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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

Working with NAS backups – optimization and tuning

We have gone through adding file shares to Veeam Backup & Replication and also the process for setting up backup jobs. Now, we will look at the backup jobs created to work with them, including optimization and tuning.

When working with NAS backups, it is good to understand how the file share backup process works:

  • When a backup session starts, Veeam Backup & Replication assigns a file proxy to process the file share information.
  • The file proxy enumerates file and folder data, and a CRC tree is created.
  • The file proxy transfers the CRC tree over to the cache repository.
  • The cache repository saves the CRC tree.
  • The file proxy now reads new data from the file share.
  • The file proxy creates the backup data packages and transfers them to the target backup repository selected in the job.
  • Veeam Backup & Replication checks files and if there was an archive repository configured in the backup...