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The worst practices or “how not to” backup your virtual infrastructure
Mikhail Vasiliev
Veeam Systems Engineer
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AGENDA
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No Planning/Sizing
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No Planning/Sizing
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Veeam ONE
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Retention Doesn’t Work!
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More backup files than specified restore points
Make sure you provision repository space accordingly
Forward incremental retention
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RETENTION
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Retention Issues
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SureBackup® sessions that are left running for long periods to perform
some testing on VMs
Instant VM Recovery™ sessions that are not migrated to production
Restore points may be locked by a running session preventing them from being removed
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Not Finalizing Instant VM Recovery
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VM is running from your backup storage – don’t expect real production performance
Migrate to production as soon as possible. More about ways to do that in the UserGuide
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Job Chaining
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Longer backup windows in the majority of cases
Administrative error prone
Major protection disruption due to a single problematic job
Doesn’t scale well
Are you sure
you need it?
Job chaining
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Unless there is a specific use case, let Veeam do resource
scheduling for you.
Better way to manage resources
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One Job to Rule Them All
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Reduces scheduling flexibility (especially for active full backups)
Restores from tape will take a long time and require a lot of space on staging repo
Harder to add/relocate repositories
Problems with synthetic/transform jobs on slower NAS boxes
Adding all VMs into a single job
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Opposite strategy is not that good either
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Hyper-V Issues
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Upgrade to latest Hyper-V version if
possible
Install critical Hyper-V hotfixes (we have a KB
for 2008R2 and 2012(R2) hotfixes: vee.am/kb1838)
Use hardware VSS provider and off-host
backup whenever possible
If you have issues with Guest VSS processing in Veeam jobs, check vee.am/kb1855 for a
list of possible reasons
Check with Host OS/Guest OS version compatibility matrix. Microsoft has it all
published on Technet.
What to keep in mind
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Not Verifying Your Backups
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OS booting issues
Applications and services problems
Multiple interdependent VM configuration scenarios
Things you can’t catch without SureBackup
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Slow SureBackup
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What Makes SureBackup Go Slowly?
Slow or deduplicating backup storage
Long forward incremental chains
Host starving of resources
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Mikhail Vasiliev
Systems Engineer
@mmvasilyev