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Dynamic
DynamicVeeam Vanguard
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Hardened Repository - two mounts for different tiers?

Hi there, is it possible to have two mounts on the same hardware for a hardened repository?For example, mount-1 on an SSD-Raid for the latest 14 days of backups and mount-2 with an HDD-Raid for 3 months or something like this?Maybe both of them are presented by a Scale-out-backup-repo? Is this a good and solid option?Our customer want to have very fast restore or instant restore performace within the latest backups (SSDs) but also want an option to have several months immutable (HDDs) - but as mentioned on the same hardware. He has already some other repositories, also on different site, so this should only be an extension for immutablity.Thanks and best regardsMarkus 

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TunglhNot a newbie anymore
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Veeam Backup & Replication V11

Hi all,I have 2 Backup Servers (Veeam B&R v11) running independently from each other with 2 licenses (16 Sockets CPU and 24 Sockets CPU). My goal is that both Backup Servers can backup from disk -> disk(HPE StorgeOne 5200) -> Tape (HPE MSL 3040). I have some questions as follows:- Is it possible to add 1 Window Server (Use it as Tape Server) to 2 Veeam Backup Server?- Can use 2 Window Server (Use it as Tape Server) to manage 1 Tape Library (HPE MSL 3040)? If so, what needs to be done?- Is it possible to add 2 licenses to 1 Backup Server to increase the number of CPU Sockets to 40?Thanks

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Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Veeam Community Recap #126
Veeam Community Recap #126Veeam Community Recap #126

This week, El Rickatron and @Madi.Cristil are sharing some solid content, Special Department News and the Who’s New section. Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @kristofpoppe via @SteveHeart via @cameronmcshane Special Department NewsBig milestone of work from @Madi.Cristil @NikolaPejkova and @safiya → The Veeam 100 Directory is now live and ready to go on the top page of the Community Hub, or you can go to https://vee.am/Veeam100 via @Madi.Cristil → Be sure to vote for Blog of the Month!Veeam KB 1745 has been updated, Deduplication Appliances best practices. If you are using one of these, please check this KB: https://www.veeam.com/kb1745The Ransomware Trends 2023 report is live, it was part of our news book for VeeamON - you can download the report now for free, it has some truly fascinating statistics! http://vee.am/RW23 Who’s NewWe are happy to welcome +71 new members this week! The coolest usernames are @MarcMizz @Blixa @a.bonadonna @uh-dk @AWu and @Ulli  And Alfred’s pick

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StingerAlexNot a newbie anymore
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Problem with Hyper-V restore: Failed to restore vm. Name: [Server] ChannelError: ConnectionReset (Veeam.Backup.Common.CAppException)

Hello!I am trying to play with restoring one Hyper-V VM onto another Hyper-V server just to know what to expect in the future.So I created the Backup job which backed up this VM to the Backup repository which in turn resides in the shared folder of the second Hyper-V physical machine, i.e. is the part of the second server.After back up is done (very fast!)  I started Restore job of the Entire VM, and it fails. I tried all possible scenarios : restore entire VM, immediate restore with the following migration, I tried even importing this backup and restoring VM from imported file - ALL FAILED with the same symptoms: restoration starts very optimistically and energetically, going to the point of 45-46 GB of vhdx restoration, stops, nothing seems to be happening, only process timer shows it is still alive and ticking, and this frozen state continues for 5 to 8 hours just to get this ChannelError: ConnectionReset. Thank you!

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SatmanNew Here
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Uploading backup to storage

Greeting,I'm trying to put together a solution for saving backups to a remote location.I created a batch procedure that installs Wireguard to the remote storage and transfers a complete backup using the Robocopy program. This solution turned out to be the best, regarding reliability and bandwidth utilization.The problem is the following: I expected that the .vbk file changes only once during retention time when a synthetic full backup is created, so that Robocopy sends me only incremental files daily, however it seems that is not the case because every day I also receive a 200GB .vbk which is not acceptable since it is uploaded at a speed of 50 Mbit/sec. Have I misunderstood something or am I doing something wrong?Please comment...

