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Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[GUIDE] How to deploy CDP v.11 step by step

 Hi all, I share the lab I created to test the CDP feature.HW List:VmwareServer: 4 UCSC-C220-M5SX - VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 15256549 VCSA 6.7.0 15129973 Storage: Dell Storage SC 5020 VBR+CDP-Proxy Source 1x4 vCPU – 16 Gb RAM CDP-Proxy Target 1x4 vCPU – 16 GB RAM System Requirements - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com) Requirements and Limitations - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com) Backup Infrastructure for CDP - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)Deploy & Configure  CDP proxy VBR on source & target Vmware datacenterDeploy & Configure  CDP proxy on Target DCInstalling I/O FilterInstalling I/O Filter - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)KB4096: VeeamCDP I/O filter installation fails with “The agent’s workflow is blocked” erroresxcli software acceptance set --level CommunitySupported on all your Esxi.07/10/2021 10:53:39 Error    Installing CDP components on cluster: CDP-Source... Error: The operation is not allowed in the current state.The operation is

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I
1 year ago
Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[GUIDE] How To deploy & schedule Veeam Agent Protection Group MS Cluster step by step

How To deploy Veeam Agent Protection GroupAre two physical nodes of an MS cluster and MSSQL instance in the clusterReference:Installing Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows GuideGetting Started - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows GuideInstallation and Configuration - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows GuideCreate new Protection GroupThe account used to perform a consistent backup of an MSSQL DB must be entered either in the Local group Administrators or enter the user side MSSQL studio with permissions of DBA Admin\Owner.You require different sets of Microsoft SQL permissions in the following cases:Installation (remote or local): current account needs CREATE ANY DATABASE permission on the SQL server level. After database creation this account automatically gets a db_owner role and can perform all operations with the database. If the current account does not have this permission, a Database Administrator may create an empty database in advance and grant t

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BertrandFR
1 year ago
regnor
regnorOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Snapshots are not backups!

Most of you probably already know or have heard this statement: Snapshots are not backups! Just last week a German hosting provider did lose 1500 snapshots because of failing hardware. And who hasn’t experienced some horror stories about (forgotten) VMware snapshots. Because of that I wanted to highlight this with a dedicated blog post. What is a snapshot? In general a snapshot is a frozen point in time state of a certain system or data. While we're often referring to snapshots in case of virtual machines, there are other variations like storage or file snapshots. For virtual machines, snapshots set the virtual disks to read only state and redirect all changes to a different disk file(the details may differ depending on the hypervisor). They can be used for quick rollbacks or during VM backups. Normally those are only created temporarily(or at least the should). Storage or file snapshots can be used for versioning and can also be replicated to different systems; those tend to have a lo

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Iams3le
1 year ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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VeeamON 2022 - Backups Premier Event - LIVE AGAIN!!

I have been a Veeam Vanguard for five years now and was fortunate enough to have attended the VeeamON 2017 event in New Orleans, and it was fantastic.  Great sessions, lots of networking and meeting more of the Veeam folks as well as Vanguards.Being a Vanguard is a real honour, and many people ask me when they see my Veeam Vanguard jacket or shirt - What is Veeam?  My answer is a typical one - it is backup software for your infrastructure for now and the future, leading to a conversation around technology, backups, and many other things.This year's event is back in Las Vegas in the hybrid mode with in-person and virtual attendees.  It will be the first event since 2019 in Miami that will be back to live attendance which is a great thing.  In the last couple of years, with the COVID pandemic, the switch to all virtual has left many people feeling disconnected, including me, so getting back to being able to speak to people and share technology stories will be great.One other great benefi

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Vanguard
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Facebook investigates silent data corruption by CPU

You can think what you want about Facebook, but they operate a massive amount of compute and storage unites. And it seems, they have some scientist investigating interesting phenomenon like this. To be honest, it is not primary backup related but in the second instance it is restore related 😀Briefly summarized:They found out, CPU can perform computations incorrectly. So it comes to silent data corruption by CPU. According to their observations these failures are reproducible and not transient. When you think about data-reduction technologies like compression this really can cause problems. As the following article describes, these corruptions occur at scale. Interesting is also how they test their hardware.Read more details here:https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/03/18/facebook-investigates-silent-data-corruption/

