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As announced in VeeamON 2023, Veeam is working to improve the ransomware detection capabilities in two ways:Comparing guest file system indexes and looking for typical traces of malware. AI/ML to perform an in-line entropy analysis of the data stream on backup proxies to detect previously unencrypted data becoming encrypted.Some Ransomware detection techniques exist, but many have a poor detection rate. They also suffer from having high false positive rates, where they flag benign programs as malicious, and false-negative rates, and thus fail to identify malicious programs.The same applies to files where obfuscation techniques has been used by ransomware in an attempt to avoid signature detection. One of the most common techniques used is a CRC, which involves analysis of the value and position of a data group.On the other hand, detection techniques like Behavioral and Dynamic analysis must collect significant amounts

Hi Everyone, I generally wake up in a good mood on Friday. Full of energy and ready to end the week and transfer myself in to relaxation mode. During these “feel good” moments I often find myself wondering about the “bigger” questions of life.This morning first thing I watched the weekly Veeam recap with @Madi.Cristil @MicoolPaul and @coolsport00 (notice both of the latter have “cool” in their usernames.. coincidence? I think not 😀). That got me thinking about the Veeam community and IT communities in general. I remembered what life was like before joining all of these great groups and came to the realisation that my IT communities, and especially the Veeam community, have become a very important part of my life. This has gone beyond the simple need for a technical source of information. IT community has added an enormous positive ing

Heyhey!I don't think I've seen a post in the community about the HANDS-ON LABs created by Veeam.What do these HOLs offer you?Hands-On Experience: More than just a tutorial, the HOL allows you to put your skills into practice. You can experiment, test, and develop your expertise interactively.Unique Scenarios: the HOL provides a selection of exciting and relevant scenarios, ranging from the latest advances in cyber resilience to cutting-edge multi-cloud management technologies.Expert Guides: Expert guides are there to assist you every step of the way. You'll never feel lost, whether you're a beginner or an expert. You can access to them anytime, from anywhere. There are no time limits or geographical constraints. Hands-On Labs Public With an account on the veeam.com website, you'll have access to

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 t

Hi! In this post, I describe some aspects of the analysis of entropy analysis associated with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques aimed at detecting Ransomware.This is an exciting topic. As announced in VeeamON 2023, Veeam is working to improve the VDP´s ransomware detection capabilities with AI/ML to perform an in-line entropy analysis of the data stream on backup proxies to detect previously unencrypted data becoming encrypted.It can undoubtedly be another powerful tool in the battle against ransomware.

 Backup Eagle logoIn my first blog post, I reviewed what Backup Eagle was and how it can monitor your environment. I also went through the installation process as well. Part 1 can be found here –Monitoring with Backup Eagle – Part 1The company graciously granted me an NFR license to test within my homelab – Backup Eagle by Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH.In this post, I am going to cover the Administration Console, including things like –Installing a license file Adding servers for monitoring Dashboards R

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.

Hi, How can I add backup repository (Linux hardened) to Veeam office 365 backup?

Hackathon logo. Features Alfred, the community cat. Also shows arrows to Community, Development, Teamwork, Time, Presenting, Goal, and Brainstorm icons and text. These are parts included in the hackathonOn September 28, 2023, @JonahMay and I will organize the 1st Annual Veeam Community Hackathon! This event will start at 15:00 CEST/9:00 AM EST and will run for 24hTeams of 12-18 will work together and consist of people from all over the world, with the ultimate goal to bring the world together in a fun community event You are not required to participate for the full 24h but you are welcome to. Each group has a group-leader. This leader is someone from the

Using Veeam to orchestrate storage snapshots is a fast, reliable way to have frequent restore points and quick restores.  Unfortunately, unlike a VMware backup, storage snapshots on databases are not application aware.  Restoring application items from a storage snapshot will often give you a blank explorer window. The first thing you will want to do is restore from the storage snapshot, and select a Host to mount the SAN volume on  With the explorer up it will look empty, but the volumes will be mounted to your PC.Click Add Store, or right click All Stores and Add a Mailbox Database   Next, we will point the explorer to the specific Exchange mail

Hi! I highlight in this post the processes involved in protecting a Veeam Linux Hardened Backup Repository. To correctly handle files and objects associated with different backup chains, Veeam processes must have control over immutability at the file and object level. This is why the immutability implemented only at the directory or bucket level is unsuitable for flexible and granular protection of backup chains. I hope this information is helpful to you.How does Veeam Hardened / Immutable Repository work? – Cloud and Roll (cloudnroll.com) 

 Recently Veeam release a new version of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV. A bunch of new features came out of the box with this upgrade.So, the the latest build versions of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV now is:Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5 - 5.0.0.1080  Nutanix AHV Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication - 12.5.0.465 The process to upgrade the environment is really easy and the idea is not a step by step, for the simple fact that is not necessary a complete how to about this. The Ugrade The whole process of upgrade is on Veeam

Last wednesday we have a new release of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV. All release notes we can see here.A lot of new features was implemented. The list of all build of VBKP for Nutanix we can see here. 

