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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 how to configure backup jobs to use immutability with the hardened repositories

Now that you have an idea of how to use single-use credentials and add a Linux repository to the Veeam infrastructure to allow immutability, let's learn how to configure a job with the required settings. Note that one of the key limitations of immutability is that it only supports the Forward Incremental job types and does not support the Reverse Incremental job type.

Also, when you're using Linux hardened repositories with SOBR, keep the following in mind (https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/hardened_repository_limitations.html?ver=110):

"If you use the Capacity Tier option, keep in mind that having a hardened repository with immutability as a performance extent will affect the Capacity Tier's behavior. You will not be able to move immutable backup files because they cannot be deleted from the performance extent. Veeam Backup & Replication will copy...