Local Veeam backup plus cloud connect replication

[arobins]

Hello,

Running Veeam 9.5, I am performing backups of ten VMs to a local SAN device. The backup jobs for the volatile servers run every hour and are application aware. Included in this, is our MS SQL Server and I have Veeam handling the transaction logs with a 15 minute T-Log backup.

In addition to the above local backup, I have set up a replication job to a Veeam Cloud Connect partner, so that we can operate from their site if we were to lose our datacenter.

I have found plenty of information, but nothing that addresses a local backup working in conjunction with cloud connect replication.

My questions are regarding optimal configuration for scheduling and application awareness (if any) of the replication job. Should I run it hourly as well, or daily? Should it be replicating directly from the VMs or from the local backups (can I even do that)? How should I have the job configured for application awareness and t-log handling?

Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Adam,

My questions are regarding optimal configuration for scheduling and application awareness (if any) of the replication job. Should I run it hourly as well, or daily?

It's up to you actually and depends on our RPO. If you're ok to lose data for the day in case of DR, then you can run it on daily basis.

Should it be replicating directly from the VMs or from the local backups (can I even do that)?

In order not to load source/production infrastructure I would recommend running replication jobs from backups. Here is the required setting for that > Step 4. Specify Data Source

How should I have the job configured for application awareness and t-log handling?

Logs truncation should be handled by one job, in your case it would be backup job.

Thank you!

[arobins]

Thanks for your responses! I think I've got it from here.