I have already made this question on another forum but I did not received an answer. I have seen that here there is a really nice and polite community, so i will try here too.
I have to make a backup of several vms for a total of about 1 tb.
I have Esxi installed and i planned to buy
1) vmware essentials
2) veeam essentials
3) a small server with windows 2012 to run veeam (poweredge t110)
4) a QNAP ts-869 where to storage backups
My question is:
do I need some free space somewhere to store backups temp files? I mean: when veeam makes a backup (but i think is probably more a vmware api thing), does it temporally store them somewhere to zip them or it directly move them to the qnap? Do i need some free space on the vmware server, in my small server or in the qnap (some space more than the normal space occupied by backup)?
Is my plan correct (a windows server making a backup of an external server into an external backup)? I am quite afraid of the time the process could take. I would like to make a backup every night. Do you think it is possible?
Thanks