Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication - Second Edition

Chapter 4: Immutability – Hardened Repositories

Veeam Backup & Replication has a backup storage technology called hardened repositories, which is a backup target for jobs. You can also attach hardened repositories to a scale-out repository to further extend your backups and use multiple servers.

This chapter will walk through what the hardened repository is and how best to use it. We will look at configuring hardened repositories for the performance tier of a scale-out repository. You will learn how to set up a hardened repository using the new single-use credentials. We will also look at how eliminating SSH protects your servers even further. Finally, we will configure backup jobs to use immutability with the newly created hardened repository. ...