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Hi all,In this blog series, I’m going to talk about plenty of things around the sizing and architecting for using Object Storage with Veeam Backup & Replication. Each part of this blog series covers different topics and things.The first part of Sizing and Architecting for Object Storage with Veeam covers the following topics:On-premises vs cloud object storage Pro’s and Con’s regarding on-premises and cloub object storage How does Object Lock & Block Generation work with Veeam What is Compliance and Governance Mode ?Feel free to check out the blog post here, as I don’t copy and paste the content here :) https://www.virtualhome.blog/2024/08/27/object-storage-with-veeam-sizing-and-architecting-part-2/

Morning All. We are in the process of adjusting Proxy resources as we go live with our Veeam implementation. What would be really helpful would be to see the number of disks a job processed. I just can’t find the report in Veeam One. Anyone know of such a report or better still where this info is ?ThanksPhil

Hi Guys, here is a good one.We have one job, protecting VMs in 2 different VMWare Virtual Centres. Each VC has its own proxies.VC1 is Netapp NFS datastores and we use Auto selection of transport mode (Direct Storage)VC2 is Dell HCI with iscsi datastores so we can only use Hot Add.The issue is that Veeam doesn’t appear intelligent enough to pick the right proxy for the VM. Its choosing an HCI proxy to protect a 3 tier VM and hence fails to NBD mode.How does the Veeam Proxy selection work ? Surely it can work out the basics and choose a Proxy in the same VC/host as the target VM, and on the same or similar network and not a completely different one.The issue is that if it can’t, we will need to split VMs into different jobs which is far from ideal.ThanksPhil

I know the Veeam M365 licensing is on a per user basis , e.g. every customer user assigned an M365 license = 1 Veeam Backup for M365 license. But for those customers on per device licensing (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/licensing-activation/device-based-licensing) , how is this handled? Can’t find anything relevant.

Hi all, hope you did not miss the new release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8.0, earlier this week. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 will deliver the most comprehensive and flexible immutability for Microsoft 365 data. Now organizations can ensure their Microsoft 365 data is resilient employing a zero-trust, multi-layered immutable strategy, making certain backup data is safe from potential changes or deletions so that its original integrity stays intact.Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 combines immutable backups with existing immutable copies, delivering total defense for organizations’ backups. In addition to enhanced immutability, Veeam enables increased enterprise scale and efficiency with Veeam Proxy Pools. This architectural update boosts backup processing speed by distributing traffic across multiple proxies.Key features of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 include:Comprehensive Immutability: The most comprehensive backup immutability for Microsoft 365 on the market Enter

This is me being a bit lazy, so apologize in advance. Does anyone have a script, or know of a VBR type report which retrieves change rate for VMs in a Backup Job? Obviously I know about VONE, but we don’t use that (maybe I can do a temp 30-day trial install...but would like something a bit quicker and temporary). I’ve run into a situation since last wk where 1 or a few VMs in a job have changed the backup rate significantly since last wk, by almost 10-fold, causing me to run out of space not only on this Job Repo, but my storage array! I’m trying to work through it, but would like to know the culprit(s) to let the app owners know to chill! haha There was a couple app VMs with updates, etc since last wk, so I have an idea a little bit of what’s going on. But, I’d like to pinpoint things a bit better.Thank you Community!

For those of you that either work for service providers or leverage a VSPC enabled Veeam Cloud Connect one of the options is to leverage VSPC to automate the upgrade of one or more Veeam Backup & Replication to the latest version. This is a great use case for a distributed organizations with multiple VBRs.If you are a end customer you will need to work with your service provider to gain access to VSPC for this process.Once you login navigate to Computers and Backup Servers. Once you select your VBR(s) you can choose Manage Updates\Upgrade Server.In the first step of the wizard I recommend that you keep the default of downloading directly from a Veeam server. Do make sure that any and all servers have at least 3x the ISO size free on the system disk to allow for download and working space. As of VSPC 8.1 Veeam will allow for saving credentials for future upgrade use but at least for this version you still have to actively provide credentials that the management agent can use to int

Something New!I am creating a new series of blog posts with the goal of highlighting a feature or capability that one of our object storage partners has which can benefit the Veeam community.  I will continue to publish new blogs as part of my ongoing Veeam Amazing Object Storage Tips & Techniques, which will focus on non-vendor specific topics. Optimizing OSNEXUS QuantaStor for use with Veeam Storage Class Auto-Tiering Rule:When Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v9.5.4 added the S3 compatible object storage backed Capacity Tier to its Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR) back in January of 2019, it was the start of my object storage journey within Veeam.  During this 5 ½ year journey I have had the opportunity to work with many of our object storage partners and I have witnessed the work they have done to enable their object storage to work more efficiently with VBR and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VB365).One of those object storage partners, OSNEXUS, recently released version

Hi all,In this blog series, I’m going to talk about plenty of things around the sizing and architecting for using Object Storage with Veeam Backup & Replication. Each part of this blog series covers different topics and things.The first part of Sizing and Architecting for Object Storage with Veeam covers the following topics:Calculating your real block size on disk, which helps you with sizing object storage for Capacity or Performance Tier in Veeam General Best Practices when using Veeam & Object StorageFeel free to check out the blog post here, as I don’t copy and paste the content here :) https://www.virtualhome.blog/2024/08/21/sizing-and-architecting-for-object-storage-with-veeam-part-1/ Would love any feedback, comments, and thoughts on this :=)

We all learnt about the recent update to Veeam Backup and Replication 12.2. A lot of Legends have written excellent pieces and I will kindly let you take a look at one of the articles yourself.    Also, @Chris.Childerhose recently also performed an upgrade to the latest version. Kindly take a look at his article as well. Because this topic has been dealt with already, I will proceed with the upgrade steps just to add more colours to Chris’ images :-)  Note: Before proceeding with these steps, I recommend taking a look at the upgrade checklist to ensure an error-free upgrade. kindly keep in mind that a reboot is also required for the upgrade To download the Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2 ISO image, kindly navigate to the following URL Upon clicking on Download, you will be redirected to enter your login credentials. Upon download, navigate to the download folder and mount the image.Upon mounting the image, double click on the setup as shown below.On the upgrade screen, click on upg

customer is transitioning (hopefully) from netbackup to Veeam however netbackup appliances are achieving 10:1, 15:1 and even 20:1.Our new targets with Veeam will be NetApp e-series so I’m therefore looking for use cases around Veeams capability to dedup/compress etc. What ratios could we see? Use cases? real life experiences etc.Yes fully understand its all about the data but I’m thinking about typical VMs, maybe some SQL databases etc.Would appreciate your experiences.thanks

Hey guys a new question for you !Do you implement Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager in your installation ? VEM is usefull to manage jobs across multiple Veeam backups servers, centrally manage licences or delegate restoration operations through backup portal.But in a small infrastructure I have doubts about its usefulness, it will install additional components like IIS which are potentially vulnerable.In Security Analyzer there is a checkbox "Password loss protection must be enabled", which means that VEM must be installed, but to be honest I never used this feature except one time since I use Veeam. 

I’ve posted this already in our VCSP-NA but it’s worth sharing elsewhere, new KB just dropped with very high CVE scores on probably all the software you might be using. Please review and start patching. https://www.veeam.com/kb4649

With the release of the version 8 of VB 365, some additional permissions are needed on the registred app. Nothing to think about when you’re deploying a new app, but when you’re upgrading, you coudl re-use the existing app and extend it with the new requirements. I’m not a programmer, but I’ve tried to setup a small powershell script that based on your Application ID adds the necessary rights and also adds the app to the Global Reader role.Feel free to check and modify it ! Could be a time-saver ! # Ensure that the required modules are installedInstall-Module -Name AzureAD -Force -AllowClobberInstall-Module -Name Microsoft.Graph -Force -AllowClobber# Import modulesImport-Module AzureADImport-Module Microsoft.Graph# Connect to the Microsoft TenantWrite-Host "Connecting to Microsoft Tenant..." -ForegroundColor CyanConnect-AzureAD# Get Application (App Registration) ID$appId = Read-Host "Please enter the Application (Client) ID for the App Registration"# Get the Application's Object ID$ap

I am outgrowing my single Veeam B&R server.  I have about 120Tb of local storage on the server, 256Gb RAM, 2x10c procs and backing up about 100 VMs in Hyper-V.  I am getting a lot of contention now for resources when jobs are being run.  Backing up all VM’s to local storage and also replicating jobs offsite to secondary datacenter that we have direct connectivity to.  It’s confusing to me how I add another server to this mix so I can offload some of these processes to another server(s).  I can spin up a VM or I can install a physical server, but storage, for now, will stay on the local Veeam server.  I would still like to maintain all the jobs on the existing Veeam server, but add proxies maybe to offload the job processing?  This is where I am stuck with how to scale beyond the single Veeam server.

