Using Backup Copy for offsite.

[jadams159]

The best practices and deployment guide for v7 states that WAN accelerators should be used when leveraging backup copy jobs to get backups to a remote site over a slow WAN link.

I don't have Enterprise plus for the WAN accelerators.

I will be using a virtual Veeam server with all roles writing to local vmdk repositories at my primary site. There will be a NAS device at the secondary site to receive backup copy job data.

In this scenario, should I have a proxy in each site in order to get the best performance for my backup copy jobs?

Thanks in advance.

[Shestakov]

Hello Justin,

It depends on how your NAS is added to Veeam B&R console.
If it is added as a CIFS share, you need to configure some server to play a role of a proxying server for the CIFS repository.
If it`s not a share, you will have no proxy servers, the data flow will be: Disk > Source backup repository > Network > Target backup repository > Disk.

Here are visual examples. Thank you.

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I will be using a virtual Veeam server with all roles writing to local vmdk repositories at my primary site.

Please also note that storing backup data on VMFS is not considered as best practice.