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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
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Fun Friday #59: Goals for 2023

Morning all! Happy Friday! As the first month of 2023 draws to a close, most New Year’s resolutions of being healthy, or picking up a new hobby, or quitting a bad habit, tend to lay in ruins. So I ask, what goals have you got for 2023? It’d be nice to commit them to this topic and then see how everyone did over the year. It could be passing an exam, learning a new technology, a career change, or anything! What’ve you got in mind? I’m aiming to finish my Azure Architect journey by achieving the AZ-305 certification, and learning more about Kubernetes. 🙂

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HangTen416
1 year ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
V11 - New feature - Prioritize primary backup job - why and how it works

While updating our VCSP stack with V11-RTM, I just stumble again onto this small but fine new feature to prioritize your primary backup jobs:More than once I had customers request several jobs to be finished with priority.You could of cause concatenate jobs with the schedule option “After this job:”. But this is not recommended as it does not use the ressources of your backup system accordingly. Valuable proxy/repo slots would linger out-of-work for quite a while.Overlapping jobs would lead to the second job jumping in with the first one still running, so saturating ressources. But this might easily oversteer and thus delay the first job.With the new option this problem can be solved by just the click of a checkbox.Prioritized jobs get a nice little flag in the job list. So how does it work?The Veeam scheduler runs all its tasks according to priorities:800: Restore jobs — restores are obviously the most important jobs 700: Continuous data protection jobs — new CDP ist also considered v

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vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
New role for Linux Hardened Repository in v12: Proxy Server

This no new part about what else is new in v12, because I this is great improvement in the upcoming release.With Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v12 it will be possible to use a Linux Hardened Repository (LHR) server as proxy server. Only limitation seems to be the transport mode. Only Network mode (NBD) is supported! This is because of security reasons. Network Mode was possible to implement without requiring root permissions on service. This is no show-stopper, because it is the most secure among all available transport modes. How does it workHow to get a LHR proxy server to work? It is simple as any other proxy server. Just create a new proxy server in VBR console:And select a LHR server in dropdown list:With that selection you get the information that only Network transport mode is supported for LHR.With confirmation, transport mode is set to Network in repository settings. Next I create a job that uses this proxy for backup. As backup target I use the local Hardened Repositor

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vNote42
1 year ago
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AnanduComes here often
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On veeam one reporting tool

Hey guys,I am trying to get a Veeam Restore report from Veeam One Web client but I am not finding Veeam backup & replication widget. Can anybody suggest what should be done next?

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
asked in Discussion Boards
Backup encryption key testing

Is there a way to test the encryption key on backups without having to run a restore? I ran into a situation recently where the encryption password did not work on restored data. I want to setup Enterprise Manager for everyone, but in the interim, I’d like to manually test each encryption key and reset it/run a new full backup if need be. Is there a way to recover an encryption key with Service Provider Console?

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regnor
1 year ago
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RaviKumarSComes here often
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Veeam Replication Re-IP for VM with multiple network adapters

Hello Team,Quick question - Does the Veeam Replication Re-IP concept work only for VM with Single network adapter?What if the replicating VMs has multiple network adapters? The Re-ip cannot be used?Thanks in advance!~ Ravi Kumar S

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csaha77Comes here often
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Copy backup to USB failed

Job site - Backup USB\site - Backup Job cannot be started Job failed unexpectedly Job finished with error. How do I correct this issue? We have plugged and unplugged USB drive but that did not resolve the issue. Using Veeam Back and Replication 10

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JMeixner
1 year ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #104Veeam Community Recap #104

