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Quick look at the new dashboard in Veeam Backup for AWS

By David Hill on June 30, 2022 in Cloud Computing, Veeam

Recently Veeam released version 5 of Veeam Backup for AWS. In this new release a number of enhancements and capabilities can be found. For those that have not seen all the key new capabilities, a blog detailing all these announcements can be read here. Today I want to focus on is a completely redesigned dashboard. This new dashboard provides a lot of easy to see information about what is happening in the environment immediately, making it easy to understand what is happening, spot any errors, and just have a general easy to see oversight of everything you are protecting in the AWS cloud. First, lets take a look at the new dashboard: As you can see from the screenshot above, the dashboard provides a lot of key information to provide understanding to key areas of your data protection solution in AWS. Each area provides the capabilities to drill further into […]

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Working from home – Tips and Tricks

By David Hill on April 1, 2020 in Randomness

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Using AWS tags to automate your backups with Veeam Backup for AWS

By David Hill on March 27, 2020 in Cloud Computing, Veeam

Over the past few weeks and months, I have been having a lot of conversations with people about automation and the use of tags within AWS. Tags within AWS are nothing new, and AWS provides a vast amount of information on how to use them. First of all lets think of a use case for AWS tags. Backups are a good use case. You can easily apply an AWS tag to an EC2 instance so that you know whether this should be part of a backup policy or not. For example, you can create a simple tag called backup and have true or false as the value. AWS has a number of documents that are really helpful to understand what tags are and how they can be used. I have listed two of my favourites here: Tagging your EC2 resources AWS Tagging strategies With the recent release of Veeam Backup […]

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Technical look at Veeam Backup for AWS

By David Hill on March 2, 2020 in Cloud Computing, Veeam

Recently Veeam announced Veeam Backup for AWS. This is a brand-new product bringing enterprise class backup protection to the AWS public cloud. I wrote an article on Veeam.com describing some of the details this product brings but wanted to dive in deeper through this blog. Veeam Backup for AWS brings enterprise class capabilities to Amazon AWS EC2 to protect instance-based workloads. With Veeam Backup for AWS you can store your Amazon AWS EC2 backups in Amazon S3 object storage and restore to any Amazon AWS EC2 region. Veeam Backup for AWS has several features and capabilities: Native backup and restore for Amazon EC2 instances In-place and Out-of-Place restores Granular File Level Restore Long term data retention with Amazon S3 Cloud Native Backup Automates Amazon EBS snapshots for frequent backup and fast restores Policy based protection Deployed from Amazon Marketplace to provide simple web-based management UI Cost Effective Built in cost […]

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Veeam Backup for AWS File Level Recovery

By David Hill on January 9, 2020 in Uncategorized

Recently Veeam launched a new product called Veeam Backup for AWS. Veeam Backup for AWS brings enterprise class capabilities to Amazon AWS EC2 to protect instance-based workloads. With Veeam Backup for AWS you can store your Amazon AWS EC2 backups in Amazon S3 object storage and restore to any Amazon AWS EC2 region. Veeam Backup for AWS has several features and capabilities: Native backup and restore for Amazon EC2 instancesIn-place and Out-of-Place restoresGranular File Level RecoveryLong term data retention with Amazon S3 As mentioned, one of the key capabilities is File Level Recovery. I recently published a quick demo on YouTube showing how this works and I wanted to share this here. For more information on Veeam Backup for AWS visit veeam.com

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Watch Veeam talk at Tech Field Day 20

By David Hill on November 7, 2019 in Veeam

On November 13th 2019 at 10am Pacific Time, Veeam Software will be showcasing its latest flagship products to the Tech Field Day delegates. This is an exciting time for Veeam with the upcoming release of Veeam Backup and Replication v10, and consequently have some exciting new capabilities to show to the delegates and the wider audience. During the two-hour session, Anthony Spiteri, Michael Cade and Rick Vanover will discuss key capabilities around advanced NAS integration, instant VM restore, continuous data protection and other great capabilities and features. Tech Field Day bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, speakers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived by IT practitioners. This is a truly unique experience and Tech Field Day has brought […]

