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@Stabz This is a great feature but sending on-premesis backups to object storage have me a little concerned. One issue I am afraid that will crop up is bandwidth issues. Users will need to make sure they have enough bandwidth and object inject speed to handle their backup traffic in their stated backup window. The second issue I worry about is that hope will think since they have a backup in the cloud they won’t need a second copy somewhere else. I think that will be a big mistake. Personally I am going to discuss this as a great on-premesis solution to provide immutability with the hassle of learning Linux - and may well be easier to maintain for some shops. Then do a backup copy job to an off-site location.
The best practices guide for the concurrent tasks. Th eBP guide wills its I/3rd of the total amount of proxy tasks (cores) send data to the repo. Remember the gateway needs to sized like a repository sever so make sure you follow the RAM and CPU recommendations. On more thing you will need to consider when sizing the repo with the required tasks. Will you be doing any SOBR offloads to object storage, or backup copy jobs? If so then make sure you have some extra task slots (CPU) available in your gateway server so the offload can keep running when the backup runs. Th backup job has priority over offload jobs so it will take tasks assign to offload to complete a backup job if there is not enough proxy tasks assign to the gateway.
Backup copy is the law… 👮🏼!@wolff.mateus How true and one that quite a few people don’t think about.
@regnor I am always amazed at the customers who leave a weeks worth of newly written tapes in there library - 😱. They will be the ones who will complain when they loose data during a disaster.
Thanks for sharing! I am glad the outcome was good! I had a scary situation once over a Christmas holiday when trying to add a new IO board to a storage array. The procedure I used went bad and the entire production array started shutting down and required a reboot! Nothing like hearing 100’s of disk drives home and turn off! It really makes you feel like you are going to faint! 😉 Fortunately I had weeks worth of good Veeam backups to restore from and was able to get the array back in working order in a matter of hours!
Even though the Huawei storage integration is no longer available you can still backup VM data from that array through Direct SAN access, hotadd (virtual appliance mode) and NBD (network) mode.
Great observation! Thanks for sharing!
@Link State I always prefer a native database dump and backup for these situations.However, the majority of DB2 customers that I have talked with do not like the DB2 native backup with log truncation for a number of reasons. The main reason is that there is no quiescent if the DB and the transactions logs need to be gathered during the backup and restores need log replays. This makes for a longer backup and longer restores. In most instances it is hard to go back and change their DB2 behavior to work like this.The customers who have used this are usually running the DB2 on arrays that create fast array snapshots - so it’s not much of a disruption to do a momentary DB pause then a fast array snapshot then the db resume write. They see it as a lesser of 2 evils.
The SNMP mibs are based on job monitoring - red, yellow, green and runtime stats. It’s really basic monitoring. Most all Veeam events -security, config changes, restores, job runs, etc. get sent to the event logs. This function was actually added to VBR to make it easier to get VBR info into Windows System Center Operations Monitor (SCOM) which allowed for more granular reporting and Alerts from or SCOM Management Pack - aka The MP! The MP is our Enterprise monitoring and alerting program.
Veeam does not have a native way to push syslog to other applications without use of a few API calls, and/or robo copy. However, there are plenty of tools that can read read the Windows Event Logs. Veeam started putting VBR events in the Event Viewer as a way to get them into Microsoft System Center Operations Monitor (SCOM) so we could alert on them with the MP. There are plenty of tools that can report and alarm off of Windows Events. In certain cases, Veeam One custom alarms can be triggered from a specific event log message as well. VBR can send basic SMNP traps to an SMNP trap receiver. The MIB is in the Installation iSO.
I agree with you on the hardware vendor space @MicoolPaul! I do think that Veeam can continue to innovate in the storage related features that get added to the product to help with backup repository performance and features.
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