/tags/best-practices/ Recent content in Best Practices on HomelabPro Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800 /posts/2025-12-20-advent-day20/ Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800 /posts/2025-12-20-advent-day20/ <h2 id="advent-calendar-day-20-automating-with-pre-and-post-job-scripts"> Advent Calendar Day 20: Automating with Pre and Post Job Scripts <a class="anchor-head" href="#advent-calendar-day-20-automating-with-pre-and-post-job-scripts" aria-label="Anchor link to this heading"></a> </h2> <p>Welcome to Day 20 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Today we&rsquo;re exploring a powerful automation feature: <strong>pre and post job scripts</strong> for backup jobs.</p> <p>This is really a nifty little feature that genuiely gets overlooked to often and when I talk to customer who have pretty custom environment I look to this feature to help me out as it allows us to play outside the box a little bit by creating custom workflows for otherwise tricky applications.</p> /posts/2025-12-15-advent-day15/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0800 /posts/2025-12-15-advent-day15/ <h2 id="advent-calendar-day-15-moving-backups-without-breaking-a-sweat"> Advent Calendar Day 15: Moving Backups Without Breaking a Sweat <a class="anchor-head" href="#advent-calendar-day-15-moving-backups-without-breaking-a-sweat" aria-label="Anchor link to this heading"></a> </h2> <p>Welcome to Day 15 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Today we&rsquo;re talking about a feature that might seem simple on the surface but is absolutely brilliant when you need it: <strong>Backup Move</strong>.</p> <p>Need to migrate backups between repositories? Want to move them to faster storage, or maybe to the cloud? Backup Move does this while preserving all your deduplication and compression savings. This feature has been out for some time now but man when it came out this blew my mind and made life so much easier for hardware refreshes or customer migrations, it was definitely a quality of life upgrade we needed.</p> /posts/2025-12-13-advent-day13/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0800 /posts/2025-12-13-advent-day13/ <h2 id="advent-calendar-day-13-when-everything-goes-wrong-metadata-saves-the-day"> Advent Calendar Day 13: When Everything Goes Wrong, Metadata Saves the Day <a class="anchor-head" href="#advent-calendar-day-13-when-everything-goes-wrong-metadata-saves-the-day" aria-label="Anchor link to this heading"></a> </h2> <p>Welcome to Day 13 of our Veeam Blog Advent Calendar! Today we&rsquo;re diving into one of those features that really sets Veeam apart in my opinion and it&rsquo;s how it handles its backup files: Distributed Metadata.</p> <p>If we have ever had to rebuild a global dedupe catalog you&rsquo;ll immediately know why this is insanely powerful, with Veeam we could literally lose the entire infrastructure, VBR server and all and still be able to recover as long as we have access to the repo and the encryption key, that&rsquo;s the power of the distributed metadata and something that in my opinion is a great strength that is sometimes seen as a weakness and today I&rsquo;ll prove why it&rsquo;s such a strength.</p>