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vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Better Data Change Rate History Report in Veeam ONE v11a

When it comes to sizing a new Backup environment or just new repository server, one metric that is always asked is the daily change rate. You can also see in the most popular - unofficial - Veeam sizer:https://rps.dewin.me/ https://rps.dewin.me/rpc/      Even with VeeamONE it was not simple to get this information easily for VMs and physical machines. This gap was closed with the version v11a of Veeam ONE. The previous report named VM Change Rate History was replaced by the new Data Change Rate History. Fortunately not just the name changed, it also gets some new features!What's new in report configurationIncludes Agent backups. Now these job-types are supported: VM Backup Replication Agent Backup   You can select the base of change rate calculation: Data transferred or read.   What's new in the report itselfIncludes a nice graph for change rate history - for VM and agent data. Includes daily change rate. In Summary In detail - per machine   This is a great help for siz

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2 years ago
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llNATEDOGGllNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards
Error: File Does Not Exist. Failed to open storage for read access.

Hi All,I’m receiving this error on within Veeam running a Backup Copy to a QNAP. I’m a novice at Veeam so any help is appreciated. Looking in the C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup folder, which log file in particular will detail where exactly this error is happening? Below is the summary of the Failed ‘Backup Copy to QNAP’ job.  

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
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User64Comes here often
asked in Discussion Boards
Weird looking Agent

Any of you have any suggestions to this problem? https://forums.veeam.com/post471381.html#p471381  

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dips
2 years ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Offsite backup as a Ransomware protection strategy

There has been a significant focus on how to make Veeam Backup resilient to ransomware.  More specifically - how to have Veeam backups available for recovery in case of an incident.In the past few months, I have had discussions with customers who have successfully recovered their production data after a ransomware attack. The common theme among these successful recoveries has been the availability of a secondary off-site copy of their backups to recover from, as their primary backup repository was compromised and destroyed outside of the Veeam software.Veeam ransomware protection should be the customers’ focus, and it is always a priority goal in my architecture designs. Secure by design is also a core design principle of the Veeam Architecture team.Off-site backup copies can provide an additional layer of data security:They are usually behind a VPN with a robust firewall deployment They are typically kept on a different network segment They often use an additional authentication metho

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coolsport00
2 years ago
StefanZi
StefanZiComes here often
posted in YARA and Script Library
VB365-JobManager - Script to create and maintain SPO & Teams jobs

Guys, I've created a script to automatically create SPO and Teams jobs. Main features includeCreate jobs for all currently unprotected SPO sites and teams Build jobs based on a object-limit per job (incl. recurse option to cope with SP subsites) Distribute jobs over different repositories automatically (which includes proxy balancing of course) Add matching teams to the same job as the SP site as per BP Automatic scheduling with delays per job (configurable) All built on the VB365 API - so no M365 application or so required Include & excludes possible Can put objects in a job pointing to a repository which already contains backups of this objectThe script is available on VeeamHub: powershell/VB365-JobManager at master · VeeamHub/powershell (github.com) I already have two larger customers using versions of this script and am looking for more feedback of course.

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Navidad, colabora y regala ayuda para otros! - Christmas, help and give help to others!

Hola!Esta entrada no es nada “tech”, es de comunidad y de ayudar a los demás!En esta ocasión, ayudar a otra comunidad creo que es el mejor regalo que podemos hacer, ya que el enfoque de todo esto es colaborar y ayudar!Por suerte y desgracia, yo pertenezco a estas dos asociaciones, hacen una gran labor, y gracias a su trabajo y cariño, muchas familias pueden atender a sus hijos, y aliviar un poco su carga!Si quieres colaborar, o no sabes cómo ayudar, sigue los enlaces y colabora, puedes hacer un donativo, o comprar un regalo para alguien en su tienda solidaria.Asociación NUPAAsociación MENUDOS CORAZONES Regala pensando en los demás!Luis.Hi!This entry isn't “tech at all, its about community and helping others!In this post, I believe that helping other community is the best gift we can offer, our focus as a community is always that, sharing and helping others!fortunately and unfortunately, I do belong to this two communities, associations, they do a great job, and thanks to that, and also

