Veeam for database backups? Still some homework to do for Veeam!
August 25, 2023
Veeam for database backups? Still some homework to do for Veeam!
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
It’s our main backup tool for all our servers we’re hosting within four data center. Additionally we started to us it for M365 data backups. My main responsibility is the usage of transactional-consistent backups for our main databases SAP HANA (Backint interface) and Oracle (RMAN interface). For both of these we’re using the Veeam plugin.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- NAS filers
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- Parallelism
- Performance
- Ease to use
- Stability
- High-Availability
- Maintenance without downtime
- Linux instead of Windows for the VBR
Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?
No
Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?
Yes
Many many. Yes, much more.
- ROI
- Risk of RPO due to failing backups
- Good performance
Costs and the heavy growth of the virtualized environment was the main reason for VEEAM many years ago. Since it was already “in the house” and due to our idea of standardization it was clear for us, that we will use it for other workloads than initially planned as well.
So far not possible for me to say that we have already benefitted from these capabilities yet. Time will show that, I hope.