Best Practices for Veeam Backups

Here are some ideas on how you might configure your backups to be recoverable with Cloud IBR:

  • Hourly backups for the most mission critical servers to achieve a low RPO.
  • Make sure you enable health checks for the backups and you should use incremental backups with a weekly synthetic full.
  • Create two separate buckets: mission critical and non-mission critical. Put the mission critical bucket into Cloud IBR so that it recovers only what is in the mission critical bucket in Cloud IBR. Once the environment is up and running and you decide you need the servers that are in the non-mission critical bucket, you are able to RDP into the Veeam Server and add in the non-mission critical bucket to recover those servers.