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Gone are the days of "If its not broken, don't fix it"

I’ve been in IT my entire adult life. There is generally two mantras to IT. “If its not broken, don’t fix it.” “Update often.” “If its not broken, don’t fix it.”You know the people I’m talking about. “My uptime on this system is 1287 days! It is rock solid!”I get it. Its great to have a system you can rely on. Stability and system uptime is the holy grail. You want your systems to be 100% available because that means you can focus your time on more important tasks than break/fix. These people are also a security expert’s nightmare. Vulnerabilities get exposed and new exploits are created regularly. Its not enough to protect your perimeter anymore, you have to protect every aspect of your environment. This mantra has outlived its usefulness. Uptime of 1287 days on a system is no longer a badge of honour, its downright scary. We’re not talking highly available services here where you can take individual components down to patch them, we’re talking those individual components themselves

1 month ago

Madi.CristilCommunity Manager

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Webinar: Anatomy of Ransomware Attack: Preventing Attacks on Your Backup Infrastructure

📢Join this webinar on July 18th for an exciting discussion featuring our CTO, @dannyallan , Opti9's own Sagi Brody, who is also one of our Veeam 100 members, and cybersecurity expert Guy Mizrahi, CEO of CyPROS. They'll be discussing how to tackle ransomware risks, why backup infrastructure is a top target for attackers, and how our Veeam+Observr solution sets us apart from other backup vendors in the battle against ransomware, revolutionizing your protection strategy. Don't miss out!Register in here: https://opti9tech.com/events/webinar-anatomy-of-ransomware-attack-preventing-attacks-on-your-backup-infrastructure/ Best, Madi

2 months ago

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Sys Admin Day Stories!

Hi Folks, When I think about being a Systems/Backup Administrator all of these years I can’t single out one single story that fully represents the highs and lows of this profession. So instead I have decided to write a few short sound bytes, streams from moments of memory suffixed with rhymes like one of the those “_restored” attachment names we use in order not to overwrite production. Every moment is also and emotion. We add a taint of emotional metadata to events and memories that we often don’t fully comprehend ourselves. Our work is matrix of puzzles and problems that we face everyday with our silicon little friends. Although sometimes it feels like they are our foes. Gratitude The call broke through the comforting calm silence of a Friday morning IT room like a waiter’s tray that gets turned over in a busy restaurant. An important file was missing. It had been erroneously deleted in one of those careless human moments of blissful neglect. The stakes were very high. First attempt

2 months ago

regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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SureBackup Troubleshooting mode

When creating SureBackup jobs there are often VMs which need additional care before their first successful run/test; like tweaking startup times of OS/applications or changing firewall rules. Also if you’re adding custom test scripts & roles then it might require multiple tries before they work like expected.On the other hand there could be a VM where the SureBackup job discovered an existing problem and you need to debug the system to find the root cause.This is where SureBackup troubleshooting mode (KB1216) comes into play. Instead of restarting the whole SureBackup job with all included VMs, you can just select a single VM and start it via right-click.After clicking start the SureBackup job will only run the selected VM and keeps it running regardless of its state (as opposed to the normal mode where an error will stop/abort the job).So with troubleshooting mode you can save some time when configuring or debugging SureBackup because you don’t need to wait for all VMs inside your

2 years ago

eprietoInfluencer

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VBR v11 🔥 More Linux Improvements 🐧

We keep reviewing what's new in VBR v11 We keep talking about #Linux and this great little feature Linux File Restore Without Helper Appliance You Can: Mount backup to any Linux machine Allows Linux FLR for VMware in AWS or environments without hypervisor Helper appliance still available Agent for AIX, MAC & Solaris also works Notes: No changes for Cloud Connect FLR & Not for FLR from storage snapshot. More Faster Because •Network card changed to VMXNET3•SCSI controller changed to VMware Paravirtual

2 years ago

wolff.mateusVeeam Legend

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Resume of 1st VUG Brazil of 2021

Hello everyone! So, last week we have our first VUG of the year. It was a such good webinar that the principal subject was around the best features about data protection. If it weren't good enough, we still had the presence of none other than @Rick Vanover and @Kseniya. To start the event Rick and Kseniya talk about our Veeam Community Resource Hub and after this, they introduced how Veeam Legends works and what is the benefits to become a Legend. It was so nice listen them and I felt myself so counfortable with their words. Rick and Kseniya look like Batman and Robin of Veeam because they are very much involved one with other about Veeam Community. Seriously both of you are awesome!! After this amazing introduce we start our event completely in portuguese and @CarlosXGomes talked about backup of Office 365. Continuing with VUG Brazil Marcio Freitas made a perfect presentation about NAS Backup and all possible subjects around of this theme. So, to finish it Leonardo Ferreira talked

2 years ago

VMDKNot a newbie anymore

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Veeam Community Podcast is getting a reboot!

