Since this is just a simple explanation of how the NAS Backup process works, I will just show two components of the process that start trough file proxies and also the Changed File Tracking that is stored in the Cache Repository. We can backup from the following sources:
Note: This first blog post about Veeam Backup NAS will be a bit longer than the other two since we also explain how to adding File Share and File Proxies.īefore we go through the backup process, let us go through a quick review of how the Veeam NAS Backup works. In this blog post, we will backup directly from a file share. How to backup 4M files with Veeam Backup NAS – Backup from a Storage Snapshot.How to backup 4M files with Veeam Backup NAS – Backup NAS from a VSS Snapshot (only available for SMB or Windows File Servers).How to backup 4M files with Veeam Backup NAS – Backup NAS directly from file share (this blog post).My plan is to divide this blog into three parts: All data in the 4.25M files is around 7Tb. This is 4,25 million files, divided trough 10 folders (not many folders here). The plan by testing Veeam Backup NAS is to check how the Veeam works while we are back up a large number of files and folders. Now is time to share some of my tests in this How to backup 4M files with Veeam Backup NAS blog post that I did in my home lab. This topic was on my list for a long time but had been a little bit busy and also in AWS training in the last two weeks, plus a lot of issues in work that needs a lot of troubleshooting hours.