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csaha77Comes here often
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Tape drive cleaning alert message

TapeDrive alert: The tape drive is due for routine cleaning: Wait for the current operation to finish. Then use a cleaning cartridge. Check the tape drive user manual for device specific cleaning instructions. We have the cleaning tape in the library, and it is set to Perform drive cleaning automatically. Not sure why we would get the alert. Would ejecting and adding back to the drive resolve this issue? 

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JMeixner
2 years ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Webinar: Protección Moderna de Datos 13/12/2022

Hola!Para todos aquellos que hablais Español - Castellano,recordaros que vamos a celebrar un webinar el 13/12/2022 a las 09:00am. CEST“Protección moderna de datos” Animaros a participar en invitar a todos los “colegas” que queráis y creáis que les interese! Saludos.

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HunterLAFR
2 years ago
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mashNew Here
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Set up failed: Backup&Replication Community Edition v11

Could anyone let me know how to setup when the messege happened on installing? Dialog window says as below just finished beforeThe following SQL database patches are missed:​11aCP3DBupdate,TFS358810I used the latest version,11.0.1.1261_20220302.isoThank you in advance 

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #99Veeam Community Recap #99

 This week @Rick Vanover and @Madi.Cristil are on the verge of the 100th episode (stay tuned!). We are recapping some great content and go bonkers on special department news and a huge group in the Who’s New department, including one special welcome! Watch this week’s recap here:The Linksvia @patricio.rcm via @Iams3le  via @Michael Melter Special Department News Join @Geoff Burke for a sit down with Kodekloud Kubernetes trainer Mumshad Mannambeth:December is Chocolately Month! Check out the latest from @mkevenaar The French Speaking Africa Veeam User Group had a great meeting, with V12 previews! (Replay is here)Veeam Vanguard Nominations for 2023 are now open! Read more on the Veeam blog.Via @JBuff Veeam Innovation Awards are no open also! Read about this on the Veeam blog.Want to do something nice? you can send a Veeam holiday card: Happy Holidays Giveaway 2022 - VeeamSpecial Coverage on V12Did you know there are nearly 200 articles on the hub discussing V12? Search them here: https:/

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Madi.Cristil
2 years ago
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SeguraTIComes here often
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Backups on different HDs

Good morning my friends, I have a question. Today I have 2 external HDs, where every Saturday I change one HD and the other week I put the other HD. One of them is doing the incremental process on the same folder regardless of the week it is. Already the other HD is creating a new folder and making the backups again. I don't want it to create another folder, I want it to use the same one. How do I do that? Since the other one is doing it and I just repeated the settings from the 1st HD to the 2nd HD.

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JMeixner
2 years ago
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
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Aviatrix Certified Engineer Multicloud Network Associate - Free Course

The Aviatrix Certified Engineer Multi-cloud Network Associate training is the starting point for your multi-cloud networking and security education. This training covers basic networking components and terminology of the major cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) and discusses common challenges and key limitations when utilizing public cloud infrastructure.Training and exam are free using code ACEMULTICLOUD through December 31st.Sign Uphttps://aviatrix.com/ace-associate/

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I
2 years ago
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
2023 Knowledge Sharing Competition - Abstract Accepted!

Did anyone participate in this competition this year? My abstract accepted, now I can go to the next phase. My topic is very interesting this year, good luck to all.😀 

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2 years ago
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AnanduComes here often
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Query on VM backup of ESXi

Hey Guys, I have a scenarioIf I take a VM backup of ESXi of 6.5, can I perform a Replication or restore to ESXi of 7.0?

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Rick Vanover
2 years ago
SchrepfV
SchrepfVComes here often
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Issue with USB recovery drive booting on windows 11

I’m have question about the usb recovery drive. For some reason the recovery will not boot into the bare metal utility, it stops and shows a command window. I’m running latest windows 11 so any thoughts as to why this would be?thanks

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regnor
2 years ago
cosmik
cosmikComes here often
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Feature request: getting rid of admin credentials for application-aware processing?

This was also asked at the AMA session during the Veeam 100 summit: I’d like to have application aware processing on Windows boxes by pre-installing some special Veeam software, but without having to specify an administrator-level account during job configuration.@HannesKback then replied that on V11 AAP did that trick just fine, but further testing showed that it was not possible. At least not without providing an account with administrative access corresponding to the VM.@Mildur at the time provided me with an alternative: instead of backing up via the ESXi API, install a standalone agent on the VM boxes, that would allow backing up without having to configure an admin account to the box. Have not tested it yet, should work just fine though!In any case, it’s day one of the VMCE course (thanks Veeam :) ) and during discussion of the AAP-related options AlexH was pondering about exactly the same issue.In any case, I’d like to re-iterate my request to Veeam for providing a way to have a

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cosmik
2 years ago
marco_s
marco_sVeeam Legend
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Veeam Service Provider - Updating Tenant Explorers

Hi guys, have you ever happened to upgrade your servers, for example Veeam for Office 365, and then hear customers complain because they can no longer connect to the provider using Veeam explorers?How frustrating and tiring is it to have to update all clients' explorers every time!Please Veeam, allow us to update them remotely with VSPC! :) Marco

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marco_s
2 years ago
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Dimitris ParzigkasNot a newbie anymore
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Exchange online not receiving activation code from veeam.com

Hello all, I have a problem when i try to restore password or create a new account to veeam.com, i am not receiving email in O365.When i test this with gmail account it works fine. I have checked this with more than one O365 organizations. From the O365 admin center side it seems like the message has never been received.thanks in advance.

