How to use multiple backup repositories pointing to a single Catalyst store
| KB ID: | 2987 |
| Product: | Veeam Backup & Replication |
| Published: | 2019-08-13 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-10-28 |
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Challenge
To minimize backup job duration and reduce disk space used for backups, you can configure multiple Veeam Backup & Replication repositories on a single HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Store. However, due to the lack of folders concept on StoreOnce, such configuration may result in Veeam B&R metadata inconsistency, causing backup data corruption.
Solution
To create multiple Veeam Backup & Replication repositories on a single HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Store and avoid backup data corruption, do the following:
- Create a new HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Store.
- Make sure the Veeam PowerShell Module is loaded by running the following command:
Add-PSSnapin -Name VeeamPSSnapIn -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Starting from v11 the command should be:
Get-Module -Name Veeam.Backup.PowerShell
- Use the following cmdlet to create repositories. Run the script multiple times to create multiple repositories.
Add-VBRBackupRepository -Name HPE-StoreOnce-01 -Folder storeonce://storeonce_fqdn:objectstore_name@/subfolder_name -Type HPStoreOnceIntegration -StoreOnceServerName storeonce_fqdn -UserName user -Password password
NOTE:
- The format above is for stores over IP (Catalyst over Ethernet).
- For FC-connected stores (Catalyst over Fiber Channel), replace the StoreOnce name with the "COFC" identifier for FC.
- When using FC, you may also need to add "-Server <gateway>" before the user switch, where gateway is the Gateway server that has FC access to the storage.
- Replace HPE-StoreOnce-01 with the selected name of the Veeam backup repository
- Replace storeonce://storeonce_fqdn with the short name and FQDN of the StoreOnce appliance
- Replace objectstore_name with StoreOnce Catalyst store name
- Replace subfolder_name with the subfolder name. The subfolder name must differ for each repository.
- Replace storeonce_fqdn with the FQDN of the StoreOnce appliance
- Replace user with Admin
- Replace password with <password for Admin user>
- Once the repositories are created, create Veeam backup jobs to use them normally.
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