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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Fun with Okta, SAML and Veeam Enterprise Manager

Hi Folks, I recently was lucky enough to be chosen as an Auth0 Ambassador. However, I am still very much on the initial learning curve when it comes to identity management so have signed up to a few udemy courses and pulled out the documentation. When starting a new path it is always nice to take your first steps in familiar territory so I decided to try out leveraging SAML2.0 for Veeam Enterprise Manager. First we need to create a free Okta developer account: Then we will create a new app integration: VEM (Veeam Enterprise Manager supports SAML 2.0 so that will be our choice here:We need to give it a name:Next we need to enter our SAML settings. I used a laptop where I have a test VBR setup:These two settings (Single Sign On URL and Audience URI can be found in VEM here after you have ticket the Enable SAML 2.0 radio box. Don’t worry about the other settings we will import them later. Save the SAML settings in Okta then open up the App page: Further down on the right hand side you wil

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

THE VEEAM 100

What? The Kube Vanguard posts a non-Kubernetes post, it must have been that asteroid we hit yesterday with the Dart Probe!  

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Madi.Cristil
12 hours ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam at Microsoft Ignite from 12-14 October 2022

Again, we have a cool opportunity to win some cool gadMicrosoft Ignite is an annual conference for developers and IT professionals hosted by Microsoft.gets. Register with Veeam for a chance to win a Canon Camera or other great prizes, and a Free T-Shirt. Enter To Win Great Prizes with the following registration link: https://bit.ly/veeamplusmicrosoft After registering, do not forget to share on Social Media to gain extra entries, make sure to use the following hashtag #VeeamatMicrosoftIgnite2022. This piece was shared on the following link1 and link2.For some of us that are not so familiar with this event, Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference for developers and IT professionals hosted by Microsoft. You can register via the  the following link: https://register.ignite.microsoft.com/.By registering any participating in the event, you will be able to explore the latest innovations, learn from product experts and partners, level up your skillset, and create connections from around the

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Chris.Childerhose
5 days ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

VMware vSphere & vSAN 8 General Availability Release Date Revised

I’ve just seen VMware has announced a revision to their expected release date of vSphere & vSAN 8, and for the right reasons! The VMware vSphere 7.0 Legacy I won’t go on a bashing spree of VMware vSphere 7 release, but… it wasn’t good. The highlights of which include aggressive wear & tear, and subsequent killing of, SD cards and lower durability storage. Additionally, VMware had to temporarily pull some v7 U3 releases due to Quality Assurance (QA) issues.With the issues mentioned above being part of the story of the infamous v7 release history, I felt positive when my RSS reader pulled [UPDATE: Link has been pulled by VMware] this article [/UPDATE] from VMware this morning. In summary, General Availability (GA) of vSphere & vSAN 8.0 have both been pushed to the 11th October 2022, with VMware specifically calling out addition time wanted for QA. [UPDATE] As this link has been pulled, I can't confirm if this is still VMware's proposed date, or if it was a placeholder. [/UPDA

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dloseke
2 days ago
mkevenaar
mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Looking for Automation guru

Hi everyone,  For a possible upcoming project on the Veeam Community Hub I am looking for someone who has a feeling with Automation. While I cannot share much about the project just yet, I am looking for someone that would have time to assist me and probably someone else in organizing events, blogs, content etc. Please reach out to me with an DM if you are interested

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JMeixner
7 days ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Breaking the Consolidation / Merge Stalemate – For VMware vSphere & Microsoft Hyper-V

Alt Text: Header Image with the text “In the Lab With: Veeam”, subheading “Breaking the Consolidaiton/Merge Stalemate For VMware vSphere & Microsoft Hyper-V”Have you ever seen a snapshot/checkpoint fail to merge? Maybe VMware vSphere was telling you that a virtual machine required consolidation, or Microsoft Hyper-V reported that the checkpoint couldn’t be merged. Whatever the reason, it’s a painful situation.Or should I say, it’s a painful situation, ONCE you notice! And IF you don’t, you have a disaster approaching. Why Snapshots/Checkpoints are bad in the long-term If you need bringing up to speed as to why we don’t like snapshots/checkpoints sticking around, here’s the non-exhaustive, good to know key points:Snapshots/Checkpoints make the original virtual disk a read-only file, and all changes from the snapshot/checkpoint creation point forwards are saved to a ‘delta’ virtual disk. This will consume more storage space. Snapshots/Checkpoints cause increased IO penalties, reducin

