VB365 to object to tape

[karsten123]

Hi all,

we have a customer environment with VB365 to object storage (2x Scality ARTESCA) and the customer wants to know how to bring this to tape.

Is there a present solution or is there something to come, maybe with v12.1?

Thanks!

[Polina]

Hi Karsten,

There's no solution yet, and from what I know the v12.1 functionality will be released with an exception for VB365 because application data consistency cannot be guaranteed in this case.

Thanks!

[karsten123]

Hi Polina,
thank you.

[karsten123]

Hi Polina,
can you please verify the limitation with RND.
We had a case with Scality and a Veeam SE told us that v12.1 is the solution for tape out the VB365 data.
Thanks

[mdiver]

What would be the best approach to backup M365 backups stored in object repositories to tape? These are - for good reasons - a much better choice for VBM than JetDB repos.
I guess we will see S3 backup capabilities in VBR some day (S3 being source here). It would be great to have those also not count towards the license IF a VBM backup is to be handled.

Thanks,
Mike

[Mildur]

Hi @Mike

I guess we will see S3 backup capabilities in VBR some day (S3 being source here).

Not some day, it will be available in our upcoming version 12.1.
Please see Polina's answer above. We can not provide official support because we cannot guarantee application data consistency.

@karsten123
Object storage does not provide snapshots or similar technologies to make sure that the entire bucket stays unchanged while the backup runs. A object storage backup session while VB365 writes or removes data on the repository can never be consistence. Therefore we cannot support this scenario.
Unsupported workaround: It may work if you disable all VB365 services before you start the object storage backup job. But I strongly recommend to test it.

Best,
Fabian

[karsten123]

Thank you Fabian. Got it.

Thank you for the clarification.

Regards. Karsten

[Gujumax]

Hi all,

We've been backing TiBs worth of M365 data to a on-prem local S3 bucket and we're seeing lots of problem with our tape library going offline that's attached to a separate server when we try to back it up to tape using Veeam B&R which is on a separate server from M365 and tape server.

We only see this behavior during full backup (TiB worth of data) to tape. During incremental, no issue because there isn't much to back up.

Does anyone have a workaround for this?

[karsten123]

is it supported now?

[Mildur]

No, it is not.
While it technically may work, it's still not supported by Veeam.

Best,
Fabian