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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
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MUTEX!!!

Hi folks,Can someone explain to me “the programming dummy” this word mutex? Is it just a log shock and awe term, i.e. someone like Geoff sees something “mutex” in the logs and thinks back to Grade 10 Math and makes a quick retreat? 😁Recently I have seen this word in different logs and wanted to double check with the pros before I press the terrifying search button on google. (I say that because I had a red mark on my face and thought I should google, it basically told me all the horrible things that it could be, until the unsponsored answer way at the bottom had a nothing to worry about explanation)!!

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mohammed Kamy KommunikasjonComes here often
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Failed to index guest file system. VSSControl - window server 2016 backup job

I have backup job on one of my VM windows server 2016 . I set up backup job and it show this warning and completed with an warning, 6/7/2023 2:04:27 AM :: Failed to index guest file system. VSSControl: Index failed Details: vss::CVeeamIndexingProvider::NetTryCompleteIndex. Failed to complete guest file system indexing in network mode. checked the  have the Enable Guest File System Indexing in the backup job configuration setting. can you help me solve this problem with suggstionthanks​​​​​​​

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asaadidiComes here often
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Backup copy To S3 storage, GFS and immutability

Hello,We are going to set up a backup copy of a vm on a compatible S3 storage, and we will apply a GFS policy.Immutability is activated for 7 days on the object storage.Can you confirm this information below? Do you have a veeam article that explains this?The immutability of GFS backups is not based on the immutability period defined in the Object Storage Repository, but on the retention period of the GFS backup point (e.g. Annual with a retention period of 7 years will have immutability defined for 7 years, so it won't be deletable for 7 years).

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tan123New Here
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veeam python library through swagger.json

Anyone created veeam python library through swagger.json and has been successful in creating backup job?

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HubertChowComes here often
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VAMW - Can I exclude some folders/files in Volume backup?

Hi,With VAMW, can I exclude some folders/files in Volume backup?Thanks

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HubertChowComes here often
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VAMW - How can I restore invidual files with Veeam Recovery Media ISO ?

Hi,I was trying to restore individual files after booted in using the Veeam Recovery Media ISO (from USB stick) but not like in Windows it only supports restoring volumes I guess or am I missing something?  Thanks

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Geoff Burke
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
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Waiting for backup resources availability warning

If a backup copyjob shows one vm in the job in a warning status that says “Waiting for backup resources availability”; did that particular VM actually copy over or did it ultimately fail to copy over?

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
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VeeamON 2023 Carlos has made some new friends including Alfred

My final Veeam Update. The aftermath! It did not take long for my swag to disappear. This time Alfred the Legend Cat and the Veeam Teddy bear I found with their new friend Carlos. Carlos is highly trained in DH, “Dealing with Humans” so he always opens his eyes slightly when people approach, just in case, the old trust but check thing :) If you look closely below in his den you will also see the Cloudian Ninja hanging out as well.  Carlos 

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eprieto
eprietoVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VBR v11 🔥 Requirements and Limitations Veeam CDP

Requirements and Limitations CDP has a set of requirements and limitations. RequirementsThe following requirements apply to CDP:CDP is included in the Veeam Universal License. When using a legacy socket-based license, the Enterprise Plus edition is required.For supported platforms, see Platform Support. For supported source and target datastores, see Veeam CDP Source and Target. All hosts in a cluster must be of the same major version: 7.x or 6.x (6.5, or 6.7, or a combination of 6.5 and 6.7 is supported). In turn, all clusters managed by the same vCenter Server must also be of the same major version. VMs on the same cluster must be protected with CDP only by one backup server. The machine where the backup server resides must have at least 16 GB RAM. VMs that you plan to protect must not have snapshots at the moment when the CDP policy starts for the first time. Network between infrastructure components required for CDP must be 1 Gbps or faster. For high loaded systems, 10 Gbps and MTU

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jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Excalidraw - Veeam Unofficial Icon Library

Greetings, today I wanted to share with you some amazing news. I am talking about an unofficial Veeam icon library for Excalidraw.Excalidraw is a tool that helps you draw technical diagrams with a great hand-made look, made every diagram much more user-friendly, as it really looks like if somebody has drawn it with their own hands.After a few months, and many nights on this, I have finished adding around 60+ Veeam unofficial shapes in total that have been carefully created inspired by the official shapes. Sorry to repeat myself, but again, these shapes are unofficial and not linked in any way to Veeam Software, use them, edit them, change them as you like.How do the Veeam unofficial shapes for Excalidraw look like?These are all the icons I made manually, they are ready to use, and I hope they are enough for your diagrams:How to Import the Veeam unofficial Excalidraw Icon LibraryThe process could not be simpler, open Excalidraw on the browser of your choice, remember that Excalidraw doe

