Dear Veeam, support physical because I hate BE

[kurbycar32]

I know its been discussed but I am renewing the plea. Heres the deal: Most of my important stuff is virtualized and backed up with Veeam, but I have a pile of servers at remote sites that I just can't centralize or virtualize that just need simple file level backups. Because of the remote servers I need to keep backupexec around and its grown long in the tooth and has a bad habit of not supporting any new technologies years after they get released. I actually could use the file copy tool already built into your product but I found it only keeps the latest copy, if this tool would manage multiple versions of the file it would be all I needed to back up everything in my infrastructure. It seems to me that at least in my situation Veeam could be my sole backup provider if it would simply keep multiple copies of a file copy job.

[dellock6]

If it's a bunch of file servers at branch offices, why don't you simply use microsoft DFS, replicate all remote file servers into a central virtual file server, and you backup this one only? With this design you do not even have to worry about remote backups.

Luca.

[kurbycar32]

i like your idea, but theres no way ill be able to get the data from 30 remote sites onto a single server

[dellock6]

I said once as an example, but they can be even multiple servers. Important thing is you keep a copy of all files centrally on some VMs, so you can backup them via Veeam

Luca.

[Gostev]

Just wanted to note that "simple file level backup" is very different from "support physical"

[kurbycar32]

Gostev whatever you want to call it is fine with me. Your the man, can you make this work?

[Gostev]

Our R&D can make anything work (and work well), it's just a matter of priorities

[kurbycar32]

Our R&D can make anything work (and work well)

THIS is why i pay for Veeam product maintenance and NOT backupexec. If you make this work ill shout your praises from our third story rooftop and put it on youtube

[tsightler]

Veeam Cloud Edition works pretty well for remote site file level backups, and no, you don't have to backup to the cloud. Just put a NAS or pretty much any other storage at your remote size and configure that as the "target" for a Cloud Edition backup policy. It can even add encryption, etc.