Understanding Windows and Linux proxy servers and what's new in version 10
Within the Veeam Backup & Replication system, you have the backup server, which is the one that handles administering tasks, and the proxy servers sit between it and the rest of the backup infrastructure components. The proxy servers are the ones that process jobs and deliver the backup traffic to the rest of the infrastructure. You could say they are the workhorse of all the components.
Based on the following diagram, you can see that the proxy server performs many tasks before finally sending data to the backup repository:
Figure 5.1 – Backup infrastructure with proxy server
The proxy servers will perform many tasks during a backup job, including the following:
- Retrieving VM data from within the production storage
- Compressing the data – during transit to the repository
- Deduplicating the data – deduplicates the data before sending it...
