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 Backup Eagle logoIn my first blog post, I reviewed what Backup Eagle was and how it can monitor your environment. I also went through the installation process as well. Part 1 can be found here –Monitoring with Backup Eagle – Part 1The company graciously granted me an NFR license to test within my homelab – Backup Eagle by Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH.In this post, I am going to cover the Administration Console, including things like –Installing a license file Adding servers for monitoring Dashboards ReportsBackup Eagle is used for Backup Monitoring, Reporting, and Audit & Compliance.Backup Eagle – What it is used forLaunching the console is very straightforward; double-click the desktop icon “BACKUP EAGLE Administration Client,” which launches the console. You can see the console when it first opens below (keeping in mind I already have data showing – a new installation will not have any data until you add servers).Dashboard in the Administration ConsoleAfter you get into the dashboard

Also new in v12 is the Best Practice Analyzer in VBR console.  In Beta2 there are 6 tests divided into two categories: Security settings and product configuration. The individual points are self-explanatory.  I hope that more and more tests will be added to this feature in next versions.

Hi VEEAMers! Finishing deployment of our VEEAM environment with Virtual Lab/Surebackups and found built-in check are pretty basic and pretty much only checking if VM is listening on particular port after restore. It definitely helps to make sure the serve is not corrupted and functional but not giving any validation against if it was hit by ransomeware or not. What does (from my point of view) is if where will be built-in checks if particular file (most commonlt encrypted by ransomeware, VEEAM probably knows better - but I’d do .doc, .pdf, .7z, etc ) can be successfully open. Any improvements in that area in upcoming 12.1?Or maybe I am wrong and someone can point me out to the fact it has been already done and I just don’t know how to do it?Cheers,Alex. 

Hello,Feature request for ‘Veeam Backup and Replication’ client. When viewing/selecting an active job provide the option to ‘Follow’ most recent activity. This is helpful if you have a job active with many objects in the job from a visibility perspective.Currently, if you have a job with 20 objects being backed up and you select an object in progress, when the object completes the viewed object stays displayed instead of following to the subsequent active object being backed up.  Thanks 

I have disabled Template jobs and would like to exclude from disabled jobs alarm.

Hi, How can I add backup repository (Linux hardened) to Veeam office 365 backup?

Hackathon logo. Features Alfred, the community cat. Also shows arrows to Community, Development, Teamwork, Time, Presenting, Goal, and Brainstorm icons and text. These are parts included in the hackathonOn September 28, 2023, @JonahMay and I will organize the 1st Annual Veeam Community Hackathon! This event will start at 15:00 CEST/9:00 AM EST and will run for 24hTeams of 12-18 will work together and consist of people from all over the world, with the ultimate goal to bring the world together in a fun community event You are not required to participate for the full 24h but you are welcome to. Each group has a group-leader. This leader is someone from the Veeam100 group We are using members from the Veeam100 group because they are experts in the Veeam products. The teams should make the life of an end-user easier by creating a complementary product to one of the existing Veeam products. An example would be the Grafana dashboards created by @jorge.delacruz  There is no limit on the te

Using Veeam to orchestrate storage snapshots is a fast, reliable way to have frequent restore points and quick restores.  Unfortunately, unlike a VMware backup, storage snapshots on databases are not application aware.  Restoring application items from a storage snapshot will often give you a blank explorer window. The first thing you will want to do is restore from the storage snapshot, and select a Host to mount the SAN volume on  With the explorer up it will look empty, but the volumes will be mounted to your PC.Click Add Store, or right click All Stores and Add a Mailbox Database   Next, we will point the explorer to the specific Exchange mailbox database.   If you go to C:\VeeamFLR\*VMname* you can see Volumes listed as folders there that are the mount points to the disks. This should mirror the folder structure on your Exchange server. In this specific situation here is what it looked like.  Depending on your disk configuration and folder structure the volume, VM name, and folder

Has anyone found a better way or backing up a Raspberry PI to a veeam repository other than using a script to dd the entire SDCard to a SMB/CIFS share and then backing that up?