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I
1 year ago
regnor
regnorOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 - New setup design

​It's been almost a month since the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6. If you're looking for all the details of v6, then check out @MicoolPaul’s post: Until now no bigger problems were discovered or reported. There's only a known issue, that the CPU load in idle is higher then usual; no big issue, but if you want to solve that, there's a hotfix available: https://www.veeam.com/kb4294 One change, which didn’t get much attention so far, is the newly designed setup: I really like the new fresh look, compared to the old setup. It’s clean, modern and good looking. And it also updates the Veeam Explorers during the setup/upgrade process; in previous versions, those had to be manually installed. Want a comparison to the old setup? Here’s how it looked in v5. What do you think? Which setup is the better one?​

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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VeeamON 2022 Countdown – Full Agenda Released!

Today I’ve noticed that Veeam have released the full upcoming agenda for their premier data protection event: VeeamON 2022!I just want to talk through some of the personal highlights I spotted from the agenda.Hands on Labs (Virtual & In-person) Veeam Backup & Replication v12That is not a typo, Veeam must be feeling pretty confident about the shape of v12 by now as next month they’ll be allowing hands on labs of this unreleased product. Check out the description below:In this lab, you will be working with a Veeam Backup & Replication V12 environment where you will learn the basics of Veeam Backup & Replication, test out some of our upcoming new features, and perform typical Veeam backup operator tasks though an interactive step-by-step lab guide.I can only speculate as to what upcoming features will be available to test, but I’m looking forward to seeing what Veeam have been cooking up since v11 launched last year. Veeam Backup & Replication with Immutable Linux Hard

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regnor
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

3-2-1 rule for VBR Configuration Backup

By default, VBR does a configuration backup every day at 10:00.It is obvious that this backup should also follow the 3-2-1(-1-0) rule. A easy way to do this is to copy these restore points to a machine that is already backed up be Veeam and therefore covered by the 3-2-1(-1-0) rule. This can be done with a Veeam File Copy job. This job can copy files between systems part of Managed Servers.Lets do it and create a File Copy job:and select the path to the configuration backup as sourceFor destination select the server system you want to copy files to. As mentioned, this system should be part of backup job. Finally select your preferred time schedule. I would recommend to run this job just after the configuration backup.Done? Almost! It is important to know, File Copy job copies files respectively a directory, but is does not synchronize. Therefore the amount of files at the destination will increase. So they should also get deleted after some time otherwise partition runs full. A easy wa

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vNote42
1 year ago
anthonyspiteri79
anthonyspiteri79Product Strategy
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Self Service Portal Multi-Tenant Setup

With the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 the Self Service Portal was also unleashed. In this video we run through a scenario where a new tenant is being onboarded from the Service Provider point of view as well as what steps need to be actioned by the tenants.

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Filik
4 months ago
Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Spring4Shell: Detect and mitigate new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java Spring Framework

Hello to share a new vulnerabilitySpringShell attacks target about one in six vulnerable orgs (bleepingcomputer.com)(1) New Messages! (checkpoint.com)Spring4Shell: Detect and mitigate vulnerabilities in Java Spring | Dynatrace | Dynatrace newsWhat is Spring4Shell?Spring4Shell is a critical vulnerability in the Spring Framework, an open source platform for Java-based application development. Because 60% of developers use Spring for their main Java applications, many applications are potentially affected.Spring is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications. Other libraries enable developers to become less dependent on enterprise web servers and, therefore, reduce configuration complexity and cost.Spring4Shell is one of three vulnerabilities published on March 30:Spring Core RCE (critical): CVE-2022-22965 a.k.a. Spring4Shell or SpringShell Affected library: org.springframework:spring-bean Information exposure in Spring

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regnor
1 year ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

