Is this possible with Veeam Endpoint?

[mikkydoos]

Hi all,

 

I have a physical file server with about 2TB of users data on it.

 

Acronis Backup & Recovery is running incremental backups every night.... but it's awful and keeps letting me down again and again so it has to go.

 

This is my last physical server and realistically can't VM it before Easter. In the meantime I'm thinking of Veeam Endpoint Backup on it backing up to a Veeam B&R repository in full fat Veeam.

 

Now, to keep the backup size/time down I've split my Acronis backups into several separate jobs e.g. Pupils data, Desktops, My Docs etc etc.

 

 

I can't see how staring at it, but can you set up multiple file level backup jobs in Endpoint?

 

It looks to me that you can only have one job configured at any time full stop.

 

 

Anyone know different ?

 

 

Cheers in advance

 

 

EDIT: Or in Veeam B&R can Endpoint be used as an agent for triggering backups. Would be a great feature if so.

Edited December 7, 2016 by mikkydoos

[howartp]

No, I believe you are correct that only one job can be created, full stop.

 

Although it's great that Endpoint integrates into B&R now, it's still only designed as standalone for smaller users who don't have B&R, or for those last remaining physical servers that aren't VM'd yet.

 

I have three servers, one being a Windows NAS, that I use Endpoint to backup the entire server and store it into B&R on a nightly basis.

 

Peter

[mikkydoos]

Cheers @howartp

 

Its a shame. 2TB over the network will take a while!!

[howartp]

Its a shame. 2TB over the network will take a while!!

Nah - Endpoint still does deduplication so should be quick.

 

We backup 10TB in 24 minutes over the LAN, because not much data changes on a daily basis.

 

Peter

[mikkydoos]

Nah - Endpoint still does deduplication so should be quick.

 

We backup 10TB in 24 minutes over the LAN, because not much data changes on a daily basis.

 

Peter

 

Thats quick... but its incremental. Is that files, disks or volumes?

[howartp]

Full computer.

[mikkydoos]

In Endpoint can you restore individual files from a disk or volume backups then? I haven't used it much.

[howartp]

In Endpoint can you restore individual files from a disk or volume backups then? I haven't used it much.

 

Yep - either individual guest files (as B&R) or you can export each disk as a .vbk disk file.

 

Peter

[mikkydoos]

Thats a go-er then. Cheers @howartp

[mikkydoos]

So 18hrs into the initial backup its still running lol