How to backup 4M files with Veeam Backup NAS – Backup NAS directly from file share (this blog post).

My plan is to divide this blog into three parts: All data in the 4.25M files is around 7Tb. This is 4,25 million files, divided trough 10 folders (not many folders here). The plan by testing Veeam Backup NAS is to check how the Veeam works while we are back up a large number of files and folders. Now is time to share some of my tests in this How to backup 4M files with Veeam Backup NAS blog post that I did in my home lab. Restore of files and folders allows you to select files and folders to restore to one of the restore points.This topic was on my list for a long time but had been a little bit busy and also in AWS training in the last two weeks, plus a lot of issues in work that needs a lot of troubleshooting hours. Rollback to a point in time allows you to restore only changed files to one of the restore points. Restore of the entire file share allows you to recover all files and folders of the file share to one of the restore points. Instant file share recovery allows you to publish a point-in-time file share state as a read-only SMB file share to enable users to instantly access all protected files.

Veeam Backup & Replication offers several recovery options for different recovery scenarios: You can restore the following data:įiles and folders of a managed Microsoft Windows serverįiles and folders of a managed Linux server You can restore data previously backed up with file share backup jobs. This cache repository keeps track of all the objects that have changed between each backup, which results in ultra-fast backup processing.įor example, you can use Veeam NAS Backups to recover an entire file share or specific versions of individual files/folders from specific points-in-time from either on-premise or off-site/secondary backup storage (or archives).

The key differentiator is changed file tracking, which maintains the footprint of the source file share and is stored in something called a cache repository. Integrating Veeam NAS Backup with Dell EMC Isilon SMB/NFS file share files and folders such as a NAS.įiles and folders of managed Microsoft Windows or Linux servers. Veeam NAS Backups are for UNSTRUCTURED DATA. Veeam NAS Backups support both short term and long term retention. Veeam NAS Backups are based largely on file versioning (maintaining different versions of files over a period of time). Veeam NAS Backups (File Based / Unstructured Data)

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