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MicoolPaul
1 hour ago
olivier.rossi
olivier.rossiComes here often
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How to backup Wasabi Cloud NAS with Veeam

Wasabi recently released their Wasabi Cloud NAS offering and you may wonder, like some of the SEs I work with, if Veeam can protect its shares.The answer is: YES, of course!If that is all you need to know then you can stop reading, else keep scrolling down. IntroductionWasabi Cloud NAS is presented as the “Bottomless NAS file storage”.It installs as a service on a windows server and offers a nice and simple UI allowing you to configure your replication and offload policies.Based on these policies, the service will only keep small stub files on local disk. It is 100% transparent to the end user, extremely simple to use and with zero egress/ingress fees from Wasabi, makes for an attractive/interesting NAS solution.How can we protect it? That is what you are about to find out.In this post we will explore some basic backup and restore operations, list some caveats around offline extended file attribute, discuss what happens when you leverage Wasabi Cloud NAS’s file versioning and Complianc

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dloseke
2 days ago
anthonyspiteri79
anthonyspiteri79Product Strategy
posted in Blogs and podcasts

GTwGT Podcast Episode 51 with CT4

CT4 has a vision to create and distribute world-class software products that control and protect data while also translating data into meaningful insights, clear actions and measurable outcomes for their clients. Dan Pearson and I talk about how CT4 have evolved into a data centric company with three products in market.Dan and I also talk about their IoT offering Canopy and how data has become central to all offerings that CT4 do. 

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anthonyspiteri79
16 days ago
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Sander BerkouwerVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Let's bust some common Microsoft 365 myths!

In the past years, IT has changed dramatically. The pandemic accelerated Microsoft Teams and overall Microsoft 365 adoption, Office co-authoring surged, and organizational data found its way to all sorts of cloud apps.In this webinar, Jay Gundotra (from ENow Software, the fabulous Karinne Bessette (Technologist at Veeam) and I discuss how things have changed from their perspective.Working with organizations has offered us many insights in the way people think. While discussing our experiences, we found three common myths:We have a 99,99% SLA. Monitoring Microsoft 365 is unnecessary.Procurement is in charge of managing Microsoft 365 licenses. They’re in control.Microsoft takes care of backups as part of Microsoft 365. We don’t have to do anything in that area to ensure business continuity. Most organizations believe these myths to be true, but they are not. 😆In fact, it’s dangerous to assume these myths are true in this cloud age, as they may result in downtime and data loss at a highe

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Rick Vanover
15 days ago
mkevenaar
mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Installing and updating Veeam Backup and Replication (and agent) using Chocolatey

Introduction Last week I wrote a blogpost on how to install and update VM365 using Chocolatey. This week we will continue with Veeam Backup & Replication or VBR. Unfortunately installing a VBR Server is not as easy as VB365. The installation of a VBR Server has some required parameters that you need to configure for the installation to work, the management software (console and explorers) do not require parameters and are quite straight forward. Best practices tell us that the VBR Server and console should be installed on separate (virtual) machines. With Chocolatey this is achievable. But, if you really want, one can install the console on the same machine.For more VBR best practices have a look at the bg guide: https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/ ❗ If you do not know what Chocolatey is, what it's for and how to install it, please read the blogpost for VB365 linked above ❗  Chocolatey Tips & Tricks Most Chocolatey packages require Administrator permissions to install. Usually packages e

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BertrandFR
7 days ago
Scott
ScottInfluencer
posted in Blogs and podcasts

A few helpful Veeam Powershell commands I use often.

