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 Why this guide? A while back, a customer asked me for a simple step-by-step guide for restoring the Veeam Backup & Replication configuration onto a newly deployed Veeam Software Appliance. This write-up is the result. It has been a little while since then (as you can tell from the version used, 13.0.1) - but since I haven't found a similar step-by-step guide here in the Community Hub yet, this one is for you. I am well aware that most of the steps here are self-explanatory for all of us, and that most of you could get through this configuration blindfolded. My customer, however, asked for a truly foolproof guide - something to provide a rough direction in a worst-case scenario. That said, should it ever come to that, we will of course be supporting them anyway...And finally, the customer also receives a checklist to document the individual steps - you will find it at the end of this guide.  VBR / Veeam Backup Server Configuration Restore  If the entire Veeam VBR intelligence is no

On of the large risks in IT isn’t just Ransomware, hardware faults, or even disaster recovery events.What happens when the person who knows how everything works quits? In many organizations, especially smaller ones, the Veeam Admin is not just responsible for dealing with backups and restores all day. Some of the tasks us Administrators do are:Windows Server Administrators Virtualization Administrators Storage Administrators Security Administrators Network Administrators Domain Administrators Cloud Administrators Disaster RecoveryYou get the point, we wear many hats, and have a lot of access and knowledge. Here are a few things you need to do in the case someone who is responsible for these items do. 1. Change Every password  they knew.Veeam Service accounts, Repositories, Hypervisors, OS’s, Storage, Tape libraries, Storage arrays, Switches, Firewalls, Server management, Cloud accounts, Enterprise applications, Encryption passwords…. The list goes on and on, but you don’t know what was

Hi everyone! I've been working in the lab on some Kubernetes deployments using MobaXterm Home Edition and Rancher. I started off using PuTTY, but found that it could be limiting for what I needed. So I began my hunt to find the best SSH client, and I ended up landing at MobaXterm. In this post, I want to talk a bit about why I opted to use MobaXterm and all of the great features it offers, especially pertaining to working with Kubernetes. Intuitive UI and Easy to NavigateWhile evaluating alternatives to PuTTY, I found that PuTTY along with other SSH terminals looked a bit dated and less approachable. Since this was my first time doing this much terminal-focused Kubernetes work, I wanted a tool I could easily navigate to reduce friction. MobaXterm has a very sleek interface that lends itself nicely to beginners and experts alike. 15 Session Settings/OptionsMobaXterm supports a wide range of session types (SSH, Telnet, RDP, etc.), which makes it useful as a single tool for connecting to

 With the July 2026 security updates, Microsoft will permanently disable the legacy RC4 encryption algorithm in Kerberos authentication, requiring the use of modern encryption standards such as AES128 and AES256.I do not anticipate any significant impact on systems that are properly maintained, but I strongly recommend carrying out a proactive assessment to identify any systems that still use the RC4 algorithm.Potential RisksLegacy applications, older servers, hardware appliances, or service accounts configured only for RC4 authentication may fail to authenticate after Domain Controllers are updated.How to Verify Your EnvironmentMicrosoft provides tools to detect accounts and services still using RC4:Microsoft Learn: Detect and remediate Kerberos RC4 usageDetect and Remediate RC4 Usage in Kerberos | Microsoft LearnHow to manage Kerberos KDC usage of RC4 for service account ticket issuance changes related to CVE-2026-20833 | Microsoft Support Audit RC4 usageDetail about RC4 usage is sto

 Have you ever wondered where we Veeam 100 members are distributed around the world?Based on Veeam 100 Directory | Veeam Community Resource Hub and the public location information I have from our LinkedIn profiles, I sat down and provided a world map that answers exactly the above question, or shows it on the map. In the backend, I use MapGeo and Google Sheets for this. As soon as you press directly on a member or their point on the map, the photo stored from the Veeam 100 Directory (in the Community Hub) opens.For short information such as names, titles and, if applicable, Blog URL just “hover” over the point on the Map. Below the map is a search mask, here you can jump directly to the corresponding member, which also opens the stored profile picture (see above). If you want to continue searching, just click outside the photo. Now only ​@safiya, ​@Madi.Cristil, ​@NikolaPejkova, ​@HannesK and ​@Rick Vanover need their own category in the Veeam 100 Directory with a photo, so that I can

Hello everyone!This is my first contribution to the Veeam Community Hub!In the long term, I plan to start my own blog to share my thoughts and technical perspectives from my daily work, but while it is in the making, let's move on with my thoughts on the topic „how to structure jobs.“This post will cover Veeam Backup & Replication in the first place, but in the future I will also cover Veeam Microsoft 365.In my daily work, I have seen a lot of variations, like “naming schemes“ (please imagine this in very large quotation marks), like "Backup Job 1“ or „Server Backup x with Database.“Basically naming jobs like this, of course, works, but in the daily work you have to search for what this job is exactly, and when the description is the default one, you don't know anything.To prevent this situation, and because I really like to organize things:)Over time, I have developed a specific naming scheme for jobs in Veeam Backup and Replication, such as Backup to Disk or Backup Copy Jobs.This

