databases should be consistent this way.

If you have socket licenses for vbr, you already have free instances. You can use this free instance license to backup the vbo365 volume and os volume with the veeam Agent

But it‘s better to separate this two softwares. Parallel installation is supported, but you have to check for compatiblity, because the veeam explorers are shared between vbr and vbo365.

[cerberus]

The VBO data is on a dedicated drive.

VBO installed in C:\ and backs up to E:\
VBR installed in C:\ and nightly jobs back up to D:\ for B2D2T

We have socket licenses with active support on both products, most of the free instances are unused since VBR is used for VMware VM level backups.

Right now all I have is a B2T job that picks up the VBO backup folder. I have already gone back and added the other folders you mentioned earlier (they were not being backed up.. yikes!)

I will need to look at creating a B2D2T job for the VBO disk using Veeam Agent so that we can do VBO restores directly from VBR console.

Yea its always fun updating the components, always have to make sure compatibility is in check before we do anything Our VBO footprint is small at <600GB compared to VBR.