Advice on strategy

[Slingfox]

Hi all

We've just got a brand new Synology NAS, roughly 70TB usable with RAID10. I have the option of using iSCSI or NFS to connect it to Veeam.

The NAS is located in a physically separate building, but is connected back to the main building with two 1Gbps LAN links for fault tolerance.

The main building has a dedicated physical Veeam Server with local storage, it holds roughly 30 days of recent backups and is connected to our hosts at 10Gbps so handles everything

The NAS is for longer term storage, so monthlies and yearly backup retention.

How would you connect the NAS to Veeam, I haven't really used NFS a lot, but have used iSCSI a handful of times but not recently, technically I know how to set it all up, but what I don't want is to set myself up to fail because if anything serious ever occurred and I had to fall back to the Synology NAS backups for a DR situation, I need to reduce the risk of any corruption, or issues with restoring.

Hoping someone can shed some light on how they'd handle this. Your input is greatly appreciated.

Regards
Chris

[PetrM]

Hi Chris,

I believe that iSCSI might be a way to go, basically it gives better performance. You may also refer to our best practices guide to get more recommendations for block-level repositories. I wouldn't expect any issues during restore with both iSCSI and NFS but it's worth looking for some specific recommendations from the storage vendor as well. Also, it makes sense to take the 3-2-1 rule into consideration so that you have a clear action plan in case of disaster with the primary backup storage.

Thanks!