VEEAM VMCE_V12 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 6

By adding a capacity tier to the Scale-out Backup Repository and enabling the 'Copy' option, the administrator can create a backup that automatically copies data to a different media type (object storage) and also ensures that the data is offsite. This is accomplished without creating additional backup or backup copy jobs. The 'Copy' option allows for immediate copying of backups to the capacity tier, meeting the criteria specified.

Reference:

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Scale-Out Backup Repository

Veeam Help Center: Capacity Tier and Archive Tier Configuration

To change a backup copy job from periodic mode to immediate mode, an administrator can edit the original backup copy job and select the immediate copy mode from within the job settings. This change ensures that backup copy jobs are started immediately after the source backup job completes, rather than waiting for a defined copy interval.

Reference:

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Backup Copy Job

Veeam Help Center: Backup Copy Job Modes

Application-aware processing is a feature in Veeam Backup & Replication that creates transactionally consistent backup images of VMs. For domain controllers, this feature ensures that backups are consistent with the applications running on the VM, like Active Directory services. To avoid crash-consistent backups and ensure application consistency, the engineer must enable the Application-Aware Processing option during the job configuration.

Reference:

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Application-Aware Processing

Veeam Best Practices: Protecting Active Directory Domain Controllers

Veeam Enterprise Manager provides centralized management for Veeam Backup & Replication environments. It enables the administrator to manage licensing and role-based access control across multiple Veeam Backup servers in different locations, offering a unified control panel with minimal effort compared to other options that would require more complex setups or custom development work.

Reference:

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Veeam Enterprise Manager

Veeam Help Center: Centralized Management with Enterprise Manager

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange allows recovery of items that are under litigation hold or in-place hold. This feature is essential for compliance and legal discovery processes where emails and other items need to be preserved and may be subject to eDiscovery requests. It is not used for restoring databases from backups created with Veeam RMAN plug-in, exporting to BAK files, or restoring original passwords for account objects.

Reference:

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange User Guide: Working with Items under Litigation Hold

Veeam Knowledge Base: Recovery of Exchange Items

Veeam Backup & Replication offers the capability to assign location tags to different components within the backup infrastructure, including vCenter servers. This feature is particularly useful for GDPR compliance, as it allows administrators to specify the physical location of the data processed and stored within vCenter servers, helping to ensure that data sovereignty and regulatory requirements are met.

Reference:

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Location Tagging for GDPR Compliance

Veeam Help Center: GDPR Compliance and Data Location Controls

The most efficient approach to getting all servers onto tape, considering there are both VMware VMs and physical Windows servers in the infrastructure, is to first create backup jobs that target both the VMs and the physical servers. After these backups are stored on a disk-based repository, you can then create backup to tape jobs. This method leverages Veeam's ability to handle both types of environments and ensures that all data is efficiently backed up to tape for offsite storage and ransomware protection.

Reference:

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Tape Device Support

Veeam Best Practices: Configuring Tape Jobs

Using the Veeam Guest OS File Restore wizard, files or folders can be restored to a valid UNC (Universal Naming Convention) path. This means that the director's folder can be restored to any network location that the Windows VM has access to, as long as it's specified in the UNC format, such as \\Server\SharedFolder. This allows for the flexibility of restoring the data to a different location than the original one.

Reference:

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Guest OS File Recovery

Veeam Help Center: Restoring Guest OS Files

To roll back the configuration database to Friday's state, the backup administrator should use the 'Restore' mode available in Veeam Backup & Replication. This mode allows for the entire configuration backup to be restored, which includes the job settings and history, and brings the configuration database back to the state it was in at the time of the backup.

Reference:

Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide: Configuration Backup and Restore

Veeam Help Center: Configuration Restore