SB Connectivity Veeam - Repository for Silent Brick Drives

Installation and Connectors Installation and electrical connection as well as network connection are to be done as described in the manual Installation

Network Adjustments The network settings are to be adjusted as described in the manual Installation

Connect to the Silent Brick Web Interface

Switch to Settings -> SMB

Create a new veeam user with a proper password or join the system to your active directory

Create a new Volume of type 'SNAS' with a parity of 3 or 2

Compression is not needed for Veeam Backups

Enable Large-File Optimization

For higher redundancy a parity level of 3 is recommended

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.

In your volume navigate to the Shares section

Choose "Add SMB Share"

Uncheck the checkbox for NTFS-ACLs to speed up the share

Uncheck the checkbox for Public and add the previously added Veeam user

Add a new repository of type 'Network attached Folder' - 'SMB Share'

Add the full path to the Silent Brick share

Add the credentials previously configured for the share

Recommended setting in Advanced: Use per-VM Backup

Refer to the Veeam manual for the Backup Job creation

In order to increase overall security snapshots may be added to the SecureNAS Volume after backup creation

A recommendation is to define the Snapshot period to the Veeam retention period +1 day

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.

Snapshots may be added in three ways

Automatically via the Silent Brick User Interface

Manually via the Silent Brick User Interface

Via API Call to the Silent Brick System

Powershell Version >= 5 required

In order to add an API Call the Silent Brick Systems Management Interface must be reachable by the Veeam Host

Download the Windows scripts folder from https://github.com/fastlta/sb-public/tre...

Deploy the scripts to a folder of your choice ( here C:\FAST )

Verify the connection by execution of the SB-CheckTasks.ps1 script in a Powershell screen

Modify your repository settings to make use of the Veeam-WLC Script

Run Veeam-WLC Script.ps1 manually in order to get a list of available parameters