Virtualization Backup and Replication Solutions, VMware vSphere Backup and Replication Solutions, Hyper-V Backup and Replication Solutions.
Proxmox Backup Server is a robust backup software solution designed for enterprise use. It enables you to securely back up virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts. This software is highly optimized for the Proxmox Virtual Environment platform and offers convenient web-based management, allowing you to easily handle data backups across remote sites.
I’m sure that most IT administrators are familiar with Veeam’s products and specially, Veeam Backup and Replication (Veeam BR). This product is one of popular backup and replication suite for physical and virtual environments. Veeam Backup and Replication offers three transport modes and we’ll review the transport modes and condition of their selection in this post.
DELL EMC PowerProtect Appliance has two types currently. We’ll review difference between two types at this post.
Virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere or Linux KVM supporting large scale of virtual machines now. Even, virtualization platforms can host monster virtual machines as database server. At this post, we’ll review database backup solutions in virtualization platforms about advantages and disadvantages.
Veeam has release Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4b to resolve issues that reported after release update 4 and 4a. This release is a rollup update, also it’s including some new features and enhancements. Update 4b is a cumulative update, meaning it includes all enhancements delivered as a part of Update 4a.
Yesterday, Veeam has published cumulative hotfix for Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 update 4. This update has some new platforms support and fixing more than 300 minor bugs and issues that reported by customers. VMware vSphere 6.7 U2 will be supported with this update.
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition [formerly known as Veeam Backup Free Edition] is a must have FREE tool for ad-hoc virtual machine (VM) backup, restore and management in VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. With no agents to deploy, powerful recovery options and VeeamZIP, you get flexibility in options and a reliable solution for important VMs. Whether you are locked in a legacy backup contract or are operating within a tight budget, you’ll find this FREE VM backup software helpful for your daily VM management. Why use Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition? Even for small infrastructures, virtualization with either VMware ESXi or Hyper-V brings many benefits in terms of savings and ease of administration. Have you ever wanted to back up a VM before making changes to it, clone a VM for testing purposes or make a compressed data archive prior to a VM decommission — just in case? Veeam’s FREE backup tool will cover all your needs! Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition works perfectly with both standalone ESXi and Hyper-V hosts, as well as with large virtual deployments. Whether you run a test lab or a production environment, it’ll be a perfect match. Are you on a budget or still experimenting with VM backup? Veeam...
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, part of Veeam Availability Suite, delivers Availability for ALL your virtual, physical and cloud-based workloads. Through a single management console, you can manage fast, flexible and reliable backup, recovery and replication of all your applications and data to eliminate legacy backup solutions forever. The following is a list of the major new features and functionalities added in Update 4.
RecoverPoint for VMs is a virtualized solution that provides data replication, protection, and recovery within the VMware vSphere environment.
Enable quick recovery of VMware virtual machines to any point in time. Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines provides continuous data protection (CDP) for operational recovery and disaster recovery. You’ll manage your VM protection simply and efficiently.
If you have any version of Veeam Backup & Replication for protecting virtual machines in your virtual environment and using vSphere 4 and later, the below problem might happen to you.
The OVM-BKP must be installed on Oracle VM Manager machine and there is no other option. Oracle VM Backup Utility can take backup from VMs when the VM is located on OCFS2 repositories, VMs running on NFS share will be stopped during backup process.
What’s Veeam Availability Console? Veeam Availability Console is new product that provided by Veeam for Service Providers. Veeam Availability Console is a FREE cloud-enabled, multi-tenant platform that delivers everything a service provider needs to deploy, manage and monitor their customers’ Veeam environments virtual, physical or cloud-based no matter where they reside. There’s no doubt that Veeam Availability Console is a powerful solution for service providers, but equally powerful for the large, distributed enterprise. Veeam Managed Backup Portal will be replaced with Veeam Availability Console. Requirements Veeam Availability Console can be work with existing Veeam Cloud Connect. Here is the requirements: 64-bit – Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 / Windows 7 SP1 or later Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 2 or later Key Features Veeam Availability Console offers the below features: Remote monitoring and management: Start and stop Veeam jobs including backup, replication, backup copy and backup to tape. Remote access to Veeam shell. Email notification. More than 30 predefined alarms Automation Multitenancy Free Download The Veeam Availability Console is available to download at the below link: Veeam Availability Console Read More on Teimouri.Net: Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices Veeam Endpoint Backup [Review]: Veeam BR – Storage-level Corruption Guard
Storage-level Corruption Guard Taking backup from virtual or physical machine is a good solution to protect data and services in an organization also some administrators taking backup form backup files on another storage space, it’s absolutely prefect but not enough! If backup is corrupted during backup session or after that, the source backup and copied files will be corrupted and this is actually big risk because you can’t trust to your backup files. Veeam has a utility to check and validate backups but it should be run manually or as a script after each job, you can read more iformation about this solution on the below post: [Review]: Veeam BR Validator Command-Line Tool Also Veeam BR offers “Sure Backup” feature for checking backup files totally on a isolated environment. In addition to Sure Backup and Validator, Veeam BR has another feature to check backup files automatically at scheduled time. The feature is called “Storage-Level Corruption Guard” How It Works? When a job has finished, storage-level corruption guard will perform a CRC verification for the most recent restore point. It will validate whether the content of the backup chain blocks match the content described within the backup file metadata. If a...
Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices Veeam Architecture team has released latest guide for administrators about “Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices” on Gitbook. The guide is including all best practices about Veeam Backup & Replication architecture and backup environment optimization. You can find best practices about Veeam Backup & Replication on the below topics: Architecture Overview Operational Guidelines Applications Proof of Concept Guidelines Each topic has many sub-topics and you’ll find best practices for implementing backup and replication solution on vSphere and Hyper-V environments. The book is available as PDF, ePub and Mobi formats and also you be able to read the contents online. Download The Book The book is available for download on the below links: PDF ePub Mobi Also as I mentioned, the book is available for online reading on the below link: Online Reading
Introduction Veeam Backup & Replication – PowerShell Extension Veeam Backup & Replication – PowerShell Extension or Veeam Backup and Replication PowerShell Toolkit is a snap-in to Microsoft Windows PowerShell. The Veeam Backup PowerShell snap-in allows you to do almost all operations that are available in the user interface. Keep in mind that actions performed with PowerShell have the same force as actions performed via Veeam Backup & Replication: for example, if you delete a job with a PowerShell script, the job will be removed from the Veeam Backup & Replication database, and you will not be able to undo changes. You can use it for managing anything in backup server faster than GUI and prepare reports for your BOSS! Requirements You can run Veeam Backup & Replication PowerShell Extension on PowerShell 2 and later. PowerShell 4.0 is recommended for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5. How To Run Veeam Backup & Replication – PowerShell Extension If you are working on your backup server directly, you can access to PowerShell via Veeam Backup & Replication Console: You can install Veeam Backup & Replication – PowerShell Extension on other Windows machine and connect to remote backup server. Find and execute BPS_x64.msi from the “Backup” folder...
