I use shadow copy using 2-3% of the Windows file server every 2 hours from 8am-10pm (that gives almost 6 days of copies). per VM backup (options actually in storage properties)įor file servers (or almost every VM), I use and recommend reverse increments for simple reasoning is that more than often, we would want the latest restore version.īut for file servers you should also rely on other Windows services like shadow copy instead of Veeam backup as it can help you with super fast file/folder restores. Backup copy with GFS retention (I created 2 Veeam repositories using same NAS) reverse increment backup (note that this is used by Veeam Agent for Windows) The power of Veeam B&R for VMware includes 4 options. Ask away if you need some clarification on setup/configuration. Sunday - 12am (the 25th restore point for the week).īesides changing our company's retention requirements, which I am open to proposing and changing, I am thinking there is a more efficient and creative way to do this. M, T, W, T, F and Saturday - 8am, 11:30am, 3pm, and 12am (24 restore points in one week) Regular incremental, with synthetic fulls ran each Saturday, 25 restore points total (which gives us one week's worth of restore points - this actually comes out to 28 restore points given all backups that happen) It is a bit much, but with a staff of mostly CAD designers, we right a lot of new data quite often, and the multiple backups that fire off during the day saves their ass when they accidentally overwrite or delete large drawings they just created a couple hours prior. Our current retention needs and backup schedule (Veeam) is as follows.

Retention/restore standpoint and then how creative I have to be in order to Need to know this first in order to then figure out what is realistic from a Size repository is sufficient for our company's backup requirements? I think I a 10TBįile server, what sort of calculation or equation can I run to figure out what

when it comes to backing up something, i.e. This backs down to hover around 9-10 TB most of the time as a restore point or two gets deleted (I assume). I am feeling that this is not sufficient enough, since at itsĬurrent size of 4.9 TB, I am getting warnings from my NAS, where the repository resides, once every 2 weeks, saying that it has only 20% free space left (14TB used). The repository it will back up to is the same 17.5 TB mentioned above. That is managed by this file server to accommodate the way we want to organize CAD files (specifically Autocad Xref files). It is backing up to a 17.5 TB repository.Ĭurrently in the process of revamping the way we organize our network share I have a file server that is being backed up by Veeam (B&R 9.5) that isĬurrently 4.9TB in size.

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