VBO365 move to new Server

[agrob]

Good Day

First of all, i have read the KB2649 and also some forum Posts but have not found all the Information i need.

At the moment i a have a VBO365 Installation on a physical Server. This machine has all the VBO Roles on it. Server OS is Windows Server 2012 R2.

Now i need to move the wohle VBO365 installation to a new Windows Server 2019 Server.

1. Install VBO365 (same Version) on the new Server
2. Stop VBO365 Service on the existing server
3. Copy all the Repository Data with robocopy to the new Server
4. on the new Server, "register" the copied repository Data as new repositories (Backup Repositories -> Add backup repository -> point it to the copied data)
5. on the new Server, add the same Organization as on the old Server
6. Backup Jobs, here i'm not sure: I guess i have to manually configure the same jobs as i had on the old Server (with exlcusions and so one). There is no way i can export/import the job data?

This is it. Then i should try a restore from the old restore points. if this works, i can start the jobs and it should only backup new Data from O365?

Thanks

[Polina]

Hi Andre,

Correct, you will need to reconfigure jobs manually, because VBO doesn't allow to export such configuration.
And the next job run after migration will be incremental.

Thanks!

[agrob]

Hi Polina

Thank you for your reply.
At the moment, we use legacy authentication for the Organization. On the new server, i'd like to configure modern authentication. Does this work or do i have a problem when i use the "old" (migrated) repositories on the new server? i guess not, but i want to make sure that no new full backup is done after migration.
Thanks

[Polina]

Modern authentication has some limitations for both backup and restore, which you need to consider before doing this switch. After you change the auth to app-only, VBO will update some metadata in repositories (for example, jobs containing groups will be put to the Out-of-date state and will need to be updated), but this won't affect consistency of existing backups.

Thanks!

[agrob]

Hello Polina

I guess for migration to the new Server, the easiest way is to configure the Organization again with legacy authentication as on the old server. After migration is done and everything is working well, i can decide if i want to change to modern authentication after reading the limitations in the link you posted.

thanks again

[Filippo1975]

Hello Everybody,
we had installed vb0365 in a dedidcated server; all data are stored in azure blob. We had just configured a local disk as cache and it's really small.
We would like to move to another dedicated server.. for veeam backup and replication, as well veeam cloud connect It's simply move installation to other server. It just need to backup all settings and restore that... But how to accomplish this in o365?

[johan.h]

Hi Filippo,

Did you have a look at this KB article? It explains how you can move VBO to a new server with an object storage repository. https://www.veeam.com/kb2649

Johan

[Natalia Lupacheva]

Hi Filippo,

moved your post to the existing thread. Please review the posts above.

Thanks!

[UlrichThomas]

Hello,

4. Copy the backup repository data to the backup repository location on the new server.
...
7. Add the backup repository (from a new location).

Did I understand correctly that the copied repository will be set up as an "additional" repository on the new VBO server? It is not allowed to use it as the target for the new backup jobs?

I asked because I copied the old repository to the new server, add it to VBO and point the backup jobs to.
Testing restore was fine, all restore points were availible.
After running the backup jobs, the old restore points were gone (marked with the "x").

Please clarify,
Ulrich

[karsten123]

the old restore points are available from the organization level

[Mike Resseler]

@karsten123 is correct. The database of the new VBO server is not aware of these restore points. So you will need to right-click on the organization (not on the backup job) and run the restore from there

[UlrichThomas]

@karsten123 and @Mike Resseler

Many thanks for clarification.