Hi everyone. I'm currently testing the Proxmox Backup Server to back up around 100TB of VM data. It's working quite well. I'd like to write the latest backup versions to tape once a week.
The tape drive is located in a separate room. Our current solution involves a small workstation there that mirrors the data from a datastore on a network share once a week and then writes it to tape.
This solution has several obvious drawbacks, not least because we would need two PBS licenses, but also because all the data destined for tape has to be stored in a datastore a second time.
Possible solutions:
Are there any other ideas?
The tape drive is located in a separate room. Our current solution involves a small workstation there that mirrors the data from a datastore on a network share once a week and then writes it to tape.
This solution has several obvious drawbacks, not least because we would need two PBS licenses, but also because all the data destined for tape has to be stored in a datastore a second time.
Possible solutions:
- Access the tape drive over the network. iSCSI would theoretically be possible, but it's not ideal. VEEAM could send the data to be written over the network thanks to its agent structure. However, PBS doesn't currently support this.
- Directly access the datastore of the primary backup server. Unfortunately, PBS doesn't support this either at the moment. It would be a game changer if a PBS could directly mount the datastore of another PBS, even if only as "ReadOnly". At least that would save us the double data storage.
Are there any other ideas?