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NewsI would like to share with you a recipe from my "Script Kitchen" that I'm in the process of matching ingredients to. The question I asked myself: Do you really need to protect your Entra ID tenant(s)? My answer: see below ;) IntroEntra ID stores a variety of settings and policies that are important to the continuity of your business. Anything that compromises your Entra ID configuration can result in an immediate loss of access to data and applications. So how about exporting the information to another location so it can be analyzed and imported or reconfigured if something bad happens? And how about adding a retention to the exported data?Microsoft provides some built-in retention mechanisms (Recycle Bin), but these mechanisms are not enough to meet the needs of most organizations. The Recycle Bin stores deleted objects such as users and groups for 30 days. Some limitations which I associate with it:- After 30 days the deleted objects are permanently deleted and cannot be recovere

Hi everyone,I have an issue with my Veeam Media Recovery iso for Windows. I would like to use it on an Openstack cloud platform, but this iso won't boot.I know that Veeam doesn't support officially this, but I'ld like to know if somebody here try this ?The iso was generated from my Veeam B&R 11.0.1.1261 on a Windows 2016 server backup.Here what I tried :  - testing the iso on VMware environment = work  - upload the iso on Openstack  - run the iso with a flavor which have  1 cpu, 2Gb RAM and 1Gb HDDresult = No bootable device was found  - create a volume from the iso  - make it bootable  - run the volume with a flavor which have  1 cpu, 2Gb RAM and 1Gb HDDresult = No bootable device was foundFor your information, the same step work very well with my VMR iso for Linux on my Openstack platform. I have this issue only with WindowsThanks for your help

HelloIm looking for an openshift backup solution and would like to have details about kind of objects can be backed up with Veeam\Kasten.I guess that backup of Deployments, DeploymentConfigs, StatefulSets and VMs is a “must” so what about ability to restore, if necessary, a simple secret, service-account… Can we do that?Another topic, it is possible to create a SLA selecting as source of data an specific project? Where can I find out detailed product features?Best Regards

Hey guys! Recently I write a blog post about restoring backups to AWS. I normally write in brazilian portuguese but I thought will be a good content to translate and send here too. Like a say, I will detail all the pre-requisites and scenarios to restore backups to AWS using Veeam.This can be useful in three scenarios:Restore your on-premises environment directly to EC2 machines on Amazon. Migrate your on-premises environment to AWS. Create a test environment of your on-premises infrastructure on AWS to validate patching, for example. Pre-requisites As always it is important that we understand the prerequisites of the solution. And in this case we are still involving a solution external to Veeam, which is AWS. Supported backup types  First, we have the supported Veeam backup types for restoring to AWS. Are they: Backups of vSphere or vCoud Director VMs created by Veeam Backup & Replication. Hyper-V VM backups created by Veeam Backup & Replication. Backup VMs and physical machin

Hi all, last week I deployed a new storage array.  I’ve migrated all production VM’s as well as replica’s that resided on the datastores, except for CDP replica’s.  I cannot for the life of me figure out how to migrate the CDP replica’s and update the CDP policy to point to the new datastores. Storage vMotion inexplicably gets cancelled by a user later on - assuming that’s VBR even though I currently have the policy disabled.  That said, I can’t modify the specified datastore below as well - all is disabled.  I thought I might clone the policy, but it looks like CDP policies can’t be cloned like backup and copy jobs - not a big deal but also caught me off-guard.So am I missing something, or do I need to recreate the policy and restart replication from scratch?  

Hello all,I’m currently testing Veeam for Salesforce. All works fine. I just don’t manage to get eMail Alerts up and running. I set the alert and the Connection Setup to Microsoft O365 with classic connection. When sending Test email I receive Error: G6HH: Notification channel configuration is invalid, please verify your settings.Trace Id: 293b541a6b68e109Can anybody help me with this error msg?ThanksRainer

if I have a backup job with GFS, and then the job is saved in a backup copy job, will the GPS backup also be taken over or do I also have to set GFS in the backup copy job?

