Veeam Backup & Replication for public organizations

Veeam Backup & Replication is being used across our whole organization to back up our VMware Infrastructure as well as several special business-critical appliances. Having the option to reliably and efficiently back up and restore our systems helps us bring always ready to operate. Veeam is very reliable as a backup solution and helps us keep the needed time to support our infrastructure as low as possible. As our environment is mostly static we do not have to make many changes to our backup so we can effectively set it and forget it with Veeam.

At this time, there are 10 workloads protected. But this count will increase as we budget to purchase a full license. At this time, it is the maximum we can do in the community edition, but we will increase in usage dramatically as soon as the purchase has been made.

The old solution was just not good or fast enough for our needs. We changed from an all hardware environment to a highly virtualized environment so we needed the integrations to efficiently backup our infrastructure. Veeam is much faster than our old backup infrastructure and is also more reliable. Also, there are notifications that are sent reliably when something didn’t work.

We have not benefited from the cloud integrations yet as our organization is not allowed to use cloud applications at this point in time. We will however use Veeam with Office365 as soon as we are allowed to use it.

We did not use the share backup solution as we are currently running two Windows fileservers syncing via DFS. If files get deleted we can simply restore them to the volumes as the servers are already backed up via Veeam.