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I’m curious are many of us using vCD in production?We have it but are still quite new into this journey and slowly starting to pick away at the features available. We have self-service enabled for backups and are looking to explore cloud connect DRaaS into vCD in the near future.Do you have plans to deploy vCD to add value to your VMware deployments?Has the acquisition by Broadcom affected any future plans to deploy it?

I have a 5 TB file share on Windows. Should I back this up using agent backup or File Share backup? I  have a backup copy job to send backups offsite. Currently doing file share backup with retention time set to 4 years. I think the agent based backup would take up more repo disk space (multiple vbk files)?

I am trying to do agent based backup of a Windows file share cluster. However when the job is set as "Failover cluster" job mode I can only select the entire volume to backup.I want to select particular folders on the shared drive to backup. Is this possible ? 

I did an agent based backup of a windows computer and the “servers” license count increased by 1 instance. I deleted the backup data but it the server still shows up in the license report.How do I release it ?

Please help with adding a Hyper-V host. Veeam 11. New Hyper-V Server > Credentials: Added Domain User to Administrators Group on Hyper-V Host. Veeam B&R and Hyper-V Host on same domain. Window Firewall Off:Windows Firewall On: RANT:Hours in, this is frustrating that Veeam doesn’t nip this in the bud and does not rely on MS technology (Ports, WMI...etc) to install, and shifts responsibility onto the customer and offers unhelpful dialog boxes and similar push back in forums. 

 Hi Community,YARA Scans, one of the exciting new features in V12.1 that I really wanted to start using.YARA is a great tool to help you search and detect malware like ransomware and alert you before it can do any damage.In Veeam Backup and Replication V12.1 you can only select one .yar/.yara file to use for scanning from the "C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup\YaraRules" directory on the Backup Server.After uploading some YARA Rules to my Backup Server, I created an index.yar to include all the individual files/rules so I can run scans using all my YARA rules instead of a single YARA rule.A Yara rule looks like this:Where a Yara index file looks like this:

Hello,With Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition 11, On one of the backup jobs, when it starts, I encounter the following error:Failed to perform health check Error: Agent: Failed to process method {NasMaster.TransformMeta}: Unexpected meta file size 348160. Expected size: 356352. The source is an NFS share stored on a NetApp storage, and the destination is a Synology NAS. I have other jobs that use the same sources and the same destination, and they do not encounter this error.The job is responsible for backing up user files such as Office documents, PDFs, etc. When it runs, no files are open or currently being modified.I tried performing a job check as instructed on this page https://helpcenter.veeam.com/archive/backup/110/vsphere/health_check_nas_backup.html, but I encounter the same error. Thank's for advance.Philippe

Has anyone experienced this issue after performing the Veeam v12.1 upgrade? Unable to connect to guest OS for guest processing. Cannot find Linux guest credentials.  Our Veeam environment is configured to utilize vSphere backup tags (which includes both Windows and Linux VMs).After the upgrade to v12.1 our backup jobs that included Linux VMs didn’t backup.We have opened up a support call, and in the meantime have a work around.  If we would specify each Linux VM along with the backup tags within the backup job, the Linux VM does backup.

I have 6 months of daily restore points, a monthly VBK and daily VIBs for each month. I have the backup job configured to keep 180 days of backups. However, when I do an FLR, it only displays from 11/1/23 forward, just 60 restore points. I feel like the repository needs to be rescanned but I can't see how to do that. (I use Veeam B&R for our corporate backup system, so I am familiar with this, but I don't see how to do it in the free version). I also tried right-clicking the actual VBK or VIB I want to use and then "Open", but it just opens the FLR window, showing only the last 60 restore points.This behavior exists on multiple PCs where I use Veeam Agent for Windows.  This product isn’t much use if I can’t restore my data.I opened a case (#07068715) over a week ago and it was auto-closed because no one was available to look at it.Does anyone know how I can access my restore points? Thanks.

Good day,I have been enthusiastically using "Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows" for some time.Now I have the problem that when I have activated my new Premium VPN from https://hide.me "Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE" unfortunately aborts with an error message when creating a backup!What exactly do I have to set or allow in the VPN app so that the backup still work with VPN enabled?My system data & backup-media:-Windows 11 Pro 23H2-Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 6.1.0.349 - Free Edition-Backup-medium: External 2.5-inch hard disk Many thanks for any helpful answers! 

Hey there. I use Community edition for my home lab and photo archive backup proposals. VBR is installed on my PC, it was added to Veeam as a File Server, some folders were added to the job, and everything was fine until I added these folders to sync with my Nextcloud (real files are always on device).Now I faced this error:08.01.2024 22:43:43 :: Unable to backup \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12\Pict\Filmscan. Incorrect function.Failed to read data from the file [\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12\Pict\Filmscan].There are job logs from C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup.Does anybody knows, how to resolve it? 

