Veeam Backup & Replication v12: Configure, Manage and Recover

• Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario.

• Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks

• Achieve application-consistent backups of virtual machines while maintaining operating system secure authentication.

• Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs.

• Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs.

• List required components and features available to protect NAS solutions

• Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency.

• Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications.

• Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux Hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability

• Describe use cases, advantages and considerations to implement object storage solutions as Veeam backup repositories.

• List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance.

• Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies.

• Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.

• List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies.

• Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories (SOBRs)

• Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover.

• Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas.

• Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

• Choose from different methods to recover a virtual machine from the backup.

• Securely restore a server after a ransomware incident with malware scanning of volumes directly from the backup and as part of the restore process.

• Explore available options to restore data from agent backups.

• Use Veeam Explorers™ to recover application items directly from image-level backups.

• Restore guest operating system files directly from image-level backups and from diverse guest file systems

• Describe virtual machine states available when recovering a virtual machine from its replica and mechanisms to avoid data loss and interdependent services recovery.

• List steps and considerations to instantly recover an entire file share from its backup.