Hello Team,
Greetings!
The option mentioned in below link:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/file_share_backup_job_secondary_target.html?ver=110
Is this only applicable for Veeam backed up VMs and we cannot use the secondary target for having a duplicate copy of replicated VMs correct?
Thanks in advance!
~ Ravi Kumar S
Best answer by MicoolPaul
Correct
You’d need to create a second replication job, as the secondary destination is effectively a backup copy job, but when you’re creating replicas, they’re not backups, therefore no backup copies could be created.
One thing you can do to avoid excessive VM snapshots & stuns in your environment if you want to create a secondary replica, is you can use a backup job as the source of your replica.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/replica_data_source_vm.html?ver=110
I believe this is the functionality you’re after 🙂
+12Exactly, if you want to do replica of VMs, this is the solution:
https://www.veeam.com/vm-advanced-replication.html
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/replication.html?ver=110
+23Correct
You’d need to create a second replication job, as the secondary destination is effectively a backup copy job, but when you’re creating replicas, they’re not backups, therefore no backup copies could be created.
One thing you can do to avoid excessive VM snapshots & stuns in your environment if you want to create a secondary replica, is you can use a backup job as the source of your replica.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/replica_data_source_vm.html?ver=110
I believe this is the functionality you’re after 🙂
Thanks
Thanks
So we can create secondary storage target as per this link for VMs that are getting backed up - https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/file_share_backup_job_secondary_target.html?ver=110
And use this as source for replica if needed correct?
+12+12Yes, as reported here, you can use backup as source for replica:
- Replica from backup uses a backup chain in a backup repository as the only source of data. When building a new VM replica restore point, Veeam Backup & Replication always reads data from the latest restore point in the backup chain, either full or incremental. The backup chain in the backup repository may be created with a backup job or a backup copy job.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/replica_from_backup.html?ver=110
but this has some limitations:
+23So we can create secondary storage target as per this link for VMs that are getting backed up - https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/file_share_backup_job_secondary_target.html?ver=110
And use this as source for replica if needed correct?
Yep that’s absolutely fine, backup copy to a near location for your secondary replicas and then replication with that repository as a source 🙂
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