Secure backup, simple recovery and data flexibility with Veeam Backup

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Veeam Backup & Replication is a proprietary backup app developed by Veeam for virtual environments built on VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. The software provides backup, restore and replication functionality for virtual machines, physical servers and workstations as well as cloud-based workload.

Operation

Veeam Backup & Replication operates both the virtualization layer as well manages physical machine backup. It backs up VMs at the image-level using a hypervisor's snapshots to retrieve VM data.

Backups can be full (a full copy of VM image) or incremental (saving only the changed blocks of data since the last backup job run).

Veeam Backup & Replication provides automated recovery verification .

Built on a modular scheme, Veeam Backup & Replication allows for setting scalable backup infrastructures. The software architecture supports onsite, offsite and cloud-base data protection, operations across remote sites and geographically dispersed locations.

The installation package of Veeam Backup & Replication

The installation package of Veeam Backup & Replication includes a set of mandatory and optional components that can be installed on physical or virtual machines.

Mandatory components

• Veeam backup server – a Windows-based physical or virtual machine where Veeam Backup & Replication is installed. It is the core component responsible for all types of administrative activities in a backup infrastructure, including general orchestration of backup, restore and replication tasks, job scheduling and resource allocation.
• Backup proxy – an appliance that retrieves backup data from the source host and transfers it to the backup repository offloading the Veeam backup server.
• Backup repository – a primary storage for backup files, VM copies, and meta-data.

Optional components

• Backup Enterprise Manager – a centralized management web browser interface intended for distributed enterprise environments with multiple backup servers.
• Veeam Backup Search – an add-on to Microsoft Search Server for search performance optimization.
• Standalone Console — a lightweight console for installation on laptops and desktops to enable the management of the backup server remotely over the network and eliminate RDP sessions to a backup server.
• Scale-Out Backup Repository — Since version 9 it's possible to build a flat backup repository space from a number of independent and non-clustered sources. This feature eliminates any need in a clustered backup namespace, now Veeam users to store older backups in more affordable storage targets.

15/11/2023