Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam, Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam. Veeam has a backup and restores 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”.
In this post, we will see Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam.
Following are the three posts that will cover the Windows endpoint backup solution from Veeam.
- Windows 10 backup and recovery Software from Veeam
- Video Guide Windows Server 2016 Backup Solution from Veeam
- Video Guide Windows Server 2016 File & Volume Recovery Solution from Veeam
- Installation of Veeam Agent on Microsoft Windows server 2016
- Create Recovery Media
- Taking Backup of Server 2016 as per schedule
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. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can be used to protect different types of computers and devices: desktops, laptops, and tablets.
The solution can be installed on any computer that runs the following OSes
- Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 or later
- Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SP1 or later
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. The recovery media is nothing but a recovery image of your computer.
You can boot your computer/server with recovery media and 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.
You can launch the recovery media creation wizard from the Veeam Agent for the Windows home page. As you can see in the video tutorial here, media creation is a straightforward process.
It took nearly 9 minutes to create a recovery media on my server 2016. The wizard will prompt to format the USB during the media creation process. At the high-level 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 3 types of backup modes are available. And those backup modes are “Entire computer,” “Volume-level backup,” and “File-Level backup.” Veeam Agent for Windows servers supports five backup options. And those options are listed down.
- 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
“Configure backup” is the Veeam agent’s option to start configuring and scheduling the backup for the Windows server. Back up your entire server is the recommended option in the Veeam Agent for Windows. 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 take the backup of server 2016. This is my Hyper-V server in my lab.
More details are available in the video tutorial here. Following are the tasks which I could see.
- Initializing
- Preparing for backup
- Creating VSS snapshot
- Calculating digests
- Getting 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
Resources
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows – User Guide
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