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Federica
FedericaInfluencer
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Veeam Education Awards 2023: Celebrating Excellence in Technical Training

Source blogVeeam is committed to providing best-in-class backup and recovery software for cloud, virtual and physical components. The Veeam Educational Services program brings this same focus to delivering Veeam technical training too. Through these trainings, Veeam empowers channel partners and end users alike to effectively deploy, configure, manage, and optimize their Veeam solutions.The ProgramOur technical trainings are delivered through Veeam-authorized Education Centers (VMAEC) and courses led by Veeam-certified Trainers (VMCTs). The centers and trainers both undergo a rigorous selection process and regular performance evaluations to ensure that we maintain the highest standards in the industry.While trainings and certifications are integral to the compliance program for Veeam partners, we have also observed an increased number of customers and partners attending our courses since the launch of Veeam Data Platform. This shows that both groups are recognizing the importance of ga

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dips
dipsVeeam Legend
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World Backup Day 2024: Who Needs Backups Anyway?

As today is World Backup Day 2024, I thought I’d share a tale from back in the day. This was from my first proper job after university, working as a First Line Analyst (i.e., Helpdesk). I was, to say the least, ‘green behind the ears,’ as the saying goes. It was also my first time navigating the world of an office environment and working with remote offices.Let me start by setting the scene. Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 were the Server Operating Systems installed on bare metal boxes. Windows XP was THE Operating System of choice, and Windows 7 had just been released. The word ‘virtualisation’ was not even something we came across. We pretty much had dedicated hardware for each server role required. Domain controller? Physical box running that role. File Server? Another dedicated box for that role. SQL Server? Yet another dedicated box. You get the picture. This, in turn, required a large amount of space to house all the servers. Additionally, installing servers meant

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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World Backup Day 2024: Being SMART and Predicting Hardware Failures

Hello again! Onto my second post for world backup day, this time looking at the moments leading up to a disaster. In this post we’re going to look at ways to proactively prevent failures. After all, the best backups are the (tested) ones that didn’t need to be used because everything is fine.Let’s kick this off with a trip down memory lane. During the days that all storage media was a traditional hard drive with spinning disks, it was typically pretty obvious when a hard drive was failing, we could hear issues such as failed bearings or the scratching of a needle as these were mechanical faults that were developing. However, when we look at flash storage, which doesn’t contain any mechanical parts, the lack of being able to hear problems developing can result in people taken by surprise when storage fails.Nearly 30 years ago, Compaq released S.M.A.R.T into the public domain, providing a standard of storage health for all vendors. S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Tech

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vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
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Comparison of vSphere Transport Modes

Each time I talk to customers at installation dates or health-checks, I spend some time talking about vSphere transport modes. These are: Direct Storage Access, Storage Integration (I take this as a separate mode), Virtual Appliance and Network mode. This is a topic with a lot of facets still not widely known. Here I will try to compare these transport modes on the basis of some characteristics. Direct Storage AccessSecurity Honestly rather bad. Since production volumes are presented to a Veeam proxy host, a local admin/root can easily delete all volumes within seconds. Much better if the storage system is able to present volumes in read-only mode. Network As the name suggests, backup traffic is kept in storage network. Configuration Effort It is more complex to configure than other modes. This is also because you need to configure different layers like storage switches and arrays. You may have to configure the array with each new volumes for backup too. It could be more tricky to

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them!

Hi, for this year’s world backup day I’ll be providing two posts on topics that I believe are important for data protection, this is the first one: SLAs & Exceeding them!So, what is an SLA? An SLA (Service Level Agreement) is typically an accepted standard for a service. In the case of data protection, SLAs might be RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives) or RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives). The metrics measured by these are already well defined from various others so I won’t go over old ground here, but they are important for the topic at hand.Typically any organisation will have an RPO, the maximum tolerance for data loss when restoring from backup. There might be multiple RPOs depending on the “tier” of the service being protected. 24 hours for a reporting server but 1 hour for a SQL database as an example.Whenever I engage with a customer and look at configuring backups, I’ll ask for how frequently they want to backup their data, and the frequency I’m given always equals the RPO for th

