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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

Summary

This chapter has provided you with the tools required to complete the installation of Veeam Backup & Replication v10 and outlined what components make up the installation. We discussed the pre-requisites, including versions of SQL Server that you can use – Express or SQL Standard/Enterprise. We next addressed in detail how to set up proxy servers, as well as configuration best practices and optimal settings. This part was then followed by a discussion on repositories and how to create them, and also included best practices and optimizations for best performance. Lastly, we looked at the scale-out repository and how to set it up, including the performance and capacity tiers, as well as how to manage them after setup.

This chapter will ensure that you have all the basics covered and will help when we move to the next chapter, which covers the 3-2-1 rule—Chapter 2, The 3-2-1 Rule – Keeping Data Safe.