Finding Indexed JobsWhen many users start with Veeam, they turn indexing on for everything not understanding what it does or that it requires Enterprise Manager. The environment I inherited had this exact issue.  I have modified the jobs that the file servers are still indexed for quick search/restore but here is a handy little PS command to find all of the jobs using indexing on your Veeam Server. Script Get-VBRJob | where {$_.GetVSSOptions().WinGuestFSIndexingOptions.IsIndexingRequired -eq $True}   Listing all VM backup sizesAnother helpful PS script is to get the size of all of the VM backups. I often want to know which VM’s are taking up the most room, and having a total of the VBK’s and VIB’s without doing math on 30+ incrementals.This will gather all the required info and can be exported if needed. If you have multiple repositories the jobs may show up more than 1 time as there will be a separate entry for each repo.  It’s still a great way to charge back to the VM owners.    Scr

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Scott
7 days ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

OFFLINE backup copy using rotating USB disks – part 4

The sequel of part 3 and last part 😄  How it works with Linux or shared folder repositoriesAs example : we connect a USB disk to a USB3-port at a NAS-device that is shared as a SMB-shareIn that scenario it’s behaving differently (it uses a limited version) than when using a Windows Server repository.Why limited?VBR keeps only information about the latest backup chain.So how is this performed :VBR creates the first time of course a full backup file on the currently attached disk, afterwards it creates incrementals until you swap or the number of configured restore points! It checks if the current chain is consistent, if so it will create a new incremental restore pointIf you swapped the disk, the chain is not consistent and will create a new full. Even when there is already a previous backup chain present. If forgets all information about former backup chain. So as before, I configure the job again with 7 to 10 restore points.So what will happen in the scenario of 7 restore points and

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dips
19 days ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

OFFLINE backup copy using rotating USB disks – part 3

The sequel of part 2 😉And it seems that a part 4 is also needed 🙄 Backup copy job : VBR creates the first time of course a full backup file on the currently attached disk When you swap the disk and if it is empty, it will create a full backup on itIf there is a backup chain on it for this job, it will create a new incremental in the current chain. The latest incremental is the start point of the new incrementalThe retention policy will be applied, so all backup-files that are outdated will be removed from the backup chainBecause I always use a backup copy job in combination with rotated drives as a offline/airgapped solution I always recommend the customer to swap the disks on a weekly basis. Therefore I mostly configure the job with 7 to 10 restore points meaning 1 full and 6 to 9 incrementals.I don’t care about the total wanted restore points, I see the number of restore points per disk. I tell you later why.Normally the disks chosen are having a capacity of +/- 2 times a full back

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Chris.Childerhose
21 days ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

OFFLINE backup copy using rotating USB disks – part 2

As promised part 2 of a 2-part topic regarding rotating USB disks 😉.But after writing this topic I had to devide it 2 separate parts because of the limitation of 50.000 characters 🤣😏 You can read the first part in OFFLINE backup copy using rotating USB disks – part 1 | Veeam Community Resource Hub As already mentioned in part 1, using rotated USB disks is a possible and affordable way to have an offline or airgapped backup copy. If you keep them offsite, the two times 1 of the golden 3-2-1-1-0 has been completed!In this part I will go a bit deeper in this topic.I will split it into 4 sections : LimitationsWhen using a repository with the rotating drive option, you have some limitations you have to keep in mind. Those are :On one managed server, you must create only one repository with rotated drives It is NOT possible to store archive full backups (GFS) with backup or backup copy jobs It is NOT possible to use per-VM backup files It is NOT possible to rescan the backup repository NF

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Nico Losschaert
20 days ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Testing communication ports with PowerShell (Without Telnet)

During troubleshooting a backup environment, it’s common the necessity of test ports responsivity of our backup servers, like Veeam backup server, mount server, proxy or repositories.We normally do that with telnet. However, by default telnet client is not installed during Windows Server and the Veeam Backup Server often is our principal component our backup infrastructure.So, if you want to test some communication port without install telnet client, you can use PowerShell for it.Use the sintax below:Test-NetConnection -ComputerName <IP> -Port <port>Here is an example for the command:An interesting point is that if the communication port is not well succeeded, the utility make an aditional ping test: 