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EdxHComes here often
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Power log Search

Hi all, I’ve been using an app called “ripgrep” for a while now and wanted to share it with the community. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep“ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern.”ripgrep is written in Rust which is “blazingly fast” for this type of operation. I found this article very interesting on the subject of benchmarking https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/Finding the specific file or files where something occurred can be tricky, but ripgrep makes it easy with a simple regex pattern.rg "^.*?\b13.02.2023\b.*?\bError\b.*?$"It provides each instance that matches the expression under the file's name. It also allows you to use flags to alter the output; the most useful I’ve found are the -A, -B and -C flags. -A Provides a number of lines before the match-B Provides a number of lines after the match-C Provide a number of lines before and after the matchMany other flags can be used, including a flag that recursive

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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Data Protection Considerations: Digesting the SQL ConstantCare Report

For those of you who don’t spend much time or have much experience with SQL Server, Brent Ozar is a well-known and respected Microsoft SQL consultant. In addition to consultancy and training services, Brent Ozar offers tools such as the First Responder Kit, and a SQL Server monitoring service called SQL ConstantCare.SQL ConstantCare is a paid for monitoring service, designed to provide a daily report of what’s going on within your SQL Server platform, collecting data and notifying you if it sees genuine room for improvement, when things are good, it stays quiet.It’s the content of these alerts that I want to discuss today. Brent Ozar did a blog post recently discussing the alerts that most people muted, and I found it really interesting to see the elements of data protection in there. So, let’s take a look: SQL ConstantCare – Sample Size and Quality of Samples Some background information on this data set that Brent Ozar has worked with firstly to provide context. At the time of writing

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Philippe SNew Here
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Restore only ACL from windows files without restoring files

hello, Small trick following a bad handling. The objective is to restore on a Windows file server the ACLs of the files without restoring the files.For this we will start by opening the console restore guest files. Once done, click on any file, then explore to find the path to the FLR mount.To get the list of ACLs you can run a single command. This command will save all subfolders and files as a plain text. The text file (acl.txt) will be saved on your current user folder.icacls c:data /save acl.txt /t /cWhere “C:data” is the FLR path, “T” is added to get all subfolders and files on that drive, and “C” allows to ignore all the access errors.If the number of folders and files are too large, then the command will take a long time to complete its execution. At the end of execution, you will get the list of total files which is processed successfully, and the number of files which don’t get success in processing.If you want to restore the lists, execute the following commandIcacls c: /rest

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HubertChowComes here often
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VAMW - Syncing with dropbox?

Hello,I am having problem syncing my backup files with dropbox. The problem comes from my vbk files which is around 1.9TB now. Dropbox needs 2 days in order to complete syncing that file, and if in the middle PC shuts down or goes into sleeping mode the syncing process will be reset (need 2 days again to sync).Moreover, when syncing Veeam Agent can’t proceed incremental backup because backup files are being used by dropbox. Last but not least, I thought the vbk file would not be changed (so it just needs to be uploaded to dropbox once) but I was wrong. So once there’s a change on the vbk file dropbox will need to upload a whole new vbk file again (needs 2 days syncing again).So, I wonder if anyone here has experience on this situation could give me some advice on it.Many thanks!

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tavoliComes here often
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HPE StoreOnce deduplication source-side

I ask about experiences with Veeam and HPE StoreOnce deduplication source-side, if they know how to configure it.

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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Red Hat Announces a Change to the Open Source Availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Well, it feels inevitable that this change was coming. Red Hat is starting to withdraw the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) from public availability. Instead, only the source code of CentOS Stream will be publicly available.What does this mean? And why do I say this was inevitable? Let’s start by looking at the RHEL project, and how Linux is maintained in general. First, we have the generic Linux kernel project, the basis of Linux. From here, we get “distributions” or “distros”, such as Ubuntu, CentOS, and RHEL. We call these “downstream” of the Linux project. The goal of these distributions is to take the Linux kernel and customise the kernel in ways that best suit the purpose of the distribution. Applications and specific patches related to the integration of the kernel and bundled/supported software will be maintained at this level too, ensuring the best level of compatibility between these various components & configurations.But we can have more than one layer of

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April M
April MNot a newbie anymore
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Learning

Being new to the tech industry, I am just looking to broaden my skill set. What area is good for beginners? 

