The Defacto Backup Standard for the Enterprise

We implement Veeam Backup and Replication for all of our clients that have an on premises server in their environment. We use a separate physical or virtual workstation with separated credentials to run the Veem B&R Server instance and house the backup disk. Veeam takes snapshots daily. This is supported by our IT team for our client, and the client doesn't interact with it directly. Veeam is the defacto standard and best practice software to backup physical and virtual environments.

We presently protect 14 clients with Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition. This is a mix of enterprise hardware, desktop hardware, and all are virtual environments based on VMWare infrastructure. It's difficult to estimate what we anticipated our client load would be when we downloaded Veeam, however it's an essential piece of our portfolio.

None of our clients are using cloud backups with Veeam Backup and Replication due to the high cost of backing up images to a cloud service. We use a different backup solution for file level backups that is cloud based. In the future we will explore the cloud offerings within the Veeam product stack, and assess if it can be beneficial for us or our clients.

We've built review and testing processes around the options offered in Veeam Backup and Replication. There is no substitute however for a bare metal restore and Virtual Machine restore to ensure that all of the backups are good. We use a quarterly schedule to restore backups to our network-disconnected testing environment, and then ensure they boot and show services correctly. This is invaluable to us.