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Hi, is it possible to backup an entire disk or clone a disk?  I would like to make a duplicate copy of my boot drive.  Thank you.

So I have an issue. We backup to disk (a Data Domain, in our case), and from there, copy to tape. So I have 2 jobs - a backup job that writes to the DD, and a tape job (set as secondary target). Backup job is set to make an active full once a week (usually on a Friday), and the other days are incrementals. Pretty standard so far.My issue: on the weekend, we ran out of blank tapes in the library. I had to cancel the running tape job (which was trying to write out the Friday FULL backup). I got some new blanks, and loaded them. But the Monday tape job went to write out the (missed) Friday FULL backup, instead of just doing the Monday incremental. The FULL job is like 4 TB, no way it will finish in time before the next night’s incremental backup will start up. I had to change the scheduled start to “Not scheduled”, just so it would have enough time to finish (else it would have been interrupted by that evening’s incremental job). I don’t want to hold the source backup job - I want it to w

HelloFor testing Inmutable backups using ubunto server LTS 22.04.3 followingPart 1 - Build an immutable backup repository for Veeam Backup & Replication. | Experts Exchange (experts-exchange.com)Great expirience and working very fine on some spare PCs i had lying around.(doing bare Metal recoverys and testing different storage medias from internal HDD to usb 3.x to iscsi)  Now i tryed to replicate it on a Rasbery Pie 4 but when i try to add it as a Hardened respository  in Veeam i get:Only x86_64 (64 bit) Linux servers are suportend. lscpu shows 32bit, 64 bit and i used a 64 bit LTS version. Now im not the firmest on Linux so mayhaps im overlooking something trivial. Anyone got an idia? Sascha Wagner

Hi Everyone, As always after a move I was going through old stuff and found my lucky winner post from 2017. At the time on the Veeam Forums there was a contest to win a trip to VeeamON 2017 in New Orleans.. I was not sure whether to post or not. Fear of being laughed at or ridiculed was strong, but luckily I had managed to make a fool of myself so often during my schooling years the phobia had somewhat lessened! In short folks don’t be shy and get creative! You never know where it may get you.Here is the poem that I wrote about Veeam: A good morning starts with coffee and creamwhile viewing a backup report that is colored in green.There was a time when nothing of the sort would be seenThose were the bad old backup days before the arrival of VeeamBroken restores will break an Admin's spleenBut by using Veeam one's health remains keenNo backup operator wants to face an angry user who turns meanInstead grateful elation is what we see in our dreamsSo if you want your engine moving forward

If I’m reading the docs correctly, Object Storages (Direct or SOBR) use one Task per backup chain.These backups create MANY files.  It looks like I can limit the maximum concurrent Tasks for an S3 compatible backup, essentially limiting the number of concurrent backups.I am, however, interested in increasing the speed of one very large backup.  I see many small objects are created.  At least in the case of SOBR, I assume that the data has already been deduped and compressed, and that and some sort of Task parallelism is happening during offloading.  Is this correct, and is there any way to increase the parallelism or number of Tasks used during SOBR offload and/or direct backup?

In case anyone missed it back on December 7th I was on the Ninja Pod podcast with @DrObject talking all things Veeam related as well as discussing my book.  You can catch it below.  

What and why?The Veeam Hardened Repo (VHR) is definitely in my top 10 list of product features. However, as with any IT system, having it in place means that it needs to be maintained. Veeam's own components are maintained by Veeam during patches or upgrades. With the initial release of 12.1, updating a VHR is still a partly manual task. You will need to enable SSH to do this. Cumulative Update 1 to 12.1 should allow us to update the Veeam services without having to enable SSH: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/upgrade-of-vbr-to-12-1-with-hardened-repo-t91251.htmlBut there is more to it than that! The Linux underneath also needs to be maintained. Update your Linux underneathFor example, as Ubuntu is one of the recommended distributions to use with a VHR, this is of course easily achieved through its package management system APT.We always recommend using LTS releases. With those you immediately get 5 years of update support after their initial release date. For 20.04