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HunterLAFR
2 years ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
[SPANISH] - Webinar Protección moderna de datos con Veeam B&R V12 y Almacenamiento Object Storage

Os dejo el webinar que hicimos junto con Wasabi sobre Protección moderna de datos con almacenamiento S3 Object Storage, de la mano de la Comunidad de usuarios de Veeam, Victor Perez de Mingo y Wasabi. 

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HunterLAFR
2 years ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #100Veeam Community Recap #100

WOW! What a show! This week @Madi.Cristil and I hosted the 100th episode of the Veeam Community Recap - make no mistake. We couldn’t do it without you - our community. Can’t not mention the previous help from @Kseniya to get us here, but we’re charging forward! Watch the recap here:The Linksvia @dips via @Markus.K1985 via @JHoughes via @pomidorokhova Special Department Newsvia ​​​​@Rick Vanover  The V12 News Hub is *THE PLACE* to watch for the next updates for V12 as we get ready for Launch!The VeeamON 2023 website is now live! You can register now for the in-person experience: VeeamON 2023 Congratulations to @vSyntaxError for starting the Switzerland Veeam User Group! Thank you @HangTen416 for taking an additional VUG leader role for Canada!via @Nico Losschaert for Belgium and Luxembourg Veeam User Group meetup: Who’s New!We welcomed +147 users to the Veeam Community since episode 99! Coolest usernames this week are: @hat08 @further001 @probstuz @InformationResults and @mash! 

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regnor
2 years ago
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ddomaskComes here often
posted in YARA and Script Library
List Source Region/Subscription Information for Restore Points from External Repo Backup Copies

So, this is definitely a deep edge case if you could not tell from the title, if you could even figure out the situation from the title :)But since I went down this rabbit hole for a case, figured I’d share it for people getting deep into automation and the Veeam Public Cloud Backups who are following 3-2-1 rule and making Backup Copies of these from their External Repositories. Even if you never need to solve this particular use case, I suppose it’s a good example of what you can actually learn about a backup and how to properly parse data without nasty string munging.Issue: Backup Copies sourced from External Backups don’t have a UI field to associate the Restore Points with the original backed up machine’s public cloud information like Subscription, Region, etc.Where this likely becomes an issue is when you heavily automate regional deployments and may have identical infrastructures set up uniquely for individual regions. (e.g., you deploy machines with same names for regions that o

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VMCE exam personal experience

Hi all In this post I want to describe my personal experience in preparing and taking the VMCE exam.I know that there are some other topics written about the VMCE exam, like a good post of our top legend @MicoolPaul 😉, but I also want to share my personal experience.It’s very hot these days because some of our legends have recently received a free VMCE course of VEEAM. How cool is that from Veeam 😊.So especially for these co-legends (and in the meantime I luckily have met them in person at the Veeam 100 Summit event 😊) and hopefully other people wanting to take the course and exam. Requirement : Yes, indeed taking an official 3-day VMCE course is a requirement before taking the VMCE exam.For me it’s almost 5 years ago that I took the VMCE course – version 9.5 at that time. Because I work for a certified Veeam reseller and service provider, one of the requirements is that we have to have at least 1 VMCE in the company if we want to keep a Gold Partnership with Veeam.Because I’m the o

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BertrandFR
2 years ago
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HorizonITNew Here
posted in Discussion Boards
Feature Request - Veeam Backup For Office365 Should Be Able To Do Intune Backups/Restores