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Nico Losschaert
2 years ago
Tarra Mauldin
Tarra MauldinComes here often
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Northeast Veeam User Group - Features, Demo and Q & A - Today @ 12:00 EST

Good Morning!Join Rolando Veloso and Jason Berry for the Northeast Veeam User Group meeting TODAY, Dec. 6 from 1-2pm EST. Our technical experts have a powerpoint presentation BUT they would rather hear what you would like to discuss at this VUG meeting! Tell them what demo you would like to see, what features you would like them to discuss and what questions they can answer!Hear about:Veeam features you might not be aware ofBest PracticesHow to keep your data safeLive Demo(s)Register link - https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7168151035573292301

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Scott
2 years ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VMUG Advantage

Hi everyone,I assume some of you already know about this, but I think is interesting and also a good resource, being in the same path Veeam and VMware.VMware user group has a yearly subscription, for less than 200 dollars a year, you have access to a lot of 1 year licenses for many products, for lab and study proposes.It also offers discounts on official courses, certification exams and so on,so please, if you run a home lab, you want to grow it, and don’t have licenses to do so, check it out! VMUG ADVANTAGE Now includes also ESXi 8 and VCENTER 8!cheers!Luis F.

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Scott
2 years ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards
In case you needed more reasoning as to why you need to backup your cloud workloads - RackSpace Hosted Exchange "Outage"

I’ve you’ve been following along, Friday Rackspace experienced a major disruption for their Hosted Exchange environment.  Why exactly you’d still be using hosted exchange vs moving over to M365 I’m not sure, especially after Exchange has become such a major target for zero-day and ransomware attacks, but there were a lot of folks that still were and they’re hating life about now.  Rumor’s I’ve heard indicate that their Exchange servers were not fully patched and malware has taken down the environment. Rackspace as indicated that the outage was caused by a “security incident”.To give a bit if idea just how bad it is, Rackspace is paying for it’s clients to utilize complimentary M365 Exchange Plan 1 licenses to get email up and flowing again, with the intention of moving back after this has been resolved, but I’m guessing most folks will not be moving back - I wouldn’t anyway.  Rackspace actually took the hosted Exchange environment offline to try which sounds like ransomware and an atte

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regnor
2 years ago
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YukinobuNot a newbie anymore
posted in Discussion Boards
workingDir parameter will be removed when VM restore, that specify the root directory of the datastore

Even though the datastore exists and can be referenced at destination ESXi host, the workingDir parameter was removed during restore with the following message.2022/12/02 11:48:46          Removing workingDir parameter because it points to a non-existent datastore /vmfs/volumes/63652fbd-aed4fef5-8da8-48210b3d7365After checking with support(Case # 05738353), we were told that the Veeam specification is that if the root directory of the datastore is specified, it is removed even if it exists.Please note that there may be few cases where the root directory is specified.

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Madi.Cristil
2 years ago
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SantoshPComes here often
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Running VMS, Backup and Replication simultaneously, will it work , considering the snapshot clash for same vms

Backup frequency - Daily one  incremental and Weekly active FullReplication - Every 15 Minutes

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bp4JC
2 years ago
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ldasilvaNew Here
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Enable encryption for all existing backup jobs using powershell

Hi guys, I was wondering if it is possible to enable the encrypt option for all backup jobs using powershell. I already have created the encryption key/password.  Your help would be appriciated. 

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Scott
2 years ago
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kkennyNew Here
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Veeam SQL restore issue to Hyper-V guest

I’m using VBR Enterprise and I’ve an issue with a SQL Server database restore to a Hyper-V VM.  I am currently backing up the VM using guest application processing which is working fine.  It uses PowerShell Direct because the SQL VM is on a private VLAN, which cannot be accessed from the VBR server which is hosted in a different data centre. It can however access the hypervisors and all backups have been successful.  Frustratingly, I’m unable to restore using the same methodology in reverse.  Surely if I can backup successfully using PSDirect, I should be able to restore using the same method?  I asked Veeam Support and they sent me here. 😐When I try a restore, I get an error saying VBR cannot access SQL… I can confirm that Named Pipes is enabled. Has anyone else ever run into this issue and found a fix?  I really don’t think it’s acceptable that I’ve to ask for help on a community forum regarding an enterprise product that should work out-of-the-box, but here I am!

