You're reading from Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10 Protect your virtual environment and implement cloud backup using Veeam technology

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838980443

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Hyper-V

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Chris Childerhose

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations

2. Chapter 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimization FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The 3-2-1 Rule – Keeping Data Safe

4. Section 2: Storage – NAS Backup, Linux, SOBR, and OBS

5. Chapter 3: NAS Backup

6. Chapter 4: Scale-Out Repository and Object Storage – New Copy Policy

7. Chapter 5: Windows and Linux – Proxies and Repositories

8. Chapter 6: Object Storage – Immutability

9. Section 3: DataLabs, Cloud Backup, and Veeam ONE

10. Chapter 7: Veeam DataLabs

11. Chapter 8: Cloud Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Cloud Connect Provider and the Insider Protection Feature

12. Chapter 9: Instant VM Recovery

13. Chapter 10:Veeam ONE

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Windows ReFS: The newer Resilient File System (ReFS) is designed to optimize data availability, efficiently manage scalability, and ensure data integrity through resilience to file corruption.
Linux EXT4: This is the Linux fourth extended filesystem and uses extents to replace traditional block mapping. It is built for...