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JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
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Data Backup Basics XII: Safeguarding Backup Systems Against Ransomware Threats

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, ransomware stands out as one of the most insidious and pervasive dangers facing organizations today. As cybercriminals use increasingly sophisticated tactics, it is essential for IT professionals to establish robust measures to securely protect their data protection solutions from ransomware attacks.In this article, we delve into specialized backup strategies and technologies tailored to combat this growing menace. Understanding the Ransomware ThreatRansomware attacks continue to plague organizations worldwide, posing significant operational and financial risks. Attackers deploy sophisticated malware to encrypt data and demand hefty ransom payments for decryption keys, often leveraging tactics such as phishing emails, exploit kits, and remote desktop protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities to infiltrate networks. In addition to encrypting files, ransomware attackers may also target backup systems, aiming to disrupt recovery efforts and ma

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safiya
safiyaCommunity Analyst
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Veeam 100 Show - Security Unbreakable Veeam Backup Fabric: A Belgian Redefinition in two case studies

We had our 6th V100 Show this month! Can you believe it? The V100 Show highlights the innovations of our Veeam 100 members and how they are benefiting the community at large.  Hosted by @Viperian, @Nico Losschaert @WorkingHardInIT explain Belgian companies’ data protection strategies and how they were able to create an unbreakable Veeam backup fabric. Didier and Nico also share their stories of joining technical communities and the rewarding parts of community involvement. Catch the replay here!  

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coolsport00
coolsport00Veeam Legend
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Veeam v12.1 Hidden Features

It’s been just about 2 months since Veeam released its newest version – 12.1. I've taken a little bit of time to review their What's New document, as well as browse around the Console. A lot of us in the Community were really looking forward to this release, mostly for a couple of its anticipated security enhancements – Scan backups for malware, as well as scan using YARA rules, both of which can be done without the need of using a Surebackup job or Virtual Lab.But, there are quite a few other features in this release you may not be aware of. So I thought I'd do a follow-up to my v12 Hidden Features post, and share some potential hidden features in Veeam's v12.1 version you might not be aware of as well. Let's get started!Four Eyes AuthorizationOk, this may be cheating a bit…some of you may (probably) already know about this security feature Veeam implemented in v12.1. But, I don't think it was fully given its due as much as some of the other new security enhancements. If you're not aw

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MarcoLuvisi
MarcoLuvisiVUG Leader
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World Backup Day Blog - My little story

My professional experience with backup procedures starts when servers were only physical and backups only with tapes, long recovery times and a recovery rate of 70-80%.If the operating system became corrupted, you were forced to rebuild a server from scratch...Then the advent of hypervisors and a chance meeting with Veeam in the VMUG community event and it was love at first job !No hard-to-understand interfaces and incomprehensible logs and the restores worked !From version 5.0 to version 12.1, years of work and successfully completed restores have passed with the many thanks received from Customers for saving them from various disasters.  Of course, it is necessary to know it well in order to configure the jobs correctly for each environment and infrastructure, but the result is guaranteed.I really appreciate the effort made to guarantee the security features included from version 12 onwards, and I give a 10/10 to the 4-eyes feature in addition to the other YARA backup control and 'in

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marco_s
marco_sInfluencer
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WORDL BACKUP DAY – ANOTHER STORY, SAME LESSON

This is a story that is certain to have happened in a similar way to many of you.It is a story about a topic that is unfortunately becoming more and more current and frequent for those in the sys/backup admin job: managing the response to a ransomware attack.It was a Friday morning, the business week was drawing to a conclusion, and outside a pleasant spring sun was already warming the earth.As I arrived at the office, I was immediately notified that a client whose virtual infrastructure we were managing was no longer able to access some servers.In most cases, so many reports turn out to be minor issues, sometimes all it takes is a few tiny actions and everything gets sorted out.…  But this time, I don't know why, I had a bad feeling: we connect to the vCenter, it responds, fine, but as soon as we log in we see that most of the VMs are in an "inaccessible" state..what could have happened? The storage seems ok, the datastores are mounted..looking here and there we take a browse to a VM'