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Iams3le
2 years ago
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rdixon01New Here
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P2V Physical Dell Server

We are new with using Veeam P2V. We’ve successfully P2V’d a couple of servers without a issue.We have been asked to P2V a Dell server running windows 2012R2.  Has 1 Hard drive that is 1TB.We deployed the Veeam agent and backed it up OK. We migrated into production (with NIC not connected and powered off). Once it was completed, we removed the nic from it in VCenter and added the VMXNET3 adapter and the correct assigned the Vlan back to it. We powered it on (w/NIC not Connected) and the server comes up and displays “Getting Devices Ready” and it just sits there with circle spinning.Anyone seen this before and have any suggestions of what the issue could be?  

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victorwu
2 years ago
olivier.rossi
olivier.rossiVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Object Storage: Secure your buckets

IntroductionWith backup direct to object being one of the most anticipated features in v12 AND with the ever-increasing number of cyber-threats, it is paramount to secure access to our buckets.In this series of posts, I will explore v12's direct to object capabilities and offer some suggestions to batten down the hatches.Note: For this post, I will use Wasabi and Minio as my Object Stores of choice. While some slight variations are expected, keep in mind that the same concepts should apply to any S3 compatible target. Restrict bucket access with a simple User IAM policyYou can find the Amazon S3 Object Storage Permissions in the User Guide for VMware vSphere and kb3151 highlights the required steps.Let's review what that looks like in Wasabi's console. For this example, I will configure a simple S3 bucket without immutability. Step 1: Create the policy as described in kb3151This policy grants access to the <<orossisecurebucket01>> bucket to the identity it is associated wit

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BertrandFR
2 years ago
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
posted in Discussion Boards
Thank you, Veeam, for being Veeam and being amazing

I just want to say how grateful I am for the Veeam culture and the way they operate as a company and their extensive involvement in the Veeam community. I have extensively also used a competing product and I feel largely ignored by them and I have deep seeded impression that the company’s engineers couldn’t care less about the customers’ ideas and concerns and believe they know better than the customer and just choose to ignore 99% of what is suggested to them, meanwhile they seem to have the development  acumen and abilities of first year college students. Meanwhile, a company like Veeam, that is a giant and a powerhouse, goes out of its way to not only make an amazing product, but also is incredibly involved with their client community, includes them in the decision making process through the Veeam Legends and Vanguard programs, and goes out of their way to make sure their customers know they are heard and cared about. I have so much respect for @Gostev @Rick Vanover and the entire V

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dloseke
2 years ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #85

This week @Madi.Cristil and @Rick Vanover get through the recap without “technically” breaking the rules. There was a very busy special department set of news as well! Watch our recap below: The links:@dloseke with VBR: Immutable object storage with Wasabi - for Service Providers/MSPs | Veeam Community Resource Hub @vNote42 with [What (else) is new in v12 - V] gMSA support | Veeam Community Resource Hub @Chris.Childerhose with Veeam - Physical or Virtual that is the question? | Veeam Community Resource Hub Special Department News:Veeam was one again named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant! Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6a has been released: blog, release notes, Friday Tech Bites by @Rin on the upcoming release. Also check out a nice post by @MicoolPaul Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6a Released | Veeam Community Resource Hub. Discussion by @Geoff Burke on what is Kubernetes Korner: What is the Kubernetes Korner and what should it become? | Veeam Community Resource HubWho’s New +

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K
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Delaying Windows Feature Updates with Group Policy

Alt Text: Title “In The Lab With: Windows” Subtitle: “Endpoint Management” Subtitle Two: “Delaying Windows Feature Updates with Group Policy”There was recently a lively discussion on the Veeam R&D forums that inspired me to write this post. The essence of the disagreement on there was about Veeam’s inability to support new Windows Feature Updates sooner. I won’t repeat all of my points on the topic as they’re available for reading freely on the R&D forums already. What I do want to focus on however, is providing support to the thinly-stretched sysadmin who needs to get a grip on the Windows Update Lifecycle, to avoid issues with the Veeam Agent, and other applications that don’t have ‘Day One’ support for a new Operating System (Yes, Feature Updates are considered upgrades).So, what is a feature update? Please the quote below directly from Microsoft’s own documentation.Feature updates: Previously referred to as “upgrades,” feature updates contain not only security and quality r

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VMware Tools for Windows update addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability

VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of guests operating systems and seamless user interactions with them. VMware Tools has the ability to pass messages from the host operating system to the guest operating system. Therefore, VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine guest operating system and improves the management of the virtual machine. Without VMware Tools installed in your guest operating system, guest performance lacks important functionality. Installing VMware Tools improves these issues low video resolution, inadequate color depth, incorrect display of network speed, restricted movement of the mouse, inability to copy and paste and drag and drop files, missing sound, and provides the ability to take quiesced snapshots of the guest OS, and synchronises the time in the guest operating system with the time on the host Impacted ProductVMware Tools for Wind

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Iams3le
2 years ago

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