Comments on: Veeam unveils SureBackup

By: SureBackup – 1 week later | VeeamMeUp

SureBackup – 1 week later | VeeamMeUp — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:17:55 +0000

[...] http://lodev.name/2010/03/22/veeam-unveils-surebackup/ The most significant feature is called Recovery Verification. With this feature, backup operators can opt to automatically verify the integrity of each and every backup. To enable this, VB&R includes an NFS daemon that presents the images on the backup pool as a regular NFS datastore to the ESX farm. VB&R automatically registers the virtual machines (in a fenced-off network) and tests if the backup is bootable. (And doesn’t get stuck in Safe Mode, for instance.) This mechanism is OS- and application independent. [...]

By: All things virtual VII « TheSaffaGeek

All things virtual VII « TheSaffaGeek — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:38:17 +0000

[...] out for it was Arnim Van Lieshout (@avlieshout) followed shortly by Lode Vermeiren (@lode) with his Veeam unveils SureBackup and there are so many other blogs out there but these two with the official page covered everything [...]

By: Lode

Lode — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:32:59 +0000

Duncan: True, but lots of people (ab)use Veeam for this kind of functionality. It's what Veeam calls near-continuous data replication (near-CDP), which essentially boils down to running the backup job as often as possible. See "SmartCDP" in the datasheet. I'll update the article to clarify.

By: duncan

duncan — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:27:37 +0000

Euuh, SRM is about replication. About minimizing the RTO and RPO by utilizing storage replication techniques. I don’t believe that Veeam does that. This is still a backup solution, although a smart one I must say.