Veeam B&R 7 Proxies

[serverbu]

Hello,

a small question regarding the Backup Proxies:
We plan to deploy veeam b&r to an environment with multiple datacenters on physicaly separated locations and plan to put at least one proxy at every location. The proxies will be vmware VMs.

What happens if the proxy VM faults? What happens to Jobs explicitly assigned to the faulting proxy, does veeam run these jobs on an available proxy if the assigned proxy isn't responding or does the job fail?
If the jobs won't be executed, do we simply install a new VM with same dns and computername and install the Proxy on this new machine and thats it (jobs will work again) or do we have to change configuration of jobs in veeam master server to make this replacement machine a part of the veeam construct?

Thanks and best regards.

[Shestakov]

Hello,

What happens if the proxy VM faults? What happens to Jobs explicitly assigned to the faulting proxy, does veeam run these jobs on an available proxy if the assigned proxy isn't responding or does the job fail?

If a Backup Proxy server tho which a job was explicitly assigned fails, the job will fail as well. However, in a case of Backup Proxy automatic selection when one Backup Proxy faults during a job processing, another proxy finishes an interrupted part of the job.

If the jobs won't be executed, do we simply install a new VM with same dns and computername and install the Proxy on this new machine and thats it (jobs will work again) or do we have to change configuration of jobs in veeam master server to make this replacement machine a part of the veeam construct?

Yes, if you preserve the same settings and re-install proxy components on the new VM, your jobs should continue using this proxy.
Nikita

[Gostev]

You can pick more than one proxy even with manual selection, so if one proxy fails, the job will still continue to work using the other proxies. Thanks!

[serverbu]

We Plan to use one Proxy VM as Backup Repository too. The Repository is a separate vmdk file.
What happens to the Backupfiles on his repo when we have to install a new machine?
Do we simply install the new machine with the same parameters as the faulting one and just attach the vmdk to this machine and veeam can access the backup files or do we have to install as new repo and scan for backups?

[Shestakov]

Please be aware that using virtual disk as a Backup Repository is not a best practice. Here you can read why.
But if you preserve exactly same settings, re-install backup repository components, attach the vmdk on the new VM, rescan the repository and do mapping to backup jobs they will be using this backup repository.
Thanks.