Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity: Expert
Design BCDR architecture with failure simulation, immutable backup concepts, automation, and executive reporting.
Audience
- Self-paced technical learners
- Instructor-led cohorts
- Enterprise teams preparing staff for hands-on operations
Prerequisites
- Intermediate course or equivalent production experience
- Comfort with troubleshooting and design tradeoffs
Outcomes
- Provision an isolated backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity lab from template metadata.
- Use snapshots, rollback, validation checks, and teardown safely.
- Explain how Veeam concepts, Windows, Linux fit into an enterprise training environment.
- Produce evidence that an instructor or admin can review.
Modules and labs
Each module maps to provisioned lab work, validation evidence, reset/rollback policy, and instructor visibility.
Failure simulation and hardening
Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity Expert lab 2Automation, DR, and capstone
Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity Expert capstoneWindows Server 2022 base
definedWindows Server 2022 evaluation or licensed ISO
TODO: Build golden image from valid Microsoft evaluation or customer-licensed media.
Ubuntu Server 24.04
availableUbuntu 24.04 LTS cloud image
SQL Server template
definedWindows Server 2022 plus SQL Server Developer/Evaluation media
TODO: Attach approved SQL Server media and create sysprepped image.
Snapshot created
A named checkpoint exists before the exercise stage.
Rollback tested
The instance returns to the expected baseline state.
SQL reachable
The SQL endpoint accepts a least-privilege validation login.
VM reachable
The VM reports boot complete and responds through the tenant bastion path.