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Alt Text: Veeam Backup & Replication + Oracle - RMAN Plugin Unexpected ThrottlingI’ve just resolved a case with Veeam Support that I wanted to share.I was working on a project that was protecting Oracle RMAN databases on an IBM AIX platform, and the performance unexpectedly dropped.During testing, all had been fine, but when we came to the migration, the backups were taking a painfully long time. We backed out of the change and began to review.This blog post is a write-up of the troubleshooting steps we took, and what the root cause was.Firstly, we looked at Veeam’s statistics screen to review where Veeam perceived the bottleneck to be. Veeam reported an extremely high value for both the source and the network as the bottlenecks, with the target being idly waiting. We tested RMAN backing up to a local disk for comparison as the database team were saying that RMAN was awaiting further transmissions and found that it was backing up extremely fast to disk. A job that would take 30 min

I was able to solve this challenge in a project and would like to share the findings. The challengeConsider you want to restore Exchange items (e.g. mails, calendar objects, etc.) using Veeam Explorer for Exchange as well as Veeam Enterprise Manager.Consider also, that you have a larger multi-domain infrastructure with the VI and backup infrastructure in a sub-domain (infra.mydomain.com). For security reasons, we are not able to reach the GC of the root domain. The mail addresses are derived from the root domain though (myuser@mydomain.com).This might lead to the situation that neither Veeam Explorer for Exchange nor Veeam Enterprise Manager can determine the CAS server of your Exchange environment, as they want to contact the GC in charge first. This is even if they can easily reach the CAS itself. You can observe this in the corresponding logs (%programdata%\Veeam\Backup\ExchangeExplorer\Logs): 13.04.2023 15:35:39   15 (17156)  Looking for mailbox 'myuser@mydomain.com' in Global Cata

Title Image: ‘Veeam Backup & Replication - Linux Agent Deployment & Management with Active Directory’ against a colourful background.Veeam Backup & Replication has some nice out-of-the-box features for Veeam Agent management if you’re using Microsoft Windows or Linux Operating Systems. I don’t like talking about a possible solution though until I’ve tried it for myself. This way I can gauge the problems that’ll occur by how I’ve tripped up in testing.This brings me to the topic of today, Linux + Veeam Backup & Replication Agent Management.Nowhere within Veeam’s documentation could I find references to what was/wasn’t supported for creating an Agent Protection Group. I see this as a potential risk, without stating which operating systems you can target via the mechanisms such as Computers from CSV file or Microsoft Active Directory Objects etc, how do you know if it will actually work? I could add IBM AIX servers to a CSV file, but that won’t work in reality as I’d need

Good evening, several of my Replications and backups take a long time to complete and I would like to know the cause and the means to resolve this.   

Hi everyone, I thought this was a good conversation point I wanted to share, as the more I thought about it, the more my thoughts on the subject changed. AMD have released an errata listing that details how their AMD EPYC Rome (7xx2) processors can, under specific conditions, crash. I’ve included the statement in its entirety below:I’m conflicted on this, my initial reaction was “wow they won’t fix this?!”, then I thought, well I guess it would involve a new stepping, and the chips were released in 2018, that’s not too unreasonable.The security conscious part of me thought, oh boy who isn’t patching their servers in nearly 3 years, but even that thought then pivoted to consider that actually with some of the live/hot patching options now available, OS-level patching is becoming less tied to a reboot. Then there’s the use-cases whereby these servers are isolated and patching become less-mission critical. But it’s safe to say any of these systems aren’t getting firmware updates in any ca

Wonderful initiative for Community and Friends.You have probably heard Danny Allan announcing at Veeam ON: Veeam Software people believe in empowering and enhancing female talent and support a more diverse environment across our ENTIRE ecosystem that is why 150 women will participate to a FREE VMCE Training.If you are interested or if you know the perfect candidate this is the registration link! 💚https://go.veeam.com/women-in-it-empowerment

Hi Folks,I just wanted to share some of my experiences and thoughts after the trip, and sitting now and reflexing of them after a crazy week! (My Inbox was packed! as many of you I guess)Lucky me, I have the “privilege” to meet and flight with @jos.maliepaard  and @mkevenaar!We met in Madrid, and instantly starting chatting and discussing like we knew each other for some time! awesome!The flight was “looooong” and we made it to Miami evening, soo tired and hungry!Back to the hotel, we were not in the mood of having dinner, so we went for a couple of drinks after the check in! The days were great, the hotel had amazing pools, ambience, people around 24x7, and I started realizing were I was located at, Miami, Florida, USA!! OMG!Next day, getting ready for registration, I met @Scott , and instantly we connected and starting chatting and exchanging time, ideas and interests! amazing buddy!The only bad thing, I can highlight, I lost my voice, I gave my best effort to continue chatting and s

Hello guys, how are you?I have two backups at the moment, one is on storage and one is on external hard drives. The problem is in the external hd's the error that appears is this: Failed to connect to Installer service.Job has failed. See logs for details.Can you help me? 

