Applications • Re: SQL Backup.

Hi Lars,

300 TB, not bad!

Would Veeam SQL plugin be my saviour?

Maybe it will be.

The plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server has no built-in GFS mechanism (as you mentioned above "90 days, 12 months, and some years"), and backup to tape is currently not supported. However, both of these requests are likely the most important ones on our roadmap, nevertheless, I cannot share any timelines.

For GFS retention, I can propose two workarounds:
1. Change the plug-in configuration on a schedule to create GFS full backups. There are two options: change the repository or change the customerServerName parameter in the veeam_config.xml. Please let me know if this would work for you, and I can share the instructions.
2. Run image-level backups in Copy-only mode to avoid breaking the backup chain maintained by the plug-in.

How to handle large Dataset in archive sense? to put it offsite/tape?

What about a backup copy job to a remote site?

Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by PetrM — Feb 04, 2025 11:25 pm

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