Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional

[JaredBusch]

@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.

[JaredBusch]

Can you guess when the Copy job started?

[EddieJennings]

@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?

[JaredBusch]

[JaredBusch]

@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.

[EddieJennings]

@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?

[JaredBusch]

@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.

[JaredBusch]

@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.

[JaredBusch]

Making their poor coax service from Charter (Spectrum now) cry like a baby...

[JaredBusch]

@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.

[Jimmy9008]

Having to drive somewhere to swap the drive each week sounds like such a PITA. Bet you cant wait to get that sorted.

[Jimmy9008]

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.

[JaredBusch]

Guess what just finished..

[EddieJennings]

@jaredbusch Wow.

[JaredBusch]

@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.