Veeam Backup Using Azure Storage Blob

Veeam Backup and Azure Storage Blob

Support your company better with offsite backups

  

Veeam Backup Using Azure Storage Blob creates a reliable offsite backup. Support  and protect your company by using this combination of Azure storage and Veeam's capabilities to utilize the storage helps create a reliable recovery scenario that can cover many of the "what happens if" situations. Situations that are not only imaginable by disasters for those that could be caused by the ongoing daunting threats that some from real-world scenarios like from ransomware. 

What if your servers and data was captured ransomware? What do you do? Your backups have also been locked by ransomware and recovery would only be available by an offsite protected copy of your backup data.  To better support your company, maintain an offsite copy of your backups.  

Veeam not only gives it's admins a way to support their company better by having a secure and reliable method to recover from server failures, virtual servers or physical own hardware servers, but also lets you keep a copy in the cloud. 

Chances are you are already using Azure for email through Microsoft 365 online exchange, so access to having a datastore available to have your company survive a crisis is already there. You may have to expand your subscription to include the required amount of storage , but that requires very little effort to do.

Creating storage for Veeam to offsite backups is straight forward. It's a generic generation 2 blob. Nothing fancy, nothing special. Standard performance because it's an offsite backup and won't require high end speed because it's not live data.  The blob is all defaults. You'll just have to give the storage account a name and create a new resource group, and of course select your subscription. The process is simple on Azure. Take note of the key generated for the blob, because that has to be entered into the Veeam configuration. Follow this Veeam guide, it worked for my company:  

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/azure_repository_name.html?ver=110

 Once you have the Azure storage setup, again it is a default storage blob, you need for Veeam configuration: 

To add Microsoft Azure Blob storage, do the following:

To add Microsoft Azure Blob storage, do the following:

1. Specify object storage name
2. Specify object storage account
3. Specify object storage settings
4. Finish working with the wizard

 Not mandatory but after completion, Microsoft has a tool called  Microsoft Storage Explorer. the tool works great to have a a view of all your storage containers and even aces them without a browser. 

Microsoft storage explorer could be downloaded from here, login is not required to download from Microsoft.  

    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/

The tool is not required to access, support, and manage your storage accounts , containers, etc. but can be used to support and manage the setup and offer further insight that's not so quickly attainable using only browser access to Azure or using even the Azure management console tool. 

  

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Netgear Rangemax Router Series

I recently installed one of Netgear's Rangemax routers in a home office. I was very impressed with the wireless distance and more importantly the signal strength the new RangeMax routers from Netgear achieved.

The home was not an average home office. Some of the node locations were behind several walls and even a cement wall. Now we all know that traditional sheet rocked walls degrade signal quality the least so seeing the signal pass strongly through those walls was no great achievement but even in this case, the was literally no loss at all. Through the concrete and plaster I had excellent signal strength on one of the desktops that was behind the combination.

The configuration was very much the same at other products of it's category but only found a dislike in the fact that when I made a change to the configuration, Internet access was hampered somewhat. This may have been a coincidental occurrence but it was noticeable. The change that was being done at the time was a DNS server address change for client of the DHCP server. Another thing that I found curious, but one I've seen on many other home networking products, was a change not "sticking" . What I mean by this is that when the change was applied to the router, again it was in the DHCP section and had to do with the ip address range for the scope, it didn't actually take. The page showed the change but when a computer on the network tried to get a new ip address it continued to get the old ip address.

This was a little disturbing and after wasting a little time trying and retrying to get a new address on the computer, I realized the problem was on the the router itself. I reapplied the settings even though as mentioned the page showed the address changes I made, and restarted. The changes applied and stayed as I wanted them this time and the computer received a new updated ip address from the router.

Aside from those really trivial events, the Rangemax 824v3 router worked very well and had some very nice throughput. It was noticeably better that the other (manufacturer will remain unnamed) router that it replaced. Wireless security was improved over older models too. It had my favorite combination of wireless security features of WPA, TKIP, AES - and they worked very well. The Netgear Rangemax wireless router also support URL content filtering and web site logging.

• For a full list of features see Netgear's Rangemax page.

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