Backup Your Personal Data With Veeam Endpoint Backup to ASUS RT-N18U

 

We have been using Veeam Endpoint Backup software to backup important data from laptop to external USB thumb drive. But recently we found that our data has growth and 16GB thumb drive no longer can cope with it.

Besides that, it was troublesome as we need to constantly plug in the thumb drive for the backup to work. From below screenshot, you can see that most of the time backup job failed (pink color) due to we are busy and forget to plug in the drives.

Well, we need to change this method and look into our option.

Recently we change our high performance router to ASUS RT-N18U and it came with Media Server, SMB, FTP, etc features and allow to plug USB 2 or 3 External Hard Disk.

Therefore we give it a try and configure SMB Share.

Access to router UI, click on USB application and select Samba Share.

• Enable Share
• Enable Guest Login (do not require password when in LAN)
• Click Apply

Then open Veeam Endpoint Backup Console and configure backup policy.

Rather than select Destination to local storage, now we point to Shared Folder.

Point to Wireless Router Shared Folder Path.

and click Finish to complete the configuration. Backup will take place and transfer to our shared folder via wireless connection. So far so good and we no longer need to constantly plug in thumb drive. Just connect to wireless connection and backup will take place without we realised. Below is a screenshot showed that two backup job has successful (green).

Well, that’s concluded our configuration on leverage of our wireless router (with built in smb share features).

Previous post about Veeam Endpoint Backup:

• Evaluating Veeam Endpoint Backup
• Backup Physical Server By Using Veeam Solution
• Veeam Endpoint Backup Error When Backup to Veeam Backup and Replication Repository
• Veeam Endpoint Backup for Windows 10

Evaluating Veeam Endpoint Backup

 

Hey folk, we just given an access to evaluate Veeam Endpoint Backup (Beta). Veeam has been famous to release a product which focuses on virtualization infrastructure. With this release, it allow us to perform data protection and disaster recovery solution for physical machines. You can use it to create an entire system image backup, backup specific volumes and individual folders, restore data from backup to its original location or new location or perform bare metal restore. Never expect Veeam will release a product to backup and recover physical server. Now let checkout  the product

[File Size]

233 MB (in zip format)

[ System Requirement]

• Microsoft Windows 7 or later. Based on testing, at this moment “Windows 10 Technical Preview is not supported”
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or later (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions)

[Integration with Veeam Backup and Replication]

Veeam Backup & Replication™ integration and backup repository support are NOT included in this beta

[Our Testing Environment]

• Windows Server 2012 R2. It was boot from VHD. Therefore, you need to add an additional registry value as listed below.

  EpEnableVirtualDiskProcessing = 1 (DWORD) value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Endpoint Backup.

[Backup Destination]

• Removable storage devices (more than 32GB size)
• Local computer drive
• Network shared folder
• Backup repository connected

[Backup Types]

Allow to perform

• volume level backup
• file level backup

 

[Icon – After installation]

[Create Recovery Media]

Able to create recovery image of your computer to

• any removable media
• Includes standard Windows recovery tools
• Allow system recovery from your personal cloud over wifi
• Maintain hardware drivers

First should enable “Wireless LAN Service feature” to enable Wifi supported on appliance.

Recovery image provides an alternative way to boot your computer when computer fails to start.

[Configure Backup]

1. Click Configure Backup

2. Select Backup Mode

• Entire Computer
• Volume level backup
• File Level Backup

Screenshot below will backup volume to shared folder with 3 days retention range.

You can view Veeam backup progress from taskbar

End result backup in shared folder

- consist of vbm & vbk

[ File level Backup ]

[Volume Restore]

End result in shared folder is a file with an extension vib. Most likely it is incremental backup after we perform volume level backup.

[File Level Restore]

• Select File Level Restore
• Select your backup source

After click Finish, a backup browser will open and allow you to select which file to restore.

You can restore or copy to another location. If select restore, user able to select to maintain existing file or overwrite.

[Control Panel]

Navigate to taskbar and you able to view the Veeam Endpoint Backup

• View the backup status, Job Status & Detail
• Configure backup and recovery

Able to disable schedule backup, notification and throttle backup activity when system was busy.

• Ease of support. When submit a ticket, the system will capture log and send to Veeam support without our interaction.

[ Conclusion ]

Overall we found that the product was easy to use without even need refer to manual guide.

Prons

• Ease of use
• Able to create recovery image
• Able to backup to removable drive and shared folder
• Able to perform volume level and file level backup

Cons

• Can’t find a central console to manage if consist of multiple protected server

Now we are waiting for the product to release a final build so we can test and store to Veeam Backup Repository. So stay tuned…it is coming soon!

Coming Soon Free Veeam Endpoint Backup

 

Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE is Veeam's new backup solution for Windows-based computers (desktops & laptops) running Windows 7 and higher as well as Windows Server 2008 and higher. It is a standalone product and is not part of Veeam Backup & Replication nor the Veeam Availability Suite.

Your can find more info here http://www.veeam.com/blog/announcing-veeam-endpoint-backup-free.html or pre-register for beta here http://go.veeam.com/endpoint

Free Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V

Not long ago, we ‘ve talked about Veeam Hyper-V management pack in this post and we are impressed with Veeam Task Manager.

Guess what news just came in? Yes !

Veeam has make “Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V” as standalone and available FREE. We just downloaded it and the size just 550 KB. You can use it as stand alone performance monitoring tool.

So remember, Don’t use “Windows Task Manager” to monitor Hyper-V performance

You can install this on

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows 8.1
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows 8
• Windows 7

Using this tool, it can support

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Just open port 445, to allow connection from Computer running Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V to Hyper-V Host.

In order to connect to a Hyper-V Host, make sure you have credential with the permission:-

• Local Administrator on the host or
• A user added to the Performance Log User Group on the host

Give it a try !

Credit to Mike Resseler (our MVP Hyper-V peer) who just make this announcement.

Capacity Planning for Hybrid Cloud

In our previous post, we have talked about Veeam Hyper-V Management Pack. During our exploration, we found that this MP also included with Veeam Capacity Planning that help you to evaluate on-premise virtual infrastructure and estimate the resources needed to run these workload in the Microsoft Azure Cloud.

The report analyzes VM configuration and historical performance (CPU, storage and memory resources consumed by VMs and VM templates running on vSphere/ Hyper-V hosts) and provides estimation of the Windows Azure hosting options required to support workload in the cloud.

The calculation is based on Microsoft Azure VM specification.

These are the report included for Capacity Planning:-

Once the report has generated, you can view the following information:

Summary – describe our on-premise infrastructure.

Required Infrastructure output for Azure –show the spec of azure VM with number of VM that you need to deploy in the cloud to run your workload.

.Example:- Total our environment consist of 6 VMs on a stand alone Hyper-V host. Out of 6 VMs, there are 4 VM can assign to Extra Small profile and 2 VM assign to Medium profile. To further identify which VMs fall under which profiles, you can click on the number and report display aggregates historical data and shows performance counter values for selected infrastructure object over time

VM Virtual Processor CPU Usage Mhz

Dynamic Memory VM Physical Memory

VM Used Storage GB