Backup job recommendations

[arosas]

Hello Veeam experts,

I am looking for some recommendations on how we could restructure our backup job and file server design. Just to get an idea what other organizations are doing on larger file servers.

We have two file servers that have grown over 20TB each. Each server has it's own veeam backup job. The job is configured to run forward incrementals with a synthetic full operation weekly. Has 14 recovery points, then a copy job for long term for 5 weeklies, 12 monthlies.
The file server has several disks, roughly 10-15 varying in size. All disks mount to a separate disk as a mount point and we manage our shares through that mount point. These are Server 2008 so they are in need of an upgrade and want to get ideas for the design.

The plan is to split these up into much more manageable file servers all mounting to one file server for the mount point.
MountPointServer01
FileServer01-disks1-3
FileServer02-disks4-7
FileServer03-disks8-10
etc..

I can then have much smaller veeam jobs on each file server.

Thoughts..?

Thanks in Advance
Tony

[tmckinnon]

We too have Server 2008 for our FS.. looking to see what options are available now with 2016.

Have you thought about using a DFS Namespaces vs using a mount server?

[arosas]

I have not thought about that. I'll research that option. Thank you