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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication - Third Edition

By : Chris Childerhose
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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication - Third 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 backing up virtual environments. This new edition of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication is revised and updated to cover Veeam version 12. This edition covers some new features added to the application, such as VeeaMover, Per Machine Backup chains, and MFA on the console. The book guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam while helping you master advanced concepts such as Continuous Data Protection (CDP), extended object storage support, VeeaMover, and security settings. You’ll dive deep into other new features as well, such as Direct to Object storage, Object to Tape and learn about CDP from a service provider perspective with Veeam Cloud Connect (VCC). By the end of this Veeam book, you'll be able to successfully implement Veeam Backup & Replication to secure your environment and enable disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Part 1: Installation – Best Practices, Core Architecture, and Other Enhancements
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Part 2: Security, Object Storage Direct, CDP, and Cloud Connect

Tape Servers and Other Enhancements

This chapter will look at tape servers and other enhancements to Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v12. We will look at having a tape server role with a Linux-based server and also at sending backups from object storage to tape. We will also look at network attached storage (NAS) backup direct to tape and better LTO9 support. Finally, we will look at other changes such as restoring “permissions only” for files, exporting virtual machine (VM) disks to another hypervisor, and the enhancements to the VM exclusions, which now include exclusion from everywhere!

By the end of this chapter, you will know about the changes to the tape server role, which includes a Linux-based server, NAS backup to tape and improved LTO9 support, and the other enhancements introduced to VBR v12.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding what is new with tape servers and object storage to tape
  • Learning about...