Category: BACKUP RECOVERY

Create VM copy job Veeam, in this article, I have explained how we can create a Virtual Machine Copy using Veeam Backup & Replication. Please follow the below steps to create a VM copy job.

Create VM Copy Job Veeam

1- Open the Veeam Backup and Replication console, right-click on Jobs node and then click on VM copy.

2- New VM Copy job wizard, type a VM copy job name, job description, and then click on Next Button.

3- Click on Add button

4- Select a virtual machine the one you want to copy job and then click add.

5- After selecting the Virtual Machine, click on next button.

6- New VM copy job wizard, storage option, 1- Backup Repository, 2- Shared Folder.

7- I am going to VM copy to a shared location, so I selected the Server option and then click on the Next button.

8- New VM copy job, guest processing option, click on manage credentials.

9- Select user credentials for this VM copy job and then click OK.

10- Click test now.

11- After successfully test guest credentials then click close.

12- Click next.

13- New VM copy job schedule option, configure backup schedule and then click apply.

14- View the Job Summary, Select Run the job when I click Finish, and then click on Finish Button.

15- Now you can see the Job progress.

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Quick Migration Virtual Machine

Quick migration allows you to migrate Virtual Machine or virtual disks between VMware vSphere ESXi hosts and Datastores. If you need to use VMware vSphere vMotion to relocate VMs between hosts or VMware vSphere Storage vMotion to relocate VM disks between datastores, make sure that you have a VMware vSphere license covering these features.

Quick migration prerequisites and limitations click here

1- Login with Veeam Backup & Replication, Select the Inventory option, under virtual infrastructure expand VMware vSphere node and then select a VM container in which the Virtual Machine that you want to relocate reside.
Select the Virtual Machine that you want to migrate and then click Quick Migration from the Veeam menu.

2- Quick migration Virtual Machines wizard, select the VM and then click next.

3- Select the destination to which the VMs must be relocate and then click on the Choose button next to the Host or cluster field.

4- Select an ESXi host or cluster where do you want to the relocated VM must be registered and then click OK.

5- Select the Choose button next to the Resource pool field and then select the target resource pool. If you want to place relocated Virtual Machine to different resource pools.

6- Select the Choose button and select the folder, if you want to place relocated VMs to different folders.

7- Under datastore select the choose button if you need to change the datastore. The Veeam displays only those datastores that are accessible by the selected ESXi host.

8- By default, Veeam Backup saves disks of relocated VMs in the thin format. You can change the disk format and then click Next.

9- Quick migration transfer option click next.

Quick Migration Virtual Machine

Quick migration Ready option wizard, Review details of the quick migration task.
Disable the Delete source VM files upon a successful migration option, the source VM will not be deleted. All jobs to which one the virtual machine is added will continue to process the source VM.
Enable the Delete source virtual machine files upon a successful migration option, the source VM will be deleted. All the jobs to which the Virtual Machine is added will switch to the migrated VM. The backup sequence will be continued, thus, the next job session for the Virtual Machine will be incremental.
10- Now click the Finish button to close the wizard and start the migration process.

11- Now quick migration is in progress

Please also read this article: Instant VM Disk Recovery with Veeam.

Watch Video: Quick Migration Virtual Machine in Veeam

Instant VM Disk Recovery Veeam, you can without delay restore VM disks from a Veeam backup and publish them to the production environment. First, we need to test the recovered disk and then will publish them to the production environment or stop publishing the disks.

Instant VM Disk Recovery Veeam

Prerequisites click here

1- Select Home tab, click Restore menu and then click VMware vSphere

2- Click Restore from backup

3- Click Volume Restore

4- Click Instant VM disk recovery

5- Virtual Machine disk recovery wizard, In the Virtual machines list, expand a backup job select a VM whose disks you want to recover and then click next

6- Instant disk recovery wizard, Restore Point, selects a restore point and then clicks next.

7- Disk Mapping options, select a virtual disk to restore, and then choose a VM to which you want to attach.
By default, Veeam maps the restored disks to the original VM.
I am going to replace an existing virtual disk, so I click next.

8- In the Virtual Disk Properties, choose a virtual device node:
If you need to replace an existing virtual disk, select a virtual disk node. The original disk will be deleted.
If we want to attach the recovered disk to the Virtual Machine as a new disk, select the virtual disk node that is not occupied yet.

9- I am not selecting this option because I am just testing in my home lab so I click next.

10- Instant disk recovery wizard, type a reason and then click next

11- Now you can review the summary and then click Finish.

