Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R
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I'm looking for a Veeam B&R backup target recommendation.
I can't provide much details at the moment, but I'm looking for ~40TB at the moment.
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I hear you can build a pretty robust SAM-SD with that amount of storage, fully supported. That may be a better option then some of the SAN-esque solutions that are out there.
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Veeam itself recommends Windows whiteboxes AFAIK. Maybe the way to go.
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I use a NAS and have been for a few years. No issues at all.
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@thwr said in Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R:
Veeam itself recommends Windows whiteboxes AFAIK. Maybe the way to go.
Odd that you would spend a license on Windows for this type of thing. Roll an NFS server and set that as your backup target on a SAM-SD. Virtualize it and give storage to it as you need.
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@coliver said in Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R:
@thwr said in Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R:
Veeam itself recommends Windows whiteboxes AFAIK. Maybe the way to go.
Odd that you would spend a license on Windows for this type of thing. Roll an NFS server and set that as your backup target on a SAM-SD. Virtualize it and give storage to it as you need.
EDU. Windows licensing isn't a big factor. But you're right, I could easily go for a Linux box with NFS shares.
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@thwr said in Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R:
@coliver said in Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R:
@thwr said in Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R:
Veeam itself recommends Windows whiteboxes AFAIK. Maybe the way to go.
Odd that you would spend a license on Windows for this type of thing. Roll an NFS server and set that as your backup target on a SAM-SD. Virtualize it and give storage to it as you need.
EDU. Windows licensing isn't a big factor. But you're right, I could easily go for a Linux box with NFS shares.
Still requires the effort and time of license management and tracking. It's a pain. Even for free, is Windows providing a benefit?
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SAM, stop poking me with that stick, please
Will go for a Linux box. -
I like DASs and Linux for backup repositories.
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Well, there are four more or less new servers:
- 2x SuperMicro 4HE 24 Disk HE chassis w/ a single Xeon 2609
- 2x SuperMicro 2HE two-socket Xeon 2630 w/ 64GB of RAM
I think I will use the 4 HE chassis to build two big NFS stores. I could easily attach JBODs later.
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@thwr said in Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R:
Well, there are four more or less new servers:
- 2x SuperMicro 4HE 24 Disk HE chassis w/ a single Xeon 2609
- 2x SuperMicro 2HE two-socket Xeon 2630 w/ 64GB of RAM
I think I will use the 4 HE chassis to build two big NFS stores. I could easily attach JBODs later.
Please share the final hardware build sheet on this. I'm guessing the stack of drives will cost more than the chassis.
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@thwr said in Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R:
Veeam itself recommends Windows whiteboxes AFAIK. Maybe the way to go.
That is because their software runs on Windows.
They do finally have a few things on Linux, but it is a mess still.
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@thwr
I have mine working out of CentOS 7 minimal with ssh/perl and ports 2500-5000 open. Veeam does not even need root or NFS for a Linux repository.
Be careful as Veeam copies and executes programs to /tmp and I had my /tmp partition with noexec; took me a while to figure it out. -
@thwr said in Backup target recommendation for Veeam B&R:
I'm looking for a Veeam B&R backup target recommendation.
I can't provide much details at the moment, but I'm looking for ~40TB at the moment.
I’m in the same boat as yours. I’m building a Linux backup target with an x3550m4 and a Dell MD1000 attached through a SAS external controller. I just have to finalize the right controller-SAS_ports choice, anyone with experience about that?
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@dave_c Thank you very much. I'm going to build a Veeam backup target with Linux in a few days.
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@manheraz
This may help a bit:
https://www.virtualtothecore.com/en/permissions-for-veeam-backup-linux-repositories/
