- Foreword
- About the Authors
- Dave Kawula–Microsoft MVP
- Cristal Kawula–Microsoft MVP
- Cary Sun–Microsoft MVP
- Emile Cabot–Microsoft MVP
- Introduction
- Sample Files
- Additional Resources
- Chapter 1: Backup and Backup Copy
- Creating a Backup job to backup the VMS portion of the Hyper-V Host
- Creating a Backup Copy Job with an Immediate copy from the backup job workload
- Creating a Backup Copy Job with Periodic copy from the backup job workload
- Upgrading Backup Chain Format from Per-Machine Backup with Single Metadata File to Per-Machine with Separate Metadata Files
- Moving Backups to Another Repository
- Moving VM Backups to Another Job
- Deleting VM Backup from Disk
- Deleting Entire job back files from the backup repository
- Chapter 2: Replication
- Creating a Replication job to replicate the specified VMs at the Production Site
- Creating a Replication job to replicate the specified VMs to the Disaster Recovery Site
- Creating a Replication job with seeding to the Disaster Recovery Site
- Failover Virtual Machine to Disaster Recovery Site
- Planned Failover Virtual Machine to Disaster Recovery Site
- Failover Undo the Virtual Machine to Production Site
- Failback to the Original Virtual Machine of the Production Site
- Failback to the Original Virtual Machine restored in a different location
- Failback to the specified location of the Production Site
- Permanent Failover of the Virtual Machine
- Chapter 3: Data Restore
- Secure Restore the Entire VM to the Original Location
- Secure Restore the Entire VM to the New Location
- Restore VM Files
- Restore Guest Files (or Folder) for Microsoft Windows
- Restore Guest Files (or Folder) for Linux with Host
- Restore Guest Files (or Folder) for Linux with Helper Appliance
- Chapter 4: Join us at MVPDays and meet great MVP’s like this in person
- Live Presentations
- Video Training
- Live Instructor-led Classes
- Consulting Services
Veeam Backup and Replication Operational Guide Volume 4
Volume 4 Based on Version 12
What’s Inside Volume 4?
Chapter 1: Backup and Backup Copy
We begin with advanced backup concepts, including step-by-step walkthroughs for creating efficient backup jobs tailored for Hyper-V environments. You'll learn how to leverage both Immediate and Periodic Backup Copy Jobs to maintain off-site or secondary copies of critical data.
Chapter 2: Replication
Disaster Recovery (DR) is a cornerstone of any business continuity plan, and Veeam enables the design of flexible, high-performance replication strategies. In this chapter, we explore local and remote replication scenarios, including replication to DR sites with or without seeding.
Chapter 3: Data Restore
The true test of any backup solution is how fast and completely you can recover. This chapter walks through secure full VM restores, granular file-level recoveries for both Windows and Linux, and even advanced Linux restores using a Helper Appliance.
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What’s Inside Volume 4?
Chapter 1: Backup and Backup Copy
We begin with advanced backup concepts, including step-by-step walkthroughs for creating efficient backup jobs tailored for Hyper-V environments. You'll learn how to leverage both Immediate and Periodic Backup Copy Jobs to maintain off-site or secondary copies of critical data.
Chapter 2: Replication
Disaster Recovery (DR) is a cornerstone of any business continuity plan, and Veeam enables the design of flexible, high-performance replication strategies. In this chapter, we explore local and remote replication scenarios, including replication to DR sites with or without seeding.
Chapter 3: Data Restore
The true test of any backup solution is how fast and completely you can recover. This chapter walks through secure full VM restores, granular file-level recoveries for both Windows and Linux, and even advanced Linux restores using a Helper Appliance.
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About the Book
Welcome to Volume 4 of the Veeam Backup and Replication Operations Guide, authored by a team of trusted Microsoft MVPs and enterprise consultants: Dave Kawula, Cristal Kawula, Cary Sun, and Emile Cabot. This volume represents the culmination of countless hours spent in real-world deployments, consulting engagements, disaster recovery scenarios, and ongoing optimization of Veeam Backup & Replication environments in production.
