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For Veeam we need to add ALL of our Veeam proxies that will directly connect to the share into the list, in this example I have added veeamprxy1 and veeamprxy2 which are my proxy host names. Finally the last step is to tell it which hosts can access this share, normally by default no one can access a share unless you allow it.
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After clicking create you will see a box that asks for the share name (can be whatever you want), and then the directory path… this is where you will paste in what you copied down earlier, it should look something like “/data/col1/MTREE_NAME_HERE”.
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Create the CIFS ShareĪfter our MTree is created the next step is to share it via CIFS so that Veeam can see it, to do this we click on “CIFS” under Data Management, then select the “Shares” tab. You will want to make a note of your MTree name for when we create the CIFS share, in this case the name is “/data/col1/veeam”. To create an MTree we login to our DD Appliance and go to “Data Management -> MTree”, there we click “Create” and the only thing we need to do is fill in the name of the MTree we want to make. Think of an MTree like a directory, data is stored in it and it can be shared via CIFS protocol.
#VEEAM BACKUP APPLIANCES HOW TO#
More on how to set up a repository in a minute, but first lets look at how to set up the Data Domain Side of things. A repository can be a CIFS share, a Windows local drive, or a Linux Server when using a Data Domain we will use the CIFS server option. In version 6 of Veeam Backup and Replication we were introduced to the idea of Backup Repositories, and a Backup Repository is nothing more than a destination for your Veeam backups. At its most basic definition a Data Domain is just a linux box with hard drives in it that stores your data…but its the compression and deduplication software they have on it that makes it awesome. So what is EMC Data Domain? Data Domain is a product which involves both hardware and software, it comes as a 2u or more hardware appliance which has their deduplication software running on it, it is linux based but provides CIFS, NFS, and VTL interfaces for getting your backup data on to the appliance. And of course as your retention period grows so does your disk space requirements.
#VEEAM BACKUP APPLIANCES FULL#
Many people I talk to don’t realize that if they keep a month of tapes, and their full backup is 500GB (for example) then when they move to disk to disk backups they will need over 2TB of disk space. Veeam is a disk to disk backup solution which makes restore times much faster than tape backups, but one of the drawbacks is the massive amount of disk space required to keep full backup images for long periods of time (as with any disk to disk backup software).