Tape • Re: Backup to tape from replica

Hi Salmeida,

A bit out-of-the-box, but there may be another option. We have a technology called CloudConnect. Although primarily used by our partners to offer off-site backup and DR to their end-user customers, this technology is also available for enterprises such as yours. It is called Veeam CloudConnect for Enterprises (VCC-E). In this setup, your primary site has the central repository for all remote sites, and they are all tenants to your primary site.
Check out https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120 for details

A function of VCC-E is Tenant to Tape. With this, the central site can make tape sets for each tenant, using the central VBR- and tape server, which sounds like what you are looking for.
See: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

Considerations for this approach are that you'd have to switch from mtree replication to Veeam technology, which may be quite an architectural change for you. We do offer WAN acceleration options for slow and flakey WAN connections.
Also, as you use Data Domain as a central repository, performance may be something to look at. Tape jobs are by definition single data streams.
Your Data Domain may have limitations providing enough single stream performance. This is regardless if you use file to tape or VCC-E Tenant to tape.

Statistics: Posted by RobTurk — Feb 20, 2025 9:20 am

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