Disaster recovery options with shared storage? (Veeam and/or PBS)

[AdminKMC]

Hello,

Simplifying my question from a previous post. I've currently got a VM running in a PVE cluster from network shared storage and I'm trying to figure out a way to test our restores without interfering with our production server. We currently backup nightly with Veeam and hourly during the workday with PBS. The main issue I'm hung up on is the shared storage aspect.

Is there a way to restore to a standalone PVE or a completely separate cluster without involving shared storage?


Any insight or guidance appreciated.

A_KMC

 

[Kingneutron]

As long as you can connect to PBS on the same network (can even be direct connection to separate/dedicated NIC with crossover cable), you should be able to define it as Shared Storage on the Restore-to server - which should not be part of the Prod cluster. It should function fine as a standalone.

The problem will be disconnecting the restoring VMs from the network (or firewalling them off) so there are no IP address conflicts - giving them a unique MAC during restore may help

If you don't want to introduce any I/O delays during the restore window, disable scheduled PBS backup temporarily and test it outside of business hours. Or setup another standalone PBS server (can even be a VM on the restore-to server) and Replicate existing backups to that, then use the standalone PBS to restore.

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/managing-remotes.html