Windows repositories or linux

[Romain67897]

Good morning,

As a kind of new user on veeam (12.2.0.334), i have some questions in order to improve my knowledges

I'm trying to understand all the difference, and check advantages and disadvantages for the use of windows or linux repositories to store all the backup files.
Is there any existing table with all that informations ?
All details, requirements, differences, prerequesites etc etc.

Or, i'm fully opened to read you as you have more experience than me!!
Thank you so much in advance,

Romain.

[d.artzen]

The main advantage you have with linux repositories is the ability to use immutable backups aka Hardened Repositories. Also XFS as a file system is more stable then ReFS, which thanks to block cloning reduces the necessary space when using synthetic fulls. If you don't have linux knowledge you can now use the Managed Hardened ISO from Veeam, if your hardware meets the requirements.
We currently use both Windows and Linux. The VBR server itself is used as the primary repository and we use a Backup Copy Job to an Linux Machine (but not the Veeam ISO, since that did not exist when we build that repo) for the immutable backups.

[DanielJ]

We rebuilt almost all our ReFS repositories as hardened xfs repositories a few years ago and have never looked back. So far we haven't had a single problem related to this change.