Last month I created a topic for a script I had created using Veeam Service Provider Console API to automate the upgrade of Veeam Agents (Automate Veeam Agent Upgrades via VSPC | Veeam Community Resource Hub) which also got featured in the last recap of 2023 which was a very nice end to the year for my first post! I was already planning on working on a script to automate the process of bulk updating VBR servers, but after it was mentioned a couple of times, I thought I would share what I have so far. If, like me, you work for an MSP, we have multiple tenant VBR’s kicking around it can be very time consuming when a new upgrade for Veeam comes out, to get this deployed on all of our tenants servers. Luckily, in recent updates, VSPC has improved the process of remotely upgrading VBR via VSPC. However, it is still a manual process

Hello Veeam Gods,Newbie here, looking for some advice on system design… I’m hoping I’m in the right place, but let me know if I’m not.Here’s the stack:DC1:3x ESXi Physical Hosts1x VCenter Physical Server1x Win22 100TB StorageNon-Prod Nimble System with 40TB storageAll on 25GB backbone LINK: 100gb fiber connection DC1 --> DC2. Separate buildings, power, generators, WAN etc. DC2:3x ESXi Physical Hosts (same spec as DC1)1x Veeam Physical Server with VBR + Explorers removed1x 600TB Ubuntu hardened Immutable StorageAll on 25GB backbone WAN:2 x 2GB redundant WAN connections (1 into each site but HA across the two, redundant firewalls too)Wasabi Buckets for Offsite S3 storage. The Plan (that I’d like guidance on):Run Production in DC1Use CDP to DC2 for near-real-time failoverBackup Production in DC1 to the 100TB St

In the realm of IT infrastructure management, establishing a resilient backup schedule is critical for safeguarding data and ensuring business continuity. A robust backup strategy not only involves regular backups but also encompasses a well-thought-out schedule tailored to diverse data types and systems. This article aims to explore key considerations and best practices for implementing an automated backup schedule aligned with business continuity objectives, while emphasizing the need to distribute backups within backup windows to avoid overloading productive and backup resources. Understanding Business ObjectivesBefore diving into crafting a backup schedule, it's imperative to comprehend the business's specific needs and priorities. This involves understanding data criticality, compliance requirements, recovery time objectives (RTO), and recovery point objectives (RPO). These insights will inform the frequency, granularity, and retention pol

As this was a hot topic on many plattforms, I thought it was worth sharing here.Today Dell and Veeam have released the new storage plugin for PowerStore OS 3.x.In general the plugin will only work with Veeam Backup & Replication build P20220302 or later. But what’s important to note, if you’re on P20220302 you need to install a private hotfix before installing the plugin itself; the details can be found in KB4243. The plugin is available for download in the Storage Plugin Section or directly

I was thinking of using a bare metal restore into a VM and have actually made it work, but what I wasnt able to do successfully was resize/shrink the disks in the process. The physical server has lots of wasted space which I would like to avoid in the VM. Is it possible to accomplish a “disk shrink” using a bare metal restore?

In my environment, all of my switches and all of my virtualization hosts support jumbo frames. as well as the Data Domain that is my storage infrastructure.  However, my VBR environment - 3VMs (the VBR server, 1 proxy, and 1 managed server used to mount restores) and the physical server that attaches to the tape library are not currently set to use jumbo frames. I am wondering if setting them to use jumbo frames would help, improve performance, reduce bottlenecks?I can’t imagine that it would hurt, right?Anyone using jumbo frames? What is your experience?

If the Hyper-V integration services are not installed, you cannot restore any data from Veeam Backup.Please follow the steps to install Hyper-V integration services in the Ubuntu Linux VM of Hyper-V.  1.Login to Hyper-V host.2.Open PowerShell as Administrator.3.Run the command as follows.Get-VMIntegrationService -VMName "ubuntu2310"  4.Open the Hyper-V Manager tool.5.Right-click the VM and select the Settings.  6.Select Integration Services on the Settings of the VM page. 

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 has an error in one of the mailboxes. The error message is "There is an error in XML document…The specified type was not recognized: name='SharingMessage'. It happened after I upgraded the VBM365 from version 6 to version 7a. This is a known issue, and Veeam released a HOTFIX on December 15. Please download the HOTFIX from  https://www.veeam.com/kb4527 and follow the steps to fix it. 1.Login to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Manager server.2.Open Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Console.3.Verify the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 console (Help |Abut). 

Hi Folks,I decided to talk about something a bit different today. A non Kubernetes quick video. One of the main components of Zero Trust when it comes to Backup and Replication is not put all of your components together, otherwise it can get messy like in my video. Whishing everybody a great upcoming New Year!  

Veeam Backup and Replication release 12.1 delivers new features and enhancements.Among them is the Four-Eyes Authorization.In this video, there is a brief demonstration. I hope this information is helpful! 

Hello,I want to recover one computer account password from Veeam B&R credentials, I followed the KB4349 article, but I was unable to locate the DATA key under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication to view the EncyptionSalt value. I didn’t found any article or guide for such case, can anyone guide me how to find the EncryptionSalt value if it is not available in registry?

Hello,if I understand it correctly, in Veeam 12 the backup health check is performed independently from the backup copy job.In my case that leads to a problem because the backup repository which is the target for the backup copy job is only switched on for the backup (powering on and powering off is done by job scripts in the backup copy job).Is there any solution for this?In my opinion there are several ways that would lead to a solution:Starting health check immediately after the backup before the after job script. But that could not be configured any more or I didn’t find it. Adding the functionality to execute scripts before and after the health check. Starting health check manually from the command line. Then I could execute a script which starts the repository, performs the health check and power off again. I found powershell commands to perform a backup health check, but that doesn’t work anymore. Or I used it

Hello - total newbie here,I installed CE 12.1.0.2131 on Windows 10 Pro (desktop computer type) I wanted to try creating a simple backup job to see how it works. I intend to chose just a single folder of files to be backed up. I am in Home > Backup Job > New Agent Backup Job > Tab = “Objects”I checked the box for “The following file system objects:” It displays a windows form with a single line text box, I do not see any buttons to open a file picker dialog box to be able to select just the single folder I want to backup.I see a similar constraint when I click “Next” to go to the tab labeled “Local Storage”. There is just a text box on a form and no file picker dialogs. I need to type the full path to the storage location where I want the backup to be written to. Is