In the "Before you begin" section of each restore option, you can find initial considerations and prerequisites. This section contains information on all the major types of restores. I think in all these situations the clients fell into the same trap - they simply assumed that if a backup is successful, then restore should be as well! Learn about restore, just as you learn about backups. When they had to restore some guest files from a large file server, it turned out there was simply not sufficient space to be found on any machine to act as a staging repository.
They never considered that data recovery is a whole different process that must be examined and tested separately. And I'm not talking about lost backups, CryptoLocker or something! It's just that their focus was on creating a backup or replica. They needed a restore, but at a certain point hit an obstacle they could not circumvent. I invite you to reflect on them to make your experience with Veeam even smoother.īackups are only half of the deal - think about restores!Įvery now and then we get calls from customers who catch themselves in a very bad situation. In this blog post, I would like to share with you several other important topics.
It was met with much attention and hopefully helped administrators improve their Veeam Backup & Replication setups. Several months ago, I wrote a blog post about some common and easily avoidable misconfigurations that we, support engineers, keep seeing in customers' infrastructures.
VG Tuesday Tips: Tips on managing, testing and recovering your backups and replicas