This week was Veeamazing! Veeam internally had our Launchpad event, which serves as a corporate kickoff and was running concurrently in 5 centers world wide. This was an epic week, so @Rick Vanover and @Madi.Cristil  were not able to record this week. No worries, we have something better: V12 news which we will share in the links below.Below are some pics from the Launchpad event (and yes, Alfred was in the mix!)@Madi.Cristil with Alfred and @haslund El Rickatron at his 13th Veeam Kickoff event. @Viperian put in an Easter Egg quiz… how many times was Alfred in the content? The Linksvia  @MicoolPaul who beat us to the punch on our own V12 Launch event!via @JonahMay VBR 12 Preview: Best Practices Analyzer - Jonah's Blog (jonahmay.net)via @Jim Jones Veeam 12 Preview — Object Storage | 11:11 Systems (1111systems.com) I will be also updating the V12 News Hub later today with these and more links!Who’s NewWe are happy to welcome +125 new members to the Veeam Community. This week’s coolest us

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Madi.Cristil
1 year ago
marcofabbri
marcofabbriOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam: inline deduplication

While I was studying for the VMCE, a detail on deduplication caught my attention.I’m talking about inline deduplication. What's about?Inline deduplication is a feature offered by Veeam B&R and it’s used to reduce the amount of storage space required to store backup data by removing duplicate data. One of the main benefits of inline deduplication is in fact that it can significantly decrease the amount of storage space, amount of time and resources required for backups and this can be especially beneficial for organizations that generate a large amount of data on a regular basis.   Another advantage of inline deduplication is that it can improve the efficiency of backups, ‘cause backups can be completed faster and the amount of data that needs to be transferred and stored is reduced.  An example?An immaginary company named CatsFood has a file server that contains 10 terabytes of data and the organization wants to create a backup of this file server using, proudly, Veeam. Without inl

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dloseke
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam: Storage Snapshots & VMware vSphere Boot from SAN – A Cautionary Tale

 Today’s post is a direct result of experience in the field, and it was certainly an interesting one!I was recently working with a customer that wanted to migrate to the Veeam Availability Suite. They had an Enterprise SAN solution that they were using for booting their VMware ESXi hosts, in addition to storing their workloads on. The customer’s virtual estate was large, with some servers that were highly transactional, and a great candidate for storage snapshots.Everything was going well, until I performed the storage integration with Veeam, and hit a severe issue. after performing the storage rescan, all of the ESXi hosts within the cluster suffered a PSOD near simultaneously. I’ve certainly never seen that before, and upon asking all of my peers in the wider Veeam community and even some Veeam technical contacts, NOBODY had seen this before. The Culprit: The issue thankfully was not one that required much troubleshooting to discover what was going wrong. Each of the ESXi hosts were

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
Chris.Arceneaux
Chris.ArceneauxVeeam MVP
posted in YARA and Script Library
Exporting M365 Mailbox to PST

This script showcases just how easy it is to use Veeam PowerShell cmdlets to export an M365 mailbox. This script is designed to be executed on a Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VB365) v6 server and it's interactive so no parameters are required. Upon execution, the script polls for information which culminates in the specified user mailbox being exported to a PST file.The code in this script could also be referenced to create a script to fully automate the mailbox export process.For more detailed information, please follow the VeeamHub link:https://github.com/VeeamHub/powershell/tree/master/VB365-ExportMailboxToPSTHere’s a screenshot of what it looks like in action: 

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regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
What (else) can happen if an attacker gets administrative access to your backup?

This has been a hot topic since some time: With administrative access to the VBR server, credentials stored in the configuration database can be decrypted.That may sound critical at first, but one shouldn't forget the important detail 'administrative access'.Veeam stores its credentials in an encrypted state using the Microsoft Data Protection API and a Machine key specific to the VBR server. This is a security standard and a safe way of storing passwords, while enabling the Veeam services to use those for authentication.And just like the services, an administrator can access and decrypt the credentials.This is no secret and Veeam has even published a KB article on how to recover credentials from the configuration database: https://www.veeam.com/kb4349And again, please remember that this requires administrative access to the backup infrastructure.In general an administrator or 'root' will always have the highest available permissions and therefore can do anything on a system.This is th

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
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AlexeyGoncharovComes here often
asked in YARA and Script Library
Allow unlicensed agents to consume instances - Powershell

Colleagues, Anyone knows how to enable that checkbox by Powershell? Trying to build 100% powershell deployment and can’t find how to enable that settings.Cheers,Alexey