VMware vCenter Server updates address an information disclosure vulnerability

The following disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2022-22948) was reported to VMware by Yuval Lazar (@Ul7raVi0l3t) of Pentera. To remediate this vulnerability, apply the patch in the response matrix below as it applies to you. The vCenter Server contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to improper permission of files. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 5.5.Below are the affected productsVMware vCenter Server (vCenter Server) VMware Cloud Foundation (Cloud Foundation)An information disclosure vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server was privately reported to VMware. Updates are available to remediate this vulnerability in affected VMware products.Known Attack VectorsA malicious actor with non-administrative access to the vCenter Server may exploit this issue to gain access to sensitive information.ResolutionTo remediate CVE-2022-22948 apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'R

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RK99
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6: Multiple Backup Applications will be Deprecated

Veeam recently released Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6, as part of getting up to speed with the release, I’ve been reviewing the help center documentation. Today I came across an interesting note within the backup applications section, something that was completely missing from the release notes. It said:Using multiple applications may impact the performance of your production SharePoint environment. This functionality will be deprecated in future versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo365/guide/backup_applications.html?ver=60 For a while, the advice to leverage the best backup performance from SharePoint Online and SharePoint Online derived services, such as OneDrive for Business, has been to leverage multiple backup applications. This note indicates a change in stance that may indicate changes behind the scenes. I try not to speculate too much on this blog, so whether this is due to additional testing, a change in guidance or requirement fr

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
olivier.rossi
olivier.rossiVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and podcasts

SOBR - Switching Capacity Tier Vendor

IntroductionVeeam Capacity Tier allows the addition of an object storage-based extent to a Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR). This object storage could be on-premises or could be hosted by a cloud provider. Regardless of your chosen platform, Capacity Tier provides a cost-effective way to tier backup data from on-prem 'Performance' extents to Object for longer-term storage.We encourage you to read and understand the Product documentation on Capacity Tier at https://helpcenter.veeam.comThere are a number of reasons why switching Capacity Tier vendor might make sense to you. Perhaps there was a change in your corporate strategic alliances, or perhaps a simple cost analysis has revealed that deeper savings could be found elsewhere.Switching object vendor comes with a few challenges:You need to keep your old Capacity tier around until its retention expires and you want to be able to restore from it as well. You don't have "spare" performance tier storage available and thus creating

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Scott
4 months ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

How to upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication to v11a

If you wish to explore the capabilities of Veeam Backup and Replication v11A, then you probably upgrade to this version. Kindly visit the following URL for more of these capabilities/features.Here is a link to the complete guide highlighting on all the needed steps.You may be notified if there is an update of the Veeam Backup and Replication. Upon clicking on this notification, you will be redirected to the following KB (download) link. Note: I will be upgrading from Veeam v11 Build 11.0.0.839 →  11.0.1.1261.I will be downloading the new 11A ISO as shown below. If you are not prompted that an update is available, you can download the latest version of the Veeam Backup and Replication ISO from the following  Veeam Backup & Replication Download page. You will be required to login in order to access the download. Before proceeding to upgrade, ensure all existing jobs are successfully completed. If there are any filed jobs, ensure to re-run them.- Also, ensure there isn't any restore s

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S
8 months ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Critical Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 | 10 | 11

There are two critical CVEs that affect Veeam Backup & Replication and account for two of the three critical Veeam Backup & Replication CVEs, and the most serious of the products affected. The Critical Veeam Backup & Replication vulnerability notes include: CVE-2022-26500 | CVE-2022-26501CVE-2022-26500, CVE–2022-26501: These two CVEs relate to Veeam Backup & Replication allow executing malicious code remotely without authentication. This may lead to gaining control over the target system. This carries a CVSS rating of 9.8 and is classified as Critical.Cause? – The vulnerability is caused by the Veeam Distribution Service, running on TCP 9380 by default, allows unauthenticated users to access internal Veeam API functions. An attacker may send input to the Veeam API which may allow uploading and executing malicious code.It is worth nothing that patches are available for Veeam 11a and 10a as follow11a – Build 11.0.1.1261 P20220302: https://www.veeam.com/kb4245?ad=in-text-l

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dips
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Vanguard
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Happy Pi day!