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Chris.Arceneaux
Chris.ArceneauxVeeam MVP
posted in YARA and Script Library
Automated Upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication v12

The PowerShell script to automate the upgrade for Veeam Backup & Replication & Enterprise Manager to v12 is now available on VeeamHub! For more details on the script itself, I recommend reading the documentation on VeeamHub.https://github.com/VeeamHub/powershell/tree/master/BR-UpgradeV12 If you’re familiar with my previously written upgrade scripts for v10 and v11, here’s a summary of enhancements in this latest release:Support for both Windows Server 2019 & 2022 Added support for VBR plugins Veeam Backup for AWS Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Veeam Backup for GCP Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization Veeam Plug-in for Kasten K10 Added support for Veeam Explorer for PostgreSQL Added function to test for pending reboots prior to beginning upgrade Added patch install functionality if Updates folder is present in the Veeam ISO Added check for license as it’s required for VBEM upgrade Added ISO validation as the script was written for v12

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amakadComes here often
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backup and replication Job issue

hello, my problem is the following: I have a backup job scheduled at 5 p.m. and a continuous replication job on one of my virtual machines.  So it happens that the 2 tasks are done at the same time.  When that happens, my VM no longer works (it seems frozen, it can no longer be reached by ping, nor by remote desktop, the database it contains is no longer reachable either).  I am therefore obliged to stop one of the jobs.  help me please

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VeeamON 2023 - Event Review

I have been a Veeam Vanguard for six years and Veeam Legend for just over a year and was fortunate enough to have attended the VeeamON 2017 event in New Orleans and VeeamON 2022 in Las Vegas, which was fantastic.  Being a Vanguard is a real honour, and many people ask me when they see my Veeam Vanguard jacket or shirt - What is Veeam?  My answer is a typical one - it is backup software for your infrastructure for now and the future, leading to a conversation around technology, backups, and many other things.This year's VeeamON 2023 event was in Miami, which I attended in person, and it was amazing.  Besides the great weather and hotel, there were many sessions, networking, a VeeamON playground with the Veeam Community Booth, Lab Warz, Hands-on-Labs and the legendary swag shop.Fontainebleau Miami Beach - Pool with VeeamON logo  VeeamON 2023 Digital Display in the lobbyAttending VeeamON is one of the best events if you want to learn more about backup and what Veeam is all about. From use

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Pybarra
PybarraInfluencer
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NetApp portfolio products updated for Veeam Ready Version 12

If you are using NetApp products with Veeam. A few products are now Veeam Ready for VBR 12. Please see below😀. The NetApp E-Series storage platform has been validated for VBR v12. This platform is used as a high-performance SAN for Veeam repositories used with Windows ReFS or Linux XFS.It is also targeted as a Linux Hardened Repository when Volumes are presented to a Linux platform. The model validated is a hybrid model. Please see details below.NetApp E2800 Hybrid-Flash Arrayhttps://www.veeam.com/sys395 The NetApp StorageGRID platform is an S3 object storage. It supports immutability with Object lock. It is positioned as an enterprise grade on-prem object storage platform.It was previously used as a capacity tier in VBR v11. It can now be used as a direct to object platform. Please use caution when sizing this platform. There are some known limitations in SG 11.6 see NetApp KB Article below.https://kb.netapp.com/hybrid/StorageGRID/Object_Mgmt/Slow_listing_on_StorageGRID_bucket NetApp

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jhleeNew Here
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nas backup recovery file via powershell script

Hello everyoneI am trying to restore files in a specific path from the current backup restore point.The number of files to be restored is large and scattered, so it is done using a powershell script.The backup image is that of the NAS server.The command used is Save-VBRNASBackupFLRItem.However, when recovering through the command below, if the type is a folder, only the entire folder is restored.However, I want to select and recover only some files, not all files in the folder.What should I do?## Powershell script (test environment)$nfs_source = Get-VBRNASServer | Where-Object {$_.path -eq "nas:/nfs"}$nfs_restore = Get-VBRNASServer | Where-Object {$_.path -eq "nas:/restore"}$path_restore = Get-VBRNASServerPath -Server $nfs_restore$restorepoint_nfs=Get-VBRNASBackupRestorePoint | Where-Object {$_.NASServerName -eq "nas:/nfs" -and $_.CreationTime.tostring() -eq "5/25/2023 11:47:43 AM"}$restore_session_nfs = Start-VBRNASBackupFLRSession -RestorePoint $restorepoint_nfs$list_files = Get-VBRN

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JuanjoATNew Here
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Veeam Backup for Salesfoce - Veeva

Hi, we have a customer that uses Veeva CRMhttps://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N300000016ZRTEA2&tab=eIt runs on Salesforce.Does anyone have any experience how Veeam would work on this?Thanks in advance.JJ

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Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
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SureBackup with Agents fails with "cannot detect IP address"