Hello everyone,have you read the latest news?https://www.veeam.com/news/cirrus.htmlIntroducing Cirrus by Veeam – Backup as a ServiceI understand that it is a SaaS, but what are the major differences in functionality with the existing Veeam products (Veeam backup for Azure and Veeam backup for 365) ?What will be the implications on future developments of the respective solutions? Edit: I’ve just found a post on Veeam Forum with the same argument, let’s follow the progress  https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-cloud-providers-forum-f34/cirrus-clarifications-t90286.html

This error happened to one of our clients. The backup chains’ status is good without any issues.VBR v12 guest file restore---happen error message is as below:Secondary GPT header LBA 209715199 exceeds the size of the disk (86401630720)Agent failed to process method {Mount.GenericMount)  I tried to change the mount server of the repository, but I still had no luck.This VM has only one virtual disk (C:) with 9GB of free space. I cannot restore files from any existing restore points. (actually, I cannot mount any restore point to the mount server).I tried to create a new test backup job to back up the VM and tried to restore the guest file from the first restore point (full backup chain) but got the same error. So, I expend the C drive to add 10GB more storage space to it, then rerun the backup job.Now, I can mount the incremental restore point, but I still cannot mount the full backup restore point.This issue is solved, but all the existing restore points cannot be mounted before expandi

If the backup jobs fail and show an error message is “Unable to allocate processing resources. Error: Unable to find Hyper-V hosts where VM 'xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx' is registered: Failed to connect to Hyper-V Integration Service on host, port 6163”. I tried to review the settings, and all of them look fine, but the backup jobs failed always. I have run into these issues sometimes, it’s easy to solve, you just need to reboot the Veeam management server or restart the Veeam services of the Veeam management server.

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

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

I wanted to share a couple Veeam errors I experienced on my Replication (DR-side) server after I replaced server hardware. Not sure if anyone has experienced either of these errors, but they were quite frustrating to work through. Let me know if you had a similar experience/occurrence and what you did to resolve it. Maybe what I share here will help someone.As I was replacing hardware in my DR side vSphere Clusters, on my VBR server, I would perform a vCenter rescan to make sure VBR would see the new Hosts and my Replication jobs would run successfully. Because all the tasks involved with replacing h/w is time-consuming, I was only doing 3-4 Hosts a day (took 3 days for 10 Hosts), so I had to do this rescan several times. I think I only verified 1 or 2 jobs out of around 12 I have, but they run good. On the 2nd day, I noticed 1 of my jobs failed. The error shown was below:So, it appeared to me like Veeam didn’t actually update all references to any of my old Hosts and their associated

Thanks to all those that voted for the next VUG Canada topic for our November 29th session.  We will be discussing Architecture Design & Best Practices so stay tuned for a great webinar.VUG Canada - November 29th -- TOPIC - Architecture Design & BP | Veeam Community Resource Hub@Tyler Jurgens @hinmeister416 

Hi all, we have a physical server DL380 Gen10 with ubuntu LTS that use for Veeam immutable backup. we want to expand the existing repository RAID with anther 9 disks.do we need to break the existing RAID or it’s possible in ubuntu to expand the existing without break?Thanks

hi,  I would like to know, can I keep yearly without monthly on tape with GFS feature ?thank you

I was doing a production backup chains upgrade, and we saw an alert for Microsoft Defender Cloud.It was because the blobs were being rescanned and upgraded by Veeam during the backup chains upgrade.   All was fine.  It's just a triggered alert that could be documented internally as nothing to worry about.  

That was not happening only at VM with the secure boot in the Hyper-V environment. It also impacts VMware.After installing this update on guest virtual machines (VMs) running Windows Server 2022 on some versions of VMware ESXi, Windows Server 2022 might not start up. Only Windows Server 2022 VMs with Secure Boot enabled are affected by this issue. Affected versions of VMware ESXi are versions vSphere ESXi 7.0.x and below.We may ask customers to put them on hold to install the October patch for Windows Server 2022. 

Container runtimes are fundamental components of Kubernetes. It is responsible for managing the execution and lifecycle of containers, and it is necessary to choose and install a container runtime into each worker node in the Kubernetes cluster to run PODs. Container runtimes can be categorized into:• High-level container runtimes: CRI-O, containerd and Docker.• Low-level container runtimes: runc and crun.• Sandboxed and virtual container runtimes: runsc (from gVisor) and kata-runtime/the-runtime (from Kata Containers). The Container Runtime Interface (CRI) is the specification in charge of the communication between the kubelet and the high-level runtimes. The CRI defines gRPC APIs that allow the kubelet to interact as a client with different runtimes. CRI performs an abstraction layer for high-level runtimes.  The high-level runtimes use a lower-level container runtime to run and manage the components required to deploy and operate containers. Open Container Initiative (OCI) specifica