12- Instant disk restore session so click close

Instant VM Disk Recovery

13- The disks successfully recovered; first, we need to test the recovered disks.
How to open a VM console in Veeam Backup & Replication
Select the Home tab, in the inventory pane, select the Instant Recovery node. Right-click on Virtual Machine and select Open VM console.

14- Type credentials and then click OK

15- Now successfully login with instant disk recovery disk system

Migrate recovered disks to the production environment
Select the Home view; select the Instant Recovery, right-click on VM, and select Migrate to production.
How to migrate click Quick Migration

To remove recovered disks
From the Home view, select the Instant Recovery, right-click on VM, and then select Stop publishing.

Create Backup Copy Job
In this blog, I will explain how to copy backups to a secondary location, you need to configure a backup copy job. The Veeam backup copy job will defines how, where and when to copy backups. 1 job can be used to process backups of one or more machines.

Create Backup Copy Job

1- Open Veeam Backup & Replication console, select the Home tab, select Backup copy and then select Virtual machine

2- New backup copy wizard, In the Name field, types a backup copy job name. Type a description for the copy job. The default description includes information about a user who creates the job, date & time when the job was created.
Select Periodic copy (pruning) to copy the most recent restore points once within a backup copy.
If you have selected a daily backup copy, specify the start time and then click on next

3- New backup copy job wizard, Objects option, select VM machines whose to restore points you want to copy to a target Backup Repository, and then click on the Add button.

4- Select a backup job for a backup copy job

5- Click next

6- New backup copy job, Target option, From the Backup repository list, selects a backup repository where you want to copy backups job.
At the Restore points select keep option checkbox, specify the number of restore points that must be preserved on the target backup repository.
Click on the Schedule button to define the schedule for creating GFS full backups.
Select the checkbox reads the entire restore point from source ….

7- New backup copy job, data transfer option, select direct and then click OK.

8- Select the schedule option when the job is allowed to transfer data over the network and then click Next.

9- New backup copy job wizard, review the job summary, select enable the job when I click finish checkbox and then click finish

10- New backup copy job successfully completed

11- You can see the backup copy under jobs tab.

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Instant VM recovery Veeam, it will help you to improve recovery time objectives (RTO), minimize disturbance and downtime of production work burden. It is like having a temporary reserve for a workload: users remain productive while you can troubleshoot an issue with the failed workload.
When Instant VM Recovery is carried out, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the Veeam vPower technology to mount a retrieved VM image to an ESXi host directly from a compressing and deduplicated backup file. After that no need to extract the VM from the backup file and copy it to production storage, you can perform restore from any restore point in a matter of minutes.

Instant VM recovery Veeam

1- Run Veeam Backup and Replication console and select Backups and then select the backup job. Right-click on Virtual Machine then one you want to create instant VM then click on Instant VM recovery.

2- Instant VM recovery Wizard will open, so just select the Backup and click on the Next button.

3- We are creating this instant Virtual Machine for testing purposes. Choose option Restore to a new location or different and click on the Next button.

4- Now you can here define the name of instant Virtual Machine.
So we need to select the ESXi Host where we need to restore and then just click on choose Host button.

5- Now select the ESXi host here and then click on the OK button.

6- After selecting the ESXi host and then click on the Next button.

7- Select a Datastore where you need to restore. If you have multiple Datastore or leave it as default and click on the Next button.

8- Select scan backup for viruses or else leave it default and click on the next button.

9- Type a reason why you are restoring the Virtual Machine for identification and click on the Next button.

10- Now we need to select the following option very carefully so please don’t select connect VM to network for avoiding IP address conflict select only power on VM automatically option and click on restore and wait for it.

11- Instant VM recovery has been completed successfully so wait a few minutes to power on the Virtual Machine.

Testing Recovered VMs

Before migration recovered Virtual Machine to production, you can open VM consoles in Veeam Backup & Replication or in the VMware vSphere client.
To open a Virtual Machine console in Veeam Backup and Replication:
Select the Home tab, In the inventory pane, select the Instant Recovery option, In the working area, right-click a VM and select Open Virtual Machine console.

13- Type credentials and click OK

14- Now Instant Virtual Machine Opened

Migrating Recovered VMs

Migrate click Quick Migration (will be provide the link as soon as possible)

Stop publication Recovered Virtual Machine

If the test has failed, you can stop publishing the recovered VMs. This will remove the restored VMs from the host that you selected as the destination for recovery.