I know, this topic does not fit that well here, but today is Pi day!  As I once studied mathematics, I am still very interested in these topics. Because this day is celebrated all over the world with funny activities and jokes, I hope some of you can get some fun out of it. At least it is a interesting topic at some cocktail parties See some jokes here:https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g35447831/pi-day-jokes/?slide=1Direct examples:What did pi say when someone asked if it could explain what Pi Day was again? "I don't want to repeat myself." Did you know that 3.14% of sailors are Pi-rates?

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Supply Chain vs. Data Portability: More Important Than Ever

This week I had the opportunity to do a presentation at a nice executive briefing with a number of our key partners and customers. I love hearing from the field and it is nice to have those authentic conversations.I also like to know what is the latest from other brands in the industry. I live and breathe backup, but like all technology. One of the presentations today was around networking hardware solutions. The first 15 minutes of the presentation were focused on explaining the delays in confirming part availability, lead times with products, supply chain challenges with various materials and components. I’m sure some of these challenges exist across the board in enterprise and consumer IT devices.Right at that moment it dawned on my how awesome Veeam is in this current conditions. Software-Defined, Hardware Agnostic and Cloud-Ready. This is more valuable than ever as it dawned on me that Veeam has from the start taken Data Portability very seriously. Consider some of these capabilit

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Rick Vanover
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

In The Lab With: Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 - What's new? What's fixed? What should I know?

  Today Veeam have launched the new Veeam Backup for Office Microsoft 365 v6! That’s right, it’s had a slight name change to align with Microsoft’s rebrand of Office 365 to Microsoft 365. Excited and want to check it out? Download it here. Veeam have also updated their Helpcenter ready to explain all the new features. As always, Veeam have accompanied this release with a set of release notes, available here.In this blog post I’ll be going over the key new features and also any key insights to be aware of as part of deploying Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 or upgrading to v6 from an earlier version. Key Information Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Server:Straight away, I want to highlight that the CPU requirements have changed. Veeam are now recommending 8 cores as the minimum for v6, up from 4 cores in v5.It’s the same story for RAM, v6 now requires 16GB as a minimum, up from 8GB. There is a discrepancy between the release notes and the Helpcenter documentation with regards to VMs wit

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J
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Monitor Hardened Repository with Veeam ONE v11a

An attacker can not immediately delete or change backup files located on Hardened Repositories. But with more time the attacker can do some damage. So it is important to keep a regular eye on it. A efficient way is to monitor Hardened Repository with Veeam ONE v11a. In this version some enhancements have been added which we will now take a look at. Monitoring immutability enabledWhen Veeam hardened repository is setup correctly, immutability is enabled and a appropriate number of days is chosen. When an attacker has access to the backup server, he could try to disable immutability. After some time all backups would be free to delete or modify. Therefore it is important to keep it enabled.In Veeam ONE v11a there is a new alarm for checking the state of immutability: Immutability state. Alarm is assigned by default to whole Backup Infrastructure. When Immutability state becomes disabled, alarm will trigger. Use this to be notified by mail. If you prefer reports for notification, Backup O

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Iams3le
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Monitor backup encryption with Veeam ONE v11a

Here I am talking about backup encryption, which is performed by Veeam. Not by a hacker. It is a good idea to enable this feature.Why to monitor this? A attacker could enable backup encryption or change existing encryption key without being noticed. If so, backup jobs continue to run without any problem. But you are not able to use them for restore because you simple cannot decrypt them! For monitoring encryption password changes reports Backup Objects Change Tracking and Backup Infrastructure Audit can be used. With this reports you see when encryption password was created or modified.To control if somebody selected another encryption password from the list, use the report Job Configuration Change Tracking. For more information see my full feature blog post here: https://vnote42.net/2022/02/09/monitor-hardened-repository-with-veeam-one-v11a/

