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Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam

Let’s discuss the Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam. Veeam offers a backup and restore solution for Microsoft Windows devices.

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can take servers, desktops, and laptop backups. Previously, this solution was known as “Veeam Endpoint Backup“.

This post will show a Video Guide on Veeam’s Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution. The next three posts will cover Veeam’s Windows endpoint backup solution.

Under the post-Veeam Backup for the O365 v4 Community Version Upgrade Guide, you will find all the details of Veeam Backup for the O365 v4 Community Version. Veeam released the latest version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 with many enhancements.

  1. Windows 10 backup and recovery Software from Veeam
  2. Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam

Video Guide Windows Server 2016 File & Volume Recovery Solution from Veeam

Veeam has a free backup and restore solution for Microsoft Windows devices. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can take backups of servers, desktops and laptops. Previously, this solution was known as “Veeam Endpoint Backup“.

Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam – Video 1

Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam

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Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam
Installation of Veeam Agent on Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Create Recovery Media
Taking Backup of Server 2016 as per schedule
Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam – Table 1
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Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam – Fig.1

Install Veeam Agent for Windows on Server 2016

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for physical and virtual machines. It can protect different types of computers and devices, including desktops, laptops, and tablets. The solution can be installed on any computer that runs the following OS.

  • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 or later
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SP1 or later
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Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam – Fig.2

The installation of the Veeam Agent for Windows is straightforward. It will automatically take care of installing prerequisites like SQL Express, etc. After the installation, you will be able to see.

  • Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Service
  • Veeam Agent Tray
  • SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB

How to Create Recovery Media for Server 2016

Once the Veeam Agent for Windows is installed, the first step is to create a Veeam Recovery media. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows lets us create a Veeam Recovery Media, which is nothing but a recovery image of your computer.

You can boot your computer or server with recovery media, fix the OS system errors on your server 2016, or restore data from the backup. Microsoft Windows RE (Recovery Environment) automatically reboots after 72 hours of continuous use. All data that has not been saved before reboot will be lost.

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Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam – Fig.3

You can launch the recovery media creation wizard from the Veeam Agent for the Windows home page. As the video tutorial shows, media creation is straightforward.

It took nearly 9 minutes to create a recovery media on my server 2016. The wizard will prompt you to format the USB during the media creation. At the high level, the following are the tasks.

  • Mounting Recovery Environment Image
  • Copy Veeam Recovery Environment files
  • Adding .NET framework
  • Adding system drivers
  • Copying boot files
  • Unmounting Recovery Image
  • Preparing USB disk
  • Copying data to USB disk
  • Recovery media has been created

Take Full Backup of Server 2016 using Veeam Agent for Windows

Veeam Agent for Windows offers three backup modes: “Entire computer,” “Volume-level backup,” and “File-Level backup.” Veeam Agent for Windows servers supports five backup options listed below.

  • Removable storage device
  • Local computer drive
  • Network shared folder
  • A Veeam backup server manages the backup repository
  • Cloud repository managed by a Veeam Cloud Connect service provider
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Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam – Fig.4

“Configure backup” is the Veeam agent’s option to start configuring and scheduling the backup for the Windows server. The recommended option in the Veeam Agent for Windows is backing up your entire server. This helps with fast recovery on any level.

I selected the Entire Computer backup option for my server 2016. I used the external hard disk (local storage) to back up the server in 2016. This is my Hyper-V server in my lab. The video tutorial here provides more details. The following are the tasks that I could see.

  • Initializing
  • Preparing for backup
  • Creating VSS snapshot
  • Calculating digests
  • Getting a list of local users
  • System Reserved (disk 0) (500.0 MB) 42.0 MB read at 42 MB/s
  • (C:)(49.0 GB)42.4 GB read at 74 MB/s
  • Local Disk (E:) (188.5 GB) 37.4 GB read at 84 MB/s
  • Saving GuestMembers.xml
  • Finalizing
  • Truncating transaction logs
  • Truncating SQL server transaction logs
  • Processing finished
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Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam – Fig.5

Resources

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows – User Guide

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How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes Veeam 2

How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes Veeam

Let’s discuss How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes Veeam. Microsoft Office 365 is a SaaS solution used by many organizations worldwide. As of the last report, there were 24.9 million total subscribers, confirming that many people use Office 365 to help manage their businesses.

