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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

Configuring standard repositories for use in a scale-out repository

The fundamental piece of the scale-out repository is the Performance extent, which is built by adding standard repositories. When creating a standard repository, you need to decide on the type you will use, whether it be Windows (ReFS) or Linux (XFS). You should use one or the other but not both together. While the documentation indicates that you can mix the repository types, most will agree that you use only one kind per scale-out for ease of management as well as having the same filesystem and performance. These filesystems use a newer technology called Fast Clone, which increases the speed of synthetic backup creation and transformation, reduces disk space, and decreases the load on storage. Please refer to the Veeam Backup & Replication website for more information:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_repository_block_cloning.html?ver=100

To create a standard repository, you need...