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Backup Physical Backup Backup Entire

Servers Hypervisor or Storage


VMs
• Backups contents like file and folders
• Files and folders are easy to address
Backup Physical Servers for individual file and folder to restore
• larger number of files and folders, but
each is smaller on disk
• Capture requires significant
participation by the VM OS
• Files and folders are difficult to use in
Ali Mansouri
Veeam Backup INSTRUCTOR
restoring entire VMs
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• Backups are exact Virtual Hard disks
• Virtual hard disks are harder than
Backup Hypervisor or VMs restore individual files and folder
• Smaller number of virtual hard disks,
but each is significantly larger on disk
• Capture requires little participation of
the VM OS but significant participation
of the host OS
Ali Mansouri
Veeam Backup INSTRUCTOR
• Virtual hard disks simplify point in time
Alimansouri201997@gmail.com restore of entire VMs
• Backups are captured Virtual Hard
disks
Backup Entire Storage • Virtual Hard disks are captured with
little participation of both the host and
VM OS
• Backups are captured "closer: to the
physical data
• Requires storage hardware support
Ali Mansouri
Veeam Backup INSTRUCTOR
• Requires extremely careful
Alimansouri201997@gmail.com configuration to prevent inadvertent
corruption

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