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MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Fun Friday #56: Labbing on the go

Happy Friday everyone! For those of you with access to a lab/test environment, what do you use when you’re “on the move”. Maybe it’s public cloud, maybe a VPN back to a DC/Home, maybe it’s a portable enough workload you can run it from your laptop. Curious to hear how people tackle this when mobile 🙂

Madi.CristilCommunity Manager

published in News

Veeam Community Recap #98Veeam Community Recap #98

This week @Madi.Cristil and @mkevenaar run the recap to cover some US Holidays! While we broke the rule, it’s for a good cause: A lot of great content! Who’s New will be back next week. Watch today’s recap: The Linksvia @olivier.rossi via @Nico Losschaert via @JailBreak via @Rick Vanover Special Department Newsvia @mkevenaar and join the webinar with secret swag and rocking demos: Introduction into Chocolatey, Tue, 13 Dec. 2022 at 18:00, Europe/Amsterdam | Veeam Community Resource Hubvia @mrmccoy007 Rogue, unofficial, hilarious. A V12 Preview like you’ve never seen: before: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brandon-mccoy-06424771_music-rap-technology-activity-7000591313897209856-1703/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopHave a great weekend everyone, we’ll be back with Who’s New next week!

DedaNew Here

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I recive test mail from veeam backup for microsoft 365 and no email when the job is done

Email notification is working but I was recivinig somthing like chines letters and i try to fix it with dis article KB2692: Notification emails from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 are sent in an unexpected language , and now test mail is working and whan the backup job is finished Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 in action many said that email notification is sent, but I dont recive any emails.Help ?

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

posted in Blogs and podcasts

[What (else) is new in v12 - VIII] TAPE - NAS to Tape Job

Because we had already the option to backup files directly to tape, it was already possible to backup file shares to tape without backing it up to disk before. But this was limited at least to performance. This will be be much better in v12.Another limitation was that it was not possible to copy a NAS backup to tape. This will be available in v12.At least in v12 beta media pools are limited to Standard media Pools and WORM Media Pools.

Nour KadamaniNew Here

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replication enhancements request

- 1 to many destination replication job- ability to resizing the replication job menu/console- when I edit replication job and go to virtual machines tab, I wish to have more info of the source VMs presented like (cluster, vcenter, etc). it is helpful when you have the same VM name in multiple vcenters.

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

posted in Blogs and podcasts

Error at Veeam File Level Restore

Recently I had to troubleshoot an error in Veeam Backup and Replication. Error appeared at File Level Restore operations. In detail: restore Windows files from a Veeam Hardened Repository.Environment consists of existing and freshly installed proxies and repositories servers. New repository servers were Windows and Linux as hardened repository (LHR). Mount server was a physical Windows server.Problem that occurredWhen we tried to restore files from LHR we get errors like these: We also could see that mounting of the restore point worked for a few moments. Restore Explorer also showed first directories. After a few seconds, mount point was disconnected automatically and browsing in Explorer resulted in an error.After some tests we found out, this only happens when we were using newly installed proxies as mount servers. It worked fine with already running proxies and even with new Windows repository server.That was solved the problemWhen we were checking the configuration of new proxy

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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How to do a lot of IT courses Tips and Tricks

HI Everyone. I seem always to be doing at least 2 IT courses at the same time. The reasons are many but I can enumerate a few: One I enjoy IT :), Two I am worried about getting behind, Three I want to get ahead, Four I am addicted to getting the course completions certificates and certifications because it makes up for my years of goofing off in grade school and all but the last year of High School. Back then teachers were not very politically correct so I was called a moron, a pain in the a, imbecile, lazy, annoying and many other attributes which in today’s world would land the teacher in court :) . This obviously inflicted me with deep impostor syndrome whenever I find myself sitting at a table with smart folks :).So I am always doing courses. Now no one really pays you do do courses so you have to somehow fit them in with the boring stuff. i.e. work. I have a few tricks but wanted to know if you had any as well. For one thing on most courses you can turn up the speed of the lecture

StabzInfluencer

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Instant VM Recovery => Migrate to production Greyed out

Hello guys,One of my client can’t used the migrate to production feature. Is there some prerequisites? I miss maybe something :DThanks.

mike.beirensNew Here

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Best practise Guest processing between VLANS

