Whiteboard: Protecting Microsoft Office 365 Using Veeam

In this blog, we are going to look into two deployment scenarios for protecting Microsoft O365 using Veeam.

 

 EnjoY!

Use Linux XFS as Veeam Repository

On Veeam v10, we can now have Fast Clone capabilities on Veeam Repository for both Platform

• Windows Platform - ReFS file system
• Linux Platform - XFS file system

In this post, we are going to look at Linux XFS.

[On Linux Server]

Create XFS file system on dev/sdb

[command]

mkfs.xfs -b size=4096 -m reflink=1,crc=1 /dev/sdb

Create a mount point

mkdir backups

mount /dev/sdb /backups

View the mount point

df -hT

To avoid mount point loss after system restart, you need to enter into /etc/fstab

/dev/sdb    /backups    xfs    defaults 0 0

[On Veeam Backup Server]

Add Linux Repository into Veeam Console.

1. Add Linux as Managed Server first

2. Add Backup Repository

3. Select Direct Attached Storage

4. Select Linux

5. Enter Repository Name

6. Select your managed linux server and select partition which contained xfs partition

7. Tick "Use Fast cloning"

8. Select mount server and click till end of the wizard

9. You've successful added a linux repository into your environment.

Create Linux Disk Partition on Centos

 In this post, we are going to create a new disk partition on Centos 8.2.

Command use is fdisk. Open your terminal and type the following command:

[command]

fdisk -l

Note: to list your current disk.

Empty disk is /dev/sdb - 100 GB

[command]

fdisk /dev/sdb

Press [n] 

Press [p] to create new partition

Press [1] for partition 1

Press [Enter] to accept first sector

Press [Enter] to accept last sector. We are going to occupy 100GB

Press [w] to confirm write and create a partition

You have successful created a 100GB partition.