Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional
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You can replicate the backups to another server at your office or backup to a cloud solution.
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@dashrender said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
You can replicate the backups to another server at your office or backup to a cloud solution.
It looks like Veeam has it's own marketplace with Veeam Cloud Connect. Also, replicating back to our office could work as well, since once I get the ERLs in place, I imagine our site-to-site VPN speed will improve.
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@eddiejennings said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
@dashrender said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
You can replicate the backups to another server at your office or backup to a cloud solution.
It looks like Veeam has it's own marketplace with Veeam Cloud Connect. Also, replicating back to our office could work as well, since once I get the ERLs in place, I imagine our site-to-site VPN speed will improve.
I use Veeam copy job to copy backups to an offsite Veeam instance. I can post more on this later.
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Can you guess when the Copy job started?
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@jaredbusch said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
Can you guess when the Copy job started?
14:11?
So that's copying to another VM somewhere that's running Veeam. Other than rtfm, how's the connection made to that instance?
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@eddiejennings said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
@jaredbusch said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
Can you guess when the Copy job started?
14:11?
So that's copying to another VM somewhere that's running Veeam. Other than rtfm, how's the connection made to that instance?
You add a server. In my case, I have infrastructure in a colo that am backing up to that is already running an instance of Veeam (free version there) that is the backup target.
But you do not have to have a Windows server on site to do this.
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@jaredbusch said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
Ah, I see. I assume you have a VPN connection to that colo, yes?
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@eddiejennings said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
@jaredbusch said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
Ah, I see. I assume you have a VPN connection to that colo, yes?
Yes, but you can do it over the open internet as nothing is in the clear to my knowledge.
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@EddieJennings That setup I took picture of before had to get reset and so those three VM's were sending the initial copy over.
That finished about 4 hours ago.
Now, I removed the DC from being excluded and told the job to sync now.
You can see in the text that the existing jobs barely had any change to send.
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Making their poor coax service from Charter (Spectrum now) cry like a baby...
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@jaredbusch said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
Making their poor coax service from Charter (Spectrum now) cry like a baby...
hahaha 1.7GB in 30 minutes. Going to take 35+ hours at this rate.
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Having to drive somewhere to swap the drive each week sounds like such a PITA. Bet you cant wait to get that sorted.
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I run my servers locally in Camden. Space is not an issue for us, and we have dual lines/cooling anyway, so have not moved to a colocation. We run the free veeam agent on all the VMs to an on site Synology NAS - 60TB WDRed Pro drives.
I then have a second Synology NAS sitting in a colo in Enfield, and replicate the backups nightly to that.Works nicely. Veeam agent emails me the results of each backup nightly. So all I have to do is just delete the emails, and troublehoot any failed ones. Smooth and other than the hardware, pretty cheap.
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Guess what just finished..
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@jaredbusch Wow.
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@eddiejennings said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:
@jaredbusch Wow.
Was an initial seed of a server. So totally expected when the WAN pipe is only 10mbps up.
120GB of real data on a thin provisioned 500GB vhdx.
