Veeam version 9.5 and earlier End of Support

V9.5 and earlier for Veeam^® Backup & Replication™ and Veeam ONE™ will reach End of Support on Jan. 1, 2022. Please note that V9 of these products reached end of fix in February of 2020 when Veeam released V10.

How to create new XFS datastore

 

First delete all old partisions

Use fdisk -z /dev/sdb if that is the new disk.
You han also use sgdisk -z /dev/sdb

pvcreate /dev/sdb

WARNING: dos signature detected on /dev/sdb at offset 510. Wipe it? [y/n]: y

Wiping dos signature on /dev/sdb.

Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created.

 vgcreate backup_vg /dev/sdb

 Volume group "backup_vg" successfully created

lvcreate -n backup_vol -l 100%FREE backup_vg

Logical volume "backup_vol" created.

mkfs.xfs -b size=4096 -m reflink=1,crc=1 /dev/backup_vg/backup_vol

meta-data=/dev/backup_vg/backup_vol isize=512    agcount=32, agsize=234414016 blks

               =    sectsz=4096  attr=2, projid32bit=1

               =    crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=0

               =    reflink=1

data        =    bsize=4096   blocks=7501248512, imaxpct=5

               =    sunit=64     swidth=512 blks

naming   =    version 2 bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0, ftype=1

log          =    internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=521728, version=2

               =    sectsz=4096  sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1

realtime  =    none extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0

mkdir /veeam

vim /etc/fstab

insert this line

/dev/backup_vg/backup_vol       /veeam          xfs     defaults   0 0 

 lsblk

NAME                MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

sda                        8:0    0  447G  0 disk

├─sda1                8:1    0    1G  0 part /boot/efi

├─sda2                8:2    0    2G  0 part /boot

└─sda3                8:3    0  443G  0 part

  ├─rhel-root        253:0    0   70G  0 lvm  /

  ├─rhel-swap      253:1    0    8G  0 lvm  [SWAP]

  ├─rhel-var           253:3    0   50G  0 lvm  /var

  └─rhel-home          253:4    0  315G  0 lvm  /home

sdb                      8:16   0   28T  0 disk

└─backup_vg-backup_vol 253:2    0   28T  0 lvm  /veeam