Moving to Linux Hardened Repository

[gambit120]

We have 6 large (60TB+ea) Veeam Repositories running Windows 2016+ with ReFS and Storage Spaces.

Management want the immutability of the Linux Repositories so I am orgainising to free up one of the windows repo's for testing.

I was looking at ZFS with XFS on top. Is this officially supported by Veeam? Are there any obvious recommendations when heading down the Linux path?

[HannesK]

Hello,
from Veeam perspective, all volume managers are fine (ZFS in your case). We only communicate with the file system (XFS in your case). Your ZFS + XFS was actually presented by our Lead Solution Architect (now in Product Management) some years ago at VeeamON.

The hardware that works for REFS should also be fine for XFS. There is a long thread on XFS (much off-topic) if you like veeam-backup-replication-f2/v10-xfs-all ... 65222.html

The bigger challenge I see is ZFS. I like RAID controllers more as "it just works". This post might be a good starting point post408522.html#p408522 (and forum search for "zfs" from author "tsightler".

Best regards,
Hannes