When I first heard of the new Application Backup Repository that was just released in 13.1, my mind was full of ideas!
I firstly documented what the Application Backup Repository (ABR) was and how to get up and running.
https://vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/the-veeam-application-backup-repository-13-1
One of the first use cases, was based on us being asked by the Homelab community about Proxmox LXC container backup, we have accelerated how we protect and recovery Proxmox VMs but the business requests for LXC has been mild, so I thought how could we use this new feature to help.
https://vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/veeam-application-backup-repository-proxmox-lxc
The other idea I had was a much bigger problem to solve, Veeam have been great at protecting databases over the years, we have enterprise plug ins for most of the common databases we see across your estates as well as the public cloud managed databases and services. But what about all those others…. What about databases running in containers… not Kubernetes but running on a Docker host, or those SaaS database offerings like MongoDB Atlas, PlanetScale, Supabase… there are hundreds if not thousands.
So I created a little tool to demonstrate how we could take those exports and get them into the NFS Export exposed from the Veeam Application Backup Repository.
https://vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/dbsched-centralised-database-backup
This is more for demo purposes, but it got me thinking.
What other tools are out there, we have so many options when it comes to databases and we are no longer in the world where we paid for a oracle database license so all databases must live there, we can choose the right database for the right job and dataset.
I have many more art of the possible ideas when it comes to the ABR but interested to hear how people in the community are going to use this new feature.