Hello,I'm facing a challenging situation with our Veeam server and vCenter, and I'm seeking assistance to resolve this issue. Here's the scenario:Our Veeam server is not part of our domain.Our domain computers are signed with our Domain Controller (DC) as their root certificate.The vCenter is  not part of the domain.However, the vCenter certificate is assigned by our DC, which acts as the root certificate authority.The primary issue arises when attempting to update the vCenter. I encounter an error, and I've attached a screenshot for reference.Furthermore, it's worth noting that our Veeam server is also not a member of the domain. We are utilizing Veeam Enterprise Manager.I am seeking guidance on how to resolve this matter. What steps or configurations should I consider to ensure a smooth update process for our vCenter and resolve the certificate-related errors?Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your assistance.   

I’m running Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 6.0.2.1090 - Free Edition on my Windows 11 PC and I’ve never come across this issue so far:Open Control Panel Run restore Individual Files Select a backup date browse the backup and select a specific file the file is shown in its current state, not in the state at the time when the backup was run. Even non-existing files at backup time, created after the backup was taken, are shown in the backup treeIs it a bug? Am I supposed to set some configuration parameter?I used to navigate the backup tree and select individual files to restore specific files in their state at the time the backup was run.Thank you in advance  Vieri

 Home Lab upgrade!Hi Folks, recently I wanted to «upgrade» my home lab, and I was thinking the best way to have an affordable, low consumption usable home lab for a ESXi Cluster, nothing fancy, just to be able to deploy a couple of little VMS, play with HA, DRS, shared storage and so on.I started checking out the Intel NUCs, but then I realized that it comes «empty», so it becomes costly at the end.Then, what about HPE Gen 8-9 Servers, «the wife would kill me»They are noisy, expensive and consumes tons of electricity!So, looking over the hardware I have, I looked into my Workstation, a Lenovo P320 which it has 64GB of ram, more than sufficient to run a Nested lab, but I wanted something more realistic, with wires and lights, you know, Im a hardware and wires lover!I kept the Workstation as base Server, Planning tu run there the base or foundational vms I normally run like: vCenter, DNS, AD, a Storage Appliance and a Veeam Server.lets keep it «low profile», so, Nowadays normally we do h

Hey! The first version of Magic Quadrant for Container Management is around! If we compare the companies named leaders by Gartner with those that contributed most to the Kubernetes project last year, we will realize that they are practically the same. Coincidence? I don't think so.These solutions deliver many Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects alongside Kubernetes distributions, like service mesh, security, observability, etc. Container management is a foundation for cloud-native infrastructure and helps enterprises automate container image provisioning, operation, and life cycle management at scale.Remember to protect these platforms with Kasten! :-) 

Greetings everyone...I am working out the resources for physical backup server with local disks. Might I know if my workout is correct?Data size: 30TB (Exchange + File Share)Policy: 30 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly, 3 yearlySource: Sangfor HCI (requires to install agent), single siteAs refer to VSE https://calculator.veeam.com/vse/Backup Server + DB + Repository = 8 CPU, 20GB RAM for Veeam to work(No Proxy and Enterprise Manager required)And will add some resources for Windows OS Regarding storage, 249.43TB from VSE  So I add some buffer and for Windows OS with ~300TB disks space Assumptions:ReFSNo backup copy jobGeneric Pessimistic: daily change 10%, compress ratio 50%, annual growth 10% Is my thinking correctly?

Recently I had to troubleshoot a Veeam Backup & Replication (B&R) problem. There the question popped up which are the running Veeam jobs at point or period of time. The GUI is not a big help to answer this question. Therefore I wrote a small script that show these jobs.The following PowerShell script snippet is quite simple. First, start- (tStart) and end-date/time (tEnd) are asked for input. The following query selects all running Veeam jobs at point or period of time that matches input dates.# Ask for start- and end-date and timeWrite-Host "Enter date in format " ($(get-date).ToString("dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm"))$tStart = Read-Host "Enter start-time (Enter for now)"$tEnd = Read-Host "Enter end-time (Enter for equal to start-time)"if ($tStart -eq '') {$tStart = get-date -Format "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm"}if ($tEnd -eq '') {$tEnd = $tStart}# Check input datatry {$tStart = [DateTime]::Parse($tStart)}catch {Write-Host "start-time wrong input"; continue}try {$tEnd = [DateTime]::Parse($tEnd)}cat