Hi all,Our setup is currently as follow: Veeam server in seperated VLAN, guest processing is now running with VIX with the domain\administrator account.Regarding the KB we must use the administrator account as it has the -500 at the end of the SID.For safety purpose we want to disable the global domain\administrator account and use another domain admin. Since I change the account, the backup jobs failing because of failing guest processing.When I test the guest processing, the difference is that administrator successfully can make connection with Guest OS via VIX (after failing over to backup server for guest interaction). Another account fails at this step as well.I could open 445 between the VLANS’, but I’m not sure that I break security if I do so.Are there best practise available for this kind of setup? Disabling UAC would not be the best option for us :).Thank you!

Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend

posted in Blogs and podcasts

VMCE exam personal experience

Hi all In this post I want to describe my personal experience in preparing and taking the VMCE exam.I know that there are some other topics written about the VMCE exam, like a good post of our top legend @MicoolPaul 😉, but I also want to share my personal experience.It’s very hot these days because some of our legends have recently received a free VMCE course of VEEAM. How cool is that from Veeam 😊.So especially for these co-legends (and in the meantime I luckily have met them in person at the Veeam 100 Summit event 😊) and hopefully other people wanting to take the course and exam. Requirement : Yes, indeed taking an official 3-day VMCE course is a requirement before taking the VMCE exam.For me it’s almost 5 years ago that I took the VMCE course – version 9.5 at that time. Because I work for a certified Veeam reseller and service provider, one of the requirements is that we have to have at least 1 VMCE in the company if we want to keep a Gold Partnership with Veeam.Because I’m the o

victorwuVeeam Vanguard

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Aviatrix Certified Engineer Multicloud Network Associate - Free Course

The Aviatrix Certified Engineer Multi-cloud Network Associate training is the starting point for your multi-cloud networking and security education. This training covers basic networking components and terminology of the major cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) and discusses common challenges and key limitations when utilizing public cloud infrastructure.Training and exam are free using code ACEMULTICLOUD through December 31st.Sign Uphttps://aviatrix.com/ace-associate/

nicolayNot a newbie anymore

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add server 2022 as standalone

hi there, the last couple weeks i face a weird issue which i will describe below.i have Veeam B&R installed on a physical domain joined server 2012 r2. up to now i was able to add all other servers in the infrastructure (one more physical server 2012 r2, some VM servers 2012 r2 and a Azure file server 2019) without any issue.even a remote non domain joined server over a VPN connection.my issue is that i cannot add a non domain joined physical 2022 server located on a remote site which we have VPN connectivity, as a standalone server. need to add it as we are going to have a VN running there.please see attached, thank you in advance for your assistance.ps: i can ping the server and credentials are tested and working just fine since i can connect to that server using RDM

Iams3leVeeam Legend

posted in Blogs and podcasts

AD Security: Domain Join hardening

When attempting to add a pre-created (provisioned) PC to a domain or reuse an existing computer account, the following error below is encountered.An account with the same name exists in Active Directory. Re-using the account was blocked by the security policy.Microsoft released this update on October 11, 2022, thereby introducing additional protections (hardening) for your environment. This hardening mitigates the following “CVE-2022-38042 (Active Directory Domain Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability)”.Legacy behaviourBefore the installation of the October 11, 2022 update, or later cumulative updates, the client computer queries Active Directory for an existing account with the same name. This query occurs during domain join and computer account provisioning. If such an account exists, the client will automatically attempt to reuse it.Note: During this time, the re-use computer account will only fail if the user does not have the appropriate permission to join the device to th

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Engineer Entitlement? Stop being at twit :)

Most of you are following the twitter saga. Politics and other issues aside I wanted to address one leitmotif brought forward by Musk and his horde of sycophants. Numerous times I have seen the argument “time to fight IT entitlement” used as a battle cry before performing massive layoffs. I have worked in IT for 20 years and while I have encountered some bad apples, on the whole the majority of Engineers and IT tech folk have been hard working and diligent people. I was working abroad from North America for 16 years and I was shocked when I returned to see the level of C Level, CEO etc entitlement. The salaries of this class of worker (and remember we are all a team as they love to say in the meetings!) had in my opinion unjustifiably skyrocketed to levels their predecessors could not have dreamed of. Inevitably to justify such a situation one must find a scapegoat and the hard working IT tech folks are an easy target.Or are they?My buddy and fellow Vanguard @mkevenaar started his own

ScottInfluencer

posted in Script library

Script to remove data from a share monthly.

