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A bunch of new vulnerabilities was discovered on Veeam One against the SQL Server connection: You can see all of these on the new Veeam KB4508. Don't hesitate and update your Veeam One environment right now.

Hi there,I would like to share with you that applications for the following 2024 program are open. Existing vExperts and those aspiring to be part of this esteemed community are encouraged to submit their applications for consideration. Similarly, the Cisco Champion program welcomes both current members to reapply and prospective participants to submit their applications for review.For more information on the vExpert program, please take a look at this piece from @victorwu   

A long time ago, my colleague @StefanZi  had provided a Powershell script to create the necessary Azure/Entra appplicaton to be used in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. In the meantime, new permission requirements have been added to this application and the Powershell cmdlet AzureAD will also be retired next year (see here), and one of my Powershell scripts also requires the automated creation of an application in Azure/Entra.These were enough reasons for me to update the script. So what's new?- Use of the Microsoft Graph Powershell Module- Revise and add permissions- Adaptations to the text (e.g. adapted product name)- Optimize outputAnd the good news are. Script is ready to use. More details in m

HI Community, I am currently using Veaam v12 B&R community edition.I have tried to add a service provider for ekco.I have followed steps from https://www.ek.co/publications/using-veeam-cloud-connect/Once I add veeam.cloudhelix.io and the username and password I get the below error.Is the issue down to the fact I am on community edition V12 or is it an issue from ekco’s side?(I have already logged a ticket with ekco support to see what their response will be) 

1 week ago I had to work during the whole weekend 😉Yes, occasionally some work for customers needs to be done during a maintenance window, often during the weekend, not possible during weekdays.If it doesn’t happen every week and it is possible to schedule it when it suits for yourselves, no problem 😁.Well, last weekend I had to work with a colleague of mine for a customer in a datacenter.Because of the very bad implementation before of the infrastructure (not done by us 🤗), we needed to verify and document the whole setup and every network-connection.Why?We had to turn off the whole Hyper-V cluster, storage, servers, virtual machines, …Afterwards we needed to remove all cabling, reorganize all devices, change the configuration, recabling everything and turn on the infrastructure again.You wouldn’t believe how bad the setup was!!!All w

Alt Text: Banner graphic displaying the post titleHi,Another quick hint from the field. I’ve seen on multiple occasions that Veeam can get stuck when moving metadata between cache repositories. I needed to move a batch of NAS Cache metadata to a new location, due to a change in Veeam Backup & Replication v12, whereby now it is recommended that you provision no less than 1GB of cache space per 1 million file versions, per backup job. A bit different to some of the previous ‘best practice’ guidelines of ~4GB total!As a quick side note, the Veeam Best Practice documentation now suggests 5% of the source data size as your cache size when using object, but I’m sticking to the 

I know I’m late, but spending an extra 4 days in Prague was a blast and the jetlag kicked in hard after being awake over 26 hours coming home! First off, Thanks to @Rick Vanover @Madi.Cristil @safiya @NikolaPejkova  Nikki Adkins, and everyone else for their hard work. As this was my first summit (and first time out of NA) I had no clue what to expect and a bit nervous about the trip. Everything exceeded my expectations from the hotel, the sessions, events, the venues and swag 😄! I already want to go back to EU and explore more.  The flight there was a bit rough. Having someone take their shoes and socks off and bump you with their foot for a few hours is not my idea of a good time, but I was able to keep my cool and power through. I met @Chris.Childerhose

My question is, if we are excluding SQL data volumes from the original backup job, can we still do full SQL backups and transaction logs using application-aware processing?For some background, in our current state my team is backing up our Windows SQL VMs using a Backup job, then use a Backup Copy job to get those offsite. Since the team has historically ran SQL Agent jobs to do daily full and hourly log backups for each DB they decided to exclude any volumes storing SQL data from the Veeam Backup job. I see the reasoning and I suppose this works, but I’d like to shift to including Veeam on SQL backups so we can easily get those offsite using the existing backup copy jobs.Finally, a sort of related question, if we can use Veeam and the SQL agent jobs in tandem, which one should truncate those? In my testing I’ve had to set the SQL Agent job to copy only mode for things to work, but I feel like setting Veeam to copy only mode should work as well, but I must be missing s

Hello to all,As I configure a testing Job with Multiple VMs with the same OS, I can see that there is no difference in the deduplication rate in Report when I run the VM itself alone or in the Group.One more point to ask:The VMs in the Backup Copy Job are all started at the same time when the job starts.Is this how it should be or they need to be run one at a time?

I'm here to show you a little working proof of concept I put together during the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague last week. It's very much a work in progress, but I'm excited to share it with you.(video and callout at the bottom for feedback) Let's dive into the tech stuff and some notes on what we're using.So, we're making use of the Veeam VBR Rest API, as you will know I am a fan of any API especially when it comes to Veeam. The prototype is put together using Node.js. It's like the middleman between the frontend and my VBR server and OpenAI. (we're rocking the gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 model). Although I'm thinking about going with a locally hosted model in the future, especially for sensitive backup server data. But for now, in this prototype and my lab setup, I'm good with this setup, nothing for me to worry about with the few machines I am protecting.For this prototype, I've focused on Backup Jobs and Backup Sessions,

