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I need to restore a VM to a vApp in VMware Cloud Director.  The Veeam docs say to “Launch VMware Cloud Director Entire VM Restore Wizard”. When I right click on the Backup that I need to restore, “Restore entire VM >” does not appear in the Context menu as it shows in the Veeam docs.I see “Restore entire VM to Nutanix AHV...”, but not the “Restore entire VM >” as shown in the Veeam docs.I am using Veeam 12.1.1.56 Community Edition, in case that matters.Any help is much appreciated.

Data drives organizations. In today’s environment, it’s crucial to safeguard your data’s accessibility, integrity, and resiliency. Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service provided by Microsoft. It offers high availability, low latency, and automatic scaling, making it an excellent choice for storing and managing large amounts of data. However, with any database, it’s important to have an effective backup strategy to safeguard against any unforeseen events. In this post, we’ll cover what Cosmos DB does, why it’s important to back it up, and suggest some best practices and guidelines for creating robust backups.There are several reasons that you might need a backup plan for Cosmos DB. In the event of data compromise, corruption, or deletion, a backup provides protection. A backup also provides disaster recovery in the event of a natural disaster or ransomware attack.  In some cases, for instance in the medical and financial industries, compliance or regula

Hello.Is there a way to receive by email a daily report of the status of the backups that ran ?  Successes and fails.We do not have SCCM. ThanksEric Garneau 

Hello,I will use tape for veeam backup in next year, and i also have policy to moving out old backup more than 3 month to other location. With this scenario, should i make media pool for each months?Example create:media pool for January with 2 cartridges media pool for Feb with 2 cartridges, etc?

For those who has not seen the announcement a few days a go.The new Veeam integration with Splunk will leverage Veeam event forwarding capabilities to enable monitoring of Veeam backup environments with detailed dashboards, reports and alerts, reducing organizational risk and ensuring business continuity when cyber-attacks occur. Veeam App for Splunk supports Splunk Enterprise 9.1.0 and later and Splunk Cloud Platform 9.1.2308 and later, and is available now via Splunkbase at https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/7312.Veeam App for Splunk is free with a Veeam Data Platform Advanced or Premium license that includes syslog event forwarding support. For more detail/information, see the Splunk release information.

NEW HoL RELEASE :On the ProPartner Hands-on Labs today, “How to deploy a Veeam Hardened Repository - Scripted” was released to Partners only. This lab takes the manual approach (no ISO).This lab steps you through the process of installing, configuring Ubuntu Linux and applying the DISA STIG (Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides) hardening scripts. Also, adding the hardened repository to Veeam Backup and Replication and writing a backup job to use the new repository. Feel free to try it out.😀

In a time of cloud computing tape storage might seem like a Prehistoric Dinosaur. But, for organizations that prioritize data security it’s a critical tool. One of the reasons is its ability to provide the only true airgap for data. With weekly Ransomware attack in news, it really got me thinking that if some of these organization had done a tape backup, they may have been back online much quicker, many of these attacks affect the backup files as well. And with Veeam you can easily backup a copy of your data to tape. There are several reasons why tape is best in class to protect your data let’s review few.1. IsolationAn airgap is a measure where a device or network is physically disconnected from other networks, particularly those connected to the internet. Tape excels at this because it is offline when not in use. Unlike disk that remains connected to the network, tape can physically be moved and stored in a secure, location.2. DurabilityModern tape media can reliably store data for u

It was hard to miss the global IT outage on July 19th—it likely affected many of us in some form, whether services were unavailable or you were responsible for getting those systems up and running. In the face of an emergency, we sometimes look for the quickest way to get our systems back up and running, and it can be all too easy to miss some of the options available.With that in mind, I wanted to provide some quick suggestions in addition to a list of recovery options available to Veeam customers.Recovery OptionsBefore I dive into recovery options, I want to provide some high-level advice and takeaways:If a full VM restore is required, Quick Rollback is a feature you should consider. This will leverage Changed Block Tracking, restoring only the required data blocks, meaning a faster recovery time overall. Keep in mind that Veeam Backup & Replication can perform an Instant Recovery to a hypervisor different from the source, particularly to vSphere, Hyper-V, or to Nutanix AHV. This

Let's discuss: Do you use CrowdStrike ?If yes, how did you get affected?

Due to recent events, I thought I would share a blog post I wrote a while back on how to add Veeam Recovery ISO to Window’s Boot Menu. This helped us tremendously during the CS outage to quickly gain access to our DC’s.   Veeam Agent Recovery Media Boot Integration During the last Veeam Vanguard/Veeam 100 summit in Prague, Czech Republic part of the summit was “Fun field facts” where attendees presented various topics they found useful for sharing. I presented on how to integrate Veeam Agent into Windows. This will be a short follow-up post on how to incorporate the Veeam Agent Recovery Media into Windows Boot Manager.I started my presentation in Prague with “When it rains, it pours…” and, after being in IT for many years now, that is what happens. Just like Murphey’s Law; so imagine this, you have a physical workload backed up with Veeam (great), and the OS crashes. You need to restore to bare metal as fast as possible. But now you need to create the recovery media first, boot up the

In the former parts of this series, we have seen the importance of backups is well acknowledged. In the last part was shown that the mere presence of a backup does not guarantee the ability to recover your data - you have to test that the backups are restorable, not corrupted and – for virtual machines – be sure that the backups are bootable.The critical step after you assured all these things lies in testing your recovery abilities under realistic scenarios to ensure they function effectively during actual data recovery situations. This article explores the need of realistic testing scenarios for backups, including the simulation of various failure situations such as hardware failure, ransomware attacks, and the failure of a bigger environment structure – for example an entire data center (DC), to ensure comprehensive recovery strategies.You will see that recovering from a major incident requires more than just backups. You will likely need to provide replacement hardware or an entire

