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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10

By : Chris Childerhose
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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10

By: Chris Childerhose

Overview of this book

Veeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, and mastering this technology can help you to protect your virtual environments effectively. This book guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam. You will even gain in-depth knowledge of advanced concepts such as DataLabs, cloud backup and recovery, Instant VM Recovery, and Veeam ONE. This book starts by taking you through Veeam essentials, including installation, best practices, and optimizations for Veeam Backup & Replication. You'll get to grips with the 3-2-1 rule to safeguard data along with understanding how to set up a backup server, proxies, repositories, and more. Later chapters go on to cover a powerful feature of Veeam 10 – NAS backup. As you progress, you'll learn about scale-out Repositories and best practices for creating them. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore the new proxy option available in both Linux and Windows. Finally, you'll discover advanced topics such as DataLabs, cloud backup and recovery, Instant VM Recovery, and Veeam ONE. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to implement Veeam Backup & Replication for your environment and disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations
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Section 2: Storage – NAS Backup, Linux, SOBR, and OBS
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Section 3: DataLabs, Cloud Backup, and Veeam ONE

Exploring cloud backup and recovery – choosing a service provider

When looking into how to leverage your backups with Veeam Backup & Replication, one of the additional benefits to complement your onsite backups would be choosing a service provider for other services. Service providers are third-party companies that can offer services such as BaaS (short for Backup as a Service) and DRaaS (short for Disaster Recovery as a Service). When looking into service providers, you should compare them based on a few things:

  • Services – What specific services does the service provider offer? Is it only one of BaaS or DRaaS or potentially both? Depending on the provider, they could be a full-service shop where they will help you from start to finish and take care of you after the fact, while some only offer services for some of your backup and recovery needs. This is often overlooked by many users in complex restore scenarios. Service providers have many options at their...