After setting up our first secure linux repo at work I had the thought of adding some more at branch office locations. Initially, I wondered if it would be possible to take a raspberry pi to host the ubuntu server, but soon came to the conclusion the Veeam agent service is not likely to support ARM. I wanted something small we could drop in a locked server closet and push copies out overnight.
So where I have ended up is running/testing this on my home lab: Secure linux repo setup on an old SFF x64 Celeron machine that was decommissioned with the Win 7 EOL. It’s equipped with 4GB RAM, gig ethernet, and a 5TB WD USB 3 drive. Loaded up community edition on my Win 10 Hyper V install and loaded the agent on the host desktop. Disabled IPv6 on the Veeam app server and my agent installed desktop to alleviate some veeam proxy connection errors occurring mid-job and away we go. I’m also running backups from my standalone Hyper V host.
Being able to use something this sophisticated at home seems like a great home lab backup operation and is a testament to the versatility of the Veeam solution. The reflink enabled drive should really stretch the capacity on the USB drive and I’m getting transfer of like 90 MBps. Perfect for sending overnight encrypted backup copies across a gig wan connection to an immutable repo when I end up setting this up at work.
Anyway I thought this was a cool option for repurposing old hardware and wanted to share my success story.
Has anyone tried something similar? I used the Nolabnoparty blog as my initial point of reference when setting up the secure repo:
https://nolabnoparty.com/en/veeam-v11-hardened-repository-immutability-pt-1/
