Author: geoff.burke

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Kasten Disaster Recovery: Restoring Clusters Step-by-Step

Veeam Kasten has significantly simplified the Kasten Disaster Recovery procedure in recent versions. Now you are able to setup and perform Kasten DR through the WebUI and not only the command line. In my first post of the series I walked through Kasten DR setup guide Today we will perform a complete Kasten Recovery to a new Kubernetes Cluster. Prerequisites and Setup Kasten Disaster Recovery Prerequisites A Kubernetes cluster with a vanilla Veeam Kasten instance installed. Your cluster ID and secret passphrase in order to perform this procedure. Access to your Location Profile and your access key and secret key for your bucket Fresh Kasten Instance First our task will be to spin up a new cluster and install a vanilla version of Veeam Kasten. For faster recovery I would recommend having this cluster on standby and ready to go at all times. This would also make it easier to perform regular DR testing…

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How to Configure Veeam Kasten Disaster Recovery for Kubernetes

Kasten Disaster Recovery got a major upgrade! If you're protecting Kubernetes workloads with Veeam Kasten, the new Quick DR modes make Disaster Recovery setup faster and more reliable than ever. Veeam Kasten is never sitting still! While I occasionally have to take a break to perform other duties or rush to finish some new AI course, I inevitably wander back to my old stomping grounds, Kubernetes data protection and Kasten and once again I was not disappointed with the new Kasten Disaster Recovery procedure that I discovered. This is not, however, some nostalgic journey to the past because Kasten is not sitting still. I don't like using cliches, like things just keep getting better, but in this case: Things just keep getting better. Today I will go over the new and improved Kasten Disaster Recovery procedure. Just like Veeam's configuration backup, solid data protection setups need to back themselves up as well. If you…

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Backing Up My Synology Share

Synology is a home lab's best friend in my opinion. There is so much you can do with it. Well you don't have to believe me just go google Synology stuff and I can guarantee your weekend will be lost for any other activities other than tech. Sometimes I just want to use my Synology to store stuff. I accumulate a ton of photos, documents, iso's you name on my home laptops and in the past I have forced myself with a heavy heart to go through and press the delete button in order to free up space. That all changed when I got my Synology NAS and now with a clear conscience I just cut and paste. Being a backup administrator I can't simply leave it at that and always create backup of my files. Today I am going to setup a Veeam Unstructured Backup job to backup my NFS share. There are…

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Home Lab Proxmox Synology and K3S Part 2

​ In this second part of the blog series we are going to install K3S on all of our VMs. We will also leverage the Synology CSI driver and test it out at the end. Firstly, we want to be able to connect to all 3 VMs seamlessly from my Windows Ubuntu WSL on my laptop. We can use this method to push our public key on to the VMs. Create a file called server.list with the IP addresses of the 3 VMs. vi server.list 192.168.0.80 192.168.0.81 192.168.0.82 ... Next run this script to copy your public key onto the VMs. #!/bin/bash while IFS= read -r server; do ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub "$server" done < servers.list INSTALLING K3S We are going to disable the default servicelb loadbalancer and Traefik ingress controller and use Metallb instead. Also it is a good idea to disable local storage. I actually forgot this in my setup so later on…

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Home Lab with Proxmox Synology and K3S

​The latest VMware saga and the discontinuation of ESX free version has many people searching for possible home lab alternatives. When it comes to learning Kubernetes, you can always use single node clusters but there are times when you want to expand your setup to resemble production with multiple nodes. Of course, you can leverage projects like Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) or K3D (K3S nodes in Docker containers) but they come with limitations and put limits on how much you can do. My home lab is always in a state of perpetual evolution and the latest addition to my home lab a Synology DS 723+ has added a much needed boost to productivity!  My new Synology is small in size, and its versatility makes it ideal for home labs. There are a lot of blogs out there about Synology and the all the fantastic things that you can do with it in your home, but I…

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VEEAM 100 SUMMIT IN PRAGUE

Last week I had the great pleasure to attend the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague Czech Republic. This event is the highlight of the year for the Veeam Community and the atmosphere and energy it creates is enough to keep one fueled with IT enthusiasm until the next summit. So what is the Veeam 100? Well I have described it before but such a great Community needs to be mentioned again and again. What's more there is no reason why you too can't join the Veeam 100 as well, either as a Veeam Vanguard or a Veeam Legend. The Veeam Vanguards "The Veeam Vanguard Program is Veeam’s top-level influencer community". You can get a full description here: https://www.veeam.com/vanguard.html The Veeam Legends "Veeam Legends are Veeam users and data protection industry experts who are passionate about technology, innovation and eager to further develop their career, while sharing their experiences with the community" Again you can…

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THE VEEAM 100 SUMMIT

It is getting close to that very special time of year. No I don't mean Halloween, I mean Veeam! Or to be be more precise the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague Czech Republic. Last year I took part in my first Summit and it was something that I will never forget. What is the Veeam 100? Or better put who are the Veeam 100? The Veeam 100 is an umbrella group that contains the Veeam MVPs (these are Veeam Employees who have gone beyond the call of duty), the Veeam Legends (Veeam users who have made large contributions in the Veeam Community Hub or in the Veeam R&D Forums, and last but not least the Veeam Vanguards (people who have evangelized Veeam in external platforms like blogs, webinars, speaking events and so forth). You can find them all here in the Veeam 100 Directory: https://community.veeam.com/p/veeam100directory So what is so special about this Veeam 100…

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