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tags:
  - Backup and Recovery
  - Reference
  - Documentation
---

# Backup and Recovery
## Purpose
Find backup concepts, repository maintenance, and recovery dependencies.  Select the procedure for the affected backup system and distinguish a backup restore from a replica or snapshot operation.

## Includes
- Understand jobs, repositories, application groups, and replica terminology.
- Find the recorded GFS policy and its assumptions.
- Move agent ownership to a replacement backup server.

## Find the Right Document
- [Veeam Concepts](<Veeam Concepts.md>) — Understand jobs, repositories, application groups, and replica terminology.
- [Retention Policy Example](<Veeam Retention Policy Example.md>) — Find the recorded GFS policy and its assumptions.
- [Adopt an Existing Backup Agent](<../../workflows/Backup and Recovery/Veeam/Backup Agent Takeover.md>) — Move agent ownership to a replacement backup server.
- [Manage Repository Capacity](<../../workflows/Backup and Recovery/Veeam/Manually Pruning Backups.md>) — Review the existing backup-chain removal procedure before deleting data.
- [Repair Gateway Certificate Trust](<../../workflows/Backup and Recovery/Veeam/Failed to Validate Certificates of Some Gateways.md>) — Follow the specific Cloud Connect certificate failure.
- [Hypervisor Recovery](<../Virtualization and Storage/index.md>) — Find the applicable Hyper-V replica or Proxmox migration procedure.