In today's IT landscape, data is the lifeblood of every organization. As threats grow in complexity and infrastructure expands across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, ensuring reliable, scalable, and secure backup and recovery is more critical than ever. Veeam continues to be a leader in this space, and with every release, it adds powerful capabilities that require not just awareness—but deep operational understanding.
This guide serves as a hands-on, operations-focused playbook for administrators, consultants, and IT managers responsible for day-to-day Veeam operations. It’s not just about installation and setup; it’s about building sustainable, well-documented backup and disaster recovery practices that scale with your business and defend against modern challenges like ransomware and accidental data loss.
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Dave Kawula
Dave is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. His background includes data communications networks within multi-server environments, and he has led architecture teams for virtualization, System Center, Exchange, Active Directory, and Internet gateways. Very active within the Microsoft technical and consulting teams, Dave has provided deep-dive technical knowledge and subject matter expertise on various System Center and operating system topics.
Dave is well-known in the community as an evangelist for Microsoft, 1E, and Veeam technologies. Locating Dave is easy as he speaks at several conferences and sessions each year, including TechEd, Ignite, MVP Days Community Roadshow, and VeeamOn.
Recently Dave has been honored to take on the role of Conference Co-Chair of TechMentor with fellow MVP Sami Laiho. The lineup of speakers and attendees that have been to this conference over the past 20 years is really amazing. Come down to Redmond or Orlando in 2018 and you can meet him in person.
As the founder and Managing Principal Consultant at TriCon Elite Consulting, Dave is a leading technology expert for both local customers and large international enterprises, providing optimal guidance and methodologies to achieve and maintain an efficient infrastructure.
BLOG: www.checkyourlogs.net
Twitter: @DaveKawula

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Cristal Kawula
Cristal Kawula is the co-founder of MVPDays Community Roadshow and #MVPHour live Twitter Chat. She is the President of TriCon Elite Consulting where she manages the day to day operations of the field consulting and sales teams.
Cristal is also only the 2nd Woman in the world to receive the prestigious Veeam Vanguard Community excellence award. In July of 2017 she was awarded the designation of Microsoft MVP.
Early in her career Cristal worked as a consultant with Microsoft authoring content for internal SMSGR and GTR teams. This content was used to train internal support engineers and global escalation engineering teams.
Cristal can be found speaking at Microsoft Ignite, MVPDays, and other local user groups. She is extremely active in the community and has recently helped publish a book for other Women MVP’s called Voices from the Data Platform.
BLOG: http://www.checkyourlogs.net
Twitter: @supercristal1
Cary Sun
Cary Sun has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in data center and deployment solutions. As a Principal Consultant, he likely works closely with clients to help them design, implement, and manage their data center infrastructure and deployment strategies.
With his background in data center solutions, Cary Sun may have experience in server and storage virtualization, network design and optimization, backup and disaster recovery planning, and security and compliance management. He holds CISCO CERTIFIED INTERNETWORK EXPERT (CCIE No.4531) from 1999. Cary is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Microsoft Azure MVP, Veeam Vanguard and Cisco Champion. He is a published author with several titles, including blogs on Checkyourlogs.net, and the author of many books.
Cary is a very active blogger at checkyourlogs.net and is permanently available online for questions from the community. His passion for technology is contagious, improving everyone around him at what they do.
Blog site: https://www.checkyourlogs.net
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Twitter: @SifuSun
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Emile Cabot
Émile is a six-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) who started in the industry during the mid-90s working at an ISP and designing web sites for celebrities. He has a strong background specializing in datacenter and deployment solutions, and has spent many years performing infrastructure analyses and solution implementations for organizations around the world.
Émile organizes the Calgary Microsoft User Group, blogs on CheckYourLogs.net, and has presented at several conferences, including Ignite, VeeamOn, TechMentor, TechReady, and MVPDays.
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