Skip to main content
Answer

Unify multi vendor backups

  • June 3, 2022
  • 4 comments
  • 67 views
J

Does anyone have a good strategy to bring versioned file based backups from multi vendors into veeam or any other solution? 

Best answer by Mildur

Hi Jason

Do you want to import backups from other vendors to Veeam? That will not work. Veeam cannot do anything with this backups.

My recommendation, keep both backup systems. The old and the new one. And when the retention is over for the old backup solutions, power off the system.

 

Thanks

Fabian 

    Chris.Childerhose
    Link State
    Madi.Cristil

    4 comments

    Mildur
    Forum|alt.badge.img+12
    • Mildur
    • Influencer
    • Answer
    • June 3, 2022

    Hi Jason

    Do you want to import backups from other vendors to Veeam? That will not work. Veeam cannot do anything with this backups.

    My recommendation, keep both backup systems. The old and the new one. And when the retention is over for the old backup solutions, power off the system.

     

    Thanks

    Fabian 

    Senior Analyst, Product Management @ Veeam Software
    Chris.Childerhose
    MicoolPaul
    Link State
    Chris.Childerhose
    Forum|alt.badge.img+21

    Hi Jason

    Do you want to import backups from other vendors to Veeam? That will not work. Veeam cannot do anything with this backups.

    My recommendation, keep both backup systems. The old and the new one. And when the retention is over for the old backup solutions, power off the system.

     

    Thanks

    Fabian 

    This is probably the best advice here as noted Veeam does not import or read other vendor backup files.

    Chris Childerhose - VMCA2024 | VMCE2023 | VMCE-SP2024 | Veeam Vanguard 8* | Veeam Legend 5* | VUG Canada Leader | vExpert 6* | Toronto VMUG Leader | VCAP-DCV/VCP-DCV | Object First Ace | Cisco Champion | Twitter: @cchilderhose | Blog Site – https://just-virtualization.tech
    Mildur
    Link State
    marcofabbri
    MicoolPaul
    Forum|alt.badge.img+23

    Agree with @Mildur, if you absolutely HAVE to migrate your backups (sometimes happens, leased backup repositories etc), you should restore your backups into an isolated staging space, and then back that up, labelled appropriately so you know where it’s come from and what date/time it was processed.

    Michael Paul - Opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Veeam | https://micoolpaul.com | Mastodon: @micoolpaul@masto.nu | Bluesky: @micoolpaul.com
    Chris.Childerhose
    Mildur
    vNote42
    Forum|alt.badge.img+12
    • vNote42
    • On the path to Greatness
    • June 15, 2022

    By the way its the same with tape-migration from one vendor to another (like Veeam). If you want to have “native” Veeam tape backups after migration, you need to restore tapes as VM respectively as machine and backup it again using Veeam. This is a huge amount of work!

    Wolfgang | vnote42.net | @vNote42
    Chris.Childerhose
    Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement