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I have a virtual Backup Server and the Repository is a SMB NAS repository and I keep the backup there for 30 days, does it make sense to activate Synthetic Full Backup in such an environment or is forever incremental better?

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  Sometimes, it is necessary to go back to the basics. After all, we have many protocols and stacks that drive IT solutions. I was rereading my notes from an SNIA training and came across this post from Erik Smith. A good overview of what's under the hood of the various types of implementations and protocols for data storage. This post is a bit old but reflects the many storage classic protocols and integrations. 😀Reference:https://brasstacksblog.typepad.com/brass-tacks/2016/07/storage-protocol-stacks.html

Hi Everyone It’s Ootbi!Ootbi is Everywhere and now at the Hub! Today Ootbi showed up at the Veeam Community Hub. Ootbi took one look and loved it. So many brilliant people posting interesting and helpful topics! Ootbi decided to participate as well and hijacked NKGG’s account! Its ok Ootbi is NKGG’s friend so all good.Remember though in real life never let anyone use your account or credentials anywhere for anything!So who and what is Ootbi? Ootbi stands for Out of the box Immutability! Ransomware is getting worse all the time so you really want Ootbi Everywhere!Why don’t we take our first look at Ootbi?Here is the login screen:Login Screen

Hi Folks, As always in the world of $$ money people will stretch meanings and at times outright make false statements. There is no point in going after them time and time again. Instead just make sure to read and understand the guidelines provided by the source. Veeam have created a great white paper on Zero Trust in Data Protection. They have spelled things out to make it easy for everyone to understand. You can read it here: https://www.veeam.com/whitepapers/pragmatic-approach-to-implementing-zero-trust_wp.pdfAt the end of the day the goal is to defeat ransomware. So approaches that don’t follow what Veeam have stated means that you are taking more risk. Be very careful as I have seen advertising using the terminology of Zero Trust but describing something that is doing the exact opposite of Zero Trust. 

We just moved a couple of servers to a new volume in NetApp using its new large file/volume feature. Nothing has changed on the backup job except the volume that it is backing up. The smaller server around 3TB was able to be backed up using SAN but the other server that is approximately 43 TB is being backed up using NBD. Prior to the move, both servers are doing SAN direct.  I would think that since these are both on the same volume is one has been successfully backed up using SAN the other should as well. Both servers are also in the same compute cluster and both are using the same proxies. What is causing this behavior?

Good morning guys,I recently noticed that some of our M365 backup jobs (various tenants and various backup VMs) always complete with warnings. We are having this problem for about a week or so. The messages always look like this:Failed to backup item: /personal/testuser_testdomain_com/Documents/Todo.one, Download request retry timeout exceeded. Has anybody of you noticed similar problems when trying to backup OneNote-Files? Thank you very much best regardsyanni4iwx

Just a heads up for those of you using Veeam plugins. Especially, if they are unmanaged by VBR, which we see quite often for the large line of business applications.Today we have plugins for SAP-HANA, SAP on Oracle (Linux only), Oracle RMAN (Windows and Linux), IBM Db2 and MS-SQL.Having done quite a few upgrades for larger customers recently, I had to learn some non-obvious peculiarities about plugin compatibility:First, you might think (as I did), that VBR always supports the plugin of the major release below the one you’re upgrading to. In fact, it says so in the help center: “Veeam Backup & Replication supports the latest two major versions of Veeam Plug-ins.” (System Requirements - Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications).The challange is in the term “major version”. To me, that would have meant

Hi Everyone, So I am being sent on a secret mission and decided to do a video training people how not to look like a Veeam Agent when on secret missions!!  

Hello guys, I wanted to create a topic on how migrate from MS SQL to PostgreSQL but I’m facing to an issue.I m following the procedure : https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/vbr_config_migrate_to_postgresql.html?ver=120At the “Target Database” step I choose “Database: PostgreSQL”Then I click to connect and I obtain the following message : For me I don’t have to create a database first, right? For me Veeam should proprose to create the database like this:

Good dayHave anyone perhaps had this problem that I am experiencing now post upgrade to V12.1 and migrating DB to PostgreSQL 15.5-1.DB migration showed all tasks successful.When trying to open any job report it gives this error“invalid XML content” Thanks

Hopefully no one uses exFAT but if you do check out this KB referencing corrupted files that are possible.KB4233: exFAT Filesystem may corrupt Veeam backup files

I want to document all jobs.Is there a solution for this?First, how can these data be obtained, and secondly, is there a ready-made Excell template for this?I want to document all the jobs and if there is a solution that also documents the entire veeam backup structure, that would be great.Please provide any suggestions you have.

Hi everyone, I am planning to add new SOBR for existing environment (x2 Hyper-V host actually) connecting to the tape library with simple deployment scenario. While we plan to add a new HPE StoreOnce to the infrastructure, is it possible to install the gateway server on the host?Or should it be installed on the backup server?       

I have a Vsan Cluster with 3 ESXi (25Gb Network) and a vm with Veeam 12 and a physical Windows Repository connected with 20 Gb20 VMs must be backup , 3TB ca I am planning how much proxy I need, I am not sure if the proxy installed in the VM where B&R is installed is enough or should I install an additional proxy per Esxi?      

I’ve come across this twice now, and I’m curious if any of you have seen it.  I have a relatively new client that we setup backups for with a copy job to run to a Wasabi bucket.  I have set the repo for 30 days of immutability.  I’m having issues with one of the VM’s being backed up and decided to just blow it away.  Backups are fine, but the copy job has failed on this VM for a couple of months (the newest restore point is from the end of November) due to an odd error when Application Aware Processing is enabled.  Since AAP isn’t really needed for this VM, my plan was to  work around this error and move this VM to a separate backup and copy job where AAP is not enabled but moving to the new job failed.  So I tried to delete the data, and that also failed.  I get the error that the data is immutable until October.  What am I missing here? 

I have a newer client that I recently deployed VBR for that is managed by our Service Provider Console.  At some point in time I stopped getting reports from VBR in the SPC.  The Management Agent was talking to the SPC, but I was getting no information from VBR.  After opening a case with support and uploading logs (kudo’s to the Veeam team for making it so easy to create cases and upload logs within the SPC), support noted the below error found in the logs. 2024-01-22 22:00:19.9095 [ERROR ] 5684 [__21] BackupServerDiscovery: Exception thrown in method CollectBackupServerFromWMISafe from BackupServerDiscovery Exception: System.Management.ManagementException: Access denied2024-01-22 22:00:19.9095 [ERROR ] 5684 [__21] BackupServerDiscovery: Exception thrown in method CollectBackupServerFromWMISafe from BackupServerDiscovery Exception: System.Management.ManagementException: Access denied Support listed two possibl

Hi everyone,We’re using Veeam B&R 11 standard edition.  We are a small museum with a large repository of information of digitised versions of the collections - essentially a file server with multiple disks.  We had an issue whereby our largest server had to be reimported to VSphere and was picked up as a new VM by Veeam.  I’m looking for options to minimise WAN usage to seed our offsite backups of the large VM.Can I copy a new full backup of VM to a second site, scan the second site repo and start a parallel backup strategy there?  Essentially, the same full backup would be the first backup in two parallel backup trees.  The backup source is a single VM of approximately 40TB, so I would rather not run a full backup across our VPN.  I’m worried that Veeam will not like two repositories starting with the same data, if they ultimately diverge.Why would I not just run a copy job instead of backing up the same data twice?  The two sites have vastly different rete

Hey guysWe’re doing some VeeamZIPs and directly restore VMs them to a backup-NAS which is added in Veeam via SMB. Since beginning of the year (or even before. The last restore was made on the 30th November 2023) we’re not able to do this operation anymore. We’re getting the following error message: “Restore job failed Error: Cannot complete file creation operation.” The logs show the following: [05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error Restore job has been failed[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error Make datastore directory failed, datacenter ref = datacenter-2, directory name = "[backupnas] backup20240103-xxx" (System.Exception)[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error bei Veeam.Backup.ViSoap.CSoapConnection.CreateDatastoreDirectory(String datacenterRef, String dirName)[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error bei Veeam.Backup.ViSoap.CSoapDatastore25.CreateDirectory(CSoapDatast

Are Folder exclusions in NAS file share backup jobs case sensitive?

So I am attempting to restore files from offsite backup copy to a ServerB at the offsite.From the VBR console I choose to guest files restore from the backup Copy. Then I entered \\ServerB\x$ as the target location. However the restore is happening over the WAN. Any ideas?

Hi team! Just announced today. I believe you already know about these changes, but the amount of changes and at once is impressive. VMware End of Availability of perpetual licensing and associated products (96168)  VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus VMware vSphere+ VMware vSphere Standard (excluding subscription) VMware vSphere ROBO VMware vSphere Scale Out VMware vSphere Desktop VMware vSphere Acceleration Kits VMware vSp

Hello,I'm posting for the first time.Here is my production configuration: Windows server 2019 on an Intel 10900KF platform in Raid 1.I create my image with Veeam Agent for windows (6.0.2.1090)on a USB HDD. everything works fineThen I want to remount my Veeam backup on a test server.Installation on a test server Intel 12100 platform in non-raid, Veeam B&R 12.1.0.21.31 installation, Hyper-v role installation.When I want to do an instant recovery of my Veeam backup,here's the error message :Failed to modify guest OS settingsA 'System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException' has been thrownhere's the screenshotThanks in advance for your help

Frequently I'm ask in how to monitor backup jobs of Veeam externally Veeam servers.I know that we can do this easy with Veeam One. But here I’m going to show you a solution to monitor backup jobs having only a Veeam Backup Server (without VEM or VONE).So, the application I’m talking about is Checkmk. Checkmk is a monitoring software usually used on NOC (Network Operations Center) environments. However, this is an easy tool to deploy and very light to hav in our backup environment. VersionsCheckmk has a free and commercial version:Checkmk Raw Edition (CRE) – Free and 100% Open Source. It even incorporates Nagios into its core. You can use it to monitor entire environments. Support for this release is available through the Checkmk community forum.Checkmk Enterprise Free Editio