What is required for Fast Clone on SOBR?

What is required for Fast Clone on SOBR?

• A. Enable the data locality placement policy for the Scale-out Backup Repository
• B. Enable the data protection policy for the SOBR
• C. Enable encryption on the SOBR
• D. Use an up-to-date Windows client

Answer: (A)

Fast Clone on SOBR relies on data locality to reuse blocks efficiently during backup operations. The essential step is to configure a data locality placement policy for the Scale-out Backup Repository. This policy determines how Veeam places a VM’s backup data across the SOBR extents, enabling the blocks to remain co-located enough to be reused by subsequent backups and synthetic operations. When the data locality policy is in place, Fast Clone can leverage the storage snapshots and existing blocks to create synthetic full backups quickly without unnecessary data movement. Without this policy, data can be distributed in a way that blocks aren’t readily shareable across backups, which prevents Fast Clone from delivering its speed benefit. The other options don’t set up the necessary placement behavior: a data protection policy for the SOBR, encryption on the SOBR, or using an up-to-date Windows client do not enable Fast Clone.

Fast Clone on SOBR relies on data locality to reuse blocks efficiently during backup operations. The essential step is to configure a data locality placement policy for the Scale-out Backup Repository. This policy determines how Veeam places a VM’s backup data across the SOBR extents, enabling the blocks to remain co-located enough to be reused by subsequent backups and synthetic operations. When the data locality policy is in place, Fast Clone can leverage the storage snapshots and existing blocks to create synthetic full backups quickly without unnecessary data movement. Without this policy, data can be distributed in a way that blocks aren’t readily shareable across backups, which prevents Fast Clone from delivering its speed benefit. The other options don’t set up the necessary placement behavior: a data protection policy for the SOBR, encryption on the SOBR, or using an up-to-date Windows client do not enable Fast Clone.