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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

Discovering the different filesystems to be used with Windows and Linux

Once you have determined your choice of a physical or virtual server as your repository, you need to look at the filesystem when formatting the drives and what will work best for each scenario of backup. When it comes to both Windows and Linux, there are a few types of filesystems that work best for backups:

  • Windows NTFS: This the original NT FileSystem (NTFS) and works well with any backup but is especially useful when backing up databases such as Microsoft Exchange. This is because Exchange databases are in JET format and take much better advantage of the 4K block sizing on NTFS.
  • Windows ReFS: The newer Resilient File System (ReFS) is designed to optimize data availability, efficiently manage scalability, and ensure data integrity through resilience to file corruption.
  • Linux EXT4: This is the Linux fourth extended filesystem and uses extents to replace traditional block mapping. It is built for...