Do we need a backup for a SaaS solution like Office 365? I think so. This post will show how to Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is a solution that stores mailbox items from Office 365 Online organization to an offline backup repository. Office 365 admin can restore single or multiple emails using Veeam Explorer.

These items (mailboxes, folders, messages, tasks, contacts, and so on) can be restored via Veeam Explorer. We can get a FREE temporary license for Veeam Backup for Office 365.

Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes

This temporary license is available for the first six months. Recovered e-mail can be saved as a file, e-mailed as an attachment, or exported as a PST file. The Content of this post is explained below.

  • Do We Require Office 365 Backup?
  • How to Install Veeam Backup Office 365
  • Connect to Office 365 with Veeam Backup?
  • Create Backup Job for Office 365 Backup
  • Advanced Search Option – Veeam Explorer
  • How to Restore Deleted Office 365 Mails?
  • Veeam Backup Office 365 Troubleshooting
  • Veeam Backup Office 365 PowerShell Commands
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How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes Veeam – Fig.1

Do We Require Office 365 Backup?

What happens if the user accidentally deletes data from Office 365 mailboxes? The Office 365 service provides several options for restoring Deleted items, and manual recovery is also possible.

The following are Microsoft’s retention policies. However, I don’t think Microsoft provides granularity in backing up and recovering emails. Veeam Backup for Office 365 has more granular loads.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 provides recovery options. Recovered e-mail can be saved as a file, emailed as an attachment, or exported as a PST file. I don’t think Microsoft provides all these options.

How to Install Veeam Backup Office 365

You can download Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 from here. It contains 2 MSI files: VeeamBackupOffice365_1.5.0.1099.MSI and VeeamExplorerExchange_9.6.0.1099.MSI. We need to install VeeamBackupOffice365 and then VeeamExplorerExchange.

  • The installation is straightforward, and there is no prerequisite when installing these on Windows Server 2016.
  • The video tutorial here provides more details.
  • Once Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, You have three shortcuts on your Windows Server 2016.
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365
  • Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 connects to…

Connect to Office 365 with Veeam Backup?

In the background, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 uses the Power-Shell command to connect to Office 365. To join Office 365 from Veeam Backup, Click the “Add Organization” button. There are 3 Organization deployment types available for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365.

Connect to Office 365 with Veeam Backup
Microsoft Office 365
Hybrid Deployment
On-Prem Microsoft Exchange
How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes Veeam – Table 1

I selected Microsoft Office 365 to add my organization’s mailbox to the Veeam backup solution. The “Microsoft Office 365 connection settings” page has multiple region options, such as Default, China, US Govt, and US Govt-DOD.

Enter the Office 365 admin username and password to complete the ADD ORGANIZATION wizard. You can see more details in the video tutorial here.

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How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes Veeam – Fig.2

Following are the Veeam Backup for Office 365 Connection Parameters.

  • Connect to EWS
  • Connect to Power-Shell
  • Check View-Only Configuration Role
  • Check View-Only Recipients Role
  • Check Application Impersonation Role
  • Check Role Management Role
  • Check Organization Customization
  • Check Organization Configuration Role
  • Enable Organization Customization

Create Backup Job for Office 365 Backup

Click the Backup button to create and schedule a backup job for Office 365 mailboxes. The backup job wizard allows us to select all individual mailboxes. I have chosen one Office 365 mailbox for the backup job.

We must also select the Backup proxy and repository as part of the backup job wizard. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 has granular schedule options. This backup job is a recurring incremental backup task.

The backup job GUI provides an excellent experience. It gives all LIVE details in the Veeam Backup for Office 365 GUI. What was the transfer rate of the backup job, etc.? The backup job status page has three segregations: 1. Status, 2. Data, and  3. Summary.

