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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication - Third Edition

By : Chris Childerhose
Book Image

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

Understanding NAS backup – archive copy mode and direct-to-object storage

Within the VBR v12, you can add NAS shares to your inventory. Then you back them up to object storage and an archive repository for further retention. This process is accomplished when setting up your file copy job to include your NAS folders.

Based on the following screenshot, you can see where I have added my NFS share to the VBR v12 console to be able to back it up:

Figure 7.1 – NFS share added to the Veeam console for backup

Figure 7.1 – NFS share added to the Veeam console for backup

While adding your NFS share on your NAS device, you have a wizard that walks you through setting things up. I will walk through the share I have already set up to show the screens for a NAS share:

  1. The first screen of the File Share wizard is the NFS File Share screen, where you input the location of your NAS and share and set the Advanced options, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 7.2 – The NFS File Share input and the Advanced options

Figure 7.2 –...