Backups

Veeam Backup & Replication v6

One of my favorite virtualization backup companies is about to mark another day to bring new features and take the backup world to the next level…Veeam Backup & Replication is moving to the new release, v6!  The focus of v6 include:

  • Enterprise scalability of your virtual backup infrastructure
  • Advanced replication
  • Multi-hypervisor support

The biggest feature addition is 1-Click File Restore.  You are able to find the file and restore the individual file.  This allows us to take single file restores to our helpdesk people, easing the load on your virtualization and backup administrators.  I am excited to actually see what these other improvements are that Veeam is bringing to the table.

As most of you know, I am fan of Veeam and have used it at many of my companies.  I stand firm behind their product because I feel they are pushing innovation of virtualization backup and replication to the limits and driving all of those wonderful acronyms that we love to push at management in the direction that management likes to see them go!  :)

Check out the video to get a more detailed view of the new features and enhancements in v6!

AppAssure Replay 4 for vSphere Backup and Restore

So we all know who the big players in the VMware virtualization backup game are…Veeam, vRanger, PHDvirtual…to name a few of the more common ones.  A new one has come into the mainstream, AppAssure.  AppAssure has a product called Replay.

I had the pleasure of watching a short video regarding the solution which you can see below.  AppAssure Replay is taking things a step further and attempting to consolidate both the physical and virtual backup worlds.  Their product allows for restore on to either virtual or physical machines and even to different hardware in the physical world.  I know from talking with some virtualization customers in the past that this is one thing that people think needs to happen.  That is truly a matter for debate and a different post.  My personal opinion is that if someone can do it and do it well…then by all means bring it!  (Yes, I said bring it…like the movie Bring It On…)

After reading a bit about the product and watching the introduction video, I am excited to actually see it in motion.  Some of the features that are exciting to see are the failover to virtual machine for physical servers, the snapshot compression and dedupe, and the automated application recovery validation.  I also want to see if their claim to being the world’s fastest backup and recovery stands true.  (Does that mean a possible post comparing different solutions?)

Check out the video below and I should have another post coming soon regarding my trials and tribulations with the product!  You can also check out AppAssure’s site by going to http://www.appassure.com.

Are you getting good snapshots?

I was going through my nightly reading and came across a great article at vKnowledge about application consistent quiescing.  Since there are many companies using snapshot technology to take backups of their virtual machines you might want to read this article.   The article goes into a good depth about the types of quiescing techniques used and what OS the technique is used on.

Taking snapshots of your virtual machines seems an adequate way of protecting your virtual machine and it application data. However, protecting transactional systems like SQL, Active Directory, Exchange and other systems using snapshots requires a little more attention.

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