I have a lot of users that require a location accessible to everyone to share files on a temporary basis. (non confidential type info) My issue is that nobody likes to delete anything here… EVER! After having to clean it out multiple times I figured I’d run a scheduled task for a PowerShell script to clean the folder out on the first of every month. The issue is now people wondering why the files were deleted event though it was explained and called Temporary_Data_Transfer. lol I created a folder titled “_Instructions” at the top that won’t be removed by the script and the underscore keeps it at the top. There is a document in it so users can review the date the folder is cleaned out and states that files will be deleted monthly. This has really helped clear things up with people not knowing their files will be removed. The script omits clean up of that folder by increasing the date to make it appear as a new file. The also script keeps a log of deleted files so when someone is ask

Rick VanoverRICKATRON

published in News

Veeam Community Recap #97Veeam Community Recap #97

This week, @Rick Vanover and @Madi.Cristil are fresh off of VMware Explore, but we sneak in episode 97 right before a much-deserved vacation by Madalina. Great content this week, a bunch of new members! Watch this week’s episode here: The Linksvia @vNote42 via @MicoolPaul via @regnor Special Department Newsvia @Yongkang via @marcofabbri via @dloseke Lastly - there is still time to replay the VeeamON Update 2022 stream! I recently wrote a blog on this and the replay is live, get it while you can! https://www.veeam.com/veeamon/veeamon-update Who’s NewThis week we welcome in +107 new members! With the coolest usernames being @VeeamBackupWizard @Masterpackman @puppetmaster and @ChaosLeader. Welcome everyone else!

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

posted in Discussion boards

Fun Friday #55: Scale-Out Full Backups

Happy Friday everyone! To those that don’t know, when you create a Scale-Out Backup Repository you can configure it to automatically create a new full backup if a required extent is unavailable. I had a few conversations recently whereby I was the only one endorsing this option. So I ask, who uses it, who doesn’t, in both scenarios, why?

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Fun Friday: What type of RAID do you use?

Happy Friday everyone, Interested to see people’s opinions on this subject. RAID for backup storage, most (I really hope all) organisations will use RAID for the storage underlying their backups. But, what type of RAID do you typically use, and why? Vote in the poll and then share any particulars below. For example, if you use RAID 60, but choose to have 4x stripes vs 2. I want to add, there are no right or wrong answers (even you RAID 0/ No RAID brave people!), but there’s always a reason behind the decision, were you after maximum density, improved write vs read, maximum durability, reduced durability due to multiple copies etc.

Matt CNot a newbie anymore

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Free space on tape

Likely a noob question, but just want to be sure things aren’t broken.I’ve got a setup with Veeam B&R Community Edition on a single windows machine. I have full backups scheduled weekly, and daily backups every day, to a Quantum LTO-7 drive, using LTO-6 media.The console reports the total capacity of the tapes as 2.1TB. Allowing for the whole base 10 / base 2 argument, this is what I’d expect. The full backup (done last night) reports total transferred is around 1.1TB, but the tape is only reporting around 250GB free. I’m expecting around a TB free (2.1TB - 1.1TB). You can also see that the “daily” tapes are reporting 2.1TB free (again, this is expected - there’s not a lot written, maybe ~90MB per day, so not enough to make a difference to the free space reported)Is there something amiss somewhere, or am I going to have to migrate to LTO-7 media a lot sooner than I thought?

Enayat.GNew Here

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Restore VM to Proxmox VE

I am currently using Veeam EssentialsOur HCI is Nutanix and we have roughly about 28 VM’s on itWe are currently evaluating Proxmox VEHow can i restore full Backups of my critical VM’s to the Proxmox VE?

dlosekeVeeam Legend

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Gotcha's for using Linux Hardened Repository as Primary Backup Repo

