Table Of ContentMastering
Veeam Backup &
Replication
Second Edition
Secure backup with Veeam 11 for defending your
data and accelerating your data protection strategy
Chris Childerhose
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication
Second Edition
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To all my colleagues and fellow Vanguards, who spoke words of
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Contributors
About the author
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.
Writing a book is more challenging than I thought and more rewarding
than I could have ever imagined, and a second edition is still quite a task.
None of this would have been possible without my wife, Julie. She stood by
me during every struggle and my successes, including many nights writing.
She was someone I could talk about my book with and how things were
going. She always pushes me and I will be forever thankful for this.
I'm eternally grateful to Rick Vanover of Veeam, who took the time
to do a technical review of my second book and all of my chapters
when he didn't have to. I genuinely have no words to thank him for
this amazing selflessness to help a fellow Veeamer on a second book
about Veeam with his perspective.
About the reviewers
Arron Stebbing is a principal sales acceleration technical trainer at Veeam Software.
Arron develops and delivers training programs about modern data protection software.
Arron has extensive experience building and operating cloud service provider
environments and has been working in the IT industry for 17+ years. Arron can
communicate to executives business value and outcomes as well as educating the technical
team on how to deliver the business value required to meet the requirements.
Steve Dolphin is an experienced professional with experience delivering organizational
change projects. While more recently working on cross-business projects involving
culture, employee change, and technology, his background in computer science stems from
his undergraduate bachelor's almost 20 years ago. His current role involves understanding
the best impact of Microsoft technology stacks including Azure, Azure Virtual Desktop,
and M365. On-premise systems he's familiar with include VMware, Veeam, Dell storage
and servers, and HP switching.
He is particularly motivated by corporate structure, governance, and employee-ownership
setups and has been a speaker at events and a champion for agile working.
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and
Optimizations
1
Installing and Upgrading Veeam
Technical requirements 4 How to set up repository
Understanding the best servers for success 19
practices and optimizations for Understanding the scale-out
Veeam installation 4 backup repository 21
Installing Veeam Backup & Upgrading Veeam Backup &
Replication v11a 4 Replication to v11a 30
Summary 38
How to configure and optimize
proxy servers 15
2
The 3-2-1-1-0 Rule – Keeping Data Safe
Technical requirements 40 Understanding how the 3-2-1-
Guest perspective from Rick 1-0 rule applies to your backup
Vanover of Veeam 40 strategy when setting up jobs 42
Introducing what the 3-2-1-1-0 Exploring what media is best
rule is 40 suited for use with the 3-2-1-1-0
rule 46
Importance of the 3-2-1-1-0 rule 41
Scenario 1 47
Scenario 2 50
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Scenario 3 52 Scenario 5 58
Scenario 4 54
Summary 61
Section 2: CDP and Immutability – Hardened
Repositories, Backups, and Object Storage
3
CDP – Continuous Data Protection
Technical requirements 66 Limitations 70
Understanding CDP and what it
Setting up CDP – the I/O filter 71
is 66
Configuring CDP proxies and
The backup server – Veeam CDP
settings 77
Coordinator Service 67
Understanding CDP policies for
Source and target hosts with
replication 88
the I/O filter 67
CDP proxies 69 Summary 98
CDP policies 69 Further reading 98
Determining the requirements
and limitations of CDP 69
Requirements 70
4
Immutability – Hardened Repositories
Technical requirements 100 Learning how eliminating SSH
Understanding hardened protects the server 114
repositories 100 Discovering how to configure
Learning how to configure backup jobs to use immutability
hardened repositories with the hardened repositories 114
in Veeam 103 Summary 120
Further reading 121
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5
Backup Enhancements – Jobs, Copy Jobs, Restores, and More
Technical requirements 124 Daily retention 130
Understanding backup job
Understanding restores with
enhancements and new
Linux target support and
features 124
expanded platforms 132
High-priority jobs 125
Linux target support 132
Background GFS retention 126
Linux FLR without a helper appliance 132
Orphaned GFS backup retention 126
Linux FLR performance improvements 133
Deleted VM retention improvements 126
Expanded platform support 133
Distinguishing the new features
Discovering other
of backup copy jobs 126
enhancements, including
Time-based GFS retention 127 explorers 135
GFS full creation time 128
Summary 136
No quarterly backups 128
Further reading 136
Repository as a source 129
6
Expanded Object Storage Support – Capacity and Archive
Tiers
Technical requirements 138 Discovering immutability
Understanding new object with Amazon S3 Glacier and
storage capacity and archive policy-based offloading 153
tiers 138 Working with the archive tier
Understanding object storage for cost-optimized archiving
configuring capacity and and storage 155
archive tiers 142 Summary 156
Further reading 156
