We are building a “green zone” where basic infrastructure systems including a hot standby backup environment should be running. This env is completely separated from current pro environment. This env will have no AD at the beginning. VBR is using a dedicated SQL server.
Our current VBR server is running in prod domain (ideas to move it and all Veeam systems to a dedicated domain exist for a long time but were never implemented. The idea to remove the systems from domain and use Workgroup also exist).
The very simple idea is currently to have a second VBR VM instance running there + some other Veeam components + a empty Linux repo and start downloading/stage backups from immutable Cloud Object Storage to a local Linux repo in this green zone ASAP to have everything local again and ready to restore. VBR server and all Veeam systems will run in Workgroup mode then. Ideally we would at least have the Veeam config backup available + all needed credentials an keys.
Would this be possible out of the box? Is the change for VBR from domain to workgroup impacting a config restore?
Would regular restore tests with this second VBR from prod cloud repositories be possible? I don’t think that I can connect one repo (or SOBR capacity extend) to a second VBR.