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Tech Field Day – Storage Field Day 25

Storpool Storage logoAt the beginning of 2023, I was selected to be part of the Tech Field Day Delegate list, which was an honour. You can find my profile here – https://techfieldday.com/people/chris-childerhose/.After this, I signed up for my first field day, which was Storage Field Day 25 #SFD25. More information can be found here – https://techfieldday.com/event/sfd25/It was a different experience being part of such a great event by @GestaltIT and @TechFieldDay, along with Steven Foskett. After the event, attendees are contacted regarding writing a blog spot for the GestaltIT website from the event you attended.I decided to write a blog about Storpool Storage, and the blog can be found here –https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/storpool/chris-childerhose/storpool-storage-delivery-with-commodity-hardware-the-right-way/I hope you enjoy reading it!

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TechsysNot a newbie anymore
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Veeam Agent for Windows Free software update download says digital signature is invalid

Cannot auto-update from 5.0.3.4708 because the digital signature of the downloaded update file is invalid!This is happening on three personal computers at two different locations.I had to download the update from the website and manually update.Not a big deal but what is up the the auto-update utility?  

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MikeAusNew Here
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Veeam BR12 and third party Tape Software

Hi All,I have been using BR for many years and backup (with ease) 30 servers and 110Tb of files via the network. Servers to disk then tape and the 110TB direct to tape (twin LTO8’s)The 110Tb system is a VM that I do not backup - too big (and in Veeam format), so I only back up the files 50Tb and 60Tb drives as two jobs. Its monthly weekend work so no big hassle (with daily increments). Working well.(I back the files not the VM as it would need another 110Tb to restore to - which I dont have and if I wanted a file or folder I would have to restore the whole VM etc + time   110Tb on Dual LTO 8 still is 35 hrs). Add to that I dont have 100Tb Veeam Repo size either ….With the licence changes (based on 500Gb per licence ..this is now becomes cost ineffective ...approx. addition 190 or so instance licences required on top of the 40 I have). Just cant afford it.So my question is:Can I remove the tape solution from Veeam BR12 and use third party software to do the tape work. This will mean bac

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Dynamic
DynamicVeeam Vanguard
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V12 Backup Copy Job / Objects to select by Infrastructure / Tags

Hi all,i recently did an upgrade on a customer site to V12. Within our legacy Backup Copy jobs, i could select the “Objects to process” by a VMware vSphere Tag, per example by “business-critical”.Within a new Backup Copy Job (both periodic and immediate), i have only the option to add Objects by “From backups” and “From jobs”.With tags, we had the option to filter the VMs that are processed very dynamically.Am i the only one, who is missing this feature?  screenshot for example:  thanks and best regardsMarkus

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vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Backup DB2 with Veeam Backup and replication? No problem!

Protecting DB2 servers with Veeam Backup and Replication is pretty straightforward. The IBM DB2 can be protected with the following Veeam jobs:Classic VM backup jobs Veeam  Agent for Linux (VAL) jobs Enhanced NAS backup jobsTo ensure that the DB2 DBs are in a consistent state, IBM DB2 commands will need to be called to either create a native DB2 database backup or to put database(s) in a quiesced state so that a clean application backup of the database can be made. DB2 has several ways to perform backups from the CLI that make backups of the database reasonably simple.Native flat file backup can be performed against an offline or online DB. The options include using full, incremental, and differential backups A simple pause and resume of the DB2 writer that can be used to store (and VMware) snapshots that Veeam Backup and Replication can leverage. The ability to leverage storage array snapshots as restore points through a component called IBM DB2 ACS. I will not discuss this process as

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Aeternus
AeternusComes here often
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 proxy disconnects and proxy Windows service dies on every backup. Anyone else seen this?

 I had M365 backups working flawlessly and then needed to switch repositories. Somewhere in there, something broke. So I ended up removing the repo, removing Veeam M365 backup, cleaning up all app residue and re-installing from scratch, since this was a new, small instance and I just wanted it to be clean.Now, every time I try to run a backup against the same recreated Org, the job will connect to the org, start resolving the objects, it finds the objects to backup but never actually receives any data. Shortly thereafter (30 seconds or so), the proxy service crashes and the portal shows status “disconnected” and Details “Job was interrupted”.I have even tried putting it on a different VM and the same behavior persists. The only element that I haven’t recreated is the O365 implementation. I have also recreated the Azure apps/certs each time as well.The logs don’t seem to show much. Below is the end of the latest log as well as the console view and some event logs. I am kind of at a loss

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shanmukhNew Here
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K10 Dashboard doesn't display ReplicaSet workloads in a namespace.

I can’t see replicaset workloads in K10 dashboard which are in a namespace in my cluster. But it displays all other workloads (StatefulSets, Deployments).Any thoughts ?Thank you.

