1. Data protection strategies

• Review of key data protection strategies that ensure the safety of your data.

2. Analysis of risks to data

• Explore different risk scenarios, what risks do we face daily within our environment?

3. What is protected?

• Review of Veeam Data Platform and introduction to the class scenario.

4. Security and protection considerations

• Describe strategies and tools to secure the Veeam backup server to avoid unauthorized access and data leaks.

5. Protecting workloads

• Efficiently protect VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines based on well-defined SLAs through the creation of backup jobs.

6. Deploying agents

• Identify the use of protection groups to automate the installation of Veeam Agents and protecting workloads with agent backup jobs.

7. Unstructured data backup

• List required components and features available to protect unstructured data.

8. Optimizing your backups

• Analyze features and settings that allow backup storage optimization, faster backups and data consistency.

9. Immutability and hardened repositories

• Describe backup data protection mechanisms to avoid premature deletion and unwanted modifications. Identify characteristics and deployment steps of Linux Hardened Repositories to achieve backup data immutability.

10. Backup infrastructure optimization

• List deployment options and additional settings to improve general backup solution performance.

11. Replication

• Describe use cases, architectures and features of replication jobs and continuous data protection (CDP) policies.

12. Backup copy jobs

• Ensure recoverability and adhere to the 3-2-1 Rule with backup copy jobs.

13. Long-term retention

• List different mechanisms for data archiving, including grandfather-father-son retention policies.

14. Scale-out Backup Repository™

• Describe architecture, placement policies, data tiers and management of Scale-out Backup Repositories.

15. Move and copy backups with VeeaMover

• Identify use cases for virtual machine and backup migrations with VeeaMover.

16. Recovery verification

• Create automated tests to ensure recoverability from backups and replicas.

17. Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

• Describe the use cases for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

18. Incident Response Planning

• Integrating Veeam Backup and Replication into your incident response plan.

19. Advanced recovery features

• Explore some more in-depth recovery features of Veeam Backup and Replication.

20. Selecting the ideal recovery method

• What are the implications of different recovery methods and selecting the correct recovery method.

21. Enacting a recovery

• Get practice in recovering different recovery types with a variety of data types.