I have been (legally) ordered to provide “any and all” copies of backups for a client dating back two years. Veeam 8.1.2 Community runs on a Win10 Virtual Machine and runs 3 routines daily
Exchange, SharePoint + Teams, OneDrive
Manual restore will take a year and $9K of external USB hard drives.
Wondering if there is a way to give them a copy of the Veeam virtual machine with backups disabled and the only restore options are save locally. I do not want them to accidentally trigger a restore job that overwrites the live data.
Disabling the 3 jobs is not appealing because they can be enabled easily.
I changed the global admin password associated with the organization but did not affect Veeam operation. This would allow us to continue to the original Veeam backup server for daily backups.
In typing this, it seems that providing them with a searchable and restorable archive is what I am looking for. Plus it cannot interfere with the ongoing backup of the live data.
I am grateful for any suggestions or possible avenues to explore
Thanks,
mtg
