What is Veeam Backup & Replication and how does it work

Introduction:

Veeam Backup & Replication is a data protection software that has been very popular in many organizations in the past 12 years. It is known for its efficient protection of the infrastructure and all critical workloads (virtual, physical and cloud based). With a single console, achieve fast, flexible and reliable backup, recovery and replication of all applications and data.

Backup:

Veeam Backup & Replication appliance supports software-defined storage (SDS) technology. It allows organizing a scalable backup repository from a collection of heterogeneous storage devices. Backups can be stored on-premises, transferred to off-site repositories, saved to tape media for long-term retention, or can simply be sent to cloud storage. Cloud storage support is available on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model. Veeam's technology, Cloud Connect, provides integrated and secured backup to the cloud through Veeam-powered service providers (like Stonefly).

Veeam Backup & Replication uses storage system snapshots as a source for backups and recovery of VMware Virtual Machines (VMs) with disks residing on storage volumes. This way you can backup data at any point in time.

Replication:

Replication works alongside backup. It can perform image based Virtual Machines (VMs) replication. It creates a ‘clone’ of a production VM onsite or offsite and keeps it in a ready-to-use state so that it can be used instantly when needed. Each VM image has a configurable number of failover points which can be useful as during a ‘failover’ you experience near zero data loss.

 Recovery:

This software provides a number of data recovery options with a response time of 10-30 minutes.

-        Entire VM Recovery: 

      An immediate restore of a VM via mounting a VM image to a host directly from a backup file.

-         File-Level Recovery: 

      Restore only specific VM files.

-       Virtual Drive Restore: 

     A specific VM hard drive recovery.

-          Application Item Recovery: 

     Granular recovery of items from Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server etc.

Optimization:

Veeam Backup & Replication decreases backup files size and data traffic with built-in data deduplication and compression. It also provides built-in WAN acceleration to reduce the bandwidth required for transferring backups and replicas over the WAN.

 In Summary

Veeam Backup & Replication is a powerful tool for protection and has been trusted for years. It provides easy solutions for backup disaster recovery solution with a very low response time.