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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

Understanding Windows and Linux proxy servers and what's new in version 10

Within the Veeam Backup & Replication system, you have the backup server, which is the one that handles administering tasks, and the proxy servers sit between it and the rest of the backup infrastructure components. The proxy servers are the ones that process jobs and deliver the backup traffic to the rest of the infrastructure. You could say they are the workhorse of all the components.

Based on the following diagram, you can see that the proxy server performs many tasks before finally sending data to the backup repository:

Figure 5.1 – Backup infrastructure with proxy server

The proxy servers will perform many tasks during a backup job, including the following:

  • Retrieving VM data from within the production storage
  • Compressing the data – during transit to the repository
  • Deduplicating the data – deduplicates the data before sending it...