How to Create a VM Backup Job

Need some expert guidance on how to create a VM backup job using Veeam Backup & Replication?

Watch this step-by-step tutorial from Veeam’s SE Centre of Excellence as they demonstrate how to create a virtual machine backup job using Veeam Backup & Replication using the example of VMware vSphere.

Microsoft Hyper-V is also supported, and Windows and Linux physical machines can also be backed up using the agent.

In just 10 minutes, you will learn:

• How to begin the backup process
• How to add virtual machines to the job
• How to configure the storage
• How to enable advanced settings
• How to schedule, review, and run the job

You will also learn where you can configure backup modes, like incremental and reverse, application-aware processing, and indexing.

Veeam Backup & Replication Facts

Here are some useful things to remember about Veaam Backup & Recovery:

• Veeam Backup & Replication produces image-level backups of VMs.
• It treats VMs as objects, not as a set of files.
• When you back up VMs, Veeam Backup & Replication copies a VM image as a whole at a block level.
• Image-level backups can be used for different types of restore, including Instant VM Recovery, entire VM restore, VM file recovery, and file-level recovery.