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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10

By : Chris Childerhose
Book Image

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

Learning how to configure NAS backup shares

For you to back up your network shares, you need to add the network shares into the Veeam Backup & Replication server under the INVENTORY tab within the console:

Figure 3.4 – The INVENTORY tab where you set up file shares

When you click on the ADD FILE SHARE link shown in the preceding screenshot, it will open the Add File Share dialog shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.5 – The Add File Share dialog

This window is where you pick from the different types of file shares mentioned at the beginning of the chapter. There are the File server (Windows or Linux), NFS share, and SMB share options. Depending on your choice, you are presented with different wizards to go through:

  • File Server: This wizard takes you through adding a managed server as the file server:

Figure 3.6 – File Server wizard

  • NFS File Share: This wizard takes...