Protecting File Shares

To back up a file share using Mine with Veeam, perform the following steps:

1. Ensure that a backup repository that can be used for storing file share backups is present in your infrastructure.

Since the Mine with Veeam scale-out backup repositories combine object storage repositories added as performance extents of the capacity tier, you cannot use them to store file share backups. However, for those backups, you can use a dedicated object storage repository deployed in the Mine cluster.

2. Add the file share to the backup infrastructure. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Adding File Share.
3. Add a backup proxy to the backup infrastructure. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Adding Backup Proxy.

You can assign the role of a backup proxy to any existing VMware backup proxy deployed in the Mine with Veeam cluster.

4. Create a file share backup job to protect the file share. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Creating File Share Backup Jobs.

After the file share backup job has successfully created restore points for the file share, you can perform the following operations to restore the file share:

• Test the created restore points to check whether you will be able to use them for recovery operations. For more information, see Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Performing Health Check and Repair for File Share Backup Files.
• Restore the entire file share. For more information, see Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Restoring Entire File Share.
• Restore specific files and folders. For more information, see Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Restoring Specific Files and Folders.

For the complete list of features that Veeam Backup & Replication provides to protect file shares, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section NAS Backup.