Hello,
As I’m doing Backup Copy Jobs to second location I think it would be good to have Veeam B&R on that site also if somethings happens with primary location.
For me I would need advice on licensing the second Veeam B&R.
My primary Veeam B&R is on the primary site so If everything goes down there is no way to restore VM’s without it.
Install Veeam B&R on second site. License?
Best answer by Chris.Childerhose
You could move your VBR server to the DR site. No second VBR server is needed to create the backup copies. To be able to recover your VBR server do an configuration backup and store it at both sites. With this the recreation of the VBR server is easy.
In order to be able to recreate the VBR server fast you should either have a spare hardware you can install and recover with VBR and your configuration backup. Or have a provisioned VM at both sites to recreate the server fast.
You should implement Repository servers with enough storage to hold your backup data at each site.
For now I have first solution. One VBR that manage both sites and the VBR is located in my case in Vienna, Austria. Second site is Novi Sad, Serbia.
For me the question is if Vienna goes down I then install VBR in Novi Sad with Configuration file and then I can restore VM’s from backups?
If you have a second VBR server at your DR site but it is not backing up or doing anything you should be ok as it will not use licenses. If the main site goes down you restore the configuration backup and license to the DR site to restore things. You will need access to the repository from the primary site to recover.
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