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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

Chapter 9: Instant VM Recovery

Veeam Backup & Replication has several options regarding restoring a virtual machine (VM), and one of those is using the Instant VM Recovery feature. In this chapter, you will take a look at Instant VM Recovery and how to use it. We'll then discuss what Instant VM Recovery is when it comes to restoration. You will also learn the prerequisites and requirements for conducting an Instant VM Recovery, before starting and completing an Instant VM Recovery. Finally, we will dive into how you go about committing your Instant VM Recovery by migrating it to your environment or canceling the recovery process.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to explain what Instant VM Recovery is, discovered what you need in order to complete the recovery process, how to define the steps from start to finish in an Instant VM Recovery, and how to migrate your servers to your production environment or cancel the recovery process.

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