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Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

The Kasten Tsunami Pre-Show from the Lake. Today Local Openshift

If I survive the Tsunami, Sea Monsters, or hordes of American fishermen I will return later to talk about RedHat’s Kubernetes distribution for testing: Local Openshift!

1 year ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam & SQL Server 2012, The Approaching End of Life & How to Migrate

It’s that time of the IT lifecycle again, where we talk upgrades and decommissioning.On the 12th July 2022, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 will go End of Life. Not just to extended/security patch support, but completely out of support.So, why am I talking about Veeam? If you’ve got an installation of Veeam that utilised a SQL Server Express database, and you installed Veeam prior to 9.5 Update 4, odds are you’ve got a SQL Server 2012 Express database. This creates a security risk as of the next Microsoft patch cycle, scheduled for the 12th July 2022.I would also like to state that whilst this isn’t the focus of the article, if you’ve got a Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam ONE environment that’s not running v11 yet, you really need to upgrade, as everything prior is at end of fix. Which version of SQL Server should I migrate to?Unless you are limited by the operating system support for SQL Server 2019, I don’t recommend going for anything older. This is because SQL Server 2017, whils

1 year ago

Rick VanoverRICKATRON

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Configure, Notify, Action: Veeam ONE’s ransomware detection

I speak to people often about ransomware and Veeam ONE has a helping hand here that can do more than many people think. What is important however is that the alarms and reports that matter get to the right persona are made visible. In this post I want to cover the 4 alarms and 1 report that matter the most AND how to handle the conditions that make these happen. Let’s get into it, these simple steps will make a different in getting Veeam ONE’s ransomware or malicious activity detected quickly.Possible Ransomware Activity AlarmThis alarm is in the Alarm Management section for both VMware and Hyper-V and looks at two sets of rules: sustained high CPU and disk writes; but also looks at sustained network transfer (exfiltration). At a minimum, this alarm should have an email sent to two or more persons (backup admins, security team, etc.) via email and separate the emails with a space: I also recommend going into the actions section, and put in a script that does something relevant to your

5 months ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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[What (else) is new in v12 - IV] Active full/Retry of a single VM of a job

Although the post is very small, the news in it is big 😃With v12 you can start a Active Full backup of a single VM processed by a job. Just open the progress dialog of the job and right-click the VM you want to backup. As you can see, this can also be used to run a Retry just for selected machines. Important: this will just work when you use the also new feature in v12: True per-machine backup files

1 year ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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Do we need a new tape standard?

The question may sound provoking. I asked myself during reading an article about Quantums concern about the LTO roadmap:https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/06/17/quantum-thinks-lto-tape-falls-short/For short: Capacity of tape media fall behind capacity of single disks. Also therefore tape does not fit for hyperscale that good. They need huge volumes of cheap storage. Best solution would be to use tape as very slow disk drives. And because hyperscaler use tapes within their own environment, they do not care about standards. And because they are the biggest customers for tapes, it could happen that we see a new tape technology arise. At least this is my option.What do the community think about this?

1 year ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6a - Teams Export API Previewed

Today I want to share a sneak peek at the next release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, v6a. Like traditional minor/interim releases, this release will mainly include bug fixes. However, there’s an interesting feature being released that I’ll be sharing some details on. Goodbye Exchange, Hello Teams Export APITo understand what’s changing, we need to understand what is going, and why this change is necessary. Currently, Veeam are protecting Teams channel ‘chat’ data via Exchange Online. Notice I say Teams channel, currently Veeam doesn’t protect any ‘Direct Messages’, either 1:1 or group chats, so chat in this context refers to posts and comments within a Teams channel. How does Veeam currently process my Teams data?To achieve the protection of this Teams data, Veeam reads a hidden folder within Exchange Online, called ‘TeamsMessagesData’. This is true whether you use Basic or Modern Authentication.If you weren’t already aware, Microsoft are completing removing Basic Authentication S

1 year ago

marcofabbriVeeam Legend

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Backup job issue, incorrect function with Synology backup repository

Problem: Like a shooting star, sometimes can happens that some backup job on a Synology NAS fails with this error:Error: Incorrect function. Agent failed to process method {ReFs.SetFileIntegrity}.with VB&R 11.0.1.1261 and DMS 7.0.1 with a SMB share.It seems to be related to “Fast clone” feature inside Synology control panel. Solution: Adding this registry key in the VB&R machine seems to solve the issue[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication]"UseCifsVirtualSynthetic"=dword:00000000 As reported in this thread, that registry key tweaks the full fast clone feature.https://forums.veeam.com/microsoft-hyper-v-f25/error-incorrect-function-agent-failed-to-process-method-refs-setfileintegrity-t68754.html More about this topic:All said above, I found this topic on reddit where the issue is present on Veeam 9.5u4 and always a Synology NAShttps://www.reddit.com/r/Veeam/comments/omridr/synology_ds1821_and_veeam_95u4/What is Fast clone:https://kb.synology.com/en-id/

