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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

Investigating and understanding reporting

One of the advantages of using Veeam ONE is the reporting ability that it has. You can get reports on all types of environments that you add, both virtual infrastructure and backups. Veeam ONE comes with many canned reports out of the box that suit most requirements. The reports will also change depending on whether you add VMware, Hyper-V, or Veeam Backup & Replication to the environment.

Some of the predefined report groupings are shown in the following figure:

Figure 9.26 – Default report groups for Veeam ONE

There are two ways to access reports within the Veeam ONE environment:

  1. Veeam ONE Monitor – You can open the monitoring console and access reports from there by highlighting something within the Infrastructure View and Data Protection View in the console and selecting the Reports button in the toolbar.

The following screenshot shows the Infrastructure View:

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