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mhmdadl
mhmdadlVeeam Vanguard
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WORLD BACKUP DAY - Your Data, Your Responsibility

WORLD BACKUP DAY - Your Data, Your ResponsibilityIt is #WorldBackupDay again, and I wanted to tell two stories that happened to me personally as a student and as an employee. from those stories, I learned one major lesson: my data is my responsibility 1- Student A long time ago, I was in my final year of college. I really liked my study in nuclear engineering, and I assume that I was a good student (top 10). then, I had an old PC with limited storage capacity. Due to lots of materials and resources I had, I bought a CD burner and started to “burn” CDs to save my data. This wouldn’t be enough. I was afraid to lose those CDs for any reason, like accidentally breaking them.The solution comes on a silver plate, my neighbor bought a new PC with sufficient storage. We made a cross-connection over the network and started to share data together. It was a good solution for me to save my spare data on a “trusted” machine rather than CDs. That was a relief. isn’t it??!!No, it is not. My neighbor

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Iams3le
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
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[World Backup Day] Veeam Backup for AWS should have been released earlier!

Since this issue wasn’t specifically caused by me, I will try to coin it correctly. The takeaway here is that with “Veeam Backup for AWS”. This issue would have been fixed in a jiffy. Release Dates for Veeam Backup for AWSYes, I would love to list the various years the following versions were released and as such, most of us were left with AMI and various script options for creating backups. Veeam Backup for AWS, the solution designed to protect your Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads, has seen several releases. Let’s take a look at the key versions and their release dates:Veeam Backup for AWS 7: Release Date: December 5, 2023 Veeam Backup for AWS 6a: Release Date: July 3, 2023 Veeam Backup for AWS 6: Release Date: July 3, 2023 Veeam Backup for AWS 5a: Release Date: December 9, 2022 Veeam Backup for AWS 5: Release Date: June 16, 2022 Veeam Backup for AWS 4a: Release Date: December 23, 2021 Veeam Backup for AWS 4: Release Date: October 5, 2021 Veeam Backup for AWS 3: Release Date: Dece

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Moustafa_Hindawi
Moustafa_HindawiInfluencer
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World Backup Day Blog - My 2nd story

This is my second story with backup, I will talk about my first project, it was with Veritas, however, the challenges was pretty good to gain experience.I had a project to backup Oracle DBs at oil and gas customer. The challenge that DBs wasn’t be able to be backed up. Support could not solve the problem, and I needed to sigh out the project.After troubleshooting and following KBs, I found that each DB has its own issues. One needs to setup the time and date, another needs to configure ORATAP file, and another has issues in archival logs.After fixing issue one by one, the project has been completed and signed off

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Moustafa_Hindawi
Moustafa_HindawiInfluencer
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Big challenge at big financial sector

I have a big challenge when a big project for Veeam was handed over to me in the middle, the project was at big financial sector, it was a migration from Networker + Data Domain to Veeam on Pure NAS storage.The first challenge was I have no choice to set the best practice, like not to backup to NAS storage, specially with huge environment with more than 30 Hyper-V host and big Oracle database.The second challenge was is to backup Hyper-V with internal policy to disable checkpoints!!!The third challenge was to backup 60TB Oracle DB with applications using same ports of Veeam to NAS storage.To overcome the first challenge, nothing to do 😂To overcome second challenge, I had to backup general VMs with Hyper-V backup jobs, and VMs with application, I had to backup them with Veeam AgentsTo overcome third challenge, I had to use Veeam Application plugin and create scale-out-repo and created 10 NAS shares to increase in parallel backup scream. 

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leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoOn the path to Greatness
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World Back Up Day. My story: Chaos on the Network!