2 months ago

regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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VB365: Processing site XYZ finished with warning: Failed to backup list: XYZ. Unknown Error

UPDATE: Please see Update 3, as the hotfix/workaround needs to be undone because of possible side-effects.Just a quick information.Currently there could be an issue with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Sharepoint. Some sites will be backed up with the following warning:Processing site XYZ finished with warning: Failed to backup list: XYZ. Unknown ErrorI have seen this with 2 different customers and Veeam support is aware of this issue and actively working with Microsoft on it. At the moment I don’t have any further information, but I’ll keep updating this post.Update 1:I just found out that there's already a hotfix available: https://www.veeam.com/kb4326I haven't tested it so far, but will report back next week. Also here's the corresponding R&D forums post: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-f47/warning-on-my-sharepoint-site-t81314.htmlUpdate 2:It looks like the issue itself is gone since Saturday; perhaps Microsoft did change something on their side. I did

1 year ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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[What (else) is new in v12 - IV] Best Practice Analyzer

Also new in v12 is the Best Practice Analyzer in VBR console. In Beta2 there are 6 tests divided into two categories: Security settings and product configuration. The individual points are self-explanatory. I hope that more and more tests will be added to this feature in next versions.

7 months ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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[What (else) is new in v12 - III] PowerShell news

There are a lot of new PowerShell cmdlets for VBR alone - without agents and explorers. in v11 we have 1178, in v12 1334 cmdlets. So the list is too long to show here. Categories I could see:GFS scheduling options Hyper-V Surebackup/Instant Recovery CDP Tape … I have to check separately :) Application Groups OracleAnother nice feature is that we now can see PowerShell commands at the end of wizards.In older versions we saw parameters for Veeam.Backup.Manager.exe.

1 year ago

JMeixnerVeeam Legend

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Veeam Proxy for Linux has Problems with LVM

We had some problems with restoring VMs in the last time.After some research we found that the Proxy on Linux has a problem with the assignments of physical volumes. It seems that there are PVs of target machines are preserved in the LVM archive files of the proxy… This is causing problems at restore time – leaving the restored VMs unbootable.I have double checked the Veeam documentation about prerequisites (https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_proxy_requirements.html?ver=110) and found no hint that LVM is a problem with Linux proxy.The problem occurred with Suse Linux only, we are in the process to check if there is the same problem with RedHat Linux. To visualize the problem, I will show it from the Veeam Proxy perspective and from the target VMs perspective. Veeam ProxyList the physical volumes with pvs. One device is not found…Grep for the UUID of the missing volume in the directory /etc/lvm/archiveIn this case the UUID is found in three files. At these three occ

5 months ago

regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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VB365: Changes necessary for Teams backup in version 6a (New API)

For me this has been quite surprising news. With beginning of version 6a of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, a different API will be used for backup of public Teams channel messages. The current way with EWS is getting deprecated by Microsoft and in the future “Microsoft Graph Export API for Teams” has to be used.What does this mean for VB365 users?With version 6a VB365 will no longer by default protect Teams data. In order to still being able to backup public Teams channel messages, you will have register for the “Graph Export API”. This process can take up to two weeks and in addition the usage of the Graph Export API can cause additional costs (by Microsoft).How do you register for the Graph Export API?The registration process is described in detail in the following KB article: https://www.veeam.com/kb4322What costs will be expected?Unfortunately I can’t really say what costs will be generated by Teams backup. There’s a dedicated page from Microsoft on the licensing/payment but still

1 year ago

olivier.rossiVeeam MVP

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SOBR: Veeam Archive Tier – Calculations and Considerations (in v11)

IntroductionIn a previous post, I covered the SOBR Capacity tier Calculations and Considerations. Today, I will be exploring the Archive tier and discuss how to estimate Archive storage requirements, expected API calls and Proxy Appliance uptime. Before we jump into more details, remember that the Archive tier only works with “Amazon S3 Glacier”, “Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive” and “Microsoft Azure Archive Storage” in Veeam v11. In the SOBR configuration, under Archive Tier, you define after how many days (1) you want to free up space from your more expensive capacity tier by offloading to the typically** less expensive Archive Tier.**Keep in mind that the Archive tier is meant to store data for a long time (i.e. more than 1 year, up to 7 or more years). It is not meant for active day-to-day restore operations.You will find that storing data in the Archive Tier for less than 1 year won’t make much economic sense (at least at the time of this write-up!). It is also very important to re

1 year ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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[What (else) is new in v12 - II] Global VM exclusion list

With v12 you can add VMs to a global exclusion list. These VMs will not be backed up. Even if explicitly added to a job. Nice new feature for all those VMs that aren't worth backing up.

