Veeam Quick Backup

[Myra Krallman]

Quickbackup lets you perform on-demand incremental backup for VMs. You can use quick backup if you want to produce an additional restore point for one or more VMs in a backup job and do not want to configure a new job or modify the existing one. Quick backup can be run for both incremental and reverse incremental backup chains.

Quick backup is an incremental backup task: Veeam Backup & Replication copies only changed data for selected VMs and saves this data to a new restore point in the backup chain. Similar to incremental backup, quick backup can only be run for VMs that have been successfully backed up at least once and have a full restore point. If there is no full restore point for a VM, quick backup cannot be performed.

To perform a quick backup, Veeam Backup & Replication uses an existing backup job. When you start a quick backup task for a VM, Veeam Backup & Replication verifies that a backup job processing this VM exists on the backup server. If such a job is detected, Veeam Backup & Replication triggers a job and creates an incremental restore point for the VM. If a backup job for the VM does not exist, quick backup is terminated.

You can run a quick backup for one or multiple VMs simultaneously. If you start a quick backup for several VMs and these VMs are processed by different backup jobs, Veeam Backup & Replication triggers a set of backup jobs. Each triggered job creates a separate restore point and stores it in the correct backup chain.

You cannot perform a quick backup for VMware Cloud Director VMs processed with VMware Cloud Director jobs. However, if you process a VMware Cloud Director VM with a regular backup job, you can switch to the Computer view and start the quick backup operation for this VM.

In my case there are multiple jobs because data on specific virtual disk are saved with a different retention or a different rpo. And for this I would like to select the job to get the correct data quick backuped...

Quick backup is an ad-hoc incremental backup for a machine added to a backup job. To create a new incremental restore point, Veeam Backup & Replication triggers an existing backup job that processes the selected machine. This restore point will be added to the backup chain in the backup repository. Quick backup can be helpful if you want to produce an additional restore point for a machine in the backup job and do not want to configure a new job or modify the existing one. For more information on quick backup, see the Quick Backup section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Many enterprises use Veeam software to store backup data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Users with longer retention periods use tools to migrate backups to the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes, where the low price makes it economical to retain data for years or even decades. With data backed up, quick restoration in a DR scenario can help avoid or prevent operational delays, downtime, and financial losses. Amazon S3 can help you accelerate restores from archive, with 85% faster restores automatically applied to Standard tier retrievals from the Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible retrieval storage class when using S3 Batch Operations.

In this post, we demonstrate faster restores on Veeam with S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval as the underlying archive storage and using S3 Batch Operations. We walk through configuration of Veeam Backup and Recovery (VBR) as well as Veeam Backup for AWS (VBA) to enable batch operations, and show an example restore using each solution. Users can now retrieve data starting in minutes while optimizing their storage costs. This means they can use low-cost archive storage yet still retain fast access to archived data when needed.

Users can enable restores with the Standard option using S3 Batch Operations using a checkbox in VBR 12.1. Before completing the following steps to enable batch restores using VBR, first confirm that your Veeam user has the correct permissions. Accelerated restores need the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role for the Veeam user to include S3 Batch permissions. Moreover, refer to this document to verify correct permissions for the Veeam IAM role or user.

3. Selecting the restore point allows us to begin a restore. In this case, we restore a VMware vSphere backup to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. Select a restore point and click Next.

There is an option to extend the availability of the data if more time is needed for restore operations. The data remains in S3 Glacier regardless of the retrieval and is determined by the backup policy schedule.

Delete any resources, such as restored instances or temporary S3 buckets, that are not needed, to avoid incurring future costs. Confirm that the restored Glacier archive is automatically deleted after the specified retention period.

In this post, we covered the integration of Veeam Backup and Replication 12.1 with Amazon Batch Operations for accelerated restores. As cyber threats continue to evolve, having a robust backup and replication solution becomes paramount for organizations relying on cloud services such as AWS. The collaboration between Veeam and AWS addresses the growing need for efficient data recovery, especially in industries with stringent data retention requirements, such as healthcare, financial services, and media and entertainment. We observed an 85% reduction in time to restore a 3.5 GB archive composed of seven objects, compared to non-accelerated restore from the same archive.

The Veeam Data Platform is a valuable tool for businesses of all sizes that want to protect their data from ransomware and other threats. The platform's immutable backups cannot be encrypted by ransomware and its recovery features can help businesses to quickly recover from an attack. The platform can also be used to protect data in both on-premises and cloud environments, making it a valuable tool for businesses that are moving to the cloud or that have a hybrid IT environment. The platform is also easy to use and scalable, making it a valuable tool for partners that want to be able to offer data protection services to a wide range of customers.

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