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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

Exploring Instant VM Recovery – what is it?

Within Veeam Backup & Replication, there is your typical backup and restore operations, but what happens when you need to recover an entire VM that has corrupted files or files that have been accidentally deleted? This problem is where the Instant VM Recovery option comes in handy – it allows you to immediately restore different workloads as VMware vSphere VMs by running them directly from your backup files. The supported backup file types are as follows:

  • Backups of VMware vSphere VM created with Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Backups of vCloud Director virtual machines created with Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines created with Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Backups of virtual and physical machines created with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux
  • Backups of Nutanix AHV virtual machines created with Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV
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