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jos.maliepaard
1 year ago
coolsport00
coolsport00Veeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan - Top Items to Consider When Creating Your Own

Recently, I had to create a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan for my organization. It’s actually quite surprising none had ever been created. Part of that is on me since I’ve been here long enough to have done so, and am responsible for most of the systems we would need to recover in the event of a disaster. But let’s be honest, creating DR Plans isn’t one of those “exotic” tasks a Systems Architect likes to do. Working with and playing with the tech we manage is what we get excited about! Regardless, it still *needs* to be done. One may ask why does creating a DR Plan need to be done? It may seem obvious to most, but some it may not. I thought I’d answer that question here, as well as provide a “skeleton” list of items to consider when building out your own DR Plan.First, having a DR Plan brings a sense of “calm” for the IT staff. In the event of a disaster of any sort - site outage; mal-intent via ransomware, disgruntled employee, or major hardware outage; etc - chaos can surely take over.

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coolsport00
1 year ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Error 1064 - An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request : No connection can be made because the active machine rejected it

For some reason and to come to speed with all the Veeam components, I decided to revive my Veeam Lab and during the process, I encountered the following error “Error 1064 - An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request : No connection can be made because the active machine rejected it “. Before I proceed to fix this issue, I would love to discuss the capabilities of Veeam for anyone that may stumble on this article. Veeam Backup & Replication is comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solution that provides a centralized console for administering backup, restore, replication operations in all supported platforms (virtual, physical, cloud). Regardless of what your needs are ranging from flexible hybrid cloud capabilities from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, or the most robust ransomware protection and recovery options. Veeam brings hardened immutable storage options, dependable cloud-native backup options, Continuous Data Protection, and much more

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Iams3le
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[Quicktip] Agent Backup Error

Just had to troubleshoot a not-working Agent backup job. Up to now, everything worked fine. Since last night, job fails. Error shown: [Task failed. Error: Failed to connect to servername:11731]Even in logs this error is shown: The problem seems to be communication with port 11731. This port is used for agent-deployment. No changes were made to the firewalls in this particular environment. So this could not be the cause of the problem.After a short phone call it turned out that the account used to communicate with the agent had been added to the Protected Users Security Group. But this group is not intended for adding service accounts. After removing the user, backup worked fine again.I hope this post saves some time in troubleshooting 

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K
1 month ago
JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

USB Disk as Veeam Repository in a private Environment

I had some – in review stupid – error with an backup of a single private computer with the free version of the Veeam Agent for Windows.I had told the owner of this machine to use the Veeam Agent for backup, because it is free and reliable. That I am using the products of this company professionally and didn’t have much problems with them and that they are very easy to use.So this poor little owner downloaded the agent, installed it and configured a backup job according to the procedure and recommendations I have given to him.The he tried to run the backup and after a short time – BANG Error.He called me and told me that there is a problem. I asked him to send the error message to me and I will have a look at it.19.02.2022 14:29:59 :: Error: Shared memory connection was closed. Failed to upload disk. Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}. Exception from server: There is not enough storage space available on the data medium. Failed to write data to the file [S:\VeeamBack

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Iams3le
1 year ago
wesmrt
wesmrtVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Restoring Backups to AWS

Hey guys! Recently I write a blog post about restoring backups to AWS. I normally write in brazilian portuguese but I thought will be a good content to translate and send here too. Like a say, I will detail all the pre-requisites and scenarios to restore backups to AWS using Veeam.This can be useful in three scenarios:Restore your on-premises environment directly to EC2 machines on Amazon. Migrate your on-premises environment to AWS. Create a test environment of your on-premises infrastructure on AWS to validate patching, for example. Pre-requisites As always it is important that we understand the prerequisites of the solution. And in this case we are still involving a solution external to Veeam, which is AWS. Supported backup types  First, we have the supported Veeam backup types for restoring to AWS. Are they: Backups of vSphere or vCoud Director VMs created by Veeam Backup & Replication. Hyper-V VM backups created by Veeam Backup & Replication. Backup VMs and physical machin

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D
1 month ago

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