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wolff.mateus
19 days ago
mkevenaar
mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Installing and updating Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 using Chocolatey

Hi all,Introduction For those who do not know what Chocolatey is, in short it's an package manager for Windows. Just like apt/yum/dnf/etc for linux or brew for MacOS. If you want more information, have a look at their website. There are links to their docs and other resources for more information. If you can't find what you are looking for, reach out to them on their Discord or drop me a DM (probably slower responses) Why Chocolatey?Installing software on a Windows machine is like the wild west, every installer is different. There is no standardized installation. A lot of people who have installed software probably know the installer where you have that blue background and those white letters on top with the name of the software, or an installer where the next > button on the next screen is replaced by the < previous button. We all blindly click on next, next, next, finish, right?Only to find out that you, for example, need to install .NET Framework as a dependency and if you wan

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Chris.Childerhose
21 days ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Legends Program - Renewed for 2022!

Today I received a great surprise in my email from Madalina Cristil (@MadiCristil), the manager of the Veeam Community Legends program, and Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) that I was renewed into the 2022 second intake.You can find out about the Veeam Legends program on the Community Hub here - Veeam Community Hub.It has been a great first year in the Legends program, and I was happy to contribute to helping the community. I look forward to another year and meeting many of the Legends in person at the #Veeam100 event in October.There are some great benefits to being a Legend -As a part of Veeam Legends, you’ll be eligible for unique content, NFR licenses, private betas, prelaunch briefings, Veeam R&D insights and, of course, awesome Veeam Legends swag!But one of the most significant benefits is being part of a community to share knowledge, experience, tips, tricks, etc.  I know this from already being in the Veeam Vanguard program for the past five years.So if you are interested, check

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Nico Losschaert
26 days ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Nomenclature of Backup Jobs

One of the things that we have in all our projects and backup environments are Backups Jobs.After deploying all components and servers on our Veeam infrastructure, the first thing that we do is the creation of our backup jobs.Thinking of that, I write this post telling you what is the main nomenclatures that I’ve been used on my Veeam Backup & Replication. B2D - Backup to DiskBackup jobs that we use to send data to any disk repository. B2T - Backup to TapeBackup jobs that we use to send data to tape libraries. B2C - Backup to CloudBackup jobs that we use to send data to cloud. On V11 we need a SOBR to send data to public cloud like AWS, Azure and GCP. However, if we have a Veeam Cloud Connect repository, we can send data to this kind of 'cloud' and use B2C name on backup job. BC - Backup CopyBackup copy jobs we often use to make one or more copies of data between repositories or sites. LTR - Longe Term RetentionBackup copy jobs we can have to attend a long-term retention on data ar

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JMeixner
27 days ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

New Veeam Best Practices - Cloud Solutions

Now we have a specific best practice for Veeam Backup Cloud Solutions: https://bp.veeam.com/vbcloud/

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Nico Losschaert
26 days ago
olivier.rossi
olivier.rossiComes here often
posted in Blogs and podcasts

How to use the Data Domain repository mtree replica at the DR site?

Scenario:Very recently a customer asked me if Veeam could leverage Data Domain mtree replica for DR purposes.Of course, the answer is YES! While this idea is not new, I thought it would be a good reminder of Veeam’s backup import capabilities. Steps:You must use Data Domain repository on the source site. It most likely will be declared as a DDboost share. The mtree should be replicated to the DR site. Note that the mtree replica will be Read Only! The mtree replica needs to be exposed as a share over your protocol of choice (CIFS, DDboost), so it can be defined in the DR VBR server. In this example, I chose DDboost.Note again that this DDboost share is Read Only! The last step is to declare that DR DDboost share and import backups You should now be able to access these backups from the “Disk (Imported)” section. Remember that you will have to manually rescan that repository in order to refresh new “mtree replicated” restore points.

