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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)
1
Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations
4
Section 2: Storage – NAS Backup, Linux, SOBR, and OBS
9
Section 3: DataLabs, Cloud Backup, and Veeam ONE

Exploring what media is best suited for use with the 3-2-1 rule

When it comes to implementing the 3-2-1 rule for backups, you want to ensure that you follow the best practices, which means to ensure you use at least two different types of media. There are many media types out there that are suitable for use within Veeam Backup & Replication.

Disk media includes the following:

  • SAN
  • Storage snapshots (primary storage)
  • NFS Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices
  • SMB NAS devices
  • USB
  • Rotating/removable media, such as RDX drives
  • A general-purpose disk that is directly attached storage
  • Replication jobs to primary storage for VMs (VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V)

Tape media includes the following:

  • LTO
  • WORM LTO
  • Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

Deduplication appliances include the following:

  • Dell Data Domain
  • HPE StoreOnce
  • ExaGrid
  • Quantum DXi
  • Other deduplication appliances presenting file shares
  • ...