Hello!Melissa @vmiss33 and I have hijacked Veeam Community Podcast from @Rick Vanover and rebooted it!Now the two of us will be inviting people to talk about businesses and industries that everyone takes for granted, but nobody knows how they actually work.In the pilot episode Drew Como @dcomovanguard was telling us about his days at Take-Two Interactive and THQ. We discussed how videogames are created and what it takes to provide a seamless online experience for dozens of players simultaneously. Please let us know what you think of this format and reach out to us if you have a few stories to tell about your industry!

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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New to Veeam Backup & Replication? Want to skill up fast?

How do I skill up fast on Veeam Availability Suite?Maybe you are completely new to the product, or maybe you are trying to figure out what you don’t know? Regardless, you can find an easy path to get started on this topic.Step 1First of all, Veeam offers great free bite-size training at Veeam University. These videos will cover you from how to install, an overview of the console, creating your first backup jobs, and much more. My favorite part is that you get asked simple quiz style questions along the way to help you focus and validate you are learning.Step 2At this point, you might want to learn more about specific features such as restores and there is a large collection of how-to videos already provided right here.Step 3Now that you have seen a number of how-to videos and recordings, it is a great time to try out the product for yourself. Perhaps you still have concerns and want to ask questions live? Veeam has regular live product demos on the website and you can find the schedule

2 years ago

saintdleVeeam Vanguard

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VMUG Recording – Understanding Data Protection for your VMware Tanzu Container Workloads

As part of my virtual VMUG tour, I submitted a session to the VMUG call for papers covering the subject of Data Protection for Tanzu Kubernetes workloads. (Most of this will apply for any Kubernetes environments).This was picked up by Erik at the Belgium VMUG for their UserCon in June 2021. After the session the videos remain available on demand for a short time, but there were no plans to upload this for everyone. So thank you to Michael Cade, whom offered to host this session for all on the Cloud Native Data Management – YouTube Channel.In the below session I cover the following areas;What kind of data protection do you need? Velero The open source data protection project from VMware Tanzu Mission Control The Kubernetes fleet management platform that utilizes Velero from VMware. 3rd Party Options A nod to the 3rd party ecosystem that offer enterprise Data Protection and Management software such as; Kasten by Veeam There is even a quick technical demo in there, with a little

2 years ago

regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Run a veeam lab in the cloud

I was thinking about building a lab at home to play, test and learn certain topics. But as my free time is very limited and I didn't want to ruin our power costs, I came to the idea to run a lab in the cloud.Advantages:low entry costs: you pay what you use/need flexible/scalable: resources are only a few clicks away ability to create different scenarios: offsite, DR, ... new technologies = more knowledgeDisadvantages:long term costs: as long as you're using/reserving resources you need to pay for themBeing a VMware guy I've looked for ways to deploy a vSphere environment or at least an ESXi host, but unfortunately the costs were much to high. Either I would have to go with VMware Cloud or rent a bare-metal machine to install ESXi myself; both are very costly.Hyper-V on the other side is easier to deploy in the cloud, without spending too much; as long as the base system support Nested Virtualization. So I've decided to give it a try and went with Microsoft Azure.Microsoft has published

2 years ago

eprietoInfluencer

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Live Optics Report - Veeam

Live Optics allows you, your Dell EMC technologists, or Dell EMC partner consultants to understand vital information about your Veeam environment. Live Optics provides you with a simple process to upload your Veeam database backup and present your data in a clear and understandable way, so that you can make informed decisions to optimize your backup infrastructure.Your Veeam database backup will usually be a file with a .bak extension. Sometimes, due to common community based knowledge, the files have a .dmp extension.Pre-RequisitesThe following list is are required to follow the instructions below.You are a user with Administrative access to Veeam You have downloaded the latest version of the Live Optics Collector InstructionsTo create a SQL backup for Veeam, see the following Veeam KB article:https://www.veeam.com/kb1471?destination:https://www.veeam.com/kb1471=?x-clickref=1100ld5oeEIGNote: There is no need to further .zip or compress the file. The Live Optics collector will do th

2 years ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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Apple Time Capsule may break soon

Just read a post about Apple Time Capsule. According to a german data-rescue company there seems to be a design-fault of used HDDs. This fault may lead to mass extinction because of hardware damage. Affected devices Time Capsule devices of the 5th generation:2TB ME177Z / A with Seagate Grenada ST2000Dm001 3TB ME182Z / A with Seagate Grenada ST3000DM001Recommendation: Safe your Time Capsule data Maybe switch to Veeam Mac Agent Here is the translated article:https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.030-datenrettung.de%2Fapple-airport-time-capsule-aufall-droht.htmlHere is the original (in german) article. Here you also see good pictures for illustrating the possible damage:https://www.030-datenrettung.de/apple-airport-time-capsule-aufall-droht.html Hope this helps to avoid backup data loss!