1 year ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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[What (else) is new in v12 - I] New Hardened Repository integration

I would like to revive my old “what else is new” series I did for VBR v11 some time ago. This time, it is about v12 - what else?First part is about the new integration of Linux Hardened Repository. This was one of the greatest new features in v11. To bring the repository to VBR it was necessary to create a Linux repository and enable immutability. With v12, Hardened Repository is added by a new option: But there is more! With this, you can just add the repository with single-use credential. That was highly recommended in v11 recommended. Furthermore, after adding a Hardened Repository, immutability is enabled and cannot be disabled. … even with PowerShell. I like it! Also because this increases security. If a hacker enters the VBR server, it is not possible to disable immutability any more. Check my post about how to monitor these settings with Veeam ONE.

1 year ago

Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend

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How to archive a backup of a VM?

Hi,In this topic I want to highlight the possibilities to archive a backup for a VM before you want to delete or decommision.Every company that uses VMs has to deal with deleting existing VMs, replacing them with new VMs because of migrating the application running on the VM, migrating because of using a new OS on the VM, …A lot of reasons why existing VMs will soon or later will be deleted or replaced by new ones. What do you want to do as a proper engineer before deleting the old VM? → Of course, you first want to take a backup before deleting the VM.I often had the situation where the customer needs something being restored/recovered of the deleted VM 😊Personally the best way for a VM that will be deleted, is having an independent full backup. Is that possible with Veeam 🤣? Sure, in my opinion, there are 2 easy ways to do that.Using VeeamZIPIf the VM is still available on your hypervisor, the easiest way is to use VeeamZIP.It creates an independent full backup (.VBK file), which y

1 month ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Microsoft Exchange Server vNext Delayed - New Details Available

In 2020, Microsoft announced the vNext editions of their popular SharePoint, Skype for Business, Project, and Exchange Server applications, due for release in the second half of 2021. However, as of the time of publication, only SharePoint and Project Server Subscription Editions are available.The other products have had their delays greeted with a wall of silence from Microsoft, until now. Whilst there’s still no word on if/when we’ll see Skype for Business Subscription Edition, the Microsoft Exchange team have provided an in-depth breakdown of what’s going on with Exchange Server Subscription Edition, and honestly, I’m impressed with their transparency. The Exchange Team Recommend Exchange Online, and 2019?It should come as no surprise that Microsoft recommend Exchange Online, after all, who knows Exchange better than Microsoft? But in Microsoft’s latest Exchange blog post, we see Microsoft also endorsing Exchange Server 2019 where there is a requirement to not utilise Exchange Onlin

1 year ago

anthonyspiteri79Product Strategy

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DRaaS for the Masses! CDP for VCCR

Opening up CDP for DRaaS…enabling tenants to replicate Tier 1 workloads at ultra low RPOs from on premises locations to one of thousands of Service Provider Clouds efficiently and cost effectively.Veeam is bringing #DRaaS to the masses in v12 and here is a preview of what is in store when it is released.

1 year ago

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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VEEAMON 2022 LIVE – RECAP

VeeamON 2022 was live this year in Las Vegas and it was a great event. I am a little late with my review of the conference due to catching COVID when I got back which took me out last week. But I am back to feeling great again so here is my in-depth review and many of the new things coming in v12.Being able to walk the strip as well being my first time in Vegas was something of amazement with the sights and sounds as well as the lights. You definitely get your steps in when you go to Vegas!First off the conference was great and to be able to attend live again was something else. Being able to discuss and mingle with the vCommunity again was terrific as chatting with someone in person is something special. The conference was packed into three days of exciting sessions, the welcome reception, expo hall, tech town, swag shop and even a visit from some friendly little dogs to lighten your day.The welcome reception on the first night was filled with music, live performers, some great f

1 year ago

JMeixnerVeeam Legend

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Veeam and Tape III - Restore of Backup Job Files from Tape which were backed up with a File-to-Tape Job

This is the description of an unusual scenario where Backup Job Files (.vbk and .vib Files) are backed up with a File-to-Tape Job instead a Backup-to-Tape Job. This has several disadvantages, e.g., you must know on which tape your files you want to restore are residing. You cannot find your tape backups under the backups section in the “Home” view of console and many more…OK, now have a look how we get these files back from tape.See the results of the File-to-Tape job and find the tape number the files reside on. If you don’t know the tape, read further, and use the search function ( Note: the warning in the screenshot can be ignored. The filesystem is too big for VSS Snapshots, I have forgotten to switch the VSS snapshots off for this test backup job.).Then go in the Veeam Console to the “Tape Infrastructure” section. Either go to the media pool where the affected tape is in or look for it in the Media section of your tape library.Right click on the tape and select “Restore Content”.

