• Supports virtual tape libraries (VTLs), tape libraries and standalone drives
• Tracks specific VMs and restore points on tape for easy restores
• Backs up files from Windows and Linux servers (virtual or physical) to tape for FREE
• Archive to Tape provides another option for archiving Veeam backups – disk, cloud and tape. It supports virtual tape libraries (VTLs), tape libraries and standalone drives. And, it’s fully integrated into Veeam Backup & Replication and tracks VMs and restore points across tapes, making restores simple.

Along with finally backing up to tape, there are many more features being announced.

• Veeam Extends U-AIR, SureBackup and On-Demand Sandbox to Hyper-V

  Virtual Lab plus vPower delivers agent-free recovery of individual objects from any virtualized application, automatic verification of every backup, and easy setup of isolated environments for testing, training and troubleshooting.

• Veeam announces rapid find and restore from SharePoint backups

  Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint provides instant visibility into SharePoint backups, advanced search capabilities, and quick recovery of individual SharePoint items. Register for our beta.

• Veeam Unveils New Plug-in for the vSphere Web Client:

  Monitor backups and backup infrastructure directly from vSphere, identify unprotected VMs, and simplify capacity planning.

• Veeam Reveals Enhanced Backup and Recovery for vCloud Director:

  Using the vCD API, Veeam will display the vCD infrastructure directly in Veeam Backup & Replication™, backup all vApp metadata and attributes, restore vApps and VMs directly to vCD, and support restore of fast-provisioned VMs.

More features to come, go here to sign up for updates!

B&R v7 now supports Veeam Explorer for SharePoint and now supports Veeam Explorer for Exchange 2013.

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint. This is the brand new tool for item-level restores from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and 2013. Support for SharePoint 2013 is somewhat limited in this beta (restores to original location are not implemented yet), so SharePoint 2010 would make it the best test subject for now. We even provide a sample SharePoint 2010 database as a part of this beta to speed up the evaluation, but really you can point the tool to any SharePoint database at all (including ones backed up by 3rd party solutions).

Capabilities include (all without the use of agents):

• Browsing SharePoint databases within compressed, deduplicated image-level backups of SharePoint virtual machines (VMs) without having to restore the entire database
• Searching for specific SharePoint items with rich search capability for e-discovery purposes
• Recovering and exporting items directly to the original SharePoint server, or sending items as email attachments to specific users
• Support for SharePoint running on both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere.

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange 2013. This is the new version of the existing tool – and as the beta name implies, the big new feature is support for Microsoft Exchange 2013 (in addition to Exchange 2010). Another new feature is reworked logic of restoring Exchange items to the original location, which should make this process more robust.

Browse Veeam Explorer provides an Explorer-like interface that you can use to browse Exchange mailbox stores inside Veeam backups. A familiar, easy-to-use interface—and immediate visibility into your Exchange backups—mean you can quickly locate the mailboxes or items you need.

 Search Veeam Explorer provides basic and advanced search capabilities so you can find precisely the items you need. Search across one or several mailboxes or mailbox stores using a familiar Outlook-like “Find” interface.

Export Once you find the items you need, simply right-click to:

• Export to a PST file
• Export to MSG files
• Send as attachments
• export an entire mailbox to a PST file.

No agents Veeam Explorer for Exchange requires no agents—either for backups or for restores. So unlike other tools, there are no agents for you to license, deploy, manage or maintain.

I have personally used Veeam’s Universal Application Instant Recovery (U-AIR) many times in the past and I can tell you, it’s the best in the business.

Veeam has been around for quite some time, and one of the best overall backup applications for VMware and Hyper V. Now Veeam wants to help take you to the cloud.

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ 6.5 represents the next wave of Veeam innovation, and delivers even more groundbreaking capabilities, including:

• Free e-discovery and item recovery for Microsoft Exchange
• Easy VM recovery from SAN snapshots
• Advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning (requires Veeam Management Suite 6.5)
• New hypervisor support: VMware vSphere 5.1 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Read What’s New in 6.5

What are you waiting for? Go and check it out!

Here is the latest update.

Release notes

KB ID : 1442

These are the issues resolved by the Patch 3 for Veeam Backup version 6.0.0.153. All patches are cumulative so each below fix is contained in this patch.

Issue 1
Application-aware processing fails for SQL server where Veeam configuration database is located.

Issue 2
Cannot specify “0″ in re-IP rule.

Issue 3
Hot add operation can sometimes cause a very long backup source/target proxy Virtual Machine stun. This stun can be so long that it can cause all jobs using this backup proxy to fail due to timeout with:
“Error: Client error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time“.

Issue 4
CBT fails on virtual disks other than Hard Disk 1 with the “Soap fault. A specified parameter was not correct” error when the hot add processing mode is used.

Issue 5
Backup console UI freezes periodically (upon automatic refresh event) when there is a large number of managed objects exist

For more information and the download link head on over here.

Here is an insert from the latest guide, “Choosing the right backup solution for a VMware environment”.

Virtualization is an invisible layer that is inserted between physical server hardware and operating systems. When you implement virtualization in your data center, it affects almost everything in your data center that surrounds or connects to your virtual environment. This includes any type of hardware & software, such as storage, networking, monitoring and of course backup & recovery. With virtualization you’re in a whole new world especially when it comes to your critical backups. These backups are your safety net for anything that happens in your data center, and you need make sure that you choose a backup solution that is made for that new world as well.

Go here to download and read all the articles.

Veeam Backup & Replication provides fast (ESG: VMware Recovery 77x Faster!) , flexible and reliable recovery of virtualized applications and data. It unifies backup and replication in a single solution, increases the value of backup and reinvents data protection for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. 

Veeam Backup & Replicationis built specifically for virtual environments to provide fast backup and recovery for virtual machines running on both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. With a single license, from a unified console, you can support your entire virtual infrastructure with industry leading features such as instant file level recovery and streamlined VM recovery, scalability, 2-in-1 backup & replication, built-in de-duplication, centralized management and much more.

So who all has installed Veeam Backup and Replication 6? I haven’t done so yet, but I will be sandboxing it soon. For a list of new features, download the PDF.

-Cheers

-NS

I am looking at implementing this as a third party storage unit for Veeam Backups, it should work very well. I am also going to populate the NAS with 8 2TB Enterprise drives for a total of 16 TB Raw!

Here are the details.

Hardware Spec.

CPU Intel Atom 1.8GHz Dual-core Processor
DRAM 1GB RAM
Flash Memory 512MB DOM
HDD 2.5/ 3.5″ SATA I/II HDD x8
HDD Tray 8 x Hot-swappable and lockable tray
LAN Port 2 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port
LED Indicators Status, LAN, HDD 1, HDD 2, HDD 3, HDD 4, HDD 5, HDD 6, HDD 7, HDD 8
USB 4 x USB 2.0 port ( Back: 4);Support USB printer, pen drive, USB hub, and USB UPS etc.
eSATA 2 x eSATA port (Back)
Buttons System: Power button, Reset button
LCD panel Mono-LCD display with backlight and buttons for configuration
Alarm Buzzer System warning
Form Factor 2U rackmount

NOTE: The system is shipped without HDD, for the HDD compatibility list, check here.

Virtualization is the most disruptive technology of the decade. Virtualization-enabled data protection and disaster recovery is especially disruptive as it allows IT to do things dramatically better at a fraction of the cost of what it would be in a physical data center. Gain an understanding of how VMware virtualization changes data protection in a very profound way.

Check out Eric Siebert’s free e-Booksover at Veeam.com and download them now. You will need a Veeam login and password, but you can create an account for free.

-NS