Hi VeeamWe are using VeeamBackup For Office365 and we have daily jobs for Exchange Online mailboxes plus all of our SharePoint Online sites and our Teams data.  This is all good and its stable and reliable and restores are easy.  We are now starting to use Intune for device management of iPads and Windows10 laptops.  It would be a very good thing if Veeam could backup the Intune “environment”, such as the policies and apps and configurations.  At the moment, our Intune is completely unprotected from a mis-configuration or getting wiped out if a GA account is compromised.  I can’t even take a “snapshot” on the Intune environment before experimenting with new settings and new configurations.  I only have less than 100 devices in Intune but there must be orgs with potentially many hundreds or thousands of devices in Intune that don’t have backup protections in place.SignedCustomer who needs Intune backups 

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
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MBGNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards
Error facing during taking VM's backup through veeam. please help

Hi, I am taking backup of my VMs through Veeam. but when backup is stated then a error is shown that is “Preparing backup proxy VMWare backup proxy for hard disk 1 (nbd)” & Object refference not set to an instance of an object. please help . Thanks 

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
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MBGNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards
Preparing backup proxy VMWare backup proxy for hard disk 1 ( nbd)

Hi, I am taking backup of my VMs through Veeam. but when backup is stated then a error is shown that is “Preparing backup proxy VMWare backup proxy for hard disk 1 (nbd)” & Object refference not set to an instance of an object. please help . Thanks Regards:Bilal

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
Chris.Arceneaux
Chris.ArceneauxVeeam MVP
posted in YARA and Script Library
VSPC Sample Usage Report

One of the first scripts I wrote after I joined Veeam was one that produced a license usage report using the Veeam Availability Console API. Since then, a lot has changed! The product was rebranded to Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC) and it’s API was greatly updated in a complete rewrite!That change occurred a couple years ago... As such, it was definitely long overdue for this script to be reworked so it could leverage this amazing new API! This script uses minimal API calls to retrieve current point in time license usage for every company in VSPC. On top of that, if the company is managed by a reseller, reseller information will be included in the output.Developer’s notes...This script is meant to be a stepping stone as the framework can easily be used in other automations. I tried to keep most of the code modular by design so folks can use the script as-is or take the pieces you need for your custom Veeam integration. It can also serve as a reference on how to use Asynchronous

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victorwu
2 years ago
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices - will be released on Dec 23, 2022

My new book “Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices” will be released on Dec 23, 2022. This book is for system architects, system administrators, or consultants involved in planning and designing VxRail HCI. The reader is expected to have equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware vSphere 7. x and vCenter Server 7.x. This book includes three sections. I like the section 3, especially chapter 10 because the topic is related to Veeam. ^^https://www.amazon.com/Dell-VxRail-System-Design-Practices-ebook/dp/B0BKSZ7KTR

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victorwu
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
Fun Friday #57: Preferred Voice Call Setup

Happy Friday everyone, he’s something likely to divide the room: What do you prefer to use for audio calls at work?

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Stabz
2 years ago
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UghGravityNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards
Restore configuration backup - ACCESS DENIED

I have a “Community Edition” of VB&R.  I’m trying to restore a configuration backup to it.  When I go to Configuration Backup and click the “Restore...” button, I get “Access Denied”. I’m an admin on the computer and I’ve even launched VB&R with “Run as administrator”.  I’m not sure why the program is denying access.  Is this a limitation of the “Community Edition” (I’ve haven’t found any documenation that mentions this)? The whole process breaks down before I even get the choice to choose a restore file so I’m trying to determine what is actually happening at this step and if I simply need to change permissions somewhere.   Thanks! 

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dloseke
2 years ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards
CLI commands in a Word Doc?

