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

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Object Storage Immutability and what it means

When you decide to deploy Object Storage for use with Veeam Backup & Replication, an excellent option to look into is Immutability. When you turn this feature on within your Object Storage by selecting the Object Lock option, it prohibits objects from being changed or deleted throughout the storage lifetime or retention period. A storage lifetime is the time between successful object creation (upload) and successful object deletion.

The following diagram shows Object Lock and Versioning getting turned on:

Figure 6.8 – Enabling Immutability, including the Object Lock feature

As you can see, turning on Object Lock and Versioning is a requirement for Veeam Backup & Replication to use this feature. Veeam Backup & Replication uses the Object Lock technology that Amazon and other S3-compatible providers have built in. Once this gets enabled in your Object Storage, it prevents the deletion...