Organizations generally tend to think about backing up their data and applications, which is always great!However, they often forget to protect the configurations of the components of their IT environments. And this is very important as most corporations still have to deal with technology silos made up of the most diverse solutions, standards, and manufacturers.The ability to quickly restore the operation of these environments in the event of failures of any type is extremely critical to ensuring business continuity!Historically, one of the biggest challenges has always been keeping the backup of network equipment up to date. After all, companies can have hundreds or even thousands of these components in their IT environments.Some time ago, when the concept of Software Defined Network did not yet exist, this was a manual, error-prone and problematic task.As a testimony, I went through a very critical situation due to the lack of an updated configuration backup in a large, mission-criti

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JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
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Data Backup Basics XI: The importance of malware detection in backup systems

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, safeguarding data integrity within backup systems has become paramount. Malware, in its various forms, poses a significant risk to the reliability and security of critical data backups. This article delves into the pivotal role of robust malware detection in ensuring the resilience of backup solutions, emphasizing real-time scanning techniques, periodic scans, and updates to identify and contain potential threats promptly. Understanding the Threat Landscape Direct attack of the Backup SystemsMalware, including viruses, ransomware, and other malicious software, can infiltrate backup systems through various vectors. Whether through compromised network connections, infected devices, or malicious email attachments, the threat is omnipresent.Once in the backup environment, malware can lie dormant and wait for the right moment to strike, compromising the integrity of the backup data. In the worst case, the entire backup repositories ar

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TylerJurgens
TylerJurgensInfluencer
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vCommunity Podcast

I’d like to share a new vCommunity Podcast that’s been in the works lately.We discuss all things vCommunity. A gathering place if you will of people from all walks of the tech community. Its not vendor specific, but you may find a few friendly faces from time to time. Special thanks to @keiranshelden for pushing to have this start off. Along with regular guests @tsmith,  @JoeHoughes and myself @Tyler Jurgens we tackle a range of topics and questions. Check us out! You can find us on (other platforms will be added as we can):Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@vCommunityioPodBean: https://vcommunity.podbean.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vcommunity-podcast/id1733005383

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MarkBoothman
MarkBoothmanVeeam Legend
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World Backup Day Blog – Sometimes we need a bit of luck.

I thought I’d post a slightly different take on an experience I had several years ago in a previous role, sometimes even the good guys need some luck. We had recently taken on a new client and hadn’t had a chance to review their infrastructure, unfortunately for them, everything was domain-joined and backed up locally to a NAS.The client got hit by ransomware and it ran amok encrypting the production VMs and unfortunately for the client also files stored on the NAS. This happened during the middle of the night and the client only noticed the next day when they turned up for work. Frantic calls followed to the help desk and the recovery effort started.Initial response efforts found that the backup server encrypted and it looked like the backup metadata was also affected. Upon further investigation, Lady Luck shows up. It appears that a number of the VBK files were being written at the time and were locked, so they were not affected.We deployed a new VBR server and set about importing th

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Scott
ScottVeeam Legend
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World Back Up Day Blog - It's 3-2-1-1-0 for a reason!

Years ago, before 3-2-1 and 3-2-1-1-0 were household terms, I had a lot of photos from my early teens, and other important documents stored on my computer.  Fixing PC’s from an early age, going on college, then work for a large IT company I knew the importance of data backup, and have seen people upset when their precious photos were gone forever. I had an old Dell prebuilt PC that was cutting edge at the time. I paid thousands for it, and it had one of those nice big square monitors. I still have the recept somewhere to remind me not to keep spending so much on items the depreciate in value so fast. (as I type on a computer with a 4090 GPU and 14700k CPU🤣)  I bought a USB hard drive for backups, and copied over everything. One day, when my computer crashed I was happy when I bought a new hard drive, and restored all the files. I never really thought about it too much, and felt like my own hero for not losing all my data. I continued on, copying all my photos and files to the drive fo

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Nutanix Community Edition in Proxmox, Part 1 Initial Setup

