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Restore from tape and simultaneously backup
I have two questions:
- Is it possible to backup more than one VM simultaneously in one backup job?
- When backup to tape is used. What is the restore procedure when content is needed from tape?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
- Is it possible to backup more than one VM simultaneously in one backup job?
- When backup to tape is used. What is the restore procedure when content is needed from tape?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Re: Restore from tape and simultaneously backup
Hello Ivo,
Thanks.
No, you need to configure multiple jobs to run VMs backups simultaneously.ief wrote:- Is it possible to backup more than one VM simultaneously in one backup job?
As soon as you move backup files from tapes, just import them to the backup console and perform a restore procedure.ief wrote:- When backup to tape is used. What is the restore procedure when content is needed from tape?
Thanks.
Re: Restore from tape and simultaneously backup
As for question 2:
You don't even need to have B&R console to do a restore. There's a tiny "extract.exe" utility which can be put to tape along with VBK file. For more information, please refer to this topic.
You don't even need to have B&R console to do a restore. There's a tiny "extract.exe" utility which can be put to tape along with VBK file. For more information, please refer to this topic.
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Re: Restore from tape and simultaneously backup
thanks for the reply.
With one job you can select the cluster so all new VMs will automatically protected. How you do this with 2 jobs?
With one job you can select the cluster so all new VMs will automatically protected. How you do this with 2 jobs?
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Re: Restore from tape and simultaneously backup
You can add container objects (e.g. clusters, hosts, datastores, VM folders) to the job to achieve that.
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Re: Restore from tape and simultaneously backup
Just note the major caveat that the "extract.exe" can't restore incremental backups, only a full VBK. Not a problem if you use reverse incrementals and copy the VBK each night, but a big issue if you use the default incremental backup and only copy the VIB file to tape each night (the recommended option for tape backups by Veeam).Alexey D. wrote:As for question 2:
You don't even need to have B&R console to do a restore. There's a tiny "extract.exe" utility which can be put to tape along with VBK file. For more information, please refer to this topic.
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Re: Restore from tape and simultaneously backup
If you run multiple VM backup jobs simultaneously, will de-duplication still take affect across the VMs?
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Re: Restore from tape and simultaneously backup
No, deduplication option is per job only.
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