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regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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VMware Odyssey | Online Challenge by Hands-on Labs (only today)

Just a quick info for the community, as the deadline is today at 08:00PM/20:00 PT.VMware is doing a challenge on their Hands-On Lab Plattform via VMware Odyssey. There are 4 different labs which prepare participants for the VCP DCV (Datacenter Virtualization Professional) exam. In each lab one can collect points and the top 10 receive a price.At the moment there are less then 10 people in the leaderboard, which means, if I get it right, chances are high to win a prize 😉VMware Hands-on Labs Request

VEEAM_LegendNot a newbie anymore

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CDP on it own VLAN

Hi everyone,We are currently using Veeam CDP and are very pleased with its performance. However, we would like to configure the CDP bandwidth to utilize its own VLAN instead of the LAN network. We are operating within a 10GB physical network environment.Thank you for your assistance.

JMousquetonVeeam Vanguard

posted in Script library

Introducing a Veeam Backup & Replication Log Anonymization Script

Hello Veeam Community! I'm excited to introduce a Python script that I've developed for anonymizing Veeam Backup & Replication logs. Protecting sensitive information in log files is crucial, and this script simplifies the process while maintaining the integrity of your logs. Veeam Log Anonymizer logo Acknowledgments:Before diving into the details, I'd like to express my gratitude:Bertrand: Thank you for the original idea that inspired this script and for your valuable improvement suggestions. Your input was instrumental in making this script more robust and feature-rich. Eric: A big thank you for your unwavering support and encouragement throughout the development process. Your feedback and insights helped shape this tool. Disclaimer:I want to clarify that I'm not a developer by profession, but rather a member of the Veeam community who saw the need for a tool like this. The script has been created out of a passion for data privacy and a desire to contribute to our community.Key Fe

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

posted in Blogs and podcasts

What annoys you most in IT?

Hi Everyone,I thought I would first of explain what inspired me to write this on a nice September morning. It was a dumb decision. I have made many dumb decisions in my life and sometimes, just for fun I repeat them. In this case it was agreeing to a dentist appointment at 7 am on a Friday morning. This all came about around the time of VeeamON. Some of you noticed there were times at VeeamON in Miami when I was walking around with a not so jolly expression on my face. The reason for this was because I was stuck in between benefits providers (read dental insurance) and precisely at that time one of my remaining wisdom teeth decided to cause Armageddon. I held out as best I could. I tried keeping Listerine in my mouth for long periods at a time, then going to the beach and holding salt water in my mouth as I read it has healing powers (although this caused some fellow beach dwellers to give me strange looks). Finally a few weeks after getting back home I was able to go to the dentist wi

Rick VanoverRICKATRON

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Text Editors, V12 and ScriptsVeeam Community Recap #137

This week Rickatron and @Madi.Cristil are up with a solid block of content! Maybe next week Rick can use the right microphone :). And @michaelcade → I threw a challenge your way, write up something on Terminator → what you do is cool! Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @Stabz via @SteveHeart via @Geoff Burke Special Department NewsComing soon is the VeeamON Resiliency Summit this online event will have a sneak peek at some upcoming product capabilities → You don’t want to miss this!via @ertelle1, @tsainami and @allynz via @Madi.Cristil We are launching the Veeam 100 Show! You don’t want to miss this!The Veeam 100 Show introduction (Friday 29-September): (6) Unlocking the Veeam 100 Show: Discovering the Who, What, and Why | LinkedInFirst full episode with @anthonyspiteri79 and @replicatius: How to leverage existing Veeam object storage backups for Disaster Recovery (Thursday 5-October): (6) How to leverage existing Veeam object storage backups for Disaster Recovery | LinkedIn

ScottVeeam Legend

posted in Blogs and podcasts

Restore Exchange Mailbox Items from Storage Snapshot

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 mailbox database. If you go to C:\VeeamFLR\*VMname* you can see Volumes listed as folders there that are the mount points to the disks. This should mirror the folder structure on your Exchange server. In this specific situation here is what it looked like. Depending on your disk configuration and folder structure the volume, VM name, and folder

wolff.mateusVeeam Legend

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Upgrading Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV V5

