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Hi all, I have a followup question to As I described before I’m “forced” (at least for the moment) to put the storage also on the Veeam server itself. Overall there might be the possibibility that there will by ~20-30TB on vib/vkb files. Can this still be realized within the Veeam VM? What are the alternatives if all data have to be on one physical server? BR Frank I’ve got an additional question, as I realized that my description wasn’t clear enough probably. Solution 1:Hyper-V host with large VMDK file which hosts the Veeam VM (both the logic and the backup files) Solution 2:Hyper-V host with normal VMDK file which hosts the Veeam VM (only logic) and additional another share directly on the RAID on the host (Veeam VM needs then access to this share) Any comments on these two options? BRFrankShould the Hyper-V hosts
additional Linux VM on the same physical server as hardened repository Really easy to delete all of your backups. Just delete the vm (and the windows vm) with all virtual disks. And you have nothing :) You must protect your backup repository. There should be no reason to let the management interfaces open. Backup server as a physical machine This should be your linux hardened repo. Ubuntu installed directly on the hardware. Protected behind firewalls. No management interface reachable from any system. Only the few Ports veeam needs to operate. Understood. It seems that I just needed to know the full stupidity.
Hello, as management finally has approved the founds we will upgrade our fileserver and backup structure both in hardware and software. Delivery and configuration is foreseen in ~ 2 weeks. The main server to be backed up will hold our fileserver with ~ 8TB and several smaller VMs (linux and windows). The B&R server will be on a seperate machine and inside a VM. The Hyper-V core is planned with Server 2022. Is there a risk of using Server 2022 for the B&R VM (after v11a release of course)? Is ReFS the best choice for the filesystem? BR Frank Yes if the 2022 install is new and not an upgrade it would be recommended with the enhancements to the ReFS system. As noted by Mildur the hardened repositiory if able to as well. This might be a very stupid idea but not that I’m overlooking something. Are the following szenarios possible (and recommended)? Backup server as a physical machineB&R as a VM (with no storage space)additional Windows VM on the same physica
The thing is: does make sense to set up a hyperv structure in 2022 with the awareness that the hyperv project already has a deadline of 2029 and no new version will be published? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-server-insiders/hyper-v-server-2022/m-p/2679949 I would say no based on that post as 2019 Hyper-V is the last one in the OS and then you need to transition to Azure. Might as well start on that or go with 2019 for Hyper-V. 2029 is outside of my horizon, so that’s not an issue for me. And Azure is a totally different field where I still have no clue about.
Thanks for the guidance on the server 2022 issue.The hardened repository is not excluded. Unfortunately that would requires another machine. It was cheaper to put more HDD into the second machine. And this machine would then also be capable of restoring the VM from backup if the main server fails.Addiionally I’l take 1 or 2 old servers and will put a short backup chain using the linux hardened repository.
Hi all, after some non-Veeam related difficulties the test systems works. All configurations could be done with the initial Ubuntu-installer and the veeamhubrepo script.At the moment there is only one issue which puzzles me. I have 3 TB drives in a software RAID 5. The overview of the repository shows me:capacity: 1.8TBFree: 706GBUsed space: 2.2TB On the repository are 3 files:a vbk from 13.08. 1.08TB data size, 838GB backup size, retention Ra vib from 14.08. 825GB data size, 300GB backup sizea vbk from 15.08. 1.81TB data size, 1.05 backup size, retention W (weekly GFS) Why do I have more used space then the given capacity?
Hi @omfk , Could be handy if you could tell us more about the purpose of this test, is it just you want to get an immutable backup test in place? or are you trying to get any performance characteristics from the RAID array? Hi, apart from short bad feeling a device loss will result in zero problems as the data used for this test are already backed up by a different VBR server. Also performance is no issue at all. As you stated it is just a test for immutable backups.The only topic to be achieved is a repository > 1TB, so I have to “combine” at least 2 HDD.
Hi, This is definitely outside of normal Veeam conversation but happy to jump in and help. You haven’t mentioned if you have a RAID controller or not, are you using a hardware RAID or software RAID? If hardware, you can create your RAID 10 and then present two partitions within this, you would then create a mount point for your second partition and you’d be good to go. If software, you need to create the partition in advance. The problem you’ll have is you need to create the software RAID prior to installation if you wish to put your OS on the software RAID. The tool you’ll need to create software RAIDs is mdadm. If you’re using software RAID you’ll be out of luck getting any official support for RAID 10 as /boot can’t use any software RAID other than RAID1. (Installation/SoftwareRAID - Community Help Wiki (ubuntu.com)) Let us know if we’re talking software/hardware RAID and we can help further hopefully. As this is only a test ground no official support is fine. The use case afterw
Does the system have a RAID controller that the drives are connected to? That would be the first question but if you want RAID10 for the repo then this setup would be hard to accomplish this. You would be better suited to install another drive for the OS and use the four 1TB drives for the RAID10 if that is what you want. RAID10 requires an even number of drives to work. There is no hardware RAID controller; just the 4 SATA ports of the mainboard (P8H6). So there is no additional port left for the OS.
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