I swear I’ve seen some posts about this but can’t find them. I haven’t dipped into the Linux Hardened repo’s with immutability yet, but one of my engineers recently set one up for a client, but as a copy repository. I’m putting together a proposal to replace our internal Synology NAS that is our primary repository with a Dell PowerEdge R550 with a fair amount of local space (8x 8TB disks in RAID 5 or 6) connected via 10Gb or 25Gb links. Backup data is currently copied to a SOBR at a remote site that is using a Synology NAS and Wasabi for immutable object storage. Right now the primary site is keeping 30 days of Forward Incrementals with Active Full’s with no GFS retention, but I plan to ramp up some more retention locally at some point as I ran into space issues a few months back and ended up doing all of my GFS work on the copy repo at the remote site for the time being.Any gotcha’s I should be looking out for this sort of configuration - primarily in regard to using a hardened box

fspadaroComes here often

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Immutable Backup Copy Job Issue

This weekend happens an Issue on a Copy Job on immutable repository:XX/XX/XXXX 01:02:07 :: Agent: Failed to process method {Transform.CompileFIB}: Input/output errorPOSIX: Seek operation has failed. File: [/XXXX/backups/BACKUP_COPY_JOB_XXXX/BACKUP_JOB_XXXX/BACKUP_JOB_XXXX.vbk]. Distance to move: [504738922496]. Move method: [SEEK_SET]. XX/XX/XXXX 01:09:00 :: Unable to apply retention policy: failed to delete backup files Error: Input/output errorFailed to get file system object info: '/XXXX/backups/BACKUP_COPY_JOB_XXXX/BACKUP_JOB_XXXX/'Agent failed to process method {FileSystem.Exists}. Now I see the repository as Unavailable and if I try to rescan it and I receive the following warnings:Failed to synchronize REPOXXXX Details: Input/output error Failed to get file system object info: 'XXXX/backups'. Agent failed to process method [FileSystem.Exists].I can’t find any info about this specific issue. I’m investigating on repository system logs.Regards

RalfVeeam Legend

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connection errors to a Veeam proxy at remote location

We have a location in the US where our VBR server in DE seem to have some connection issues sometimes. Latency and packet loss I see in smokeping is not that high, even better than for most of our other remote locations. Still we see errors like below in out backup and offload jobs for 2-3 VMs out of 35 on a daily base. The IP is the local proxy there. Processing xxxx Error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 172.31.132.113:2508 First job retry is successful most of the time. Anyhow, I’d like to get rid of those errors. Support suggested to change following regkeys to adjust.ConnectByIPsTimeoutSecAgentStartTimeoutSec But this did not change anything. I think we need settings for retries not timeouts. Any other ideas? Network team already checked everything and did not find anything. As I wrote, monitoring graphs also do not look too bad.

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

posted in Discussion boards

VeeamPN has been discontinued!

Hey everyone, Was browsing the R&D forums (I know, I’m a traitor!), and discovered this post from Gostev announcing the end of VeeamPN!https://forums.veeam.com/post467237.html#p467237 This caught me by surprise as I felt like more noise would’ve been made around it, maybe I was one of the only people that used it, but I remember once dealing with a managed network that was refusing to integrate additional routes to perform SureReplica at a remote site, so I used VeeamPN to create a tunnel between the sites and create my own route that way! 😆 So long VeeamPN, you were awesome. 🍻

Omid HeraviNew Here

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Problem on Create vCloud tenant quota with API

Hi,I have a problem with add an organization on veeam Back EM with API.I certainly enter correct “HostUid” that belong to vcloud, but get below error:"FirstChanceExceptionMessage": null, "StackTrace": null, "Message": "Unable to find target vCloud host on VBR [25fc543e-0622-4dce-82ff-ee6296bb397c]", "StatusCode": 500, "Status": "InternalServerError" Sent body as below:{ "OrganizationName": "Org-01", "BackupServerUid": "urn:veeam:BackupServer:25fc543e-0622-4dce-82ff-ee6296bb397c", "RepositoryUid": "urn:veeam:Repository:a3718da3-2b89-4646-a5d4-df6dada65d8e", "QuotaGb": 100, "RepositoryFriendlyName": "Backup Repository 1", "JobSchedulerType": "Full", "HighPriorityJob": false, "HostUid": "urn:veeam:ManagedServer:425c2582-d46d-4316-9977-a3e5f49ec1f9" } P.S 1 : I can add it in web UI successfully.P.S 2 : All parameters that sent to veeam, taken from “Get” APIWould you please help me in this regards?

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