Does traffic to a backup repository originate from the proxy?

[biohazrd]

I'm curious about the traffic flow when backing up a remote site.

Here is my current configuration:
[*]A central vSphere server in my datacenter
[*]A central Veeam server in my datacenter
[*]A remote site with an ESXi host and several VMs
[*]A Veeam proxy at the remote site
[*]A SOBR that contains a NFS share that is physically located at the previously mentioned remote site, and a S3 compatible bucket

When configuring a backup repository, one of the options that is available is a checkbox to "Use the following gateway server". This makes me curious about the default flow of traffic to the SOBR and it's underlying backup repositories.

I know the backups are processed, compressed, deduped by the Veeam proxy at the remote site. But does that proxy also directly write the resulting backup to the SOBR/backup repository? Or does this only happen if I configure the gateway server for the backup repo to also be the remote proxy?

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

You already found the key to your answer. As long as you configure a gateway server in the remote site, the traffic will stay in that remote site. Ah yes, for the backup proxy: you might want to configure it in the backup job or with proxy affinity rules on the repository

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

If you go with automatic gateway selection, then the following default behavior exists:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=110

Best regards,
Hannes