NAS Backup and no magic. Deep dive by Veeam

Several months have passed since the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 10 . There was even a review article about the upcoming release. But the post-release article devoted to a more detailed and technical analysis of the most anticipated features of the new version - NAS Backup, never happened.
Therefore, it is urgent to correct.



Let's observe the rituals and first of all look at the dry specification of supported technologies:


  • SMB (CIFS) file balls versions 1, 2 and 3. Starting with version 3.0, Microsoft VSS snapshots are available
  • NFS balls versions 3.0 and 4.1
  • Granular restore of individual files and the ability to roll back to a specific point in time.
  • Support for Linux and Windows file servers
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