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 Help Center but basically we need fist to update the Nutanix AHV Plug-In inside of Veeam Backup Replication server.For this is just to run with the wizard of plug-in: The setup is only about Next, Next, Upgrade, Finish: After that we can open VBR console and go to Backup Infrastructure view, navigate to Backup Proxies > Out of Date, right click on the proxy appliance of Nutanix AHV and select Upgrade Proxy: After that, the upgrade of Veeam proxy appliance will

wolff.mateusVeeam Legend

posted in Blogs and podcasts

Release Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5.0

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.

wolff.mateusVeeam Legend

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VMCE v12 x VMCE 2021

Hello veeam community! As we know, the VMCE v12 is comming soom and with that a new exam with new topics including building backup capabilities, restoring from backup and advanced repository functionalities, etc are coming too. But at this moment my questions is about VMCE 2021.Do you know how long we can still book the exam VMCE 2021?Do you think it's still worth trying to pass VMCE 2021 or its better wait for v12 exam?

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

posted in Blogs and podcasts

vSphere 8.0 U2 is Released: Reminder not to Update immediately

Morning everyone, VMware vSphere 8.0 U2 is now available, with improvements to lifecycle management, AI workloads, and DevOps amongst others!https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2023/09/vsphere-8-update-2-now-available.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vsphere-8-update-2-now-available A quick reminder to all, Veeam Backup & Replication v12 only supports up to vSphere 8.0 U1 currently. Veeam can’t start their validation until the code is available so we’ll now see Veeam begin their testing process. You can check the status of vSphere platform support here: https://www.veeam.com/kb2443Veeam typically target vSphere platform support within 90 days of release, so with the betas of VBR 12.1 functionality appearing online, I’d guess we won’t see 8.0 U2 support until 12.1 ships unless that encounters massive delays. So yes, wait for Veeam to support vSphere 8.0 U2 before you upgrade, there’s no point having all this new functionality if you can’t protect any of your work

TurkTownBlueNot a newbie anymore

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Moving VeeamBackup.mdf (and ldf) to a different location

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?

KnuppelNew Here

asked in Discussion boards

Moving backups to archive tier

We have an onpremise Veeam server that runs the following jobs:1. Backup to local storage (weekly full, daily incrementals)2. Copy job to Linux hardened repository (immutable)3. Copy job to Azure Blob cool storage (immutable)Now i would like to have the Azure monthly backups moved to archive tier. I'm assuming i have to use SOBR for this. The following question arise:i create a second immutable repository with longer immutability, say 1 year. After moving the full backup, will it calculate ‘initial backup date + 1 year’, or ‘SOBR copy date + 1 year’? do i need a new container for this or can i just create a folder within a container? if a backup is still immutable can it be moved to the archive tier? copying backups obviously generates a large amount of traffic. Download backup from one repository, upload to another. Is there something i can do to limit the amount of traffic and costs? what's the risk here? To move data the local Veeam server needs to have modify permissions in both th

mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard, Veeam Legend

posted in Blogs and podcasts

1st Annual Veeam Community Hackathon

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 Veeam100 group We are using members from the Veeam100 group because they are experts in the Veeam products. The teams should make the life of an end-user easier by creating a complementary product to one of the existing Veeam products. An example would be the Grafana dashboards created by @jorge.delacruz There is no limit on the te

JericComes here often

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veeam backup&replication failed to connect to host

Hi everyone,recenly i’m doing some test on the veeam backup&replication community edition on my Dell R710 which is running server 2019 standard. And at the first time, i can add a hyper-v server which is running server2019 (standalone) to the backup job, but once i deleted the job, i cannot add any hyper-v again.It always shows :Failed to connect to host 10.178.3.41Access denied or timeout expired. (sometimes is invalid namespace)Check if you have local administrator privileges on computer '10.178.3.41'.Possible reasons:1. Invalid credentials.2. Specified host is not a Hyper-V server.================what i did for this issue:https://www.veeam.com/kb1914 https://www.scribd.com/document/421024195/Veeam-Backup-Invalid-Credentials-Error-Adding-a-Hyper# I added both the target server and the server with the veeam installed to the domain created the local admin account for both server, using same account and pwd using domain admin account cannot work checking the port and disable the

spider32Comes here often

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Drop DB on a restored test server from SQL Always On Availability Group in production

We are trying to restore a huge DB which is part of a Always On Availability group to a test server. So the test server is up with the DB. However, the DB shows as Restoring after the restore. What is the work around to make the DB Ready? From what I’ve read, we need to drop the DB on this test server from the Availability Group. How can this be done without affecting the production DB. Our DBA is unable to drop the DB so reaching out to the community for alternative solutions.