We have configured our backup copy jobs to execute in a continuous mode and hadn’t any issues until the other day.  Ten (out of 100) of our backup copy jobs failed, with the error of “Unable to copy the backup: some backup files are located on an unavailable scale-out repository extent”.  Checking the restore points on the source and target repositories, we noticed the restore points (for the most recent backup) for the target repositories were in an incomplete state.  We performed the following manual steps to resolve; Disable backup copy job After reviewing the target repository from the backup copy job, the identified servers with the error, have the most recent restore point showing incomplete. Rescan the target repository Then process the incomplete restore points by selecting forget Rescan the target repository Enable backup copy job and executeWe did open a support case and the engineer discovered th

I’m very new to Veeam. We use VMware vSphere. I need to be able to backup an entire VM, and be able to restore just individual files from that backup. I thought that doing a “VMware Backup” type of job, with “Guest File Processing” enabled would allow me to do that (i.e., restore just one file from drive E:, as an example). But when I try “Restore Guest Files” on that VM, , I get “Unable to mount disk: unsupported disk type” when it goes to Browse. Have I totally misunderstood what type of backup job I need to be doing, to be able to do an individual file restore of a Windows VM? What type of backup do I need to be doing then, to accomplish what I need? This type of backup looks like I can only restore the entire VM, like a bare metal recovery. Which is good, and I might need that, but I definitely need to be able to restore individual files. Do I need to make a backup job of type “Windows Computer”? I won’t need to push the Agent, because the VM is always connected.

Please see the new NetApp StorageGRID and Veeam Best practices link below. You will see some recommendations from NetApp around using a larger object blocksize. This will increase the size of incremental backups. Please work with the NetApp StorageGRID team to optimally configure and size NetApp StorageGRID appliance for customer capacity and performance expectations. As always if you encounter issues please open up a support ticket to track the issues that the customer encounters😀. https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/storagegrid-enable/tools-apps-guides/veeam-br.htmlThanks,Pete

Hi All,Why does Veeam Backup for Azure (Azure Files) have no scheduling option for yearly retention?Is this in some way related to the Azure only allowing up to 200 snapshots on Azure Files? In which case would a feature like we have with VM snapshots being used to create a more traditional backup be worth thinking about if you require longer term archiving? Cheers,

Hi All, In this article I am going to show how to configure custom AWS tags on Veeam Backup for AWS (VBAWS) workers. This is really helpful if you need to use tags for billing purposes for example.This procedure is only possible, at least until the moment I am writing this post, through restAPI. In Veeam for AWS we use by default the port 11005 for the restAPI, so you need to make sure you open this port on the security group that is associated with the VBAWS instance. Since you have the port open, the first step is to access Swagger, the restAPI tool built-in the VBAWS appliance.Open your browser and type:https://<hostname or IP of your appliance>:11005/swagger/index.html Expand the Method TOKEN

A Deeper Look at the Smart-EntityIn my Veeam Amazing Object Storage Tips & Techniques Part 4 I provided a high level introduction of the Smart-Entity feature of the Smart Object Storage API (SOSAPI).  In this article, I will explain how our Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) Object First has implemented the Smart-Entity as part of their object storage solution.Let’s start off with a reminder of how the Smart-Entity feature works:Veeam Backup & Replication will tell the object storage platform how much dat

my goal isI use veeam to back up my vmware vm machine to a NAS, and then I back up the backup files from nas to aws s3. Then I can directly read the files from s3 and restore the vm machine in aws.But I am currently encountering a problem. The backup from veeam to nas and then from nas to aws s3 goes smoothly, but my veeam cannot read the files backed up by nas in aws s3. Please tell me how to set it correctly.

 Using Veeam we can have various types of files. But do you know all of those file extensions? Here is a list of the main files: .vbm - backup chain metadata file.vbk - full backup file.vib - incremental backup file.vrb - reverse incremental backup file.bco - configuration backup file.lde - veeam explorer exported file.ldf - Microsoft SQL Server Log file

VEEAM 100 SUMMIT IN PRAGUE Last week I had the great pleasure to attend the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague Czech Republic.This event is the highlight of the year for the Veeam Community and the atmosphere and energy it creates is enough to keep one fueled with IT enthusiasm until the next summit.So what is the Veeam 100? Well I have described it before but such a great Community needs to be mentioned again and again. What’s more there is no reason why you too can’t join the Veeam 100 as well, either as a Veeam Vanguard or a Veeam Legend.The Veeam Vanguards“The Veeam Vanguard Program is Veeam’s top-level influencer community”. You can get a full description here: https://www.veeam.com/vanguard.htmlThe Veeam Legends“Veeam Legends are Veeam users and data protection industry experts who are passionate about tec

Hi to everyone,I want to create a DR plan in AWS.Is there a way to restore a Domain Controller (Windows Server 2022) in AWS keeping all its configuration and function as AD, DHCP and DNS? When i try to restore it into the cloud, i’ve this error:Impossible join with these credential because your domain isn’t available….. Do you have some advice? Thanks. 

I’m using NetApp 9.12 just a cifs smb share. I followed the instructions from veeam to create the storage infrastructure for netapp and the subsequent NAS filer. I created a file to tape job to use vss and confirm that the snapshot is being created by veeam on NetApp. I have the virus scanning to exclude the directory based on NetApp’s published kb on excluding snapshots from vscan. What is the right format of '-paths-to-exclude' in 'vserver vscan onaccess-policy' command? - NetApp Knowledge BaseUse Snapshots to backup SMB File Shares on your NetApp ONTAP system (veeam.com)With vscan enabled veeam will just stop tran