Introduction
This manual shows the instruction for connecting the Silent Brick System with Veeam as a scale-out NAS repository.
By the configuration of the scale-out repository functionality veeam supports a dual target backup with one device for full backups and one device for incremental backups.
This guide is tested with Veeam 11 and the Silent Brick System Version 2.39
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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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Using the scale-out functionality gives you the possibilty to separate full and incremental backup media. Physical, in matter of performance and size.
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The separate full backup media may be replicated or clone for offsite redundancy
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Cloning is recommended for offsite storage
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Follow the SB Connectivity - Repository Guide in order to create to Volumes and Veeam Repositories. One for the Full Backups, one for the increments. Do not create any Backup Jobs yet.
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Create a new scale-out repository
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Add the previously create repositories to the performance tier
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Under placement policy define the backup types matching your volumes
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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 SecureNAS Volume after backup creation
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Snapshots may be added in two ways
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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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Refer to the Guide: SB Connectivity Veeam - Repository
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