If you want an archive, the configuration is in the previous window.įinally, you can run the job automatically if you wish. The backup copy is an additional copy for short-term. In the backup job, you can specify a target for a backup copy.
Veeam 10a archive#
Next specify the backup repository, the retention and the archive settings. A single backup job can handle several file share (like the VM backup job). Then add the file shares you want to backup. Then specify a backup job name and provide a description.
To add the file share to a backup job, just right click on it and select add to backup job Then click on finish to add the file share in Veeam. The last setting allows you to choose between single thread or multiple threads to get a faster backup. For small environment, the cache repository will be located on the Veeam server itself. This repository should be close to the NAS and the file proxies. Because it’s a lab, I leave this setting to default. First, as the backup proxy, you can get a file proxy to handle the backup job. In the next window, you can set some settings related to the processing. If you click on advanced, you can choose the backup source: from file share, a Microsoft VSS Snapshot of from a storage snapshot. Next specify the shared folder and the credentials that are allowed to connect to this one. As you can see, if you have a SMB3 NAS, you can leverage Microsoft VSS snapshot. Now you get three options: backup a Linux or Windows file server, an NFS share or a SMB Share. Click on it and then select Add file share. The Veeam Backup PowerShell module allows you to do almost all operations that are available in the user interface.
Veeam 10a install#
Some functionality is available only through SMB3, we will see that just after.įrom Veeam Backup & Replication 10, a new sub menu is available in Inventory tab: File shares. Veeam Backup & Replication comes with the PowerShell extension a Veeam Backup PowerShell module that is added to your machine when you either install Veeam Backup & Replication server or the Veeam Backup & Replication Console. As you can see, the lowest and highest supported SMB version is SMB3. I opened the Win/Mac/NFS configuration to allow SMB3. NAS Configurationįirst of all, I checked in my NAS if SMB3 is enabled. I took these screenshots in order to protect this NAS and next after, send them to a storage account in Azure. In my home lab I have QNAP NAS (TS-853U) that I’m going to backup with Veeam. So, I wanted to write this topic to show you how you can protect your NAS with Veeam. Now that Veeam allows this kind of backup, a lot of them are updating Veeam to get this functionality. In my area, I have a lot of customers who was waiting this feature specially to protect their files. A lot of new features are added to this new version and one of my favorites is the ability to back up a NAS. Veeam Backup & Replication 10 was released a few days ago.