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Inder
27 days ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

OFFLINE backup copy using rotating USB disks – part 1

As a system consultant I often implement solutions for customers in the SMB market.Working for the SMB market is often more challenging than working for the enterprise market because of the limited financial budget/investment. I always try to deliver a solution that is as good and secure as for customers of the enterprise market but of course with other and cheaper solutions 😉. Of course VEEAM is always being used as the software defined backup solution 😊. For me personally the golden 3-2-1-1-0 rule is one of the most important things to keep in mind when creating a good backup solution for the customer.More info about that you can read in one of my first posts : 3-2-1-1-0 Golden Backup Rule | Veeam Community Resource Hub In this post (part 1 of 2 parts) I explain a bit more about implementing the second 1 in the rule – offline backup.One of the solutions is using rotating USB disks.This is specifically for backups of VMs and/or backups using agents of physical/cloud objects.In part

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Nico Losschaert
30 days ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

VB365: Important patch released for v6a

Just two weeks after the release of Veeam 365 version 6a, Veeam has released the first cumulative patch P20220825 (build 6.1.0.254). This patch fixes two issues which have been discovered in the 6a GA release. While, according to Veeam, those issues only affect less then 1% of the v6a users, it’s still recommended to install the patch. A backup of Security groups, Distribution groups, M365 groups, and specific users may complete with the warning: Nothing to process When this occurs no restore point is created for such objects.Note: Depending on the job configuration, the job may complete with a Success status, and the problem may occur unseen Under certain conditions, a backup job that includes SharePoint, OneDrive, or Microsoft Teams objects may run longer than expected, and the processing of lists may complete with the warning: Failed to analyze list changes. Value does not fall within the expected range. For more information and to download the patch, visit the following KB: https:

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
Stabz
StabzExperienced User
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[v12 Let's See - Backup Directly to Object Storage]

Hello guys 😄Hope everyone are well ! In my side I'm in vacation 🤙. I wanted to share with you some tests done with the beta of Veeam v12 (build 12.0.0.817) and the incredible new feature backup directly to Object Storage.Object StorageFor my test I used Wasabi as cloud object storage. You can find really great posts about Wasabi:Wasabi is now available in the list of providers when you want to add an object storage repositoryWe have less information to enter, it's appreciable You will find your repository with Wasabi Cloud Storage Type. Backup JobThe advantages of this kind of backup are multiple:Financial: you can use on-prem object storage, object storage can be cheaper than SAN Built-in durability & reliability Reduce hardware to manageLet's take a look at the setup, because there are technical side effects.As usual you select your repository, the GFS part still available and you could configure a backup copy job if necessaryIn the advanced options, it’s simplified ! Bye backu

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MicoolPaul
1 month ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Restore Oracle Database - Sequence contains more than one matching element

Recently I needed to restore a SAP Oracle Database and I received this error below: After open a ticket with Veeam support I discover that this error has relation with SAP Oracle Databases specifically. The solution was a fix on Veeam Explorer for Oracle. After applying it my restore ran successfully.However, it doesn't have a public KB about this error and only support Veeam has access for this fix.So, if any of you get this kind of error, I recommend open a ticket with Veeam to solve your problem as soon as possible.

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeComes here often
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Backup DB2 with Veeam Backup and replication? No problem!

Protecting DB2 servers with Veeam Backup and Replication is pretty straightforward. The IBM DB2 can be protected with the following Veeam jobs:Classic VM backup jobs Veeam  Agent for Linux (VAL) jobs Enhanced NAS backup jobsTo ensure that the DB2 DBs are in a consistent state, IBM DB2 commands will need to be called to either create a native DB2 database backup or to put database(s) in a quiesced state so that a clean application backup of the database can be made. DB2 has several ways to perform backups from the CLI that make backups of the database reasonably simple.Native flat file backup can be performed against an offline or online DB. The options include using full, incremental, and differential backups A simple pause and resume of the DB2 writer that can be used to store (and VMware) snapshots that Veeam Backup and Replication can leverage. The ability to leverage storage array snapshots as restore points through a component called IBM DB2 ACS. I will not discuss this process as

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18 hours ago

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