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How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes Veeam – Fig.3

Veeam Backup Job has the Following Actions

The Veeam Backup Job has the following actions.

  • Created Backup Job
  • Connected to organization
  • Found One mailbox
  • Processing mailbox:Anoop@devices.com
  • Transferred:400 MB (4300 items) at 639.3 KB/s (7 items/s)
  • Job finished at 14-10-2017 10:52:00

Advanced Search Option – Veeam Explorer

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange provides numerous granular options with Advanced Search mailboxes. Using Veeam Explorer, we can search mailboxes with advanced find options. Veeam Explorer offers many search criteria.

  • Category
  • Field
  • Condition
  • Value

How to Restore Deleted Office 365 Mails?

Recover the Office 365 mailboxes and individual emails. Veeam Explorer provides options for exporting the Office 365 mailbox to the PST file. Also, there are other options to save personal mail to “.MSG” files. You can also send recovered emails to another email id. You can see more details in the video tutorial here.

  • Following are the options recovery options available in Veeam Explorer
  • Open
  • Restore to Mailbox anoop@devices.com
  • restore to….
  • Export to Desktop\Inbox.pst
  • Export to .pst file
  • Save to Desktop
  • Save to .msg file
  • Send to anu@devices.com
  • Send to…

Veeam Backup Office 365 Troubleshooting

C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup365\Logs is the place where you can find the log files of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Veeam.Archiver.Proxy_2017_10_14_10_31_41.log file contains the details about the Database connectivity. It also includes connectivity errors.

  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Loading ESE library: C:\Windows\system32\esent.dll…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Module file version: 10.0.14393.0 (rs1_release.160715-1616)
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Resolving DLL entry points…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Setting a maximum number of instances to 1024…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Creating ESE instance VEEAM_ARCHIVER_PROXY_9333c395-7a2b-43da-b776-295b574b1099…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Setting instance parameter MaxVerPages to 1073741824…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Setting instance parameter MaxOpenTables to 15000…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Setting instance parameter MaxSessions to 1000…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:41 5 (2904) Initializing ESE instance…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:42 5 (2904) Setting ESE maximum cache size to 2147248128 bytes…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:42 5 (2904) Creating database: C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup365\ProxyDb\config.edb…
  • 14-10-2017 10:31:42 5 (2904) Creating database schema…

How can Veeam Backup Office 365 be used in a Programmatic way?

Using Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 PowerShell Toolkit, we can automate the Veeam Backup Microsoft Office 365 tool.

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How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes Veeam – Fig.4

The following are the PowerShell commands that are available for Veeam Backup Office 365 mailboxes.

Name
Add-VBOJob
Add-VBOOrganization
Add-VBOProxy
Add-VBORepository
Connect-VBOServer
Disable-VBOJob
Disconnect-VBOServer
Enable-VBOJob
Get-VBOEmailSettings
Get-VBOFolderExclusions
Get-VBOHistorySettings
Get-VBOJob
Get-VBOJobSession
Get-VBOLicense
Get-VBOOrganization
Get-VBOOrganizationMailbox
Get-VBOProxy
Get-VBORepository
Get-VBORestAPISettings
Get-VBORestorePoint
Install-VBOLicense
New-VBOBackupWindowSettings
New-VBOJobSchedulePolicy
Remove-VBOJob
Remove-VBOOrganization
Remove-VBOProxy
Remove-VBORepository
Set-VBOBackupWindowSettings
Set-VBOEmailSettings
Set-VBOFolderExclusions
Set-VBOHistorySettings
Set-VBOJob
Set-VBOJobSchedulePolicy
Set-VBOOrganization
Set-VBOProxy
Set-VBORepository
Set-VBORestAPISettings
Start-VBOJob
Stop-VBOJob
Sync-VBOEntity
How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes Veeam – Table 2

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Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP! He is a Device Management Admin with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. He writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.