TLDR;
set up a linux server as a veeam repository on a proxmox server for local VBR proxmox proxy target? I searched around the community for a bit, so if I missed a good post can you point me at it?
We stood up a new site last year and I initially deployed Hyper-V server to run a DC and a file share server at the remote site/branch. Using Hyper-V and Veeam I was happily surprised that Veeam deploys a proxy to back up Hyper-V (mostly was using vmware).
- I had a local disk attached to the Hyper-V server which acted as a Veeam backup repository. This as a pretty awesome surprise how easily and fast the Veeam backups and restores happened on the Hyper-V server using a USB 3 external hard drive.
So Veeam would run jobs to hopefully back up the Hyper-V servers locally and then I would run a disk copy job to pull those backups back to the main site periodically for just in case scenarios, and would also copy the disk copy jobs to a rotating offline backup.
I recently decided to migrate away from that Hyper-V instance to Proxmox, which I have been running tests on for a couple of months and seem happy with it. (Backup snapshot disk remnant issues kept occurring causing more admin than I wanted to deal with, last straw was the DC crash into AD recovery mode).
I do have backup jobs running on Proxmox server using all the Proxmox utilities to make backups to a locally attached 12 TB disk (DAS). The native product mocks backups are running fine. I'm trying to add that Veeam layer just so I can get a copy back here and also have another way to restore just in case.
Questions:
How can I get Veeam to see a repository on that Proxmox server as local so I can back up to it instead of a NAS, or a repository on the other side of a s2s VPN?
Would this be simply standing up a Linux server with a big hard drive to then share with Veeam as a repository? I'm not great with Linux but trying to get better and am very familiar with Windows.
