# Backup and Veeam

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-and-veeam/9140>\
**Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster\
**Created:** [February 8, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-and-veeam/9140 "2021-02-08T09:09:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![staun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@staun](https://forums.percona.com/u/staun)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-and-veeam/9140/1 "2021-02-08T09:09:08Z")

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Another newbie quiestion about PCX cluster. I have a test enviroment running and we are planning on having 3 geographical sites with 2 DB servers on 2 of the sites and 1 server on Main site.

On the main site we have Veeam backing up our virtual enviroment, so my question is : is it nessasary to setup xtraDB Backup or other third party backup, when I backup the entire virtual machine daily ( we can live with the loss of 24 hour data in this scenario)

Are there any downsides of using Veeam to backup, I have tried to restore a server and it just starts up and rejoins the cluster in my test and things seems good - I even tried to do a total cluster fail, restore one server and bootstrap it, reinstall new nodes and join them without problems, but again its only test-data, so how are you guys doing backup if you have virtual enviroment.

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**Author:** ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/backup-and-veeam/9140/2 "2021-02-08T17:11:05Z")

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@staun, if Veeam is working for you in your testing environments, and passing all of your scenarios, then that should be all you need.