Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication: Secure backup with Veeam 11 for defending your data and accelerating your data protection strategy, 2nd Edition

Protect your cloud, virtual, and on-premises environments by implementing Veeam’s powerful backup and replication technology

Key Features

• Gain in-depth knowledge of CDP and hardened repositories that you can use in your virtual environment
• Explore Veeam’s monitoring and reporting utility - Veeam ONE - along with Linux proxy enhancements
• Work with the new Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (Orchestrator) for testing failovers and backups

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Discover the advanced concepts of Veeam Backup & Replication 11
• Master application optimization based on Veeam best practices
• Get to grips with configuring CDP and working with repositories and proxies
• Explore ways to protect your backups with immutable hardened repositories
• Understand the enhancements to backups, instant recovery, and Linux proxies
• Explore Veeam ONE enhancements
• Become well-versed in using Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator

Who this book is for

This Veeam backup book is for IT professionals who have intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of virtualization as well as backups and backup applications. Anyone who needs a reference guide for learning the advanced features of Veeam Backup & Replication and how they are used, including best practices and optimizations, will also find this book useful.

Table of Contents

1. Installing and Upgrading Veeam
2. The 3-2-1-1-0 Rule – Keeping Data Safe
3. CDP – Continuous Data Protection
4. Immutability – Hardened Repositories
5. Backup Enhancements – Jobs, Copy Jobs, Restores, and More
6. Expanded Object Storage Support – Capacity and Archive Tiers
7. Linux Proxy Enhancements
8. Understanding Instant Recovery
9. Introducing Veeam ONE v11a
10. Introducing Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator

Chris Childerhose is an information technology professional with over 26 years of experience in network/systems architecture, network and systems administration, and technical support. He is a Veeam Vanguard/Veeam Legend and is a Veeam Certified Architect and Veeam Certified Engineer. He also has the following certifications: vExpert, VCAP-DCA, VCP-DCV, and MCITP. He currently works for ThinkOn as the lead infrastructure architect, where he designs the infrastructure for all client services offered. Chris is also an avid blogger on all things virtual, focusing on Veeam and VMware.