April 2014
Beginner to intermediate
110 pages
2h 14m
English
There are some key differences between backups and replicas, and those need to be taken into consideration when deciding which way you want to protect your important tier 1 VMs. In many cases, the answer will be to use both since backups and replicas serve fundamentally different purposes.
Simply put, Veeam replicas do not provide sufficient long-term protection for a VM since it is limited to a maximum of 28 restore points, and you can not use copy jobs to put a replica on a secondary storage or tape. It does, however, offer the best recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) in case of a disaster. This is accomplished by the fact that a replica is a ready-to-run copy, available without ...
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