Veeam 12 How does Replication from backup repository work?

[shineknoxTN]

This is just an architecture question on how Veeam 12 works with replicating VMs from a backup repository. There is no source backup proxy to select only a target backup proxy. This makes sense because it's replicating from the backup repository containing the backup files. I'm mostly curious of the network flow? I see that the target backup proxy uses hotadd, but how are the backup files being replicated to create a replica VM? Is it being replicated from the backup server's network hosting the backup repository? If so, is that traffic going to the target proxy or ESX host or vCenter... I have not seen any documentation on the network flow when the replication job is replicating up from a backup repository.

Any documentation or knowledge transfer is much appreciated.

Thanks

[PetrM]

Hello,

The documentation is here. The traffic flow is: source Data Mover runs on a repository (or a gateway server) where backups reside-> target Data Mover on the target proxy (which is on the target ESXi in case of HotAdd)-> depends on transport mode (HotAdd in your case).

Thanks!