Backups, data replication, and protection plans are taking on ever more importance in organizations’ strategies to ensure they have accurate, easily recoverable data in the event of a problem. In fact, 92% of organizations surveyed in a recent study (source: 2024 Data protection trends) will increase their data protection budgets in 2024, compared with 85% in 2023.
Veeam stands out as an essential reference in this context, combining efficiency, simplicity and reliability to deliver, in its own words, “radical resilience” for businesses so they can overcome an IT disaster. As you will have understood, the Veeam solution is specifically designed to guarantee optimal security, almost entirely eliminating the risk of data loss thanks to its fast and easy-to-use restoration system.
Veeam protects the entire IT infrastructure, covering physical servers, workstations and virtual machines (VMs), which are taking on an ever more important role (containers are everywhere, but their backups are scattered).
Veeam generally provides complete and reliable backups. However, it does happen that backed-up data runs into problems, becomes inaccessible, or files get damaged or encrypted following a ransomware attack.
Data loss represents a real nightmare for every business. At the end of 2023, as a direct consequence of the MOVEit breach, a significant number of companies invested heavily in backup and restoration.
That is why Chronodisk’s technicians, experts in data recovery, are here to help you recover your Veeam backups, when the usual procedures fail and your in-house resources are no longer enough.
Specialized in restoring Vbk, Vib, and Vrb files, Chronodisk offers unmatched assistance to companies facing backup problems with Veeam.
How Veeam works
Veeam is recognized worldwide for its backup software suite and platform, enabling backups to be performed in a dedicated, secure environment (BaaS: Backup as a Service).
Particularly well suited to virtualization technologies such as VMware or Hyper-V, its ease of use, reliability and ability to offer complete protection make it a preferred choice for many businesses.
Veeam provides advanced protection and restoration features, which are very useful when needed.
Veeam uses an incremental backup approach, saving storage space. It also creates three types of files to store backed-up data: Vbk (Virtual Backup) files, which are full backups of a virtual machine, including all initial and incremental data, Vib (Virtual Incremental Block) files, which contain only the data blocks modified since the last backup, and Vrb (Veeam Reverse Backup) files, generated during a reverse incremental backup process, in which Veeam modifies the Vbk file so that it matches the most recent state of the VM.
The types of problems encountered
Despite the advances in this backup technology, the risk of data loss remains. The causes can vary: malicious attacks, human error, degradation of storage media, network problems, natural incidents or hardware failures. A common Veeam error message is “Backup Files are Unavailable”, occurring when attempting to restore a VM from a broken backup chain.
A critical scenario variant, commonly encountered by organizations, is an attack by ransomware or another type of malicious software that can infect backup systems, leading to the corruption or encryption of Veeam’s Vbk, Vib, Vrb backup files.
To address these problems, Chronodisk offers its help to recover your data in the event of loss or damage to your backup files.
Thanks to their experience and expertise, our engineers have developed tailored solutions to recover your data from corrupted Veeam backups.
The security of your data with Chronodisk
Chronodisk is a partner of choice for Veeam data restoration. Our expertise, our innovative methods and our ability to respond quickly make our specialized service a first-rate choice for any business facing data loss. We act quickly, remotely or on-site, to restore your data, minimizing the impact on your business operations and enabling a rapid return to activity.
An important aspect of data recovery is ensuring the integrity of the recovered data. Chronodisk systematically carries out checks on the recovered data, to ensure the reliability of the results obtained.
In the event of Veeam data loss
Data loss can occur in various ways: ransomware attack, accidental deletion of .vbk, .vib or .vrb files, or errors while restoring Veeam Backup files. Chronodisk, with more than 20 years of experience in data recovery, has proprietary in-house developed solutions and proven, innovative methods to restore and rebuild Veeam backups, even in the most complex situations.
We invite you to contact our team, who will know how to resolve even the most complex cases, particularly in the context of a ransomware attack. In these exceptional circumstances, talking with professionals will prove beneficial in many ways, if only to reduce as much as possible the pressure exerted by the hackers on the targeted company, or to correctly assess, based on the available solutions, the actual level of losses.
For more information or to obtain a free quote, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are ready to help you overcome your Veeam backup restoration challenges and ensure the continuity of your business’s activity. We systematically provide an estimate of the time required for data recovery, and assess the percentage of complete backup data that can be recovered.