Backing up your virtual machines (VMs) is a crucial step in protecting your business against data loss and downtime. The size and technologies used in your data center will determine the backup and recovery products that are most suitable for your needs. While this article focuses specifically on the VMware environment, it is important to […]
Disaster Recovery
Veeam Backup for AWS – Recover EC2 instance from Backup
In this article, we will see how to recover EC2 instances (cloud VM) using veeam Backup for AWS. Veeam is specialized in backup and disaster recovery products for both ON-PREM and Cloud. veeam also offers a product (Kasten aka k10) to protect microservices (Kubernetes/k8s). Amazon Web Services provides a cloud platform for you to create […]
Veeam Backup for AWS – Create the EC2 Backup policy
How to create a new veeam Backup policy to protect EC2 instances on AWS? How to protect the AWS cloud VM ? Cloud VM backup lifecycle can be managed by veeam. In the “Veeam Backup for AWS” series of articles, we have so far deployed the veeam backup appliance from the AWS marketplace and created […]
How to create veeam Backup Repository ? Veeam Backup for AWS
This article will walk you through how to create a backup repository to include EC2 instances in backup rotation on Veeam Backup. Backup EC2 instances using veeam backup is almost like set and forget. Veeam uses policy-based automation to take snapshots and backups to the s3 bucket. Veeam brings simplicity to streamline backup for Amazon […]
Veeam Backup for AWS – Deploy and configure
How to deploy Veeam Backup for the AWS solution? Veeam Backup for Amazon Web Services is a solution developed to protect Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) environments. The same product can able to handle disaster recovery tasks with ease by leveraging cloud native snapshots. Adding […]
Holistic Backup Solution for AWS – Veeam Backup
Veeam is a very popular backup and disaster recovery solution for VMware and Hyper-V environments. The public cloud migration rate is soaring but cloud native backup solutions are not easy as on-prem backup solutions. This is primarily because each object has associated with cost in the cloud. So the product must be intelligent to calculate […]
Setup Monitoring for EBS snapshot – Amazon DLM | EC2 AMI
This article will walk you through how to monitor the automated EBS snapshot failures using CloudWatch. Amazon data life cycle manager automates the creation, copy, and deregistration of EBS-backed AMIs using policies. Using DLM, AMI can be copied over to other regions for disaster recovery. Amazon DLM reduces the operational cost by doing the AMI cleanup […]
Amazon EC2 – Disaster Recovery using DLM – Cross Region snapshot – EC2 AMI
Data is a critical asset for any business in the digital world. so backing up your data regularly is critical for any company with business continuity in mind. This is applicable whether the company is using an on-premises data center or a public cloud like AWS, Azure, or GCP. At the same time, you need to […]