Description:1. SAP Plugin Backup - Data Encryption:Requesting the ability to encrypt data within SAP Plugin backups. This feature is critical to ensuring data security and compliance with industry standards.2. MS SQL Plugin Backup - Data Encryption:Requesting the ability to encrypt data within MS SQL Plugin backups. Like the SAP Plugin, encryption is essential for maintaining data integrity and security.3. Health Check for SAP & MS SQL Plugin Backups:Requesting the ability to enable health checks for both SAP and MS SQL Plugin backups. This feature would enhance the reliability and consistency of backups by ensuring the integrity of the data.4. SQL Plugin Backup Management via VBR:Requesting the creation of a feature that allows SQL Plugin backups to be managed directly from the Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) interface. This integration would streamline the backup process and centralize management within the VBR console.Justification:These features are essential for enhancing

Veeam server collecting too many files in the Index\Machines folder. The issue is with only VM . The retention period is 20 restore points , but seeing more than 20 folders with different dates. We are using  Enterprise manager . Tried deleting old  folders from the index folder for this machine and monitored , but still seeing more than 20 folders. I think retention is not working. Please advise. 

As you may have seen VB365 v8 was released today. This is a very impactful release for me and my company so I took the time to document some first thoughts today. Please check this out on my blog https://www.koolaid.info/veeam-backup-for-microsoft365-v8-release-thoughts/ where I talk about things such as proxy pools, architecture, permissions and object storage!

How large may a partition be on an iSCSI-connected Alletra4000 storage that is to be backed up using Veeam Storage integration?

Hello folks,Attempting a bare metal recovery on similar new hardware as a server was hijacked.Backups are encrypted (password known) and I can see the restore points in Veeam Community Edition 12.Sadly everytime I try to access/unpack/recover the files it gives me(A) an error message that alway include the text “Not supported for read-only access. (B) currently a CHMOD value ranging from 80-190 Example Restore job failed Error:Storage version [830813235] is not supported for read-only access.Failed to open storage for read access. Storage: [Server1 BUD2024-08-01T230026_070F.vib].Failed to restore file from local backup. VFS link: [summary.xml]. Target file: [MemFs://frontend::CDataTransferCommandSet::RestoreText_{0ba8e79c-f75a-4323-bdeb-ae273994eeed}]. CHMOD mask: [137].Restore job failed Error: Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.RestoreText}. Anybody have any pointers how I can extract the files from the backups? Would appreciate your input. Other threads read:Drive incompat

I am implementing AntiForgery into a WebApplication. Whilst I know this works server side using the AntiForgery Library by adding a hidden element and then validating it on a master page event, we have hundreds of ASPX Page WebMethods to consider when it comes to client side implementation with jQuery or reactJs.Is there a way of creating a filter to tag onto WebMethods that does an AntiForgery check?

Although the post is very small, the news in it is big 😃With v12 you can start a Active Full backup of a single VM processed by a job. Just open the progress dialog of the job and right-click the VM you want to backup. As you can see, this can also be used to run a Retry just for selected machines. Important: this will just work when you use the also new feature in v12: True per-machine backup files 

This is going to be huge change. VeeamON never disappoints! 

I have a strange issue and have been trying to solve it for a few days now.  Fresh install of Veeam Backup 12 for the purpose of migrating a few dev/test VMs from one ESXi server to another.  The install went proper, I created a Ubuntu 24 server on each ESXi server and installed the backup proxy components via the GUI in VBR which registered them there.  Since this is more of a migration project, there isn’t a need for a separate backup repository.  When creating a quick migration job, everything goes well until the backup proxy selection.  The only Backup Proxy that is available is the VBR server and not the actual proxy servers themselves.  Since the migration job is having to use the VBR server as the proxy, the performance is horrid.  I have performed:-repair on VBR 12-reconfigured the proxy servers from VBR GUI (no errors)-proxy servers are on same VLAN as VBR server so no firewall challenges Any thoughts on what I have missed?  Thank you all

 ANYONE, your assistance please ! "Failed to retrieve certificate" 1. Another offsite DB file backup to azure Blob storage A passed for another server(db server). 2. This same exchange server DB file successfully backups to an azure blob storage B from BUEXEC. Why not for veeam 12.1?