Veeam Cloud Connect – Veeam PN Setup Configuration
Veeam PN can be used as a VPN for DR access for Veeam Cloud Connect. In this guide, I will walk through the steps to download, install and configure the appliance. It will then be replicated to your Veeam Cloud Connect provider and pre-configured by YOU, ready for any failovers. This is a four-step guide, […]
Five things you should cover in your business continuity plan
Business continuity is more than just a phrase for data backup. A successful plan should provide a continuity roadmap and instructions for a business to recover after an incident. Your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) should be well thought out, documented, centrally located and distributed to every relevant staff member. Copies should also be stored off-site […]
Disaster Recovery FAQ
Whether its protection against file corruption, a flood or server failure, businesses should have a Disaster Recovery plan in place. This plan should be at the heart of every business, but unfortunately, many people still don’t understand the basics. To help clear the confusion we’ve compiled a blog answering the frequently asked questions around business […]
Disaster Recovery and the 3-2-1 rule
The 3-2-1 rule of Disaster Recovery has admittedly been around for a long time, but some things are timeless and the 3-2-1 rule is one of these classics. This rule could help your business overcome almost any failure scenario if you follow it correctly, but despite this, many companies still chose to ignore it and […]
Best practices for testing your disaster recovery plan
Testing a disaster recovery plan is critical to any successful business continuity strategy. Without regular testing, businesses can’t be certain that in the event of an incident all critical files can be recovered, so to help we’ve compiled some useful tips to help ensure that your organisation benefits from disaster recovery planning. Set goals and […]
Why cloud disaster recovery?
Regardless of the industry or size of your business, preserving your data is critical to its survival. 93% of organisations that lose data due to an incident are bankrupt within two years. Traditional continuity methods have been proven to be expensive, difficult to manage and increasingly unreliable. Cloud backup is now a more popular and efficient […]
Do you know where your cloud backups are stored?
For an IT manager, a comprehensive Disaster Recovery solution involves successfully orchestrating a number of elements, however, one valuable piece often overlooked is storage location. Even though your information is stored in the cloud, data and backups still need to be stored on a platform, in a physical location. With the cloud industry becoming increasingly […]
How to perform a Veeam Cloud Connect partial failover
In the event of a disaster, utilising Veeam Cloud Connect ensures that data can be accessible again within a matter of minutes. When a customer replicates to our platform they have two options for failing over VMs, these are full or partial failovers. What’s the difference between full and partial failovers with Veeam Cloud Connect? […]
How to create failover plans with Veeam Cloud Connect
When using Veeam Cloud Connect replication, to protect your critical VMs and initiate a smooth full site failover, you need a failover plan in place. This blog outlines the steps and configuration needed to create the failover plan on the customer’s Backup & Replication console. First, navigate to the ‘Backup & Replication’ tab and then […]
How frequently should you test your Disaster Recovery strategy?
Creating a Disaster Recovery plan is essential, yet despite this fact, half of recovery plans are tested less than once a year. Recent findings suggest that businesses still fail to realise that for a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan to be effective, it needs to be regularly tested. When creating its latest Infographic, CloudVelox uncovered that […]