Note that all modifications made in the recovered VMs will be lost.

To stop publishing a recovered VM

1- Select the Home view, In the inventory option, select the Instant Recovery node, In the working area, right-click a VM and click Stop publishing.

2- Click Yes

3- Now Instant VM dismount finished

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Cloud Tier store long-term data retention

Cloud Tier is a feature available in Veeam Backup & Replication that allows administrators to store long-term data retention on cost-effective storage cloud solutions.
Veeam Cloud Tier capability takes advantage of Object Storage Repository configured as Capacity Tier Extent in the Scale-out Backup Repository providing a very scalable repository.
Veeam Backup & Replication provides the capability to securely transfer on-premises backups to Azure Object Storage offering a scalable storage infrastructure.

For more details visit Veeam

Create Account Wasabi S3 Bucket

Configure long-term data retention with Azure repository

Add a new Backup Repository

1- Open Veeam, select the Backup Infrastructure tab, and select the Backup Repositories section. Click Add Backup Repository.

2- Add backup repository wizard, select Object storage as backup repository type.

3- Object storage. Select S3 Compatible item.

4- Type repository Name, Description then click Next.

5- Account, Insert Service Point address, and select Region by selecting between the available Wasabi datacenters.
s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com
For credentials click Add

6- Enter your Wasabi “Access key” and the “Secret Key” retrieved from the Wasabi Management Console then click OK.

7- Click Next.

8- Bucket, based on specified credentials, Veeam fetches the Bucket you have configured in Wasabi (wasabibuckets3). Select Browse to select an existing folder

9- To create a new folder, click on New Folder button type a folder name to store your backups and then click OK.

10- Enable Limit object storage consumption to & specify the limit to 1TB. When the limit is surpassed, no new tasks will be executed. Choose recent backup immutable and then click Next.

11- Click finish to create the Wasabi Backup Repository.

12- The new Wasabi Bacup Repository has been created successfully.

Create a new local Backup Repository

1- Select the Backup Repositories section and then select Add Backup Repository.

2- Select director attached storage as backup repository type.

3- Select Microsoft Windows.

4- Type repository Name, Description and then click Next.

5- Select the Populate button, select a drive you want to use as a backup repository, and then click Next.

6- Click Next.

7- Click Yes.

8- Click next.

9- Click Apply.

10- Click next

11- Click Finish to create the local Backup Repository.

12- The new local Backup Repository has been created successfully.

Create a new Scale-out Repository

1- Select Scale-out Repositories and then Select Add Scale-out Backup Repository.

2- Type a Name, Description for the new Scale-out Backup Repository and then click Next.

3- Click the Add button to add a local Extent used as Performance Tier to store metadata.

4- Select the the backup repository and then click OK to confirm.

5- Click Next.

6- Select Data Locality option and then click next.

7- Select checkbox Extend scale-out repository capacity with object storage option by specifying the Wasabi repository previously created. Define also the time/age when old backups can be moved to the object storage (Wasabi object storage repository) for long-retention archival purposes. You can set the value click Apply.

8- Click finish to create the Scale-out Repository.

9- The Scale-out Repository has been created successfully.

Create a Backup Job

Create a new Backup Job to grab advantage of the Immutability feature.

1- Select home tab, select backup job and then virtual machine.

2- Type backup job name and then click next.

3- Virtual machine to backup click the add button

4- Select the object to backup and then click add.

5- Click next

6- In the configuration wizard select from the Backup repository drop-down menu the just created Scale-out Repository (local backup repository Wasabi) and then click next. Follow the below instructions and finalize the Backup Job configuration.

7- Click next

8- Click next

9- Click finish

10- During the first performance, a Full Backup is being performed.

Move backups to Wasabi Object Storage

If you are willing to test the archival process into the protected bucket, after the initial Full Backup you must perform some additional backups. At least 3 to 4 additional Incremental Backups and one another Active Full Backup.

In this picture you can find 2 full backups 3 incremental backup

1- To move backups immediately to the selected Wasabi Object Storage. Select your scale-out repository and then click edit scale-out repository.

2- Select Capacity Tier option, select Move backup files older than field set to 0, and click finish.

3- Keep the CTRL button and right-click on your Scale-out Backup Repository (Wasabi) and then select Run tiering job now.

4- The offload process is performing and backups are moved to Wasabi Object Storage. I am testing in my test lab so I am stopping it.

5- Login to Wasabi Console and access the Bucket used as Backup Repository. As expected, backup files have been stored in the configured Bucket.