VBO on same server as VBR

[houdem]

Hi,

I was reading that the best practices for installing VBO on a separate server than VBR is to be able to backup the VBO server for respecting the 3-2-1 (or 3-2-1-1-0) backup rules.

However if I install VBO on the same server as VBR and VBO is backing up to iSCSI, can I just backup the data on the iSCSI channel with VBR and then respecting the 3-2-1 as well ?

Thanks

[HannesK]

Hello,
how would you want to do that? Veeam Agent for Windows in standalone edition pointing to a USB or NAS device?

I don't know how many users / data you have, but I would probably wait for backup copy jobs from object storage to object storage built-in VB365 with the upcoming version. Object storage scales much better than block storage for VB365

Best regards,
Hannes

[houdem]

Thanks for answering,

What about doing a file to tape backup job instead ?, would that be recoverable from VBO ?

Thanks

[HannesK]

Hello,
without knowing how you would do the file-to-tape, I would refer to other forum threads around tape backups for VB365 (formerly VBO)

Best regards,
Hannes

[houdem]

Well,

I would backup the VBO repository with VBR since the latter can do a file to tape backup, I presume it would work no ?

Thanks

[chris.childerhose]

I would still follow Best Practices not to install VB365 on the VBR server. Some of our servers were done this way, and I am getting off that install method, as you don't need to have VBR on the same server. You can figure out a better way to back up the VB365 server also this way, as noted.

[HannesK]

Hello,
sure, I would also follow the best practice. He knows it and he wants to violate it

Yes, tape works if you follow the way that is described in the other posts. I would not do it. I would go for object storage, because that's where the product is moving to.

Best regards,
Hannes