/tags/metadata/ Recent content in Metadata on HomelabPro Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0800 /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>