Trouble with rotated drives

[Avides]

Hey,

we actually planing to change our backup software to veeam. (At the moment we backup our servers with the native wbadmin tool.)

What i actually did:

Created repositorys
- a scale out repository (Local Storage and S3 as capacity tier)
- two "rotated drives" repositorys H: and I:, path is only the drive letter (We will have two HDDs which we change daily for offsite backups. Because of the disk size we use two 4 TB and split up the backups on both)

- Created three (incremental forever) backup jobs for servers (just for testing, will add others if everything work as expected)
- Created a backup copy job to I:
--> Periodic copy (pruning), copy every day
--> Object to process -> selected the three backup jobs
--> Backup repository -> rotate drive I:, restore points to keep 7

So far so good:

As far as i understand veeam should check everytime before copy that there is a full backup on the disk, but that doesn't happen.
That is what it does:
Rotate Drive Monday -> Backup Copy Job creates a full backup from server 1,2,3
Rotate Drive Tuesday -> Backup Copy Job creates only one .vbk file of one server and from the others only .vib files (incremental)

Do i need to create a backup copy job for every server itself instead add all backups to one backup copy job?

Kind regards

Marc

[Andreas Neufert]

HI Marc,

did you use it with Scale out backup repositories?
Did you enable the rotate drive setting in the advanced Repository settings?

[Avides]

Hi Andreas,

yes, rotated drive setting is set in repository settings for both. (H: and I:)
Scale Out Repository is the main backup target as described in my first posting.
I read that rotated drive repositorys are not supported with sobr, but as far as i understand it's the case if i want to extend that repository which is not the case in my setup.

[Andreas Neufert]

It is a bit hard to say what happened.
Please read through these pages https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

It it is not clear for you then what happened, I suggest to open a support case and out team can have a look.

[Avides]

I created now one copy job for every server.
It was confusing that only one vbk is created for several servers, i excped one for every system
(dcsvr01 -> .vbk, dcsvr02 -> .vbk and not dcsvr01, dcsvr02, ... -> .vbk)
So the problem wasn't really one.
Nevertheless thanks for your help!