If you used to protect NFS and SMB file shares residing on the enterprise storage system and added as file shares in inventory, and now you want to protect them using benefits of NAS filer, you can convert backups created for existing SMB or NFS shares into the format of NAS filer shares. For more information, see NAS File Share Backup from Storage Snapshots.

This option is preferable if you want to leverage the backup from storage snapshots technology. You can add the storage system as a NAS filer. Integration with Storage System as NAS Filer For more information on how to include/exclude files and folders from processing, see Select Files and Folders to Back Up. Configure what files and folders must be included in or excluded from processing by the file share backup job.To protect all file shares residing on one server, you must add to the file share backup job both NFS and SMB shares previously added to the inventory. As a source to protect, you can select the following entities: Create a file share backup job, as described in Creating File Share Backup Jobs.For more information, contact Veeam Customer Support. You can enable their processing with registry values. If you add a root server folder as a source for protection, hidden and admin file shares are skipped from processing by default. For example, if the storage system IP address is 173.25.136.64, add an NFS share for this server by specifying its root folder as 173.25.136.64:/, and add an SMB share for this server by specifying its root folder as \173.25.136.64.

Therefore, to configure them, you must carefully configure inclusion/exclusion settings when creating a file share backup job.Ĭonsider that servers accessed by NFS (with file shares and folders within them) and servers accessed by SMB (with file shares and folders within them) are added to the inventory separately. When adding the storage system in this way, you cannot configure what containers, volumes or file shares will be available for further protection.

As a file share path, specify the root server folder. Add the storage system as an NFS file share to the inventory, as described in Adding NFS File Share, or as an SMB fie share, as described in Adding SMB File Share.The procedure of configuring the file share protection in this case will look as follows: You can add the storage system as a root folder of the server where NFS or SMB file shares reside. Integration with Storage System as NFS or SMB File Share Server There are two approaches in backing up file shares residing on enterprise NAS storage systems.

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