16 days ago

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Kasten Konnekt Episode 7, Today we are talking Veeam stuff!

Hi Folks I decided to take a fork in the road and discuss Veeam 12 briefly in Kasten Konnekt so putting this in the general area :)

1 year ago

regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Broadcom acquires VMware

Probably you’ve heard the rumors or news already, but today Broadcom announced that it’s going to acquire VMware.https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-acquire-vmware-approximately-61-billion-cash-and-stockI personally don’t know what to think about this, but I don’t have any positive feelings about the future of VMware. After they were split of from Dell I was hoping that things would get better, especially their quality. But now being merged with Broadcom (they’re going to rebrand as “VMware”) I’m not sure what we can expect from them.What do you say about this? Anything positive or negative about this?Update 26.06.2022:Broadcom did publish a new blog post. It doesn't contain much information, and rather feels like an answer to all the negative comments: https://www.broadcom.com/blog/broadcom-vmwareAnd the EU is going to do an antitrust investigation and could probably block the acquisition: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/broadcom-take

1 year ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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SQL Server 2019 – TDE DB Recovery Errors, Log Shipping & CU16

Microsoft have recently released SQL Server 2019 CU16, and in this blog post I’m calling out a very specific bug that Microsoft have addressed, and the implications this has to business-as-usual operations. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) & Compressed BackupsMicrosoft have been tracking a bug related to using TDE and compressing backups, impacting both database, and log backup types. Should you attempt to restore a compressed backup of a TDE database, you’ll likely receive a message similar to the below:Msg 3241, Level 16, State 18, LineThe media family on device 'BackupFileName' is incorrectly formed. SQL Server cannot process this media family.Oh dear. This isn’t good! Prior to CU16, Microsoft’s workaround was to simply not compress your backups. Before we proceed any further, I also want to call out that I’ve not yet heard of any examples of Microsoft retrospectively fixing these backups, so if you’re currently in this dangerous scenario, mitigate ASAP. SQL Server 2019 CU16 Re

1 year ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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[curiosity] New kind of Ransomware: software does not demand a ransom but good actions

Some kind of funny: A new kind of ransomware was found in India. It does not demand a ransom but donations like: new clothes to homeless, feed kids in branded pizza outlets and provide financial help to anyone who needs urgent medical attention but cannot afford it. If victims can proof good actions, they receive decryption kid. Please don't misunderstand, I am still against cyber attacks like Ransomware, but at least the needy here have something out of it.https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/goodwill-ransomware-detected-in-india-makes-victim-donate-to-poor-provides-financial-help-to-needy-patients/articleshow/91736850.cms

1 year ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Community Hub Tips: Full Editor on Mobile Devices

Hi everyone, Did you know it’s possible to access the full desktop editor from a mobile device? I don’t know why all the options are hidden by default but it’s really easy to get them back. All you need to do is change your zoom settings on your web browser. I’ve only tested this in iOS but check my GIF below and you’ll see all the cool options appear when I hit 50% zoom.Want to return to the mobile optimised editor? Just increase your zoom level back to default and everything will return to normal! You can do this dynamically whilst making your post, no need to refresh the page each time!

1 year ago

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Blogs and podcasts

753 Topics

The Kasten Tsunami Pre-Show from the Lake. Today Local Openshift

Veeam & SQL Server 2012, The Approaching End of Life & How to Migrate

Configure, Notify, Action: Veeam ONE’s ransomware detection

[What (else) is new in v12 - IV] Active full/Retry of a single VM of a job

Do we need a new tape standard?

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6a - Teams Export API Previewed

Backup job issue, incorrect function with Synology backup repository

VB365: Processing site XYZ finished with warning: Failed to backup list: XYZ. Unknown Error

[What (else) is new in v12 - IV] Best Practice Analyzer

[What (else) is new in v12 - III] PowerShell news

Veeam Proxy for Linux has Problems with LVM

VB365: Changes necessary for Teams backup in version 6a (New API)

SOBR: Veeam Archive Tier – Calculations and Considerations (in v11)

[What (else) is new in v12 - II] Global VM exclusion list

[What (else) is new in v12 - I] New Hardened Repository integration

How to archive a backup of a VM?

Microsoft Exchange Server vNext Delayed - New Details Available

DRaaS for the Masses! CDP for VCCR

VEEAMON 2022 LIVE – RECAP

Veeam and Tape III - Restore of Backup Job Files from Tape which were backed up with a File-to-Tape Job

Kasten Konnekt Episode 7, Today we are talking Veeam stuff!

Broadcom acquires VMware

SQL Server 2019 – TDE DB Recovery Errors, Log Shipping & CU16

[curiosity] New kind of Ransomware: software does not demand a ransom but good actions

Community Hub Tips: Full Editor on Mobile Devices

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