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Veeam is at Cloud Field Day 5

By on April 2, 2019 in Veeam

Next week is Cloud Field Day 5 and Veeam will be presenting.  This is an exciting time for Veeam as the cloud portfolio grows and the integration of the data management platform increases.  With the world going all in on cloud, Veeam will be present to showcase the growing integration points across the mega clouds while still maintaining the industry best practice of the 3-2-1 rule. I am personally looking forward to this event.  It will be my first Tech/Cloud Field Day I have presented at.  While Rickatron is a tech field day alumni its not something I have been involved with much over my career.  This is all about to change. Veeam at Tech Field Day Cloud 5 The full details of the event can be found above along with the list of delegates who will be attending.  The event will be live streamed.  Watch out next week for […]

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Automate adding your AWS EC2 instances to your backup policies

Automate adding your AWS EC2 instances to your backup policies

By 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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Automate adding your AWS EC2 instances to your backup policies

Veeam N2WS Backup & Recovery 2.5 generally available

By 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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