Installing Vembu BDR

I wanted to bring you a backup solution that may not be so well known but that surely meets the needs of the vast majority, we will see in this post how to install and deploy Vembu BDR, What is a Backup product & Disaster Recovery that will allow us to make backups and replicas of our virtual or physical platforms!

Initial Nakivo Backup Setup & Replication

Continuing with the deployment of Nakivo, after installing it, that you have seen that it had no mystery, or if we have deployed it on an appliance or installed on a NAS. Now, We will need to continue with an initial setup, where we will add our inventory, Transport nodes and repositories! It will therefore be where we add our virtual infrastructure or cloud, then those that will manage the backups or replicas and finally where we will store the copies!

vSphere Data Protection

One of the new features of vSphere 5.1 was the introduction of vSphere Data Protection (since vSphere Data Recovery is discontinued), a new virtual machine backup and recovery software for our vSphere virtual infrastructure 5.1. Like VMware Data Recovery uses VADP (vSphere API for Data Protection) with CBT (Changed Blocks Tracking), but it also uses EMC Avamar's variable block-level deduplication to optimize copies and restores. Provide deduplication together to all appliance tasks and VMs. It is fully integrated with the vSphere Web Client and will provide the possibility of file recovery to end users.

Backing up VMware ESXi configuration

Once our hosts have been configured, it is advisable to keep a backup copy of their configuration, an easy way to back up the entire configuration of an ESXi host is by using the VMware vMA appliance or by using the VMware vSphere CLI (vCLI). Once we have the backup, we can restore it if necessary in a simple way, we will also see another command to reset ESXi hosts to factory values.

Exporting and Importing Mailboxes or PST Files into Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1

Prior to Exchange 2010 SP1 we used the Export-Mailbox command (Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010) o Dive (Exchange 2003) to export our mailboxes to PST's files. Thanks to Exchange SP1 2010 we'll use 'New-MailboxExportRequest’ and it will therefore not be necessary to have any Outlook on premises. We will perform this procedure on an Exchange server 2010 SP1, We will have to indicate which user or group will be in charge of carrying out these imports or exports, so we will have to add the role of 'Mailbox Import Export'. Otherwise, by default members of the 'Organization Management'’ will have such roles.

Using Veeam Backup & Replication to make backups and replicas of our virtual environment

This Veeam product called Veeam Backup and Replication, offers us the possibility of both backups and replication of our VMware virtual environment, for both VMware Infrastructure 3 How to VMware vSphere 4 (VMware ESX or VMware ESXi, depending on the license purchased, that the product is paid for, but very cheap). It will allow us to make backups of the virtual machines that we indicate in the location that interests us, We will be able to keep as many copies of the same virtual machine as we are interested in, as Veeam will store them incrementally. Personally, what I like is the replication, since the backup is given to us by VCB or VMware Data Recovery, replication can be carried out in another storage array that we have and the replicated virtual machines will be optionally placed in the VMware inventory, just like backups, We can have so many replicas […]

Using VMware Data Recovery to Back Up VMware vSphere

VMware Releases New Virtual Machine Backup System Called VMware Data Recovery. It is a virtual appliance based on CentOs 5.2 which we will incorporate into our virtual environment, and with a plugin we can manage from the VMware client, as it integrates with our VMware vCenter Server. I have to tell you that I love how it works, is fully customizable, We can make backups of the virtual machines that we are interested in, We can indicate how many copies we want it to keep of each virtual machine and for how long; how many machines you keep for us for a specific time. The best thing is the technology you use to make backups called deduplication, This will prevent duplicate copies of virtual machines, but in the next copy it will only copy the differences with the complete copy, This is, an incremental copy! We will be able to restore the entire virtual machine, […]