In the realm of IT infrastructure and data management, the terms "replication" and "backup" are often used interchangeably, leading to misconceptions about their functionalities. While both processes involve duplicating data, they serve distinct purposes in safeguarding data integrity and availability. Understanding the fundamental disparities between data replication and backup is pivotal for designing a robust data protection strategy. The Essence of ReplicationReplication primarily focuses on mirroring data from one location or system to another in real-time or near-real-time. It ensures data consistency across different environments, enabling high availability and disaster recovery. The goal of replication is to maintain synchronized copies of data to facilitate continuous operations and minimize downtime in case of hardware failure or site disasters.The synchronicity of replication is also its biggest weak point – all errors in the data and all compromised data is propagated to th

Good morning, I'm trying to install VEEAM 9.5 on a WINDOWS 10 that is virtualized in VMWARE 8, but at the time of installation it gives me a certificate error with ID 110, according to KB2137, I would have to contact VEEAM support, the guy who helped me couldn't solve it, so I came to the community to see if anyone had experienced this problem. With VEEAM 10 AND VEEAM 12 we were able to install but 9.5 generates this error, but I need Veeam 9.5 because the others do not accept VCENTER 5.1, another detail when I install VEEAM 9.5 on VMWARE 6.7 it works correctly.

Hello, First of all Happy New Year! I have been working on a veeam implementation report using the AsBuiltReport framework created by Tim Carman @tpcarman see report here: Project Report: https://github.com/rebelinux/AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR Sample Report: https://technomyth.zenprsolutions.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Veeam-VBR-As-Built-Report.html Now the important thing, I would like to add to the report if the backup server is configured with an Enterprise Manager. Does anyone know if there is a way in powershell to identify which Enterprise Manager the Backup server is connected to? Thanks in advance!

Hello guys, I was looking the new Security and Compliance feature. In my lab the following recommendations are marked as passed :For the first one if I look in the configuration of my proxies the NBDSSL is not checked For the second, I don’t have configure encryption for the LAN backup networkSo I don’t know why by default Veeam mention them as passed. Any idea?​​​​​​​

Veeam released V7a of VB365 just recently (Dec 5th, 2023).https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-f47/current-version-is-1-0-0-860-ga-t39185.htmlThe KB for the patches to 7.0 has all the changes of 7.0.x: https://www.veeam.com/kb4425With a new major release (e.g. V7) we get the changes within the “what’s new” document: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_m365_7_0_whats_new_wn.pdfThere does not seem to be a “what’s new” document for 7a (7.1.x). Here I can only find the full release notes which makes it kind of hard to determine changes.Did anyone find the specific changes within 7a already?

Just a heads up for a hotfix to VB365.We recently faced multiple errors within our MSP stack for VB365:Processing mailbox xyz failed with error: There is an error in XML document (1, 5332).. The specified type was not recognized: name='SharingMessage' Turned out to be a problem introduced by some changes Microsoft applied to M365.Veeam published a hotfix just a few days later: https://www.veeam.com/kb4527It’s applicable to the most recent version of 7 (7.0.0.4388) as well as 7a (7.1.0.1301) and I can confirm it to solve the issue.You have to stop all services and replace Veeam.Ews.dll in 4 different locations.Make sure to rename or copy the files to be replaced beforehand and have or create a backup of the VB365 system.  

A much awaited feature request is coming to Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5.1. This will require Veeam Backup and Replication 12.1. It is the ability to scan backups with SureBackup. This will not be the full blown version like the vSphere edition with Data Labs capabilities but it is a good start. The need to protect your restore points from malware and ransomware attacks it a must. Customers can no longer wait for an infection to happen. As you see in the headlines when attacks happen, these could have already been dormant in the company for some time. I heard this time and time again. It just takes one time for a bad actor to be successful but you have to be correct one hundred percent of the time. SureBackup allows for scanning backups utilizing your antivirus software or Yara rules. If you search google this is what you will find as a definition for Yara - Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym. Veeam Data Platform 12.1 will bring radical resilience to assist in a time of need. If you are

Just a short post today - I cherry picked a couple of my favourite features of 12.1. There were so many to choose from, but the features I love best in new releases are often the big heroes that hide in the shadows.  Maintenance mode enhancements — running Cloud Connect Replication jobs and Cloud Connect CDP policies will now be stopped gracefully and prevented from starting automatically for the duration of the maintenance mode. This one has long been a thorn for us Service Providers. You put the environment into maintenance mode, but replicas continue to come through. I’m excited to see this new feature being implemented! Now maintenance on CC environments are going to be much less troublesome! PostgreSQL database support — following multiple optimizations and QA testing, starting from v12.1 we’re removing the previous recommendation not to use PostgreSQL as a configuration database for  Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructures.Huge feature here! No longer will we be chained to expensive