Nutanix has been around for sometime but I have only recently decided to take a peak at it.I am going to install a single node cluster nested in my Proxmox homelab.First step is to create your Nutanix account (free) and login. Head to the Nutanix Community Edition page by pressing launch.Press Launch under Community EditionISO and InstructionsDownload the ISO and then upload into your Proxmox. Now time to setup the VM. Create the VM Choose the ISO.ISODefault Settings You need at least 3 disks and 2 of them need to have SSD emulation turned on. The first disk can be relatively small but the other two mush be at least 200GB200GB diskLast disk for data.3rd diskIn my case I chose 4 sockets 2 cores for 8 vcpus and processor type hostCPUMemory AllocationNetworkSummaryAfter creating start the VM.StartAfter the boot screen completes eventually the Nutanix CE Installer will appear.The Use column should fill out automatically but you can edit if need be. Keep in mind that the Hypervisor boot dri

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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How many folks here did the original VMCA ADO exam?

Hi Everyone, Quick poll here. There might be some interesting news coming.  

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AdamLipiecNew Here
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Azure Immutable Storage

Azure PortalIn order to use Immutability with Azure Blob Storage, you must setup Storage Account creation.On the “Data protection” tab of storage account creation:Disable “soft delete for blobs” Enable “Versioning for blobs”  Select “Keep all versions”  Disable “Version-level immutability support”Set “Blob public access” to Disabled and create a container. Give the container a name and set the “Public Access Level” to “Private”.Container-Level SettingAfter creating the Storage Account with the required settings, create a new container with the following setting:Expand the Advanced section, and Enable “Version-level immutability support”Notes:Do not configure lifecycle management policies for the container`s data.Do not enable any default immutability policy at the storage account level.After the Container is created, go to Security → Networking, Access Keys and copy the key1 key. Veeam Data Platform SettingLaunch New Object Storage Repository WizardAdd Backup Repository, Object storag

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
WORLD BACKUP DAY BLOG! Backups and IT Conspiracies!

My story goes back many years ago. At the time I was working abroad for an American real estate company. My manager was a decent person but very much into the whole "I am a manager" thing. He loved playing mind games with the staff by giving them the evil eye when he was not pleased and making elusive comments about imminent cutbacks in staff with a regretful but obvious smirk on this face. He also enjoyed demonstratively taking people into the server room for confidential talks. One day he asked me to come and have a talk in the server room so I knew that something unpleasant was afoot. He explained that the branch office in K. needed to do a server upgrade and he would have gone and performed the task himself but....blah blah. In short there was obviously something wrong with that office and he did not want to go.I had a very early flight and arrived at the branch office before 8 am. Much to my surprise the local boss was already there. He immediately informed me that he was a former

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k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
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New koolaid.info post on setting up PostgreSQL for Veeam

Hey y’all, doing a bit of testing with VB365 v8 and documented my way through getting PostgreSQL setup on a ubuntu 22.04 server for this purpose and it seems to be working very well. Here’s the link if you think it will help you out! https://www.koolaid.info/postgresql-on-ubuntu-2022-4-installation-configuration-for-veeam-purposes/

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regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Cancel hanging task in VMware ESXi via commandline

I’ve seen this multiple times now with VMware. You cancel a task via vCenter or the ESXi UI and it just stays there hanging and nothing further happens. Normally this situation resolves itself after some time, but just last week I had a case where the task never stopped. While the Webclients weren’t really helpful in that case, we were able to cancel this task with the ESXi commandline.Warning: Interupting certain tasks, for example snapshot consolidations or Storage vMotions, can lead to issues or corrupted VMs. So only do this if you don’t have any alternatives and need the task to be canceled. And better have a backup at your hand.SolutionStart the SSH service on the ESXi host where your VM is registered Connect via SSH Query the VM ID: vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms Query all tasks for this VM: vim-cmd vmsvc/get.tasklist “VM ID”Check the Task information: vim-cmd vimsvc/task_info “haTask….” Is the task still state still active? Note: The screenshot is just an example; the task state is s

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