Scale-out Repositories with Rotated Drives

[tsmithf]

I understand that Scale-out repositories don't support rotated drives, but can anybody tell me why, and will this ever be implemented?

Having moved from Backup Exec which allowed targetting a pool of USB drives when backing up a group of servers, so it is possible, I'm struggling to understand why Veeam doesn't support this very useful capability.

Standard Backup Repositories support rotated drives, but if the USB drive is smaller than the server group that's no good, I have discussed this with Veeam support and the suggestion was to add multiple drives to the Scale-out repository, and they suggested putting them in maintenance mode when swapping drives, then suggested Sealed mode when I encountered issues. Unfortunately all I'm facing is frequent failed backups, and I'm not convinced old files are being deleted in the same process as is implemented with rotated drives (using the registry key)

As we have a pool of different sized USB drives a simple pool of drives that can be used as a one large bacxkup resource would make life so much simpler.

We're a small company and with Covid still affecting business we just don't have a budget for new hardware solutions.

If Veeam can't do this are there other solutions?

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Supporting rotated drives in SOBR adds a huge number of possible failure scenarios that the software has to cover. There are also only very few requests for it (but we count your request +1). So chances are very low for that feature request.

The workaround would be to create different repositories and create smaller backup jobs. Example: if there is 10 TB to back up and the USB drives only have 8 TB, then split half / half.

Best regards,
Hannes

[tsmithf]

I'm surprised to be honest, I've found other forum posts looking for the same functionality, and it seems better to offer it as a solution instead of forcing the user to adopt a less flexible, less convienient approach, especially when competitors products have offered the feature for many years.

However thanks for the reply.