Francis Dipietromaria WebLog

This is not a new product, but a series of new technologies announced to extend the functionality of Veeam Backup and Restore for VMware vSphere.

With the name SureBackup, Veeam racciunde a number of existing technologies and that will be implemented in Veeam Backup & Replication. Of particular interest are two new technologies:

• Recovery Verification is a solution designed to verify the functionality of a hot backup of a virtual machine. I lean against the hot backup of Microsoft Volume Shadow Service, a solution designed to ensure the consistency of a backup or a snapshot of a virtual machine hot. Unfortunately, the VSS requires that applications are VSS-aware: otherwise there is no guarantee consistency. Through the Recovery Verification, Veeam wants to offer a powerful tool that can start the virtual machine in a separate context from the production not only to verify the proper functioning of the operating system, but also (through special scripts) the operation of installed applications.
• Restoring objects at the application level: using this function you can restore individual objects at the application level, as individual emails on the Exchange server, users on Active Directory or SQL database records.

Some of these technologies should be released in the next release of Veeam Backup & Recovery (5.0) scheduled for Q3 2010.

For more information:

• Veeam announces SureBackup: what is it?

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