Securing Veeam Hardened Repository

After selecting the right hardware for the Veeam Backup & Replication Hardened Repository and installing the Ubuntu Linux operating system, the next step is secure the operating system according to the DISA STIG (Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides) guidelines. Read more
Hannes Kasparick
Hannes Kasparick

Senior Analyst, Product Management

Securing Veeam Hardened Repository Against Remote Time Attacks

Veeam sees strong demand for immutable backups, and the Veeam Backup & Replication Hardened Repository is well positioned to provide that. Sometimes people believe that remote time attacks against Veeam Hardened Repository via network time protocol (NTP) are easy. That’s wrong! Read more
Hannes Kasparick
Hannes Kasparick

Senior Analyst, Product Management

Selecting Hardware and Setting Up Environment for Veeam Hardened Repository

The Veeam Hardened Repository is Veeam’s native solution to provide trusted immutability for backups of Veeam Backup & Replication on a Linux server. By supporting generic Linux servers, Veeam ensures that customers always have a choice about their hardware without vendor lock-in. Veeam also allows customers to use their trusted Linux distribution (Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE) instead of being forced to use a “custom Veeam Linux”. Read more
Hannes Kasparick
Hannes Kasparick

Senior Analyst, Product Management

Use Snapshots to backup SMB File Shares on your NetApp ONTAP system

With Veeam Backup & Replication version 10, it’s possible to back up NAS shares with the SMB (CIFS) and NFS protocol. One of the challenges with backing up large file shares is doing so in a consistent state. This blog post shows how to create a consistent backup of an SMB share hosted on a NetApp FAS storage by using Microsoft VSS snapshots. Read more
Hannes Kasparick
Hannes Kasparick

Senior Analyst, Product Management

David Bewernick
David Bewernick

Restoring infrastructure from scratch with Veeam

Imagine a situation (a disaster), where the virtual infrastructure needs to be restored from scratch. Everything is lost, except the backup files are available on a (Hardened) Repository in the disaster site or in the Capacity Tier of a Scale-out Backup Repository. Imagine that not even a configuration backup is available. This blog describes how to do recover your data in five steps. Read more
Hannes Kasparick
Hannes Kasparick

Senior Analyst, Product Management

Protecting VMware vCenter by Using a “Least Privilege Model”

Third-party software that interacts with VMware vCenter must store credentials somewhere. These credentials are the target of attackers as they often provide high privileges on one of the central components of a busines IT infrastructure. This blog post shows how a “least privilege model” implementation with Veeam Backup & Replication can work. Read more
Hannes Kasparick
Hannes Kasparick

Senior Analyst, Product Management

Veeam Hardened Repository passes independent compliance assessment

Veeam Backup & Replication v11 introduces the Hardened Repository as a secure place where backups can be stored immutably for a configured amount of time. With the Hardened Repository, Veeam created a WORM (write once, read many) storage option for Veeam backups. And the best part, this new role can be deployed on ANY general-purpose Linux server, without locking you down to the special proprietary hardware. Read more
Hannes Kasparick
Hannes Kasparick

Senior Analyst, Product Management