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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

Setting up jobs and configuration best practices with each filesystem

The one thing to ensure when you are going to use Windows ReFS or Linux XFS for your repository server, whether it is a standard repository or part of a scale-out repository (extent), is that you are using incremental backups with the synthetic full option. It is the synthetic full option that will take advantage of the Fast Clone technology and allow backups to run much faster. It also will save space with the block clone technology within each of these filesystems, enabling you to store more data.

These settings are in the New Backup Job window under the Storage section. Click on the Advanced button, which will bring up the Advanced Settings dialog to select the Incremental option with synthetic full backups periodically:

Figure 5.18 – Advanced job settings for use with Fast Clone on ReFS or XFS

When it comes to using the ReFS or XFS filesystems for your standard or scale-out...