Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication

Cover
Title page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations
Chapter 1: Installing and Upgrading Veeam
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the best practices and optimizations for Veeam installation
		Installing Veeam Backup & Replication v11a
	How to configure and optimize proxy servers
	How to set up repository servers for success
	Understanding the scale-out backup repository
	Upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication to v11a
	Summary
Chapter 2: The 3-2-1-1-0 Rule – Keeping Data Safe
	Technical requirements
	Guest perspective from Rick Vanover of Veeam
	Introducing what the 3-2-1-1-0 rule is
		Importance of the 3-2-1-1-0 rule
	Understanding how the 3-2-1-1-0 rule applies to your backup strategy when setting up jobs
	Exploring what media is best suited for use with the 3-2-1-1-0 rule
		Scenario 1
		Scenario 2
		Scenario 3
		Scenario 4
		Scenario 5
	Summary
Section 2: CDP and Immutability – Hardened Repositories, Backups, and Object Storage
Chapter 3: CDP – Continuous Data Protection
	Technical requirements
	Understanding CDP and what it is
		The backup server – Veeam CDP Coordinator Service
		Source and target hosts with the I/O filter
		CDP proxies
		CDP policies
	Determining the requirements and limitations of CDP
		Requirements
		Limitations
	Setting up CDP – the I/O filter
	Configuring CDP proxies and settings
	Understanding CDP policies for replication
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 4: Immutability – Hardened Repositories
	Technical requirements
	Understanding hardened repositories
	Learning how to configure hardened repositories in Veeam
	Learning how eliminating SSH protects the server
	Discovering how to configure backup jobs to use immutability with the hardened repositories
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Backup Enhancements – Jobs, Copy Jobs, Restores, and More
	Technical requirements
	Understanding backup job enhancements and new features
		High-priority jobs
		Background GFS retention
		Orphaned GFS backup retention
		Deleted VM retention improvements
	Distinguishing the new features of backup copy jobs
		Time-based GFS retention
		GFS full creation time
		No quarterly backups
		Repository as a source
		Daily retention
	Understanding restores with Linux target support and expanded platforms
		Linux target support
		Linux FLR without a helper appliance
		Linux FLR performance improvements
		Expanded platform support
	Discovering other enhancements, including explorers
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Expanded Object Storage Support – Capacity and Archive Tiers
	Technical requirements
	Understanding new object storage capacity and archive tiers
	Understanding object storage configuring capacity and archive tiers
	Discovering immutability with Amazon S3 Glacier and policy-based offloading
	Working with the archive tier for cost-optimized archiving and storage
	Summary
	Further reading
Section 3: Linux Proxy Enhancements, Instant Recovery, Veeam ONE, and Orchestrator
Chapter 7: Linux Proxy Enhancements
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Linux proxy enhancements and what\'s new in v11a
	Understanding how the latest enhancements can help your organization
		A Linux proxy server can be physical or virtual
		More transport modes – NBD, Direct SAN, and Hot-Add
		Backup from storage snapshot (iSCSI, FC)
		Allow quick rollback/CBT restore
		Persistent data mover deployed
		Enhanced data mover security
		Certificate-based authentication instead of saved Linux credentials
		New elliptic curve (EC) cryptography – adds EC-based SSH key pairs such as Ed25519 or ECDSA
	Discovering the persistent data mover with enhanced security
	Discovering how credentials are the past and certificates are the future
	Special section by Rick Vanover from Veeam – future Linux capabilities and industry direction
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 8: Understanding Instant Recovery
	Technical requirements
	Discovering the requirements and prerequisites for Instant Recovery
	Exploring Instant Recovery – what is It?
	Investigating and understanding the Instant Recovery process and steps
	Exploring the migration and cancellation steps for recovery
	Discovering what is new in Veeam Backup & Replication v11a
		Instant Recovery of Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases
		Instant file share recovery
		Instant recovery of anything to Microsoft Hyper-V
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 9: Introducing Veeam ONE v11a
	Technical requirements
	Exploring Veeam ONE – an overview
		Single-server architecture – typical deployment
		Distributed server architecture – advanced deployment
	Understanding Veeam ONE – installation and configuration
		Installation of Veeam ONE v11a
	Discovering monitoring – vSphere, vCloud, and Veeam
	Investigating and understanding reporting
	Exploring Veeam ONE for troubleshooting
	Investigating what is new in Veeam ONE v11a
		Major new features
		Enhanced Veeam Backup & Replication support
		Other enhancements
	Veeam ONE community resources
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 10: Introducing Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
	Technical requirements
	Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator – What is it?
	Prerequisites for Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
		Installation of Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
	Configuring Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
	Working with orchestration plans for DR
	Investigating scripts, reports, and dashboards
		Scripts
		Reports
		Dashboards
	Summary
	Further reading
Index
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