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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10

By : Chris Childerhose
Book Image

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

Understanding Object Storage Immutability and what it means

When you decide to deploy Object Storage for use with Veeam Backup & Replication, an excellent option to look into is Immutability. When you turn this feature on within your Object Storage by selecting the Object Lock option, it prohibits objects from being changed or deleted throughout the storage lifetime or retention period. A storage lifetime is the time between successful object creation (upload) and successful object deletion.

The following diagram shows Object Lock and Versioning getting turned on:

Figure 6.8 – Enabling Immutability, including the Object Lock feature

As you can see, turning on Object Lock and Versioning is a requirement for Veeam Backup & Replication to use this feature. Veeam Backup & Replication uses the Object Lock technology that Amazon and other S3-compatible providers have built in. Once this gets enabled in your Object Storage, it prevents the deletion...