Access to production backup repository during DataLab test

[chrisflyckelen]

Hi everyone,

is there a way to provide access to a Veeam backup repository through the proxy appliance during a DataLab test?

The use case is the following:
A customer restores a prepared VM as part of a DataLab test. The VM is running Oracle Linux 9.x. Within this isolated environment, the customer would like to access a backup repository containing Oracle RMAN backups in order to perform a database restore.

Is it possible to configure outbound connectivity from the DataLab environment to the backup repository — and potentially also to the backup server — so that the VM can read and restore the Oracle RMAN backups?

Thank you in advance,
Christian

[petesteven]

In my opinion, that's not possible.
The Virtual Lab is intentionally separated from the production environment. After all, we don't want to cause any damage to the production environment.
Incoming connections to the lab are possible via masquerading/NAT, but outgoing connections are intentionally blocked for the most part or entirely.

[chrisflyckelen]

Thanks for your reply, Peter.

And I fully agree to your statement. In my ongoing project, we are facing the challenge of ensuring that a restored Oracle Linux VM inside the DataLab has access to the primary backup repository to restore Oracle RMAN backups triggered by a script on that VM.
The manual approach is to change the port group of the NIC to production temporarily, access the backups, restore them, and then switch back to isolated network.

Does anyone else has an idea?

Thank you,
Christian