I did it again. Went to hit the like button and missed. lol Can you uncheck best answer once you check it? It’s not a big deal, but the second I clicked it i was thinking, that is going to look odd.  

What an event! I will admit I was slightly nervous about attending my first VeeamON. From not knowing what to wear, looking at the heat and temperature for the week or what to expect.  My flight there only had a 30 minute layover which was a bit concerning as well. After getting swindled at the airport for a “TAXI” when the guy clearly took me in a Mercedes SUV, I sucked it up and paid the large fair and arrived at a beautiful hotel. (I knew the second I got in and he stepped on the gas it was going to be expensive lol)  The SUV was quite nice and he got me there quick but that hurt the wallet pretty bad. I quickly installed Uber for the rest of the trip.  The view from my room was better than expected and I wandered around by the pool and had a great meal at La Cote.  I believe this was the night Chris took me to CVS to get some snacks which was good as I didn’t have any clue where I was going and most likely wasn’t going to wander off solo.  Day 2 I had a coffee at the hotel and real

have "borrowed" the content from the VeeamON event website before it disappears. I have extracted all the session details and saved them in markdown documents. Additionally, I have downloaded and stored all the referenced presentation files in this archive. Each session markdown provides comprehensive information including abstract, speakers, and resources for download."But why, Ben?!"Yesterday, a call for help was issued on the Vanguard Slack channel... And now we have an archive of the VeeamON sessions that took place in Miami!No point in embedding much here so head on over tohttps://github.com/benyoungnz/VeeamON-2023-ArchiveEither clone it offline, or you can navigate through the Github interface, all markdown files are linked together.

Hello friends, all good with you?I have backup making in a storage and in external HD's, the backup of the HD's is giving the following error: Failed to connect to Installer service.Job has failed.Can you help me to solve this problem?

I did a VeeamON review post on LinkedIn. You can find it here. Thought it would be neat to have a central place for others, who didn’t write a post on the ‘Hub’, to share a link to their own write-up so people can read them. Or actually, if you want to share your Hub post...I think that’s cool too...all in a central spot! 😊 If you feel so inclined, please post a link to your review below.Thanks all!

Hi Folks, One topic that I don’t think has been addressed or discussed is VeeamON in relation to all of our many duties and responsibilities. How do you fit it in? How do you deal with the extra stress levels? VeeamON was a success and thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended but we would be kidding ourselves if we thought that it did not add extra pressures in our daily lives. First of all some of us might have to convince the  bosses of this world that a trip to VeeamON is not, as the British would say just a “Jolly” i.e. vacation have fun only party. Yes we have fun but there is a lot of intense activity and knowledge transfer back and forth. I personally come out of VeeamON with my head exploding with new ideas and initiatives that I have gained from the sessions but even more from simple in person one on one conversations. Then there is the fact that no one is taking away the day job. Some of the folks there were having to simultaneously work during the conference or after hours. I

Hi,I have a Dell Data Domain repository for local backups and i want to send some critical VMs backups to the AWS S3, to withstand disasters.So when I tried to create a scale-out using the existing Dell data domain and AWS S3, the interface told me that all tasks that use the Dell data domain will be updated to point to the the scale-out repository.Is there a way to keep the majority of backup jobs pointing to the Dell data domain and choosing some backup jobs to point to the scale-out repository?

Now we have a specific best practice for Veeam Backup Cloud Solutions: https://bp.veeam.com/vbcloud/

For all those that could not participate in the "VeeamOn2023", share with us your best moments in photos so that all can enjoy them visually.Pour tous ceux qu'il n’a pas pu participer au  "VeeamOn2023" , partager-nous vos meilleurs moments en photos afin que tous puis en profiter visuellement.  

