To complete my setup, once I deployed all my virtual machines in the previous articles, I also need a S3 bucket to be later used in Veeam as an object storage. And obviously, I can also automated this part with Terraform.
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My Automated Lab project: #5 Deploy a Linux vSphere VM with Terraform and custom disks
After deploying a Windows VM in the previous article, this time I will deploy a Linux VM to be used as a Veeam Hardened Repository. Since I need some more space for storing the backup, I will use this opportunity to create the VM with a additional disks.
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Calculate space savings of a XFS volume with reflink and Veeam fast clone
One of the most common questions I get in regards to Veeam and the usage of XFS filesystem with its reflink capabilities is “how do I measure the real used space?”. There are some techniques and some blog posts around, but I noticed that none of them were written with operations in mind. Time to fix this.
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A new whitepaper: Veeam Backup & Replication V12 enhanced security and scalability with object storage Secure Mode
I just published a new whitepaper: Veeam Backup & Replication V12 enhanced security and scalability with object storage Secure Mode. Check it out!
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Playing with the new Veeam SOSAPI for Object Storage
In my previous article I introduced the new Veeam SOSAPI. In this following post, I will show you a bit more how it works under the hood. Using the filesytem as an the SOSAPI endpoint Veeam took an interesting and uncommon approach to a very specific problem: how do you…
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A first look at the new Veeam SOSAPI
Veeam Backup & Replication v12 is all about Object storage. Not just because it can write data directly to it, but also because – thanks to the introduction of a new set of API called SOSAPI- Veeam and the storage that supports these new API can better work together.
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Create a S3 Bucket with Object Lock in Scality Artesca for Veeam
Veeam Backup & Replication v12 is capable of writing backups directly to a Object storage. In my lab I use Scality Artesca as my S3-compatible object storage, so I created some new buckets to be used with Veeam. Let’s see how this can be done. The procedure can be useful also for people using different products.
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Back to blogging, with a new object-ive!
After two years since my last article, I’m back blogging as at the beginning of 2023 I found a new topic that I like a lot: Object storage.