In a customer project I just stumbled across the requirement to do SQL log-shipping with VMs. A simple task, I thought at first. But this time the request included a so-called division by zero - at least from a VBR perspective. With VBR (at least until V12), it is not possible to restrict log-shipping to certain days of the week. You can only set the overall frequency of log backups: Microsoft SQL Server Transaction Log Settings - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com)You can set a schedule for image-level backups of course. But in between, log backups are performed continuously as defined by the above setting.It came in very handy that @SteveHeart recently published another script that can determine which VBR backup job a PS script was started out of. The code in mention to actually determine the process ID of the VBR job above goes back to @tsightler. So the script can be used flexibly as you don’t have to hard code job names etc. So I “borrowed” this code and enriched it with tog

Hi! I highlight in this post the processes involved in protecting a Veeam Linux Hardened Backup Repository. To correctly handle files and objects associated with different backup chains, Veeam processes must have control over immutability at the file and object level. This is why the immutability implemented only at the directory or bucket level is unsuitable for flexible and granular protection of backup chains. I hope this information is helpful to you.How does Veeam Hardened / Immutable Repository work? – Cloud and Roll (cloudnroll.com) 

<#.SynopsisFor VB365 will migrate all data from one repository to another, based on the Veeam KB 3067. This version brings some sanity to the selection of proxies and repos while also providing information on what is to be moved (storage and user counts)..NotesVersion: 1.0Author: Jim Jones, @k00laidITModified Date: 5/23/2022.EXAMPLE.\iland-kb3067.ps1#>Import-Module Veeam.Archiver.PowerShell#Organization selection$orgs=Get-vboorganization | Sort-Object Namefor($i=0; $i -lt $orgs.count; $i++){write-host $i. $orgs[$i].name}$organisationNum = Read-Host "Enter organisation number"$vboOrg = $orgs[$organisationNum]$orgjobs = $vboOrg | get-vbojob[System.Collections.ArrayList]$orgrepos = @()foreach ($orgjob in $orgjobs) { $repo = $orgjob.repository $output = [PSCustomObject]@{ repoName = $repo } $orgrepos += $output }#Source Repository selection$sourcerepo = $orgreposfor($i=0; $i -lt $sourcerepo.count; $i++){write-host $i. $sourcerepo[$

 Recently Veeam release a new version of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV. A bunch of new features came out of the box with this upgrade.So, the the latest build versions of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV now is:Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5 - 5.0.0.1080  Nutanix AHV Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication - 12.5.0.465 The process to upgrade the environment is really easy and the idea is not a step by step, for the simple fact that is not necessary a complete how to about this. The Ugrade The whole process of upgrade is on Veeam Help Center but basically we need fist to update the Nutanix AHV Plug-In inside of Veeam Backup Replication server.For this is just to run with the wizard of plug-in: The setup is only about Next, Next, Upgrade, Finish: After that we can open VBR console and go to Backup Infrastructure view, navigate to Backup Proxies > Out of Date, right click on the proxy appliance of Nutanix AHV and select Upgrade Proxy: After that, the upgrade of Veeam proxy appliance will

Last wednesday we have a new release of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV. All release notes we can see here.A lot of new features was implemented. The list of all build of VBKP for Nutanix we can see here. 

Hello veeam community! As we know, the VMCE v12 is comming soom and with that a new exam with new topics including building backup capabilities, restoring from backup and advanced repository functionalities, etc are coming too. But at this moment my questions is about VMCE 2021.Do you know how long we can still book the exam VMCE 2021?Do you think it's still worth trying to pass VMCE 2021 or its better wait for v12 exam? 

My Backup Server’s C: Drive is getting tight and I want to relocate Veeams’s MS SQL Database files from their default location on C:\Program Files\… to a larger Data drive. Now, whilst I can find articles about relocating the whole Veeam config to a different SQL Server, I can find nothing on moving the database mdf/ldf within the same Server.   Is it simply a case ofstopping the Veeam services, detaching the databases in SQL Server Management Studio,  moving or copying the files to the new location, attaching the database from their new location?Has anyone had any experience of this? How successful was it? Are there any pitfalls to avoid?