Rick VanoverRICKATRON

published in Blogs and podcasts

All-Demo Session & Installable ISO for Veeam Hardened Repository

During the lead-up to VeeamON, it was amazing to see what content was leading the pre-registration information. We have the most data here than ever before. Constantly back and forth with the “Architecting Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 at Scale” session, the session that @hannesk, Christoph Meyer and I are delivering was racing to the finish line as the leader. The “All Demo Session for Veeam Hardened Repository” was in the end the most popular pre-registered session, and as promised in the delivery in Miami, here is your everything you need to know guide.Post Publish Updates:1-June 2023: The installation requirements for the .ISO have been added. 1-June 2023: Video of installation of the .ISO has been added. 2-June 2023: Clarification on support, formatting of document. 5-June 2023: Updated .ISO with support banner and logon screen update, link updated. No changes to Ubuntu configuration or hardening script. 29-June 2023: Updated .ISO with one enhancement, offline installation w

MavMikeVBRComes here often

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Veeam ONE web interface - internal error - v12

Veeam has recently been upgraded from 11a to v12. Post upgrade we cant get into the web interface for Veeam ONE. Client app works….I’ve checked IIS, local logs etc, cant see anything….anyone seen this?

GHuberNew Here

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File Copy is very slow

By now i’m using “Veeam Backup & Rep” in the free community edition - for testing some things an maybe buying a commercial license in future. The problem is, that “File Copy Jobs” (not Backup Copy) are very very slow.For Example i have to Copy an ammount of single (168.000) files with about 180 GB together to a local target disk. If i use the integrated windows copy feature these Files are copied within about 4 or 5 hours. The FILE COPY Job from Veeam runs for 25 HOURS (by now) and shows a state of 32% ready. What could be the issue for this long duration? The source and target are the same. thanks in advanceG.Huber

ricardofptNew Here

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Problem open general options

Good morning friends I'm having a problem that has never happened to me, when trying to open the program options it gives me the error in the photo. Has it ever happened to anyone?

MavMikeVBRComes here often

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Veeam v12 and StoreOnce replication issue

working in a client env with veeam v11 and 12….just upgraded to v12.we have issues with replication not working (started all of a sudden 3 weeks ago). Support said that it was a known issue in v11 and we needed to upgrade. Tbh I wasn’t convinced as its been working fine for some time.Anyway we upgraded to v12 but replication is still not working.You can see that the copy is seen as in-progress so Veeam is just trying to send data. You can also see on the storeonce side that Veeam files have landed/created with ZERO bytes. It just sits there for hours and you dont see any data being transmitted for some reason…..We do have a call with support but just wondered if you guys had any ideas. We’ve involved HPE and run scripts on the storeonce appliances which are able to send files between the devices (1G files, 10G files etc).

Moustafa_HindawiVeeam Legend

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VBM server migration best practice

Hello everyone,I didn’t find configuration backup and restore in VBM like VBR, what is the best approach to do it? both backup and restore the entire server, and install it from scratch?

StabzVeeam Legend

posted in Blogs and podcasts

Troubleshoot Unable to Use-Hot Add with Linux proxy after Veeam v12 upgrade

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.There is a Veeam Knowledge Base article available at https://www.veeam.com/kb4460.To resolve the error, it is necessary to disable "multipath" on the Linux proxies, following the procedure outlined in the KB. After applying the fix, backups and restores successfully utilize the Hot-Add mode, resulting in improved performance.I apolo

clownyboots178Comes here often

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Not enough space error caused backup to fail

Hey Guys,I had a backup fail last night due to a datastore no longer having enough space to process Is this a threshold that can be configured somewhere?How much space is actually needed to process a backupI am trying to find some more info in the logs but havent seen anything yet Thanks,

vNote42Veeam Vanguard

posted in Blogs and podcasts

Change Expiration date of immutable restore points (in v11 and v11a)

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]Show the current expiration date by running this command: $RestorePoint.getstorage().ImmutableTillUtc We see, current ImmutableTilldate is 1st October 2021. In my example I change the date to the end of 2030:$ExpDate = Get-Date

tonyleeNew Here

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Backup fails with Resource deadlock avoided.

Agent OS is CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core).Using a 3rd party cluster.Backup fails with the following error.What should I do? =====================ERR : Resource deadlock avoided.

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