2 years ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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[Quicktip] Show jobs a login account is used in

In this quick quicktip I show how it is easily possible to show all jobs, a specific login account is used in. This can be very useful if you want to change the password or permissions of an account - to check involved jobs - or if you just want to clean up your configuration.To do so, open the Manage CredentialsTo show all jobs, just mouseover the account name. You see all jobs in popup: If account is used for no job, you see similar popup: There is also a popup, when mouseover the selected credentials in job:

2 years ago

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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A Short and Simple Description of Container Network Interface (CNI) in Kubernetes

Understanding Kubernetes Networking can be a challenge. A couple of years ago I was tasked to setup a distributed Minio instance running in containers for use with a Veeam SOBR S3 compatible capacity tier. At first, I thought about doing it on Kubernetes but very quickly realized that I was in over my head. I had no previous experience with Kubernetes and I could not just “wing it”. Among other things the networking piece I found especially hard to understand.In the end I created a Docker Swarm cluster which had a much easier almost “plug and play” overlay network and while that did the trick, I understood that simplicity also meant rigidity.Kubernetes follows the age old *nix (Unix, Linux BSDs and so on) philosophy of creating small separate entities that when brought together can scale into something very complex. Networking is no exception.While a Kubernetes cluster does come with some default networking called kubenet it is very limited and not meant for production environments fro

2 years ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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[mini-blog-series: What (else) is new in v11] Restore Wizard

This is the first post in my new blog series about small improvements and/or features in v11.The first improvement is a tiny one. Experienced User will not recognize it and for new users it will make it easier to proceed. It is about the item-restore wizard. More detailed: the last page of the wizard, before the item-browser starts. Here is a screenshot of the new page:Do someone recognize the modification?The word Finish was replaced by the word Browse!I still can remember when I started the wizard the first time, and I see Finish at a point I expected to select single files. I re-started the wizard and was afraid what's coming next. Did anyone else feel the same way? No one will ever go through this horror again.

2 years ago

mrmccoy007Veeam MVP

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Veeam 3-2-1 + immutability

This short 20 minute video explains how to setup our object storage integration so satisfy the 3-2-1 rule as well as making your backups immutable.

2 years ago

Link StateVeeam Legend

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CVE-2021-36934 "HiveNightmare" Serious SAM - Windows 10/11 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Hi all,a new 0Day vulnerability for Windows 10 clients has been released, the article also recommends deleting all the vss restore points and recreating themSecurity Update Guide - Loading - MicrosoftCheck Windows 10 for SeriousSAM and HiveNightmare Vulnerability Fix - Virtualization Howtohttps://github.com/GossiTheDog/HiveNightmarecommad check : icacls c:\windows\system32\config\samWorkaroundsRestrict access to the contents of %windir%\system32\configCommand Prompt (Run as administrator): icacls %windir%\system32\config\*.* /inheritance:eWindows PowerShell (Run as administrator): icacls $env:windir\system32\config\*.* /inheritance:eDelete Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) shadow copiesDelete any System Restore points and Shadow volumes that existed prior to restricting access to %windir%\system32\config. Create a new System Restore point (if desired).Impact of workaround Deleting shadow copies could impact restore operations, including the ability to restore data with third-party backu

2 years ago

eprietoInfluencer

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✅ Veeam Resource Library on a Chart 👀 -

Today I bring you this wonderful resouce library we can find absolutely everything we need fromWhite papers How-to Videos VeeamLive On Demand Recorded Webinars Technical Documentation Recorded Product Demos Analyst ReportsYou can filter by hypervisor, topics etc. There is an infinity of information that you can use … Leave me your comment

2 years ago

Mitul_3737New Here

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How to get started with Veeam

How to get started with Veeam for a student?

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 14 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. How often do you use the VeeamZIP feature? What are your use cases? Has UAC causes you issues when enabling application-aware processing in backup jobs?