First time sharing, so feedback is much appreciated. There is a lot improvement possible but this short script did the trick. A while ago we came across an issue after automation made some unforeseen changes to the vm. Therefore I was tasked with the restore of a system file from +1000 vms from a specific date (not the last backup)VBR backup  Agent backups Netapp snapshot onlyThe CSV file exists out the vm name & backupjob name for the VBR & Agent restores. (extracted this from the notes in vcenter where possible)For the netapp restore the vmname was only needed.Here is the script that made my life easier:function Get-TimeStamp { return Get-Date -UFormat "[%Y-%m-%d %T]"}# Starting script# --Write-Host "$(Get-TimeStamp) - Starting script"$vmlist = import-csv C:\scripts\Veeam\restore\vmlist.csv -Delimiter ";"Foreach ($vm in $vmlist) { $backupjob = $vm.backupjob $asset = $vm.vm $backup = Get-VBRBackup -Name $backupjob $restorepoint = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup $backup

IntroYou know the stories: Sometimes an incorrect keyboard layout can lead to incorrect entries. Or while coding, , you must make sure that you use the correct special characters such as ' or ", etc.  But let's focus on the main topic - Veeam ONE AlertsVeeam ONE Alert - Suspicious incremental backup sizeYou probably know this Veeam ONE Alert: Veeam ONE Alert - Suspicious incremental backup size. What many may not know is that you can configure Veeam ONE to perform remediation actions when alerts are triggered. These actions can be performed automatically or after manual approval.Veeam ONE offers the following types of remediation for alarms:Predefined actions that are configured for the most commonly used out-of-the-box alarms.  Custom scripts that you can specify in the settings of any alarm. For each severity level, Veeam ONE can run one or more custom scripts.For the Suspicious incremental backup size alert we do have a predefined action available: Predefined RemediationA SureBackup

Prepare to get hyped, everyone!! #VeeamON 2023, the Community Event tailored for Data Recovery Experts, is all set to enhance your knowledge this year. We can barely contain our enthusiasm as we unveil the event schedule! Take a peek at our website to discover the extraordinary lineup of speakers, sessions, and other exciting features: https://www.veeam.com/veeamonAnd that's not all! Need another reason to join us? We have an exclusive community area this year, where Alfred and Veeam 100 members will be spreading positivity and doling out community edition SWAG! So, what are you waiting for? Be a part of the excitement!Remember to spread the word among your network as well!Best, Madi

We’ve been testing our Orchestration Plan and after failover to our DR site, the certs on our vCenters were replaced and broke the connections between our DRO and vCenters. Had to refresh the connection so the DRO can take in the new certs. However, when we tried to failback to our primary site, we had the login error to vCenter. The issue was fix when we had to go into the built-in VBR and refresh the connection in VBR itself.  I would tend to think that DRO itself would be able to restore the connections within its built-in VBR and VeeamOne. Let me know what you think or if I’m missing something here. 

At VEEAMON 2023 in Miami I had the opportunity to talk about a certain topic during a Tech Talk. At first I would like to thank @HunterLAFR and @JonahMay for joining my session and making it a interactive and informal talk!For those that have missed it, I will give you in this post a recap about the content of this session. As already said, the idea was to have an informal and interactive talk about a certain topic.The topic I have chosen was : Powering Off-Site backup a at Service Provider.The session had several elements :  IntroductionAt first we introduced ourselves.Who are we, from which country, working at a partner/service provider or at a customer. 3-2-1-1-0 golden backup ruleI explained the importance of implementing the 3-2-1-1-0 golden backup rule.It is very important to protect us against ransomware, disasters and other attacks.The topic of the day was the offsite backup copy. Different approaches for off-site backupThere are different possibilities to implement a off-site

Greetings everyone!I am very new to Veeam, did a few installs & backup/restore already with the software but still I’m way too far from understanding the full structure of the tool.Is Veeam a viable solution to backup vCenter Server Appliance? Currently the organization I joined recently has a nightly backup of the appliance. (doing a research about how Veeam can be a viable solution in long term, so I would greatly appreciate if someone can share their expertise on the matter, thank you!)

One of the many features that Veeam Backup and Replication provide to ensure an organization can successfully recover their backups every day and in case of a malware emergency is the ability to scan your backup images for latent malware before they are restored.  This goes beyond the ability to scan for possible entropic encryption of a server during backup by scanning for the malware that has caused the encryption. If an infection is detected then the restore can be aborted, or the server can be restored but not get connected to a network.Secure Restore is the name of the Veeam Backup and Replication feature that does the malware scan before restoring. Secure restore can restore Windows servers fromVMs from any hypervisor  Physical servers that are protected with Veeam Agent for Windows. From backups stored on immutable block storage. From backups stored on immutable object storage. From backups stored on NFS/SMB shares Secure restore can be run before recovery is performed from the