Hello everyone,
I am new on Veeam and I am planning to perform backup tests in my environment (VM’s, Local Storage, etc.). I would like to hear from your experience the best procedures to performs these backup tests and ensure that our systems/infrastructure are prepared for recovery whenever needed.
Could you advise on how to proceed correctly?
Thank you in advance.
Best answer by dips
Hi,
Yes, that is correct. SureBackup will run in an isolated environment but you will need to setup some additional networking on your VMware environment and specify the information into the Veeam SureBackup jobs.
In terms of what it can do, have a look at this: How SureBackup Works - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)
Additionally, with Veeam, when you setup your backup jobs you can enable a Health Check. See here: Health Check for Backup Files - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)
Essentially, run a backup and verify the backup files. Then run SureBackup to make sure the VMs can power on and services come up.
Hope that helps.
+7Hello and Welcome!
For backup tests, I’d highly recommend SureBackup. More here: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/surebackup_job.html?ver=110
It’s fire up VMs in a isolated environment and scripts can be run for additional testing, if required.
Hello
Thank you very much for your prompt answer.
So it will not affect my current production environment?
Also does it inform/display all the test satus (reading each blocks, provide VMs info, etcs.)? Apologises for these questions, just because I have no experience yet with Veeam so that is why I am collecting as much information as possible.
Thank you
+7Hi,
Yes, that is correct. SureBackup will run in an isolated environment but you will need to setup some additional networking on your VMware environment and specify the information into the Veeam SureBackup jobs.
In terms of what it can do, have a look at this: How SureBackup Works - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)
Additionally, with Veeam, when you setup your backup jobs you can enable a Health Check. See here: Health Check for Backup Files - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)
Essentially, run a backup and verify the backup files. Then run SureBackup to make sure the VMs can power on and services come up.
Hope that helps.
+21Hello everyone,
I am new on Veeam and I am planning to perform backup tests in my environment (VM’s, Local Storage, etc.). I would like to hear from your experience the best procedures to performs these backup tests and ensure that our systems/infrastructure are prepared for recovery whenever needed.
Could you advise on how to proceed correctly?
Thank you in advance.
Yes use Virtual Lab and SureBackup to test things. As noted above that is the best thing for testing restores.
+23SureBackup/SureReplica can help with automating your testing.
Out of the box you can:
In addition to this you can also execute your own scripts if you have workflows that would support this to perform your own validations. These scripts could be as simple as invoking a test tool on your protected server or orchestrating a number of different tests via commands within a script.
+23Everything I’ve mentioned above is good for automated testing but I’d strongly recommend looking into
She’s also known for hitting the hard truths via memes!
+21Everything I’ve mentioned above is good for automated testing but I’d strongly recommend looking into
She’s also known for hitting the hard truths via memes!
Yes definitely check out
+3Everything I’ve mentioned above is good for automated testing but I’d strongly recommend looking into
She’s also known for hitting the hard truths via memes!
Thank you for this!
Hello guys,
Thank you very much for all your support. I am starting today, and I do hope that everything goes well.
Still a lot to read which is normal at this tsage but hope to be successful .
I let you know in case I need more support.
Regards,
+13Next to SureBackup you should also test:
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