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1 year ago
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
asked in Discussion Boards
Weird replication job issue

Hi, everyone! I have a weird error popping up in a replication job for one of my client’s and I need some insight. We have a replication job with a number of VMs that are replicating to a local repository. For some reason, the job has started failing and saying the job can’t continue because the replica has been found in an inaccessible state. I’ll paste an example below. I have tried rescanning the repositories and rescanning the managed servers, but no luck. Retry of Replication job finished with Failed. Job details: Failed to create processing task for VM Error: Found replica VM *** with connection state inaccessible. Cannot proceed furtherFailed to create processing task for VM *** Error: Found replica VM *** with connection state inaccessible. Cannot proceed furtherProcessing *** Error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Failed to write data to the file [\\.\***Drive]. Failed to download disk 'Device '\\.\***Drive''. Shared memory connection was clo

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
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sgoldhornNot a newbie anymore
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Triggering remote jobs to run after completion of local job

I have two sites a HQ and a remote office on the opposite coast that are connected via VPN, both are running Veeam B&R on a local server at each location to perform local backups. They also do a pull replication of each other for DR. I’m also running Enterprise Manager at HQ. How can I script the server(s) so that the remote pull replication job runs AFTER the local backup job so that the snapshots don’t overlap? I was hoping to use Enterprise Manager to trigger the job to run after the backup completed, but it can only see the local jobs, not the remote ones.

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SteveHeart
SteveHeartVeeam MVP
posted in Discussion Boards
Configure Exchange Online Certificate Based Authentication to automate the Exchange Online PowerShell scripts

Hello Community,you probably already use the Powershell scripts shared with the community and run them unattended. In the past, unattended sign-in required you to store the username and password in a local file or in a secret vault/txt-file that’s accessed during run-time. But, as we all know, storing user credentials locally is not a good security practice. Microsoft will also disable access via Remote Powershell (RPS). See the following link for more details: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/announcing-deprecation-of-remote-powershell-rps-protocol-in/ba-p/3695597So why not hit two birds with one stone?The MissionThis post will talk about how to configure Exchange Online Certificate Based Authentication (CBA) to automate Exchange Online PowerShell scripts. PrerequisitesPlease make sure you meet the following requirements:Access to a Microsoft 365 tenant with Global Admin permissions A certificate. You can use a self-signed certificate  A Windows system with Po

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SteveHeart
1 year ago
marcofabbri
marcofabbriOn the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
Homelab: ESXi with Realtek card

Version 12 of Veeam B&R is nearly hereif you haven’t registered yet: https://go.veeam.com/v12and so is our desire to try it in our homelab and play with it in the evening, after dinner. It may happen that we dust off an old workstation with enough resources but one or more Realtek network cards.If we install Hyper-V, everything will almost certainly go smoothly. And in case we wanna install a VMware ESXi solution? Well… We gonna have some headache, thanks to the lack of official support for that hardware. In fact it’s common that network cards remain offline.This mini guide can come to your rescue.You need at least 1 network card operative. If you already have the necessary .vibCreate a datastore and upload the VIB on your host. Enable SSH on ESXi and connect via Putty Set the vib acceptance level to “Community supported” esxcli software acceptance set –level=CommunitySupported Install vib esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/datastore_name/package_name.vib Reboot hostAfter

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
Veeam Availability Suite v12 Launch Event!

