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

Configuring proxy servers and the different backup modes available

When setting up Veeam Backup & Replication, as we have noted many times throughout the book, the proxy servers are among the more critical infrastructure components since they do all the task processing for running jobs. Therefore, setting them up and selecting the right transport mode for your backups is an essential step to ensure that you both achieve the performance and meet your backup window. Both job efficiency and the time required for job completion will significantly depend on the transport mode. All of the transport modes described apply to Windows servers, but for Linux, the only transport mode that it uses is the virtual appliance mode.

There are three modes that you can select, starting with the most efficient first:

Direct storage access: In this mode, Veeam Backup & Replication reads/writes directly from/to the storage system where VM data or backups reside. There are two modes: Direct...