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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication

You're reading from   Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication Design and deploy a secure and resilient Veeam 12 platform using best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630097
Length 230 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Installation – Best Practices, Core Architecture, and Other Enhancements
2. Chapter 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Core Architecture Enhancements 4. Chapter 3: Scale-Out Backup Repository – What’s New 5. Chapter 4: Tape Servers and Other Enhancements 6. Part 2: Security, Object Storage Direct, CDP, and Cloud Connect
7. Chapter 5: Veeam’s New Enhanced Security Features 8. Chapter 6: Object Storage – What’s New and Enhancements 9. Chapter 7: What’s New in NAS Backup 10. Chapter 8: CDP and Veeam Cloud Connect 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding what is new with tape servers and object storage to tape

Tape server support has evolved with VBR but has improved in v12 with the ability to support Linux as a tape server. One of the many reasons for allowing backup administrators to switch the tape server component over to Linux is the license cost savings from dispensing with a Microsoft Windows server. Previous to VBR v12, the tape server role could only be installed on a Microsoft Windows server, but now we have Linux as an option. You can read about the requirements for tape servers for supported Linux distributions and the supported tape hardware in the Further reading section at the end of the chapter.

For my examples in this book section, I will use a VM with CentOS 7.x installed and Quadstor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) software for Linux. Information about Quadastor VTL can be found here: https://www.quadstor.com/virtual-tape-library.html.

Using Linux for a tape server

To set up the Linux server as...

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