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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

Configuring proxy servers and the different backup modes available

When setting up Veeam Backup & Replication, as we have noted many times throughout the book, the proxy servers are among the more critical infrastructure components since they do all the task processing for running jobs. Therefore, setting them up and selecting the right transport mode for your backups is an essential step to ensure that you both achieve the performance and meet your backup window. Both job efficiency and the time required for job completion will significantly depend on the transport mode. All of the transport modes described apply to Windows servers, but for Linux, the only transport mode that it uses is the virtual appliance mode.

There are three modes that you can select, starting with the most efficient first:

  • Direct storage access: In this mode, Veeam Backup & Replication reads/writes directly from/to the storage system where VM data or backups reside. There are two modes: Direct...