Maintain control of your Microsoft 365 data
Post Reply
karsten123
Service Provider
Posts: 467
Liked: 119 times
Joined: Apr 03, 2019 6:53 am
Full Name: Karsten Meja
Contact:

VB365 to object to tape

Post by 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
Veeam Software
Posts: 3136
Liked: 756 times
Joined: Oct 21, 2011 11:22 am
Full Name: Polina Vasileva
Contact:

Re: VB365 to object to tape

Post by 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
Service Provider
Posts: 467
Liked: 119 times
Joined: Apr 03, 2019 6:53 am
Full Name: Karsten Meja
Contact:

Re: VB365 to object to tape

Post by karsten123 »

Hi Polina,
thank you.
karsten123
Service Provider
Posts: 467
Liked: 119 times
Joined: Apr 03, 2019 6:53 am
Full Name: Karsten Meja
Contact:

Re: VB365 to object to tape

Post by 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
Veeam Legend
Posts: 220
Liked: 36 times
Joined: Nov 04, 2009 2:08 pm
Contact:

[MERGED] Re: M365 bakup data to tape

Post by 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
Product Manager
Posts: 9689
Liked: 2562 times
Joined: May 13, 2017 4:51 pm
Full Name: Fabian K.
Location: Switzerland
Contact:

Re: VB365 to object to tape

Post by 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
Product Management Analyst @ Veeam Software
karsten123
Service Provider
Posts: 467
Liked: 119 times
Joined: Apr 03, 2019 6:53 am
Full Name: Karsten Meja
Contact:

Re: VB365 to object to tape

Post by karsten123 »

Thank you Fabian. Got it.

Thank you for the clarification.

Regards. Karsten
Gujumax
Influencer
Posts: 12
Liked: never
Joined: Aug 24, 2021 12:50 am
Full Name: Max
Contact:

Re: VB365 to object to tape

Post by 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
Service Provider
Posts: 467
Liked: 119 times
Joined: Apr 03, 2019 6:53 am
Full Name: Karsten Meja
Contact:

Re: VB365 to object to tape

Post by karsten123 »

is it supported now?
Mildur
Product Manager
Posts: 9689
Liked: 2562 times
Joined: May 13, 2017 4:51 pm
Full Name: Fabian K.
Location: Switzerland
Contact:

Re: VB365 to object to tape

Post by Mildur »

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

Best,
Fabian
Product Management Analyst @ Veeam Software
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests