Feature Request - Allow selection of a proxy server to perform SureBackup tests

[biohazrd]

From the documentation:

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

If you assign to the proxy appliance an IP address from the same network where the backup server is located, Veeam Backup & Replication will automatically add a new route to the routing table on the backup server. If you assign to the proxy appliance an IP address from a different network, you will have to manually add a new route to the routing table on the router in the production network. If you do not add a new route, tests and application scripts will fail and you will not be able to access VMs in isolated networks.

Obviously this makes sense, without routing in place from the Veeam Backup server to the SureBackup proxy appliance, there is no way for them to communicate.



However, if someone is backing up VMs at a remote site, they probably have a Veeam proxy at that site to handle dedup, compression, writing to the backup location (local disk, NAS, etc.). Why not do this instead?



By having the Veeam proxy run the SureBackup tests, the automatically created route will be sufficient in a lot more situations, as that proxy is a lot more likely to be on the same subnet as the SureBackup proxy.

[HannesK]

Hello,
The technical reason for the "why" is: the proxy can do what you said... get data from virtual infrastructure, do data reduction and send it to the repository. That's it. It has no logic to do ping tests, application script tests or whatever.

There would also be other ways that could solve the question of routing. If "why is the routing question not solved already" is the real question, then then answer is "a lack of resources" (like with any other feature that is missing).

Best regards,
Hannes

[sdv]

+1 on the feature request list.

With dozens of sites and dozens of different networks, having the proxyserver take ownership of this role will be a big advantage and avoid lots of initial manual labor work from both network and backup teams. If it is not on the list, how to other companies solve this instead?