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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 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimization

Veeam Backup & Replication v10 is part of Veeam Availability Suite, which is ready for the modern data center and allows you to back up all of your workloads, including Cloud, Virtual, and Physical. It is simple, yet flexible, when it comes to meeting your most challenging business requirements. In this chapter, we will discuss the installation of the software, what components make up Veeam Backup & Replication v10, and some best practices and optimizations. There will be practical examples throughout the chapter of how to optimize specific elements that make up the Veeam environment. We will also touch on some of the websites, including the Best Practices Guide for Veeam, among others, to give you the resources to help set up Veeam in your environment. As they say with Veeam – It Just Works.

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

  • Understanding the components of Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Understanding the best practices for Veeam installation and setup
  • Configuring and optimizing proxy servers
  • Setting up repository servers for success
  • Understanding the scale-out repository