This suddenly appeared! https://go.veeam.com/v12 14th February, 4pm CET - Duration: 1 Hour Why should you attend? I’ve grabbed some key bits from the website: Latest product release newsfor Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, as well as new releases for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud for your hybrid environment Agenda: Event kickoffKick off 2023 with modern data protection from V12. Hear the introduction of our latest release as we share more about what you can expect from Veeam this year.NEW V12 deep diveVeeam experts will walk through the new features and capabilities of V12. From security to cloud to enterprise‑grade management, we will cover it all.Customer testimonialsHear directly from our enterprise customers and partners about their data protection strategies and how they are using Veeam to drive success.Special announcementTune in and hear about an exciting new way Veeam will help customers with ransomware recovery.See V12 in actionJoin our

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Nico Losschaert
1 year ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #103Veeam Community Recap #103

This week is a special one as the community team is kicking off their plans for 2023. That means @Madi.Cristil made the journey to the Veeam Ohio office. We also get special appearances from @Viperian @safiya  and welcome @Julia F Morgado to the team who just started. This is an action-packed recap! Watch it below:The Linksvia ​​​​@Viperian via @JonahMay via @patricio.rcm Special Department Newsvia ​​​​@JMeixner Who’s NewWe are happy to welcome 244 new members in the last month or so (I’ve been slacky on this, apologies!). The coolest usernames in this term are: @fanwar @Epicfailing @michaeltking @supakitz and @flo!  

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wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Oracle Backup Redo Log Error - Sequence contains no matching element

Recently I got this error below during the Oracle redo log backup:Oracle redo log errorMy backup job configuration is about a Veeam Linux Agent in an Oracle Linux and the application aware was configured to backup logs with 15 minutes interval and delete logs older than 24 hours:Application aware configurationThis kind of configuration is very common on critical databases and I have this same configuration in various environments.So, the first thing I assumed is that the cause of the problem was not on the Veeam side.Looking on Linux side I discovered that the user used on Guest Processing configuration needs to be part of the oinstall group on OS.So, the only thing I did was put this user on this group:usermod -aG oinstall <my_user>  After that, all Oracle redo logs started to being process successfully:Oracle redo log success 

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JMeixner
1 year ago
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AnanduComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards
Report for restore

Is it possible to get restore report from Veeam ONE / Veeam enterprise Manager ?

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
K
khaled depas
asked in Discussion Boards
the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error

 

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Iams3le
1 year ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
How to migrate Veeam MsSQL Database to a new MsSQL Server

Veeam Backup & Replication is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for virtual, physical, and cloud environments. With Veeam Backup & Replication you can Create crash-consistent and application-consistent backups of virtual and physical machines, quickly restore physical machines, EC2 instances, VMs, VM disks, guest OS files, and application items, perform a backup health check to verify that backups are not corrupted and are ready for restoring, create VM replicas and switch to them in case of a disaster and automate transferring of backups to tapes and other external repositories. Veeam Backup and Replication Configuration Database Settings come with the Veeam.Backup.DBConfig.exe utility that allows you to manage connection settings for Veeam Backup & Replication and/or Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager configuration database. Using this utility, you can:1. Connect to a different Microsoft SQL Server instance. If you specify a database that does not exist yet, i

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Iams3le
1 year ago
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WMaximeNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards
How would you deploy the Veeam Plugin for RMAN to 100 clients?

I’m prepping for the upgrade from Veeam v10 to v11.  I have 80+ RMAN clients that use the Veeam Plugin.  The documentation says the RMAN clients plugin version should match the VBR server version.  Do I have to upgrade each client one by one?

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marco_s
1 year ago
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ElsayedElmazounComes here often
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Postgres cluster backup and restore (Veeam)

Hello All,  I need to take backup from postgres cluster using Veeam, the postgres is deployed in clustered nodes (3-nodes).As I know and did it before, we can use Veeam Agent for Linux to backup single node holding the postgres database, then I can perform the restore for the file using Linux FLR.  Here I have some points to be discussed :1- I know we can perform image-level backup for the VM holding the postgres, and ask the DB admin to provide us pre or post-thau script. In this cause, would it be better to use Linux agent backup on the VM instead of VM-backup? What is the pros and cons for using Agent or VM back with postgres? 2- can we create a script from our end as backup admin as simple script if the customer does not have his own script? In this case appreciate if someone explained how the script works? 3- how can we backup clustered machines, do we have to install Linux agent on all cluster nodes? How can I point the nodes to take backup and restore? Comparing to Microsoft SQL

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago

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