My Veeam Backup & Replication Review
February 02, 2021
My Veeam Backup & Replication Review
Score 9 out of 10
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Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
[Veeam Backup & Replication] is used by the IT department. It provides protection against data loss and business continuity in the event that the main data center fails.
Pros
- Reverse incremental backups - means that the most recent backup is always the full one so restores are quicker.
- Replication to 2nd cluster - really easy to setup and arrange. Works every time.
- Backup encryption. Keeps the backups secure in case of intrusion.
Cons
- Speed - it is not always the fastest and one slow job can throw out the schedules for all other jobs.
- There's no intelligent scheduling option. I would like to be able to schedule an order and have veeam back up all the vms in that order, taking account of their particular requirements (e.g. exchange aware etc). At the moment you have to create different jobs for each type of backup and "guess" how long it will take.
- Backup is limited in destinations in my experience.
- Positive - we have a secure reliable backup we can restore from easily. Have recovered everything from individual files to whole vms.
- Saved huge amounts of time restoring vms after failures/misconfiguration/malware.
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