Hyper V environment-Active Directory/DomainVeeam 12 is on VM1 on my domain pcBackup repository is a VM2 on a hyper v host1We have a firewall doing what firewalls do etcVM1 successfully added VM2(veeam backup repository) The problem:Tried adding a windows server VM3 to VM1(located on hyper v host2) - I get the network path & credentials error Tried adding a veeamproxy machine VM4 to VM1 - I get the network path & credentials errorThe AD admin user account used in above attempts works perfectly on all computers in my LANI used same ad admin account that I used to add VM2 to VM1(now listed in veeam as a valid AD account) for VM3 & VM4There is solid communication between VM1 and other servers, confirmed via icmp/pingsI have other hyper v hosts and dont want to be testing this on all of themWhat is going on here, is this a firewall issue? if so, what specific ports (you have a table full of ports) must be opened for your application and where should I focus these changes/policie

Need to release space from disk and copy all Veeam jobs to tape. We can then delete all jobs from disk and extend the space. What process can we use in Veeam so that all jobs are in tape and jobs can be deleted from disk.

Microsoft Exchange Writer missing in my Exchange Server, I tried restart the services of MSExchangeIS service and VSS service, the Exchange Writer still missing in VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS. May I ask is there any solution about this issue ?

I just did a basic setup of AWS backups in Veeam Backup and Rep.  As far as I can see, it’s basically just creating snapshots in AWS, which is almost useless because that isn’t a real backup.We want the AWS backups stored in our on-prem repository, just as our vSphere backups are.  How do we do get it store the backups in our on-prem repository rather than in AWS?

Few months ago I have installed Veeam 12.0 community edition in my PC. Later now few days before I received an update notification for 12.1. After downloading the ISO file and trying to open the setup.exe I got the error “Unable to access the disk: access denied” like that. So I decided to uninstall the current veeam and then go for a fresh install. At that time it didnt let me to uninstall even. So I manually deleted all the folders and registry entries entirely from the system except these keys which are in the picture right now. Whatever I do these entries are never going off.  

Edition = latest edition of Veeam Community Edition -I successfully right-mouse click the menu area and enabled Home so that Backup Jobs are visible in Community Edition.-I then successfully created a backup job using local administrator as Veeam Community Edition will only run the backup job with local administrator not any other local user with administrator permissions.-I then successfully completed a backup.-Initially, I was using Backup1 as the backup repository. I then went on to use another backup repository of Backup2. I have completed backups using Backup2 and want to remove the backup repository of Backup1. It shows Backup1 as unavailable which is correct. When I right-mouse click to remove Backup1, it says: “Backup1 is used for configuration backup. Open configuration backup settings and choose another backup repository first.”I do not see any menu option or area that defines Configuration Backup Settings. Where is it?

I have a problem with starting the service The power supply cuts more than two hours after the power goes back on, the server starts working. Then the date of taking the backup is not taken and when the connection veeam work appears "failed to connect to veeam backup & replication server" After this start veeam services & start SQL serves are done manually after this is done naturally. please help.thanks regard 

Hello,I try to do file restore using Veeam Agent for Windows, then after sometimes i got error ‘connection to veeam agent for microsoft windows is not available’. Someone know why? 

Does someone have the same experience? What’s the root cause and how can it be solved?The detailed warning message is below:1/29/2024 2:23:06 PM :: Processing OneDrive Username (https://xxxx-my.sharepoint.com/personal/xxxx) finished with warning: Failed to backup item version: /xxx/xxx/Documents/Microsoft Teams Chat Files/Deposit.pdf, version: 1.0, Download request retry timeout exceeded. :: 0:31:50

Hello. I create backup job with RMAN plugin. When I started backup it is running normal and taking backup. I also selected in configuration to delete archive logs after completing backup. Backup completed successfully but not delete archive logs from DB. Can you please help me to solve this problem ? Thanks in advance

Good day all,Need some great specs suggestions for creating a suitable VM to run my new backup software. My boss said VM only, nor Bare metal.What specs are you running in your environment? not the default Veaam sys req online, that is too general. I just need some workable ideas

Hello everybody, First, thank you for your input; I appreciate your help! I have the following question regarding space requirements for backups.Here are the parameters:B&R Version: 12.1 Performance Tier: Formatted with REFS, Cluster size 64KB Capacity Tier (Wasabi): Versioning and Object Lock enabled SOBR Configuration: Includes both the Performance and Capacity Tiers Daily Backup Job: Data size: 2 TB Compression Ratio: 50% (resulting in 1 TB Data on the SOBR) Daily Change Rate: 10% (resulting in 0.1 TB daily changed Data on the SOBR) Case 1:Backup Job Data Retention: 21 Days Immutability: 10 DaysSpace Requirement Calculation for Capacity Tier (Wasabi):Backup blocks can be deleted after:Retention Period(21 days)+Immutability Period(10 days)+Block Generation Period(10 days)=41 Space requirement: 1 TB+(40 days×0.1 TB/day)=5 TB Case 2:Backup Job Data Retention: 10 Days Immutability: 3 DaysSpace Requirement Calculation for Capacity Tier (Wasabi):Backup blocks can be deleted after:Re

I wonder when is the Linux Veeam Backup Appliance will be released ?Because yesterday we are impacted with the CrowdStrike Falcon incident which caused the Backup server and the Backup Proxy to be encrypted. Only the Immutable Repo is not impacted with this incident.