Protecting physical VBO Server

[roelvdw]

Hi

I have physical VEEAM server . VBR and VBO are installed on same physical machine .
I am planning to use QNAP as repository using iscsi method.
How can i protect iscsi attached LUN of physical Windows Server ?
Par Example > what happens if VEEAM Server crashes ? Can i attach the LUN to other server or do i lose all backups ?

[Mike Resseler]

Hey Roel,

There are a few scenario's that can happen in that case. Please look here for information: https://www.veeam.com/kb2649
Second: You can use the Veeam Agent for Windows to create a backup of that physical server and use bare metal recovery to recover the entire server

Hope it helps
Mike

[roelvdw]

Hi Mike

Is it useful to backup data disc (iscsi QNAP local attached to Veeam server ) or is os disc enough ?

[Mike Resseler]

Roel,

OS Disc should be enough, but that does mean that you have a way of recovering the QNAP data if something goes wrong. If not, then you are talking a risk but I guess you have a solution for that

[roelvdw]

Hi Mike

My VBO and VBR are one physical machine .
I noticed today that the system drive (c:) is almost full.
I want to migrate to new physical server.
What is the best to do it?
1) unmount QNAP LUN to old host
2) mount LUN to new host
3) install VBR en VBO on new server
3) Restore configuration backup to new
VBR server
4) configure VBO on new server . Jobs ,Proxy ...

[nielsengelen]

Roel, there is a KB on how to move VBO from one server to another server: https://www.veeam.com/kb2649

[roelvdw]

Hi Niels

Thx & for VBR server > configuration backup Restore ?

Thx

[nielsengelen]

Correct.

[roelvdw]

Hi Niels

OS old Veeam server is 2012.
Can i migrate VBR and VBO to 2016 ?
I Mean that for VBO os must the same for old server. Is that also when new VBO server is also Proxy . I am going to migrate all roles to new VBO server .

[Polina]

Hi Roel,

As per the KB:

The following prerequisites are required to carry out the procedure:

• The new server ready for VBO installation should have the same version of Windows

This requirement is valid for both VBO server and its default proxy, which is technically the same machine than your VBO server is on.

[roelvdw]

Hi Polina

Can i upgrade to 2016 after i have performed the procedure?

[Mike Resseler]

Roel,

I don't believe we QC tested this. However, as far as I know, that should not cause any issues. The only thing where I have a question is around the JetDB technology. Since we use the internal Jet DB engine, it might be that there is a difference after the upgrade.

Since it is a physical server, do you have the possibility to use Veeam Agent for Windows and do a test-upgrade. Again, I don't expect any issues but you never know and I prefer to play it on the safe side

[roelvdw]

Hi Mike

Yes i use the free version for protecting physical Veeam server . But the backups are stored on the QNAP. The QNAP disk id attached as local drive to Veeam server .
Can caused this a problem ?

[Mike Resseler]

Roel,

No, don't see a problem with that. You might loose the connection to that disk after the upgrade and might need to reconnect. Otherwise, I see no problem

[roelvdw]

Hi Mike

Ok thanx.

I gonna try it these week