Veeam - The Ultimate Backup and Recovery Platform

We currently use Veeam Backup and Replication to perform daily backups and replication of our critical production servers. In 2018, we moved to the Veeam platform after a fatal server crash that Barracuda failed to remedy and the loss of 30 days of transactions that had to be manually re-entered when the Barracuda appliance yielded inconsistent backups that prevented us from a speedy and successful recovery. Unfortunately, Barracuda support blamed an incompatibility with the Microsoft VSS Writers that their team acknowledged a known issue with their backup agent that they did not have a solution for. Luckily we were able to fix this ourselves otherwise the data loss would have been much more critical that it already was. We provided them with the steps in how we were able to correct the incompatibility in hopes that they would provide that to their other clients that were less fortunate.

We currently have 21 virtual over 7 hosts and 2 physical workloads. To be honest, this solution provided much more than I anticipated based on the experiences with other platforms. I find it easy to say that not all backup platforms are the same after using this product.

The unfortunate experience of 30 days loss of data on the Barracuda platform was what triggered the need for a more reliable backup platform and of course updated policy. Unfortunately in the IT world, hardware failures are inevitable. I've encountered 2 major host failures over the last few years and I can easily say that if we didn't have Veeam in place, the outcome would have been catastrophic. Even though one of the incidents put us behind about a days worth of work, all the data was successfully recovered which I'll take of 30 days worth of loss data anytime.

We have not yet reviewed the cloud protection of this platform, but are reviewing these features for our office 365 platform.

We have not yet determined a use in our environment for this