The RPO and RTO RPO and RTO are part of the disaster recovery policy. It’s very important to understand the difference between RPO (Relative Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective). The RPO is the maximum time we allow ourselves to lose. This time can be expressed in minutes, hours or, in the worst case, days. This is the time between the incident and the last backup. In the case of a very short RPO, several daily backups will be…
The 3-2-1-1-0 rule The availability of the IT system and the integrity of the data is an important point not to be neglected. The tape drive is therefore an essential part of the backup system.The 3-2-1-1-0 rule is a good practice that should be followed. This involves 3 : Keep three copies of the data. One copy concerns the “primary” data, the other two are two backups. This prevents data loss in the event of a location malfunction or data…
Backup configuration Veeam v12 is now officaliy available. We can see on this post the upgrade of the version of Veeam v11 to v12) and the upgrade of the database (SQL to PostGreSQL). The upgrade has performed on the same server. If you have installed Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, you need to upgrade it before.
Add Tape Server on Linux server You can with Veeam Backup & Replication v12, install Tape Server on Linux server. From the Veeam Backup & Replication console, open Tape Infrastructure, click on Tape Infrastructure then on Add Tape Server.
Wasabi is a cloud storage service. It can be used as primary storage with Veeam for backup OnPrem or Cloud workloads. It can also be used as secondary storage (backup, archiving, etc.). This solution offers a system availability of 99.99%. Architecture of Wasabi Wasabi is composed of a scalable and distributed architecture with no single point of failure. The Wasabi service is composed by servers, hard drives and network device. For reasons of compliance with certain constraints, it may be…
What new in Veeam v12 Hardened Repository is now an important security for the backup chain. Cryptolocker try frequently to encrypt the backup file. A lot of new features is present in the Veeam v12. Compatibility with Hardened Repository Before the v12, you can use Hardened Repository for :
Backup directly to cloud storage Since Veeam v12, it is possible to backup resources and then store the backup chain in a cloud storage. From the Veeam console, click on Backup Infrastructure then on Add repositories.
Install Veeam v12 A lot of new feature is available with Veeam Backup & Replication. We will see in future posts these different features. Let’s see today how to install Veeam v12 using a PostGre SQL database and enable Double-factor authentification. Launch Veeam Backup & Replication 12 install wizard then click on Veeam Backup & Replication Install.
The Hardened backup repository is a backup repository who contain an option for immutability. This feature permit to protect data against data loss due to malware. Indeed, deletion of data is temporarily prohibiting. Note that only Linux backup repository provices the immutability option. Job type supported The immutability option can be enable only for this job :
Linux Agent You can use Linux agent for backup and protect linux physical server. After that deployed Veeam Linux agent, the Following components are deployed :