What's going on guys it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and yes we are taking care of Veeam
backups.
backup is extremely important for us IT system administrators.
I think on the last video we took care of installing Veeam which was super simple, and
today is taken care of the backup.
now I'm actually coming from a VDP environment, which is VMware data protection,
I'm doing some testing on this environment migrate away from that into this.
So let's get right into
okay so today me and you are going to configure our first backup
within Veeam
open up your Veeam application,
and within here, they give you a nice little list, add server, create a job, restore so
we are going to click on Add server, you get this nice little wizard, and you can either
pick vSphere,
or Hyper V.
Now for this video I am going to do vSphere so I'm going to
click on that, it's going to take
me here.
You can either do vSphere or vcloud director.
I'm going to click on vsphere.
You're going to provide an IP address,
or DNS name I've provided my full qualified domain name.
If you want you can give it a description, I left it as the default click next here.
You want to click on Add, you want to provide your username and password which allows you
to connect to your vCenter.
And once you establish that connection.
Make sure you configure your port,
by default, it is set to 443 click Apply.
Once you click Apply
is going to give you this nice little dialog box for the certificate
security alert.
Click Continue.
it's going to start saving the server to the configuration.
Once it's done, you get a nice little summary and then click on Finish.
And then on your left hand side you're going to see your vCenter Server, you click on it,
you're going to see all your virtual machines, and that's a good name because that basically
says that Veeam
has established a connection to your vCenter
successfully.
Awesome.
Now, next thing we need to do is create a job so we are going to click on create job.
And from here on the upper left side we are going to click on backup job.
Click on virtual machine within a new backup job wizard you're going to provide
a name and a description once you do that click on Next.
From here, click on add it gives you a nice little menu to, you know, add your objects
so if you select your vCenter and you navigate to all the virtual machines that you want
to select just select them.
for this example I'm going to select my SCCM Click on Add and add it.
So you constantly do that until you have all
the virtual machines that you want
you are able to
actually hold the Ctrl key
and select multiple objects inside that little window,
and to add
all of them in one shot once
you're done click on Next.
And it's time to select our storage I made a mistake here and I thought Veeam was actually
going to pick up the external hard drive that I inserted inside the server did not do that.
So I actually had to
close it, cancel that and then go inside backup infrastructure.
Go inside backup repository, right click on it added backup repository.
I picked direct attached storage,
Microsoft Windows
provided a name for my backup repository
and I clicked oo next.
Now because I attached an external hard drive, within my Veeam server.
I just clicked on populate it started to connect to the server and then scanned it and then
Boom E drive.
Awesome.
So I select my E drive.
Click on
Next.
I left everything as the default when I clicked on next I got this nice little information
dialog box.
It looks like Veeam works great.
if the hard
drive external hard
drive is formatted using an ReFS volume with
a 64 kilobyte cluster size.
You are able to just click yes and just bypass it.
And for the mount server I left everything as the default click on next here.
Nice little review, I applied it, it is going to start applying all the settings and once
it's done, you should get more green checkmarks
which is a good thing.
Then click on next here
summary and then finish.
And then it's going to give a nice little dialog
box,
stating change the configuration backup location
to the newly created repository I said yes.
go back inside home and then start the backup job wizard again.
Once you get to this point right here.
When I click on the drop down menu.
The external hard drive was there so I selected it.
This windows is extremely powerful so if you click on Advanced, it gives you more options
within my production my nine to five job.
I actually configure the notification tab, I do recommend that you guys go over each
one.
Now some of the settings that are recommended works great for my environment but it really
depends on your environment so you've got backup,
we got maintenance you got storage
notifications is great.
You got vSphere settings you got integration and then you got your scripts, again I can't
really tell you guys, these are the best settings for your environment you just have to go over
each tab and configure it once you're done click OK, and then you're able to click on
Next.
Now for guest processing I left everything as the default just click on next here for
scheduling I just clicked on run this job automatically you're going to click on days
and just pick the days that you want this job to automatically start and start, you
know, backing up your virtual machines by default you have an automatic retry of three
times so if a virtual machine fails, it's going to try two more times before we continue.
That's a good thing.
if you don't want that you're able to disable it, click Apply.
Nice little summary, and then I checked off run this job when I click on finish, and then
click on finish and the backup job automatically starts now if you click on the backup job
you're going to see a nice little job progress summary at the very bottom, all green checkmarks,
it looks like it's backing up with no problem.
It looks like it's grabbing stuff, I did get a warning on one of my virtual machines.
And if you actually go inside the external hard drive which for me I inserted an external
hard drive.
When you go inside that folder where all the backups are being saved it's actually one
huge container so this particular file right here actually has all my virtual machines
in that file.
Now once it's completed you should get a nice little summary, like this.
Everything was successful, I got a couple warnings and the reason why I got a couple
of warnings, is that these machines have snapshots.
So from my understanding Veeam actually does a temporary snapshot before it starts the
backup.
Once the backup is successful it deletes the snapshot, if you already have a snapshot already
in place, they start acting up like this.
I went in I cleaned up all the virtual machine snapshots, and it was successful.
So, which is great.
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Peace out.