Hi folks,
I continued my tests on the lab, and did a I wanted to share the results and thoughts with you.
After the initial setup, and installing Tailscale on my Veeam V&R Server vm, I also installed on a client machine outside of my network (also internet connection, emulating a remote client).
Tailscale has a Magic DNS service that, when the agent is installed, you can call the clients by their DNS names (or names configured at the Web console),
So, I though, why don't I deploy a backup agent and connect it through the Tailscale VPN network?
instead of opening ports, and mapping IP addresses, I give it a shot,
I created a protection group and added the test client in the process, as you can see in the screenshots:
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/43282d75-adf7-40f7-8698-ee222c15e8cf.png)
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/c7a07908-fd4d-45b4-84c6-9ec8f0d63c0d.png)
the, with the agent deployed, I created a backup job to test it out.
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/e3aadd5a-c075-458d-8c8f-4d5625bfd44e.png)
Now, let's trigger the backup, the fist one will be a FULL one, so I was anxious and “scared” at the same time:
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/29d0c085-222a-4fa1-8ad1-851dc9e469a9.png)
Fire in the hole!
Backup has started and seems to be doing fine…
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/1e07c36a-6e02-47fa-accb-daeae3c0e563.png)
and here it comes the magic, performing at 68Mbps and very stable,
Full backup from the agent to the Veeam B&R Server with Local repo running ok!
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/0ce508fd-9cd5-4a06-a928-825527797263.png)
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/0fd2977b-183b-476b-aae4-44cbbdae3ea1.png)
And done!
60GB thin vm
Read 11GB
Transferred 6.5GB
In less than 30 minutes!
Then my curiosity went 1 level up, so I decided to also perform a FLR from the client:
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/9a54a817-b7df-43c4-b653-e921e4542791.png)
an ESXi 8 ISO file, around 600MB.
and….
![](https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/veeam-en/attachment/e7207474-efba-4c64-bc4a-5ae62ed1c49a.png)
Voilá!
I’ve got so impressed on how good it performed!!
I really wanted to show it to you, in case you have a special deployment or occasion, you have an idea of a possible workaround, or like me, running some tests for fun!
I will post the steps and process more detailed on my blog.
cheers.