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Protecting the Veeam Backup & Replication server

KB ID: 2645
Product: Veeam Backup & Replication | 9.5 | 10 | 11 | 12
Published: 2018-05-01
Last Modified: 2022-12-05
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Purpose

This article provides information about protecting the Veeam Backup & Replication Configuration.

Solution

Protect

The best method to protect the Veeam Backup & Replication configuration is Configuration Backup, which is built-in and enabled by default. The default configuration for Configuration Backup is to occur once a day at 10 AM, writing to the Default Backup Repository. After you create the first Repository, Veeam Backup & Replication will prompt you to ask if you'd like to change the Configuration Backup to use that new Repository.

Review the Configuration Backup settings and consider:

  • Reconfigure the Configuration Backup to send the configuration backup files (.bco) to a secure location that will not be lost if the Veeam Backup Server is lost.

    Example: Don't store the configuration backup files on the C:\ of the Veeam Backup Server, as losing that would cause a loss of the software and the configuration backup.
  • Enable encryption for the Configuration Backup to make restoring the backup configuration a smoother experience. When restoring from a configuration backup, all accounts stored in the credentials manager are restored. If the Configuration Backup was not encrypted, you would have to enter each account password manually. After enabling the encryption option, Veeam Backup & Replication will create encrypted configuration backups containing the passwords stored in the credentials manager. So that when you restore, you will not have to enter passwords for credentials records again (unless the passwords for credentials records have changed by the time of restore).


For an added layer of protection, a File Copy job can be set up to duplicate the backup configuration (.bco) files from one location to another.

Recover

Secure

More Information

Processing the Veeam Backup & Replication server with a Backup or Replication job is not advisable. In addition to the potential impacts described in the User Guide, the following should be considered:

  • Replicating the Veeam Backup Server or any Backup Proxies to the same vCenter can break Hotadd transport mode due to duplicate BIOS UUIDs of the actual proxy VM and replica. (see Solution #9 on KB2008).
  • If the server hosting the Veeam Backup & Replication configuration database is placed in a Backup or Replication job, that job will only run when no other tasks are running. Additionally, that job running will prevent all other tasks from starting until it completes.
  • The server hosting the Veeam Configuration Database should have sufficient resources to ensure that VSS processing is fast and does not cause interruptions.

 

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