Introduction
This manual shows the instruction for connecting the Silent Brick System with Veeam as a NAS Repository using the FAST Clone Feature.
This guide is tested with Veeam 12.1 and the Silent Brick System Version 2.59
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Installation and Connectors Installation and electrical connection as well as network connection are to be done as described in the manual Installation
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Network Adjustments The network settings are to be adjusted as described in the manual Installation
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Connect to the Silent Brick Web Interface
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Switch to Settings -> SMB
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Create a new veeam user with a proper password or join the system to your active directory
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Create a new Volume of type 'SNAS' with a parity of 3 or 2
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Compression is not needed for Veeam Backups
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Enable FAST Clone Support -Controllers only
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Optimize for Large Files must be deactivated. If the check mark is active, it is ignored when the FAST Clone option is set.
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For higher redundancy a parity level of 3 is recommended
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If backup files are overwritten on a regular basis you may consider to set the Audit interval to manual. Automatic auditing is useful if data resides on the Volume for a long period of time.
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In your volume navigate to the Shares section
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Choose "Add SMB Share"
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Uncheck the checkbox for NTFS-ACLs to speed up the share
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Uncheck the checkbox for Public and add the previously added Veeam user
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Add a new repository of type 'Network attached Folder' - 'SMB Share'
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Add the full path to the Silent Brick share
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Open the Advanced Menue
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Select Incremental
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Activate "Create synthetic full backups periodicaly on: " and select a day on which the synthetic full backups are to be created.
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FAST Clone Support only works from software version 2.59 and only with G5000 / G5200 Controllers
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The option cannot be activated on an existing volume of an older software version. However, you can create a new volume and move the existing backups to the new volume using the VEEAM Move function
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It only works with SMB not with NFS
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If you move the bricks of this volume to a controller with an older software version, the brick cannot be used. You will get a message that a software update is necessary.
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It is not recommended to create a replication from a volume with FAST Clone Support, as the replica cannot transfer the linked files. Instead, all files are transferred, which leads to significantly more data consumption on the replica.
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For this case we recommend creating 2 backups from Veeam. One backup on the primary controller and another on the secondary controller, again with the FAST Clone option.
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Refer to the Veeam manual for the Backup Job creation
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In order to increase overall security snapshots may be added to the Secure NAS Volume after backup creation
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A recommendation is to define the Snapshot period to the Veeam retention period +1 day
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For backup file integrity, make sure to set the interval to a proper value to make sure that at least one snapshot hits a time where no Backup Job was running.
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Snapshots may be added in three ways
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Automatically via the Silent Brick User Interface
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Manually via the Silent Brick User Interface
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Via API Call to the Silent Brick System
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Powershell Version >= 5 required
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In order to add an API Call the Silent Brick Systems Management Interface must be reachable by the Veeam Host
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Download the Windows scripts folder from https://github.com/fastlta/sb-public/tre...
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Deploy the scripts to a folder of your choice ( here C:\FAST )
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Verify the connection by execution of the SB-CheckTasks.ps1 script in a Powershell screen
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Modify your repository settings to make use of the Veeam-WLC Script
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Run Veeam-WLC Script.ps1 manually in order to get a list of available parameters
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