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Recipe: Adding a new SMB file share to Veeam Backup & Replication
Expected deliverables:
A SMB file share added to Veeam Backup & Replication which can be used as source in File share backup jobs or as a alternative target for SMB file share restores.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- A General Purpose Proxy Server already available in Veeam Infrastructure
- A Windows Server or Linux Server to be used as a Cached Repository located as close to the NAS filer as possible.
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SMB file share must run SMB version 1.x, 2.x or 3.x
- Two physical or virtual servers with at least 6 Cores and 16GB RAM added to Veeam Backup & Replication as a Proxy Server.
Before you start:
Backup of file shares on Linux hosts added with single use credentials is not supported.
Assumptions:
It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.
Method:
- Open the Inventory view. In the inventory pane, right-click the File Shares node and select Add File Share.
- In the Add File Share window, click SMB share.
- At the SMB File Share step:
- Specify the path to an SMB file share in the UNC format.
- If you must specify user credentials to access the shared folder, select the This share requires access credentials check box and select a credential from the Credentials drop-down list for a user account with Full Control permissions.
- If you want Veeam to back up data from native storage snapshots, click Advanced:
- Select Backup from a native storage snapshot at the following path and specify the path in the “\server\snapshotfolder\snapshotname” format to the folder on the SMB file share where the file share snapshot is saved.
- Select Failover to direct backup if a snapshot is not available if you want Veeam to read data for backup directly from the file share when the snapshot is unavailable.
- At the Processing step:
- Click Choose next to the Backup proxy field to select a backup proxy (Default: All proxies)
- From the Cache repository drop-down list, select a cache repository where temporary cache files must be stored.
- Use the Backup I/O control slider to define how fast the backup proxy can read data from the source file share or leave the default.
- At the Apply step, wait until Veeam installs and configures all required components. Click Next.
- At the Summary step, review details of the added SMB share and click Finish to exit the wizard.
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