Recently, one of our clients experienced a situation that perfectly illustrates why operational resilience must be at the heart of every IT strategy regardless of any external threat.📖 The ScenarioWe were in the middle of building a new infrastructure, which was not yet operational, when the client suffered the loss of both server rooms within 48 hours of each other.The cause? Not ransomware. Not an intrusion. Simply the simultaneous end-of-life of SSD drives after nearly 8 years of operation.The tiered storage architecture amplified the impact: as soon as the SSDs reached their endurance limit, the first site collapsed overnight. Investigation quickly confirmed the diagnosis. But the second site, running the same architecture with the same history, followed the same path two days later.Bad timing? Absolutely. ⚙️ The Operational ResponseThe situation was all the more complex as the production infrastructure was end-of-life and out of support, we were precisely in the process of buildi

Even though I am on vacation this week and next still need to keep up with the blog series of 10 in 10 weeks.  For week four we discuss the VSA and operational changes.  You can find a link to my blog and the article below.Blog - Veeam Software Appliance: What Changes Operationally Veeam Software Appliance: What Changes Operationally Introduction The Veeam software appliance is one of the more important operational shifts in the v13 release. It changes the conversation from simply installing backup software to managing a more controlled platform with a tighter lifecycle and a more opinionated security posture.That matters in production because backup teams are often measured by consistency more than flexibility. A platform that reduces configuration drift, narrows the administrative surface, and standardizes maintenance can improve reliability, but it also changes how teams troubleshoot and support the environment. Deployment Changes Traditional deployments often inherit whatever stand

 Hi everyone,Veeam Advisor v2.0 will be available tomorrow.  For anyone who hasn't come across it before, Veeam Advisor is a free browser-based tool that reads a VBR diagnostic log (VMC.log) and turns it into a health report you can actually read. It covers things like sizing, licensing, configuration reviews, best-practice checks, and a bunch of other useful information.It's a single HTML file, so there's nothing to install, and all analysis happens locally in your browser. What's new in v2.0?@Dynamic Thanks for the suggestion about new color scheme, Ive gone with a more retro game vibe. The biggest addition is a new Resiliency Map.Upload a VMC log and it generates a visual view of your backup environment, showing backup jobs, repositories, and how data moves through backup copy jobs.I originally built it because I wanted an easy way to answer questions like:"Where does this backup actually end up?"or"Do we really have a second copy of everything?"Seeing it as a diagram makes a lot of

Recently, a customer came to me with what seemed to be a simple question:“Our Veeam Enterprise Manager can suddenly no longer properly connect to the Veeam Backup & Replication server, and the Catalog Service no longer synchronizes. But nothing was changed. What could be the reason?”Ah, the famous IT words: Nothing was changed.Of course, I basically understand what is meant by that. But it does not necessarily mean that a person changed something. Maybe a process, an automation, an update, a migration, etc. changed something. And of course, it is also possible that another person changed something without informing anyone, or that you changed something yourself but do not remember it anymore — or you do not see the impact because, at first glance, it does not seem to have anything to do with the issue.Well then, time to roll up our sleeves and go through the checklist:Was there a Veeam update?No Was there a configuration change in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager or Veeam Backup &am

Yesterday I got an error for two oracle databases which are backed up via the VEEAM RMAN plugin.Strange - there are several database instances on this system, all but the two are working fine. And these two had worked up to then, too…And… I did not change anything in the VEEAM and plugn configuraton  After some discussion and research with our Oracle admin - bingo.He had moved these two databases to another Home directory and did not change the corresponding entries in the /etc/oratab. So - as shown in the picture - the backup of the database and the recovery logs worked, but the creation of the AUTOBACKUP failed and the ORA-01012 error was given.After the entries were corrected all worked fine again.Perhaps some of you will face similar issues, too. I did not find anything for this problemin the forums with a quick search.

Hi everyone,I have a question about using the proxy appliance as an internet proxy for VMs running inside a Veeam Virtual Lab.I enabled the internet access feature and configured HTTPS traffic on port 443. On a VM within the isolated network, I then configured the isolated-network IP address of the proxy appliance and the corresponding port as a proxy server in the web browser.However, internet access is not working.While troubleshooting, I started wondering how DNS resolution is supposed to work in this scenario. Typically, the VM sends DNS queries to an internal DNS server. If the requested hostname cannot be resolved locally, the DNS server forwards the query to an external DNS forwarder.Since the proxy appliance only proxies the web traffic, how are DNS queries from the isolated environment handled? Does the internal DNS server require a separate route or masquerading rule for external DNS resolution, or is DNS resolution handled by the proxy appliance as part of the proxy connecti