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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
4
Section 2: Storage – NAS Backup, Linux, SOBR, and OBS
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Section 3: DataLabs, Cloud Backup, and Veeam ONE

Understanding scale-out repositories and what is new in version 10

Within the Veeam Backup & Replication software, there are two types of repositories where you store your backups:

  • Standard repository: This can be direct-attached storage (DAS), Network File System (NFS), Server Messaging Block (SMB), Common Internet File System (CIFS), and Windows or Linux file servers, as well as deduplicating storage appliances, such as ExaGrid, Data Domain, and HPE StoreOnce:

Figure 4.1 – Standard performance repository in Veeam Backup & Replication

Also, adding a capacity tier is regarded as a standard repository as well, which you can use in the scale-out repository:

Figure 4.2 – S3-compatible standard repository

  • Scale-out repository: This consists of standard repositories called extents and may also contain a capacity tier:

Figure 4.3 – Scale-out repository with performance...