Backup Repositories

A backup repository is a storage location where Veeam keeps backup files, VM copies and metadata for replicated VMs. To configure a backup repository, you can use the following storage types:

  • Direct attached storage. You can add virtual and physical servers as backup repositories:
  • Network attached storage. You can add the following network shares as backup repositories:
  • Deduplicating storage appliances. You can add the following deduplicating storage appliances as backup repositories:

Note

Consider the following:

  • Do not configure multiple backup repositories pointing to the same location or using the same path.
  • Do not configure multiple backup repositories with "nested" paths (when one repository path is a sub-path of another repository), for example:

/mnt/repo/backups/

/mnt/repo/backups/production/

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