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szabkelNew Here
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Cannot find EFI boot manager entry for EFI System Partition GUID

I have two NVMe SSD-s. One has Windows 10 installed, the other one has Linux Mint 21.1. I boot from the linux one, it has an entry to windows as well.When I am backing up the linux system with veeam, I have a warn: The linux partitions looks like this: szabkel@mint10900:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1[sudo] password for szabkel: Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 931,51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectorsDisk model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesDisklabel type: gptDisk identifier: 0FFFD452-185F-4DF1-B369-48B00892351FDevice Start End Sectors Size Type/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System/dev/nvme0n1p2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserved/dev/nvme0n1p3 239616 1953523711 1953284096 931,4G Microsoft basic dataszabkel@mint10900:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/nvme1n1Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 953,87 GiB,

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kristofpoppe
kristofpoppeVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Create your 100% free & private AI chatbot with Veeam green blood in his veins.

Looking to build your own chatbot but don’t want to break the bank on hardware and keen on some privacy ? I’ve created 2 blogposts on how you can create your own AI LLM powered chatbot.The first post is live and tells you how to get to your source data. I gave it a little twist and used the transcripts of several YouTube instructional videos to train the model.Interested, remarks, comments ?Read it all here: https://integriservices.blogspot.com/2023/06/create-your-own-private-offline-ai-q.html My second post will become available later this week. Then I’ll take you on the tour how to deploy your own private chatbot and train it with the data we’ve collected before. 100% private free and local AI LLM powered Q&A chatbot at your disposal. 

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BenJNew Here
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New Cluster Node Requires Full Backup

We’re trying to do a rolling OS upgrade of two physical servers in a Window Failover Cluster. The roles/resources are two Storage Space disks holding >20Tb of data each. When we add a new node to the cluster, Veeam is insisting on a Full backup of each shared disk, which is not ideal. According to documentation at the link below, this appears to be “by design” but this is very painful and our only option is to significantly expand the size of our backup target. Is there any way to skip this full backup requirement? We do weekly synthetic fulls, so I added an additional one to the schedule but it still insisted on an actual full, not synthetic. From a technical standpoint, I could understand needing to reset or ignore CBT and do a scan of the whole disk, but this is the only backup software I’ve used that arbitrarily requires a full backup when cluster node changes happen. Does this affect other cluster workloads like SQL or VMs? I had planned on moving those into our Veeam backup en

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Blog of the Month May + June 2023

The final week of June has arrived! As we mentioned earlier, we had made a commitment to conduct a poll to determine the top blog of the month, which will be featured on the homepage during the first week of July.For this month, we have a special edition in which we will consider blogs from both June and May. This is because we had skipped our May edition due to VeeamON Miami. We want to ensure that all the deserving blogs from both months get a chance to be featured.Our selection comprises of three blogs that were featured in the weekly recap, as well as three additional blogs that were not mentioned. Please help us determine the best by voting on your favorite one by June 30th .   Good luck to all participants! 😊@MicoolPaul , @benyoung , @Geoff Burke , @Michael Melter , @Nico Losschaert , @Scott Please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to vote for you!Sneak Peak: In July we will have another special edition dedicated to SysAdmin Day that

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benyoung
benyoungProduct Strategy
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VannyGPT 1.0 - AI Q+A bot for Veeam KB Articles

DemoLet's rip the band-aid off, as I know most of you really just want to see it right?!  My ObjectivesBuild a Chatbot interface, nothing new here, but it's a hot topic right now Use the Veeam KB data as the primary data source,(the clean data didn't exist, but i built my own API for it as well as the scraping engine... you can use it too) Learn about embeddings, using the OpenAI models because they're super easy (and certainly at the time) to interact with Learn about Vector databases, I used Pinecone but there are like 20 more since Feb... lots of funding for startups in this space already Learn, have fun along the way, share the knowledgeI really just wanted to share the project with y’all, the techy-details about the various bits are over on my blog if you were interested!Let me know what you think, good idea? would you use it? How would you improve it?

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
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Out of space on Immutable repo? chattr?

Hi Folks, I have someone who ran out of space on their Linux immutable repo, they are asking to remove immutability on the fs (chatter -i) as root. I am wondering what Veeam DB will think? and what other issues might arise. They seem to say they have done it before then just rescanned the repo? 

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