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Recipe: Add a Backup Repositories with Rotated Drives

A Veeam Backup & Replication Repository that uses rotated drives.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

Server (Virtual or Physical) with minimum of 2 cores (vCPUs), plus 1 core (vCPU) for each additional concurrent task, 2 GB RAM plus 500 MB for each concurrent task, disk space 750 MB for Windows or 400MB for Linux.
A supported operating system, Windows Server or Linux.
Rotated drives can be detachable USB or eSATA hard drives.
Local Administrative account access on your server.

Before you start:

Hardened repositories do not support rotated drives.
NFS and Scale-out backup repositories do not support rotated drives.
Repositories with rotated drives are not supported as archive repositories for NAS backup.

Assumptions:

You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.
You have added at least one Microsoft Windows Server or Linux Serverin the Backup infrastructure.

Method:

Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
Select Backup Infrastructure on the bottom left menu.
Right click Backup Repositories and choose Add Backup Repository.
Select Direct attached storage and Microsoft Windows or Linux.
Specify a name and optional description for the repository and click Next.
At the Server step, select the Server that will have the repository role, and click Next.
At the Repository step, specify the path to the folder or unit that will be used as repository. Change the number of concurrent tasks or limit the data rate, if required, and click Advanced. Check the This repository is backed by rotated hard drives box and click OK. Proceed by clicking Next on the main screen.
In the Mount Server step, confirm or change the mount server settings, then click Next.
Review the settings and confirm by clicking Apply. If you’re adding a repository with existing backups, flag the setting to import them automatically.
After installation and registration is completed, click Finish and the Windows repository with Rotated Drives is ready to use.

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