Hello,
I've been reading and going through the various documentation as we are interested in moving away from vmware (for obvious recent reasons).
The only thing I'm unsure about is that currently we use backupexec to do incremental backups to an NFS share on our qnaps TS-469u. Since I'm going to lifeboat a lot of these VM's temporarily to another server for this transition, I'll have the opportunity to blow away the existing servers and backups. I need to ensure that PBS will still be able to do incremental backups to these qnaps but it's not clear if that will work over NFS.
We do plan to run raid on the hardware raid cards of the local servers because these are very reliable servers and then likely ZFS locally where the VM's live on top but I don't have enough local storage to be doing local incremental backups and then moving them post job completion. The incremental still have to go to the qnaps directly. I've got one gnarly windows file server that just would take more than a day to backup without incremental.
I think the ts-469u supports iscsi but definitely doesn't support zfs-iscsi. Would it be prudent to get away from NFS protocol and switch to iscsi in this situation? Will incrementals work on either NFS or iscsi if we did that? Everythings local, I haven't setup any LUNS in a 100 years but I'm sure I can figure it out.
Obviously I could continue using veritas backupexec as it's just a server 2016VM right now but I figure once everythings safely moved to PVE, we may as well go all in with the backup system as well for good continuity and I could redirect those dollars to somewhere better IMO. I have to just be really sure that I can do what I'm going to sell the team.
If not, then I'm going to have to just keep using veritas and wait until I can get the budget to do a bare metal backup server I guess.
I've been reading and going through the various documentation as we are interested in moving away from vmware (for obvious recent reasons).
The only thing I'm unsure about is that currently we use backupexec to do incremental backups to an NFS share on our qnaps TS-469u. Since I'm going to lifeboat a lot of these VM's temporarily to another server for this transition, I'll have the opportunity to blow away the existing servers and backups. I need to ensure that PBS will still be able to do incremental backups to these qnaps but it's not clear if that will work over NFS.
We do plan to run raid on the hardware raid cards of the local servers because these are very reliable servers and then likely ZFS locally where the VM's live on top but I don't have enough local storage to be doing local incremental backups and then moving them post job completion. The incremental still have to go to the qnaps directly. I've got one gnarly windows file server that just would take more than a day to backup without incremental.
I think the ts-469u supports iscsi but definitely doesn't support zfs-iscsi. Would it be prudent to get away from NFS protocol and switch to iscsi in this situation? Will incrementals work on either NFS or iscsi if we did that? Everythings local, I haven't setup any LUNS in a 100 years but I'm sure I can figure it out.
Obviously I could continue using veritas backupexec as it's just a server 2016VM right now but I figure once everythings safely moved to PVE, we may as well go all in with the backup system as well for good continuity and I could redirect those dollars to somewhere better IMO. I have to just be really sure that I can do what I'm going to sell the team.
If not, then I'm going to have to just keep using veritas and wait until I can get the budget to do a bare metal backup server I guess.
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