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Intermediate2 days / 10 to 14 guided hourspublished

Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity: Intermediate

Run application-aware restores, backup verification, and tabletop recovery exercises.

Audience

  • Self-paced technical learners
  • Instructor-led cohorts
  • Enterprise teams preparing staff for hands-on operations

Prerequisites

  • Beginner course or equivalent experience
  • Comfort with command-line or admin consoles

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.
Course plan

Modules and labs

Each module maps to provisioned lab work, validation evidence, reset/rollback policy, and instructor visibility.

Required templates

Windows Server 2022 base

defined

Windows Server 2022 evaluation or licensed ISO

TODO: Build golden image from valid Microsoft evaluation or customer-licensed media.

Ubuntu Server 24.04

available

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cloud image

SQL Server template

defined

Windows Server 2022 plus SQL Server Developer/Evaluation media

TODO: Attach approved SQL Server media and create sysprepped image.

Validation checks

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.