and when not accidentally routing the backups... save 6 min..

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Amazing, that's really impressive. Backups has always taken a long time with XOA once you start to backup a lot of VM's so I hope this will improve the overall backup performance

Edit - The backup job from XCP-NG does not offer the option for Application aware backup. When backing up via the agent then yes but still two separate backups.

Nice! Has anyone tried item level restore, particularly those of us stuck in the Windows world and running Active Directory or MS SQL Server? That is an area where Veeam excels.

We'll probably give it a try soon. We even have a full license that is still in use while we wrap up our migration from Hyper-V to XCP-ng which we were keeping for a few other specialty use cases. We still plan to use XOA for most backups, especially the Linux VMs, as long as we can get the immutability issues we're facing fixed.

@olivierlambert I get you.

Same in veeam and synthetic fulls, it's only between the server/proxy and the repository.
but we get a progressing percentage while the job sits while doing the synthetic full.

would be cool to "see" the progress of merging.
why ? bad habits from previous technologies used I guess.

Giving better observability is something we are working actively on , this is tightly coupled with being able to stop a task, and I hope we will be able to show the progress soon

Same in veeam and synthetic fulls, it's only between the server/proxy and the repository.
but we get a progressing percentage while the job sits while doing the synthetic full.

would be cool to "see" the progress of merging.
why ? bad habits from previous technologies used I guess.

so when the backup tranfer is done (we have a progress bar), the job just sits there.. .merging in background, without progress bar or percentage.
5 minutes later, the backup job finishes.

so your stats are flawed (used data over time) if time of merging is taken in account

see what I mean ?

@flakpyro thank you

@florent , would be nice to add this to XCP backup ? merge progress

You can check the toggle "merge sychronously" in the advanced block of the backup job, to at least know when the merge is done

(we intend to make this the default choice in the near future)

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3 linux and 2 windows 11 vms.

How did you add your xcp-ng pool/host to veeam? I sure its stupid simple but i cant figure it out...

Yes i am running the Beta version.

Edit - after full uninstall and reinstall i see the option now. Now i can begin testing.

@florent , would be nice to add this to XCP backup ? merge progress

sudo journalctl -u xo-server -f -n 50

another thing is MERGING at each remote transfer ending that make feel the backup is longer with XCP BACKUPS
would be cool to have some insights (other than looking for the lock file in the remote) to see the progress of merge.

That's great to have more choice on this space

If you have a match of MAC ADDRESS in netplan

Veeam restores the VM with a NEW MAC ADDRESS

so either you delete the match, or get the good mac on the VIF...

we will mix xcpbackup/veeam server backups (we used to mix xcpbackup/veeam agent backups) to get app aware backups (AD, SQL, ...)

on the restore side, i'll note two things :

• veeam doesnt like spaces in the VM names when you restore (but XOA is UUID based and don't care...) so we have to rename the VM without spaces
• no progress bar

restored VM is booting, but network seems broken (no ip)