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Backing Up the Lab with Veeam, Part 3: Upgrading to v13.1
An in-place upgrade of Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition from 12.3.2 to 13.1: verifying the ISO, a locked console, a reboot mid-wizard, a C: drive with 40 GB hidden behind a Recovery partition, a sign-in error on the named admin, and a hardened repository that updated itself.
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Backing Up the Lab with Veeam, Part 2: Backups Nobody Can Delete
Part 2 of backing up the lab with Veeam: daily Btrfs snapshots on the Synology, a restore test from a snapshot, and a Linux hardened repository where not even root can delete the backups.
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Backing Up the Lab with Veeam, Part 1: Design and the Backup Server
Where lab backups should live, why Windows over the Veeam appliance for a 12-to-13 upgrade path, and getting veeam01 onto the storage VLAN with working jumbo frames.