This time I want to pick up an idea which I saw first over on Timo’s blog and add some more details which the customers and of course even me personally really like.
For now I assume the basic understanding of Veeam’s “Backup Copy” feature is clear, if not you may want to check out this post
So what’s the point of this post?
I just supported a customer to set up the following backup infrastructure and I want to share the experiences we made. The customer has two backup servers, one to use as primary server running the main instance of Veeam Backup & Replication v7.0 R2 to protect a vSphere environment and a second one which acts as target for the Veeam Backup Copy. Both servers are installed with Windows Server 2012 to leverage the built in deduplication in addition to Veeam deduplication to achieve a repository wide deduplication. Of course the secondary server is placed in a second in another fire section.