Was just wondering if those using Veeam in production at the moment could list how you've got your environment set up?Choices seem to be...
- Physical or virtual server?
- Storage for Veeam files on local disk or on a CIFS share?
- Is Veeam backing up entirely iSCSI \ FC stores on VMFS or are there any hosted on NFS?
- Are you storing the Veeam files to tape as well as disk?
- Replication of Veeam backup files yes \ no (if yes, how?)
The issue I have is that I want to keep a long-term archive (i.e. greater than 14-30 days) and also have backups on a secondary medium away from disk. Only thing that means is if I backup to a NAS I'll have to shovel the data back across the network to stream it to tape, which doesn't seem ideal.
I guess the solution I want is a physical server, files stored locally then a tape drive hanging off that... would be perfect but for the NFS backup performance and the fact I can't find a quiet server to keep in our office!
We're on a single site and there's no other room for server kit apart from the main server room and our office. I feel uncomfortable with backups being in the same physical location as the servers so somehow need to isolate it to another area.
