Veeam server is down - will the replicas continue?
Hi all,
We're planning to protect 2x VM's with Veeam backup and Replication v7.
One question is bothering us:
If the Veeam backup server will be down for whatever reason - will the replicas continue?
One more thing; what is the best practice to protect the Veeam VM itself; install in on the same host which we're protecting and replicate it to the second host OR installing it on a separate workstation / server which will be a single point of failure? Or are there more options in order to avoid single of failures?
Thanks in advance
We're planning to protect 2x VM's with Veeam backup and Replication v7.
One question is bothering us:
If the Veeam backup server will be down for whatever reason - will the replicas continue?
One more thing; what is the best practice to protect the Veeam VM itself; install in on the same host which we're protecting and replicate it to the second host OR installing it on a separate workstation / server which will be a single point of failure? Or are there more options in order to avoid single of failures?
Thanks in advance
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Great thanks
One question is bothering us:Hi IT_Group1, thank you for considering Veeam!
If the Veeam backup server will be down for whatever reason - will the replicas continue?
One more thing; what is the best practice to protect the Veeam VM itself; install in on the same host which we're protecting and replicate it to the second host OR installing it on a separate workstation / server which will be a single point of failure? Or are there more options in order to avoid single of failures?
Veeam Server (installed on a VM or a physical machine) coordinates backup, replication and other jobs, controls job scheduling and manages other Veeam components. In order to protect Veeam Backup Server you can utilize configuration backup feature that was introduced in 6.5 version and that is responsible for retrieving configuration data from the Veeam SQL database. In other words, nowadays there is no longer need for backing up Veeam Backup Server as a whole - in case of disaster, you can just re-install Veeam Backup & Replication from the scratch and then import configuration.
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