I built a Hardened Repository using the ISO provided here many months ago.  Very happy with it, until I decided to upgrade Veeam to 12.1.  Now it wants to update components on the Hardened Repository end or it will no longer be usable, which it can’t.  Is there a workflow to deal with this or do I have to start all over again on the Hardened Repository side?

One of the things I have been looking at recently is automating the process of upgrading Veeam Agents. The great thing with Veeam Service Provider Console is how easy we can bulk update agents from one place. However, I wanted to take it a step further and have this totally automated - mainly because I am lazy. To do so, I have used the VSPC API to do this for me. I am not the most proficient with PowerShell, someone can probably make this run more efficiently. However the below script works just fine for me, so thought I would share it with the community. I use this via an Azure Function that runs every morning and kicks off an upgrade of any agents that require it, however you could schedule this from a RMM product etc, whatever works best for yourself. At the moment there is no property in the VSPC API to show if an agent requires an upgrade, so it starts by adding this property by comparing the installed version to the current released version (this part you manually have to update

I have a basic question. I am using VMWare ESXi Free license and the Free Veeam Backup. Was using just the Windows Agent for a long time but am now using the Backup and Recovery 12. I have an OLD ESXi host running a Windows 2012 Essentials server, and a new ESXi host I am transferring it to for legacy purposes. For Testing I originally just copied the Virtual Machine files to the new box, registered the VM and that worked. When I finally decided to actually move the machine I tested by restoring a backup from Veeam windows agent to the VM as a bare metal recovery. This worked the first time, and the second time. I was testing on the weekends after hours so there was a week between. The next week I decided to actually do it following the procedure that had been successful previously. The restore said it completed successfully, but the server would not boot normally and went to the Recovery Console. It apparently had problems with the active directory database.I tried this several more t

Hello,I have a Hyper-V host with 2012 R2 on it and already added to Veeam as a host and it was working fine.One day I found a VM backup job fail.I tried to rescan the host and found the error Access Denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))I tried to edit the host and check the credentials and found I removed the job and removed the host and tried to add it again but the same error in image above appears.I don’t know where the issue comes from. The credentials are the same didn’t change  Regards,Muhammad

We ended up losing our file server disk, we make a backup with the Veeam agent because it is a physical machine, but several files are corrupted, and I can't get them out of Veeam, I saw that there is a Veeam tool that can help to recover these files but I couldn't find them.

Hi guysI’m having a problem that I can’t seem to resolve.Perhaps someone already have had the same error or experience.Environment :It’s not on a production environment, but on my personal lab I’m using NAS backup of a big file-share to an on-premise repository without any issues I’m using a secondary copy of this backup to another repository without any issues I want to have next to that also a secondary copy of this backup to object storage in the cloudSince version 12 of VBR that is possible, before it was only possible to use object storage for the archive backup of a NAS-backup.I’m having an account at iDRIVE for E2 Immutable object storage.With that latest copy I’m having an issue that I can’t seem to resolve.Because it’s on my lab with my NFR license, I can’t create a support case for this 🤣 Issue : The job start, but after a while I’m getting the following error :  HTTP exception: WinHttpReceiveResponse_callback_timeout: 12152: The server returned an invalid or unrecognized re

Hello,How would my Backup copy Job chain look?Backup Jobs are 7 restore points (Incrementals + Synthetic Fulls)Backup Copy Jobs will also have 7 Restore points.As I’m going trough some old discussions I can see that with Forward incrementals and first Full Backup with backup copy jobs everything has stay above 7 restore points.Also one more question, do I need to seed backup copy jobs if I’m going to use WAN Acceleration in High Bandwidth Mode 

Hello all,What would be your recommendations on Initial Seed for Backup copy Jobs over WAN Accelerator to Secondary site?Do I need to manually copy full backup of each VM that will go over WAN to secondary site or is there some Veeam functionalities that are build for this?What would be your approach