We are trying to restore a huge DB which is part of a Always On Availability group to a test server. So the test server is up with the DB. However, the DB shows as Restoring after the restore. What is the work around to make the DB Ready? From what I’ve read, we need to drop the DB on this test server from the Availability Group. How can this be done without affecting the production DB.  Our DBA is unable to drop the DB so reaching out to the community for alternative solutions.   

working in a client env with veeam v11 and 12….just upgraded to v12.we have issues with replication not working (started all of a sudden 3 weeks ago). Support said that it was a known issue in v11 and we needed to upgrade. Tbh I wasn’t convinced as its been working fine for some time.Anyway we upgraded to v12 but replication is still not working.You can see that the copy is seen as in-progress so Veeam is just trying to send data. You can also see on the storeonce side that Veeam files have landed/created with ZERO bytes. It just sits there for hours and you dont see any data being transmitted for some reason…..We do have a call with support but just wondered if you guys had any ideas. We’ve involved HPE and run scripts on the storeonce appliances which are able to send files between the devices (1G files, 10G files etc).

Hello everyone,I didn’t find configuration backup and restore in VBM like VBR, what is the best approach to do it? both backup and restore the entire server, and install it from scratch?

Hello everyone,I would like to draw your attention to an issue detected following the Veeam upgrade to version 12 at one of my clients. This also applies to new installations.During backup and restoration operational tests, which are crucial to perform during installation/post-upgrade, the following error message appeared when restoring a VM: Unable to use Hot-Add mode.While analyzing the logs of a backup job, the proxies switched from Hot-Add to NBD mode.After analyzing the logs and isolating the issue to a single proxy (Forcing the proxy to use only Hot-Add + creating a test backup job with only this proxy), I was able to obtain a more informative message.There is a Veeam Knowledge Base article available at https://www.veeam.com/kb4460.To resolve the error, it is necessary to disable "multipath" on the Linux proxies, following the procedure outlined in the KB. After applying the fix, backups and restores successfully utilize the Hot-Add mode, resulting in improved performance.I apolo

Hey Guys,I had a backup fail last night due to a datastore no longer having enough space to process  Is this a threshold that can be configured somewhere?How much space is actually needed to process a backupI am trying to find some more info in the logs but havent seen anything yet  Thanks,

Another post about my favorite feature in v11: Hardened Repository. This time it is about the ability to change the expiration date of already immutable restore points. Veeam made this possible by using PowerShell. The corresponding command is: Set-VBRImmutabilityLockExpirationDate. This post is about how to use it.Select the restore point you want to change immutability expiration date. To show all restore points of a specific VM in a job you can run for example:Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup immu_job_01 -Name VM02Here backup job name is Immu_Job_01 and VM is called VM02. I will change the date for the first - the oldest - restore point in the list. To work with it I save it in $RestorePoint:$RestorePoint = (Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup immu_job_01 -Name VM02)[0]Show the current expiration date by running this command: $RestorePoint.getstorage().ImmutableTillUtc   We see, current ImmutableTilldate is 1st October 2021. In my example I change the date to the end of 2030:$ExpDate = Get-Date

A little bit late today but here we go! September is almost gone! (Unbelievable!😲) But we are not meant to talk about how time flies in this post! As you know, we are committed to organizing a poll every month to determine the top blog of the month that is going to be featured on the homepage and social media channels ! Let's see who is blogger of the month in September!Please help us determine the best by voting on your favorite one by October 1st. Good luck to all participants! @Cragdoo , @Nico Losschaert , @eeha0120next , @eprieto , @Nitish Kumar , @coolsport00 Please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to vote for you!Best, Madi

Just a quick question...I was tasked with restoring OneDrive data from an account for a client that apparently left and the user was deleted, but someone else was accessing the OneDrive data while the user account was still in the Deleted Users status/folder, but once the 30 days elapsed, that data was purged.  This client is currently being backed up by Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud backup (until I get those folks moved over to Veeam) but I noticed that the last backup of the data was before the user account was deleted.  Makes sense, but I hadn’t considered that their OneDrive would even be accessible by the other users during that time period if the user/mailbox had been marked as deleted.So my question is, if a user account is marked deleted, does VB365 still backup the deleted mailbox/OneDrive (or can it even do so - assuming that you had that user explicitly specified or had the job set to backup the entire organization, etc) until Microsoft purges that data?  I imagine I can test thi