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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
4
Section 2: Storage – NAS Backup, Linux, SOBR, and OBS
9
Section 3: DataLabs, Cloud Backup, and Veeam ONE

Chapter 3: NAS Backup

Network-Attached Storage (NAS) is storage attached to your network in various forms, such as Windows SMB, CIFS, NFS, and FreeNAS, and provides a location for users to store data. A NAS can be set up in many different ways and allows faster data access, easier administration, and simple configuration over general-purpose file servers. This chapter discusses what NAS is and the most efficient way to back it up using Veeam Backup & Replication. We will discuss setting up NAS backup shares as well as setting up a NAS backup job. We will also discuss the components that Veeam Backup & Replication uses for the backup process. By the end of the chapter, you will have a better understanding of NAS backups.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding NAS backup and what's new in version 10
  • Learning how to configure NAS backup shares
  • Discovering how to create NAS backup jobs
  • Working with NAS backups...