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VeeamON 2019 Recap

By David Hill on May 28, 2019 in Veeam

Last week Veeam held its annual conference VeeamON in Miami at the FountainBlue Hotel! And what a venue it was. This has to be the nicest venue I have attended a conference in. The event opened with the General Session with Ratmir Timashev announcing Veeam has become a $1billion software company! What an achievement for a company started just over 10 years ago. Ratmir talks about how sucesful Veeam has become and how that was Act 1. Moving forward with Act 2, Veeam is focused on becoming the #1 Cloud Data Management Platform. This is an important step in helping customers manage and secure data in a Multi Cloud World. After the General Session, later on in the day, Danny Allan kicked off the Technical Keynote. Anthony Spiteri has written a nice recap blog on this session, check it out here. Anthony kindly broke down the key times in the […]

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Automate adding your AWS EC2 instances to your backup policies

By David Hill on March 26, 2019 in Cloud Computing, Veeam

One of the cool use features in N2WS Backup and Recovery is the ability to automate adding your EC2 instances to your backup policies. By leveraging tags this allows you to launch EC2 instances and assign them specific tags and never worry about those instances being protected. This works across AWS accounts too. Whats makes this even easier is when your using something like cloud formation to deploy anything in EC2 you can just have these tags propagated immediately. Lets take a quick look at how we do this. First we need to make sure that N2WS Backup and Recovery is configured for tag scanning. This is really simple. Go to General Settings Locate Tag Scan and turn Scan Resources to Enabled You can specify how long the scan interval is. Default is 6 hours. Once you have this configured, you need to define the tags in EC2. How this […]

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Veeam N2WS Backup & Recovery 2.5 generally available

By David Hill on March 13, 2019 in Veeam

Recently N2WS and Veeam released the latest version of N2WS Backup and Recovery providing native AWS backups and disaster recovery. This is an exciting release, and has some great new capabilities to provide in-depth control of the AWS EC2 and RDS resources being used by customers running multiple workload types in Amazon AWS. N2WS Backup & Recovery 2.5 GA Some key features of this release include: N2WS Resource Control – the lightswitch for your AWS environment: Start/Stop/Hibernate idle Amazon EC2 and RDS instance groups on-demand or automatically S3 Cost reduction and improved performance Enhanced S3 Copy logging Added new region – Stockholm + New GovCloud (including cross-region DR!) Expanded range of APIs allowing you to configure alerts and recovery targets ALL available APIs via the CLI With the new feature of resource control, users can now create groups of EC2 instances and RDS instances and specify power on, power off times throughout the […]

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Business Continuity in AWS with Cloud Protection Manager

By David Hill on July 6, 2018 in Cloud Computing, Veeam

In January Veeam acquired N2WS Software, which provide cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions. One of the products N2WS has is Cloud Protection Manager. This product allows anyone using AWS to easily schedule automated backups and disaster recovery snapshots and have them distributed across availability zones and regions. Cloud Protection Manager supports the following targets: EC2 Instances Volumes RDS Databases Aurora Clusters Redshift Clusters DynamoDB Tables Cloud Protection Manager is deployed easily through an AMI in the AWS Marketplace. You can read the installation instructions here So what does Cloud Protection Manager do that you can’t already do in AWS? Cloud Protection Manager provides the ability to have a Simple UI to manage all snapshots and recovery. Using Cloud Protection Manager you can easily configure policies and schedules and set up Disaster Recovery replication. An example is creating a backup policy. Once you have defined your backup schedules (think daily/weekly/monthly […]

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Start of a new journey

By David Hill on April 4, 2018 in Veeam

Today I am announcing that I have left VMware after 8 years at a great company. I don’t want to start one of those this is my life story blogs, as I typically find them a bit awkward and I am not interested in trying to create any drama about my own personal choices. What I do want to say is thanks to a few people. During my time at VMware I have made some amazing and incredible friends. I have worked with some of the most outstanding individuals this industry has ever seen. Four of those people have been instrumental in helping my career and without them I wouldn’t be where I am today. Chris Colotti Duncan Epping Jenny Fong Mathew Lodge So, where am I going? Well I have decided to join Veeam and will be working in the Product Strategy group with Rick Vanover, Anthony Spiteri, […]

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