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• Knowing how much data loss is tolerable for business impact (RPO) and the maximum amount of time your business can tolerate to be offline (RTO) is important. It defines how you build your backup strategy, how frequently the backup jobs will run and what type of backup is required.
• This recovery objectives don’t follow a general rule. Each company has other requirements for their business which defines their recovery objectives. If you want to read about RPO and RTO, our blog post “Why do recovery time and recovery point objectives matter?” explains more about RPO and RTO and how to gather the information required to define the values for your environment.
• Veeam Backup and Replication can protect several types of source data from different hypervisors, physical machines, unstructured data, cloud environment, SaaS offerings, and different types of applications. Before starting with the implementation, you need to think about the data you need to protect.
• For applications which don’t support Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy on Windows or don’t have an integration in Linux machines, you can rely on pre-freeze/post-thaw scripts to ensure that your applications are prepared for when the backup happens.
• You may want to check with the vendor of the application if any scripts or documentation exists regarding how you can integrate Veeam with their application. For example, HCL Domino provides a step-by-step implementation guide for their product.
• Storage snapshots on your production storage give you low RPOs and RTOs, regardless of the backup software you use. You can orchestrate snapshots directly with the storage appliance console or with Veeam Backup & Replication. A storage snapshot does not just protect a single VM. When the snapshot is taken, all VMs on that storage volume are protected at the same time.

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