Hi Folks, Calling all Micro$oft Office wizards out there!What is the best way to embed CLI commands in a word doc? One so that it does not capitalize things or change the -- into one line? I think you can create a text box or something but cumbersome. There must be a better way! cheers 

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Iams3le
2 years ago
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afn24805Not a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards
Optimal use of server network cards

Hi, Veeam newbie here looking for recommendation on how to make optimal use of our network cards. Our servers are HP DL365s with 4 x 1Gbps on a single module and 2 x 10Gbps on a separat module. The plan is to follow the VMwar Best Practice document to allocate 2 x 1Gbps for Management and vMotion, 2 x 1Gbps for the VM traffic (VLAN 111) and 1 x 10Gbps for storage traffic to our NetApp (from where we mount the VMDKs via NFS). Our Veeam BaR server and proxy are both VMs and not physical and we have a separate VLAN for backup and replication (VLAN 333), and for storage (VLAN 222). A colleague says we are over-engineering this and backup traffic should just flow thru the same storage network. Any suggestions?

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Scott
2 years ago
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InformationResultsNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards
Run Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 on 12GB RAM, 6-core intel?

I’ve read the requirements which call for 16GB RAM and 8 cores.How will this run on a 12GB Windows 10/11 machine with 6 cores (Intel i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz)? There’s little else running on the machine.

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I
2 years ago
BertrandFR
BertrandFRInfluencer
asked in Discussion Boards
Backup Linux SQL Server

Hello Veeamers,I read the veeam docs and i don’t see any references to MSSQL on Linux.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/explorers/vesql_systemreqs.html?ver=110Am I the only one to have this gift on production on VM? Except VM backup, it will be old fashioned way for DBA to play with backup on it.

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Mildur
2 years ago
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InformationResultsNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards
Created S3 compatible object storage, but not available on backup menu

I followed the Veeam setup guide as well as Microsoft 365 to Veeam Backup to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.  Everything looks great, I have the following Backup Proxies and Repositories.  I used modern authentication.  No errors anywhere. However when I create a backup the only choice is the Default Backup Repository.What might I be missing here?

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Iams3le
2 years ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards
VBR outside domain - possible issues

For well know reasons myself and many here recommend to - if possible - deploy VBR and especially it’s repos outside of the Windows domain.Certain issues come as a downside with doing that:Maintaining multiple local admin logins, remote-UAC (LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy), firewall behavior outside of domain networks etc. being some of those.Recently I stumbled upon a situation were we could not establish a connection from a non-domain-joined VBR server to a newly deployed non-domain-joined Windows 2019 repo server. Other older proxies/repos to the same VBR were available and functioning.From the VBR server the admin$ share of the to-be-connected new repo was not accessible (“invalid login”).VBR also stated “invalid login” during Windows server onboarding. But from another (domain joined) Windows system in the same (direct, non-routed) network, the repo’s admin$ share was well available with the same user/pw.Of course no Windows firewall whatsoever was active.Very strange.Has anyone se

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regnor
2 years ago
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lmelzi agomirNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards
Unexpected network error

Hi, I had an unexpected network error on my windows server 2012R2 and Veeam Agent for Windows ver. 5.0.3I have setted “keep backups for 35 days” and I have on my nas 2 Tb free out of 3 Tb total. Now, I have 34 backups and when i run a backup, after about a minute, I get “processing finished with errors” and “error: unexpected network error. Failed to read data from the file”. I tried to free up some space, to stop and start Veeam agent service, to restart nas, to modify the number of backups (trying 30 and 40) but every time i got the same error. what else can i do?

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MicoolPaul
2 years ago
regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
⚠️ Potential data loss with Veeam Backup Cloud products

Veeam has just released a warning about a potential data loss issue for the Cloud products (AWS, Azure, GCP).IssueAccording to the article, data loss can occur in the background during the movement of backup objects.Affected versionsThe following versions are affected:Veeam Backup for AWS 5.0.0.452 Veeam Backup for AWS 5.1.0.39 Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure 4.0.0.679 Veeam Backup for Google Cloud 3.0.0.859SolutionHotfixes have been released for the 3 products and it’s advised to install the update immediately.Veeam Backup for AWS 5.1.1.8 Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure 4.0.0.705 Veeam Backup for Google Cloud 3.0.0.868Besides that, Health Check should be enabled for all policies in order to notice any backup chain problems.For more information visit KB4383

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago

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