My Backup Server’s C: Drive is getting tight and I want to relocate Veeams’s MS SQL Database files from their default location on C:\Program Files\… to a larger Data drive. Now, whilst I can find articles about relocating the whole Veeam config to a different SQL Server, I can find nothing on moving the database mdf/ldf within the same Server.   Is it simply a case ofstopping the Veeam services, detaching the databases in SQL Server Management Studio,  moving or copying the files to the new location, attaching the database from their new location?Has anyone had any experience of this? How successful was it? Are there any pitfalls to avoid?

Hello everyone,I would like to draw your attention to an issue detected following the Veeam upgrade to version 12 at one of my clients. This also applies to new installations.During backup and restoration operational tests, which are crucial to perform during installation/post-upgrade, the following error message appeared when restoring a VM: Unable to use Hot-Add mode.While analyzing the logs of a backup job, the proxies switched from Hot-Add to NBD mode.After analyzing the logs and isolating the issue to a single proxy (Forcing the proxy to use only Hot-Add + creating a test backup job with only this proxy), I was able to obtain a more informative message.

Another post about my favorite feature in v11: Hardened Repository. This time it is about the ability to change the expiration date of already immutable restore points. Veeam made this possible by using PowerShell. The corresponding command is: Set-VBRImmutabilityLockExpirationDate. This post is about how to use it.Select the restore point you want to change immutability expiration date. To show all restore points of a specific VM in a job you can run for example:Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup immu_job_01 -Name VM02Here backup job name is Immu_Job_01 and VM is called VM02. I will change the date for the first - the oldest - restore point in the list. To work with it I save it in $RestorePoint:$RestorePoint = (Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup immu_job_01 -Name VM02)[0]

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@PValsecchi already showed how to use vSphere tags for VM selection in VBR. New in v11 is the possibility to combine vSphere tags. I want to show how this work. For that, I created two tag categories. One for Location and one for Backup. I defined datacenter A and B locations; and Gold, Silver and Bronze backup priority. These tags are assigned to my 4 test VMs:So: VM01 and VM03 (odd n

Hi Everyone, Please join me on Sept 28th on Kodekloud’s celebration of free week. The show will be hosted by none other than Patrik Akil so I am very excited. Believe me as I talk about my experience in Data Protection from Physical, through virtual to Container workloads.. you can bet it won’t be boring :)   https://www.linkedin.com/events/7110978568662253568/about/?invite=false&message=false&sAtp=&sTrk=&sV=&showRequesters=false&showShareByPost=false 

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Do you have network-attached storage file shares in your environment? Have you ever used NDMP? 

Hey folks,It seems like just yesterday that HashiCorp announced changes to the Terraform licensing plan and already there is a possible alternative on the horizon. The Linux Foundation announced today the formation of the OpenTofu project which is being billed as an alternative to Terraform. As they say, we will wait and see what happens but since LF is involved this is definitely not a dead from the start.You can read more here: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/announcing-opentofu

Hi Folks Kodekloud will be offering a free week starting on the 25th. There are a ton of new courses. Aside from all the Kubernetes courses there are also AZURE, GCP, AWS etc. Go take a look, take a vacation from work, buy lots of coffee, do courses non stop then go back to work with bigger salary demands or demanding more vacation time in order to run this function in a loop 😁https://kodekloud.com/pages/free-week?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=1+Week+Until+KodeKloud%27s+Free+Week&utm_content=announcement

Did you know that there is a very useful Veeam tool to validate the integrity of your backups?  In some cases, a backup can get corrupted due to accidental changes in the backup file data. For example, the file can be damaged after transfer over the network or from hardware failures on the backup storage side. With Veeam Backup Validator, you can quickly verify the integrity of any backup file, without extracting the VM data from the archive.Veeam Backup Validator is a command-prompt CRC check utility that tests a backup at the file level. For integrity validation, Veeam Backup Validator uses the checksum algorithm. When Veeam Backup & Replication creates a backup of

With VBR v12 Linux proxy server can get a new role! A Linux server can become a Tape Server.We will see more details like supported Linux distributions and versions with general availability of v12.But I would bet on one thing: Linux Hardened Repository Server will be excluded from this feature – for security reasons.

One of the must-have features for providing access security for any sensitive application is the ability to implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) as part of the login process. The release of Veeam Backup and V12 added the ability to enable Multi-factor authentication for logging into the Veeam console (including the remote console). The details:Before discussing the setup and configuration of MFA, we should discuss what MFA apps are supported.Veeam Backup and Replication supports Time-Based One-Time Passwords (TOTP) as per RFC 6238 installed on a mobile device.  For example, the following MFA TOTP applications are supported:Microsoft Authenticator Google Authenticator LastPass Authenticator DUO Okta Verify Many more are listed if you do a quick internet search ;)A console auto-logout time can also be set to ensure that a user gets logged out of th