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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication - Second Edition

By : Chris Childerhose
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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication - Second Edition

By: Chris Childerhose

Overview of this book

Veeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, making it a necessary skill for anyone responsible for securing virtual environments. This revised second edition of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication is updated to cover Veeam version 11. The book guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam, all while helping you master advanced concepts such as Continuous Data Protection (CDP), extended object storage support, Veeam ONE enhancements, and Orchestrator. Starting with Veeam essentials, including installation, best practices, and optimizations for Veeam Backup & Replication, you'll get to grips with the 3-2-1-1-0 rule to safeguard data. You'll understand how to set up a backup server, proxies, repositories, and more and then advance to cover a powerful feature of Veeam 11 – CDP. As you progress, you'll learn about immutability (also known as hardened repositories) and discover the best practices for creating them. Finally, you'll explore the new proxy option available in Linux and become well-versed with advanced topics such as extended object storage support, Veeam ONE enhancements, and Orchestrator. By the end of this Veeam book, you'll be able to implement Veeam Backup & Replication for securing your environment and enabling disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations
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Section 2: CDP and Immutability – Hardened Repositories, Backups, and Object Storage
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Section 3: Linux Proxy Enhancements, Instant Recovery, Veeam ONE, and Orchestrator

Discovering what is new in Veeam Backup & Replication v11a

With the latest release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11a, there have been some excellent additions for the Instant Recovery section of the application. The following new workloads got added:

  • Instant recovery of Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases
  • Instant publishing of NAS backups
  • Instant recovery of anything to Microsoft Hyper-V

Now let's take a look at these in detail to explain how they work in v11a.

Instant Recovery of Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases

What would you do if your database would not start or your developers accidentally dropped a table from the database? The typical best practice for database administrators is to set up backup jobs within SQL, but what if you did not have them? Well, Veeam to the rescue! Veeam allows you to recover your database to the latest state or a point in time back to the original location or to any database server or cluster...