SureBackup with Agents is a brand new V12 feature I already blogged about:SureBackup with physical workloads - and some more gems | Veeam Community Resource HubAlready using it in production environments, we now faced an issue with a job consisting of a DC and and Exchange server. Both are physical machines originally. For the DC everything worked fine in the SureBackup run. But the Exchange server failed with:Error: Results: cannot detect IP addressThis is right at the beginning of the testing process and even when I disable all checks.Doing an Instant-Recovery manually with the Exchange, I could determined that the exchange VM - after the necessary P2V and intial boot - shows up an “unknown network adapter” in device manager. Installing the built-in Windows driver for the E1000 with a right-click directly brought up the interface. I guess SureBackup failed to do that automatically.So question is, why does VBR do that correctly for the DC and fails for the Exchange.We’ll try pre-insta

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csaha77Comes here often
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Veeam Backup fails

We are using Veeam Backup and Replication 11, getting this error when backing up the servers: 

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KWCorkComes here often
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Release licence for users in Veeam backup for Microsoft Office 365

I’d backed up some data for a group of users during a mail migration. The job is complete so I’ve deleted it all to free up the licenses for another job. Unfortunately I believe that I’ve done things in the wrong order. The repository has been deleted and now I can’t get “Remove-VBOLicensedUser”. For every user it outputs:“Remove-VBOLicensedUser : The process cannot access the file '\\10.1.1.1\office365backups\BackupName\Repository.xml' because it is being used by another process” The repository listed is nothing to do with these users and it’s not in user by any process that I can see - certainly openfiles is blank. Any idea how to proceed? 

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csaha77Comes here often
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Can Commvault backup folder be uploaded to Veeam cloud?

We have used NAS device to create a backup folder with Commvault. Can we upload the backup from NAS to Cloud? We are using Community Edition 10

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MicoolPaul
Rin
RinProduct Strategy
posted in Discussion Boards
Help Request: New Custom Search Engine

A little background for those who don't know I developed and have managed a custom search engine for Veeam named resources for (almost) 5 years. With the success of this one hitting over 200k unique searches I want to and expand and test a new search engine that pulls in content from third-party content creators outside the Veeam domain. I struggled if I should put this content directly into the original search engine or to keep it separate and I have decided to keep it separate for now... with the possibility of adding it into the main search depending how it does later. Please read AllWhat I need from you: If you would like your blog or you would like to promote someone's blog who has good Veeam content please comment that URL. I am looking for additional things that might help define good tags. Content can be anything from cross langue support, best practice, release in information, troubleshooting, and anything else Veeam related. Not limited to the Veeam 100 managed content.Not ju

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Tenant Issue "Cannot find previous full backup to calculate incremental backups estimate"

Hi Everyone, Always check the latest patch information and save yourselves some time troubleshooting :) I had a tenant run into this error on the health checks during health checks. Turns out it is a known issue and is resolved in the latest patch: https://www.veeam.com/kb4420?ad=in-text-link#:~:text=Cannot%20find%20previous%20full%20backup%20to%20calculate%20incremental%20backups%20estimate

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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VeeamON 2023 On-Demand Sessions

 VeeamON 2023 was absolutely amazing! From bringing together our amazing community (YES ,you! ) , experts, partners, and our customers and share some great ideas to the famous venue in Miami and the awesome party! It was a one-of-a-kind experience! We had a mind-blowing lineup of 156 sessions this year, both in person and online. And get this: over 23,000 people attended! But don't worry if you missed out or want to relive the magic. You can catch most of the sessions on-demand at www.veeamon.com. How cool is that? But hey, we're not done yet! We're on a mission to help our customers protect their data, whether it's on-premises or in the cloud. We want to make sure your business keeps rocking no matter what. So, we've got some fresh content for you even after the event. Check out what's new with VeeamON on-demand:Over 25+ new sessions, videos, and presentations  Customer and partner guest presenters sharing their best practices and industry knowledge  More deep dives on Ransomware and

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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VeeamPN has been discontinued!

Hey everyone, Was browsing the R&D forums (I know, I’m a traitor!), and discovered this post from Gostev announcing the end of VeeamPN!https://forums.veeam.com/post467237.html#p467237 This caught me by surprise as I felt like more noise would’ve been made around it, maybe I was one of the only people that used it, but I remember once dealing with a managed network that was refusing to integrate additional routes to perform SureReplica at a remote site, so I used VeeamPN to create a tunnel between the sites and create my own route that way! 😆 So long VeeamPN, you were awesome. 🍻

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Ian CNot a newbie anymore
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File Share vs Volume

If I’m creating a Windows backup, for a particular drive on a file server….is it best to create a File Share backup or a Volume level backup (essentially both backup the same set of files).  ie which is most efficient or recommended as a best practice?

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