2 years ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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KB vs KiB, GB vs GiB, …

Because this article caught my eye and the topic is still important.https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/04/the-terrible-tib-gib-and-pib-game/You probably know, there is difference in the way hardware and software vendors quote their capacities.Normally hardware vendors use KB, MB, GB, TB, … Here 1 KB means 10^3 byte (base 10) = 1000 bytes (k stands for kilo which means 1000)Software vendors instead use KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, … Here 1 KiB means 2^10 byte (base 2) = 1024 bytes. As you can see, size-difference with KB vs. KiB is quite small: 24 byte (2,3 % less capacity with KB)When it comes to greater unites, difference is getting larger:1 GB = 10^9 vs 1GiB = 2^30 = 1 073 741 824 --> ~ 7 % less capacity with GB 1 TB = 10^12 vs 1 TiB = 2^40 = 1 099 511 627 776 --> ~ 9 % less capacity with TB (~90 GiB) The greater the unit, the greater the difference between base of 10 and 2.I (quickly and dirty) created a small graph to show percentage increase over units1=KB, 2=GB, 3=TB, ...Another out

2 years ago

mrmccoy007Veeam MVP

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VBR v11 best practices

Back to the basics with a fundamentals video on VBR. High level Deployment, security, backup settings, restore options, and more. Great for new customers/partners setting up Veeam for the 1st time.

2 years ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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VMware vSphere 6.5 End of General Support Changes

Hey everyone!VMware released some unexpected news yesterday regarding the end of support for vSphere & vCenter 6.5 and vSAN 6.5 & 6.6. These were both originally intended to reach End of General Support (EoGS) this year, on the 15th November 2021. VMware are now extending this general support window to the 15th October 2022, no changes to the end of technical guidance have been announced.This date might seem familiar, vSphere 6.7 reaches EoGS on the 15th October 2022, meaning unless you have an extended support contract with VMware, this is the date you will need to migrate away from the vSphere 6.x platform by!VMware have kept things simple by extending the EoGS for vSAN 6.5 and 6.6 to this same date which also coincides with vSAN 6.7 EoGS.In summary, things are a lot more simple, on a vSphere/vCenter/vSAN 6.x release that isn’t already EOL? It will reach EoGS on the 15th October 2022 now.However, like so many freebies, there can be strings attached, such is the case here. So,

2 years ago

eprietoInfluencer

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VBR v11🔥 vCloud Director To vCloud Director Replication 🔁

NEW!!! VBR v11vCloud Director To vCloud Director Replication Replication At vApp Level •VM snapshots used in background •because only one vApp snapshot possible•Target Org vDCmust exist before creating job•Veeam created vApp What’s Replicated •VM configuration•VM start and stop order•Description•Networking (org vDClevel)•Metadata

2 years ago

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

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What’s (also) new in vSphere 7 U1 - For Data Protection

In the following link you can read improvements in vSphere 7.0 U1 for data protection. Areas of improvements are: Network QoS for Backup Traffic Improved backup job resilience Improvements in scalability for concurrent backup jobs vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering (VAIO) improvementshttps://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2020/11/18/whats-new-in-vsphere-7-u1-for-data-protection

2 years ago

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753 Topics

Gone are the days of "If its not broken, don't fix it"

Webinar: Anatomy of Ransomware Attack: Preventing Attacks on Your Backup Infrastructure

Sys Admin Day Stories!

SureBackup Troubleshooting mode

VBR v11 🔥 More Linux Improvements 🐧

Resume of 1st VUG Brazil of 2021

Veeam Community Podcast is getting a reboot!

New to Veeam Backup & Replication? Want to skill up fast?

VMUG Recording – Understanding Data Protection for your VMware Tanzu Container Workloads

Run a veeam lab in the cloud

Live Optics Report - Veeam

Apple Time Capsule may break soon

[Quicktip] Show jobs a login account is used in

A Short and Simple Description of Container Network Interface (CNI) in Kubernetes

[mini-blog-series: What (else) is new in v11] Restore Wizard

Veeam 3-2-1 + immutability

CVE-2021-36934 "HiveNightmare" Serious SAM - Windows 10/11 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

✅ Veeam Resource Library on a Chart 👀 -

How to get started with Veeam

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 14 walkthrough

KB vs KiB, GB vs GiB, …

VBR v11 best practices

VMware vSphere 6.5 End of General Support Changes

VBR v11🔥 vCloud Director To vCloud Director Replication 🔁

What’s (also) new in vSphere 7 U1 - For Data Protection

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