I’ve used Veeam Backup & Replication V10 solutino; have File-level-backupjobs, Synthetic full backup, local repo, and use Optimal Data Compression.
My issue is, High and Extreme Data Compression does not compress The Backup.
my backups took massive sotrage, why is the compression not working?
Best answer by Mildur
Thanks for outlining your configuration.
A connected iscsi is totally possible to backup with the veeam Agent. It‘s the only way to backup the iscsi volume.
For doing volume backup, you need to configure the drive letter in the backup job on the veeam-server. This needs to be done in this step:
If the drive letter in the backup job matches with the one of the iscsi volume in the Server-One, then something is definitely not right.
For a test, you could start a Entire Computer Backup. If the iscsi volume is included in the backup, then there is no reason why it is not working with Volume level Backup.
I would ask veeam support to have a deeper look, especially if you have an active maintenance contract. I don‘t like agent file level backups, because they have not a great performance and they require most of the time more space than a block level backup.
They are not really storage effective with file level backups. Each time you change a single file, the entire file will be needed to be backed up again.
Okay, let me figure it out for you. I have Two NAS Storage First one is connected to Server-One, and the other one is connected to Veeam-Server, both of them are connected by Microsoft ISCSI, “It’s appeared like a local disk.”
So on the Veeam-server, I set up the repo on the NAS Storage.
A connected iscsi is totally possible to backup with the veeam Agent. It‘s the only way to backup the iscsi volume.
For doing volume backup, you need to configure the drive letter in the backup job on the veeam-server. This needs to be done in this step:
If the drive letter in the backup job matches with the one of the iscsi volume in the Server-One, then something is definitely not right.
For a test, you could start a Entire Computer Backup. If the iscsi volume is included in the backup, then there is no reason why it is not working with Volume level Backup.
I would ask veeam support to have a deeper look, especially if you have an active maintenance contract. I don‘t like agent file level backups, because they have not a great performance and they require most of the time more space than a block level backup.