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Anton Gostev annunced support for OLVM here Great news! 

IntroductionHi guys,This article is based on a request from one of our customers who asked us to conduct a study on the use of immutability with StoreOnce and related legal aspects. In addition, the request was to delve into the workflow of dual authorization. BUT first of all I would like to thanks @regnor  to permit me to re-use parts or screenshots from his StoreOnce posts - Part1 - Part2 and Part3 Transitioning from technician to architect roles in your career brings new considerations.In operational work, you simply follow instructions, but as an architect, you must be able to design and justify the necessary operations.This use case explains the use of StoreOnce with Veeam and its built-in immutability feature, with a focus on the legal aspects and audits that companies are subject to. What is a cybersecurity audit?An IT Security Audit is a systematic analysis of an organization's security system.Its primary objective is to verify the effectiveness of security controls, policies,

As today is World Backup Day 2024, I thought I’d share a tale from back in the day. This was from my first proper job after university, working as a First Line Analyst (i.e., Helpdesk). I was, to say the least, ‘green behind the ears,’ as the saying goes. It was also my first time navigating the world of an office environment and working with remote offices.Let me start by setting the scene. Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 were the Server Operating Systems installed on bare metal boxes. Windows XP was THE Operating System of choice, and Windows 7 had just been released. The word ‘virtualisation’ was not even something we came across. We pretty much had dedicated hardware for each server role required. Domain controller? Physical box running that role. File Server? Another dedicated box for that role. SQL Server? Yet another dedicated box. You get the picture. This, in turn, required a large amount of space to house all the servers. Additionally, installing servers meant

Hi, I am trying to backup the Windows PC’s on my LAN using Agent backup and am having the same issue as the person on this post: https://forums.veeam.com/servers-workstations-f49/creating-new-backup-in-protection-group-issue-t79935.html I have read the issue several times and I don’t think I understand the terminology being used. And I have successfully installed Agent on my Windows machine and executed the command to connect to B&R.  I also see the machine on B&R. Ideally, I would like to schedule backup jobs for this machine and also be able to run adhoc backups using the B&R console.Is this possible? Thank you, Hammer

Hi,Need a little help here with Start-VBRLinuxFileRestore. I have a daily backup of /home and backing up to a linux repo. I need to restore a file and i am at lost with the use of the powershell. Here’s my test per line below PS C:\Scripts> $backup = Get-VBRBackup -Name "RedhatDirectoryJob"PS C:\Scripts> $restorepoint = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup $backupPS C:\Scripts> $server = Get-VBRServer -Name "192.168.1.200"PS C:\Scripts> $session = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup $backup | Sort-Object -Property CreationTime -Descending | Select-Object -First 1PS C:\Scripts> $root = Get-VBRLinuxGuestItem -LinuxFlrObject $sessionGet-VBRLinuxGuestItem : Cannot bind parameter 'LinuxFlrObject'. Cannot convert the "Veeam.Backup.Core.COib" value of type"Veeam.Backup.Core.COib" to type "Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Infos.VBRLinuxFlrObject".At line:1 char:47+ $root = Get-VBRLinuxGuestItem -LinuxFlrObject $session+                                               ~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo          : I

Hi Folks,Following on from the news regarding a backdoor in the Linux library xz, a Yara Rule is now available that can be used in Veeam 12.1 if you do not utilise a vulnerability scanner in your environment. Great way to check by leveraging Veeam to do the scanning for you. There is more info about the vulnerability on the post by @JMeixner :Yara Rule can be found here: https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/yara/bkdr_xz_util_cve_2024_3094.yar 

hi veeam communityI researched air gap backup and came across a company called stonefly that I found interesting.I wanted to know if anyone has experience using this solutionhttps://stonefly.com/backup/dr365-for-veeam/Automated Air-Gapping: Enable/Disable physical or logical air-gapping directly from the Veeam data platform through seamless integration with StoneFly. In your opinion, what is the best solution for having an air gap?What solution do you use?  

Dees Latest Version (Version-12.1) of Veeam Backup and Replication supports backup and recovery of IBM Spectrum Scale GPFS file system. Please guide.

Hi all,i was testing and studying the FileServer Backup. Reading the guide from “Top to bottom” :-) under Requirements and Limitations for File Shares i see"To support the VSS for SMB File Shares feature, make sure that requirements listed in this Veeam KB article 3099 are met."Link at the kb https://www.veeam.com/kb3099Under Requirements of that Kb it says "The Veeam Backup Server and the Windows File Server hosting the SMB Share must be joined to the same Active Directory domain."? Is this real? I cannot use vss on fileserver that are not in the domain of the VBR Server?The guide is for the V12Thanks for helps.

Backup Job Chains… If I keep seven (7) restore points and run an Active Full on Saturday (point #7) what happens to the six (6) files in the prior backup chain? Are they useless but don’t get deleted because we’re keeping seven (7) restore points?  Backup Copy Jobs are different if not mistaken. If you keep seven (7) restore points and the seventh is a periodic full, the six prior restore points are deleted all at once?

Hi Community team! I have a doubt regarding the availability of VDC 365 Data Residency in Brazil's South Azure Region. I didn´t find this information in the documentation.The service´s docs state that backup data created by Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 or Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure can be targeted to and reside in any Azure region as end users request. Metadata is encrypted and stored in one of the following Azure regions: United States West. United Kingdom South, or Australia East.Do you know if storing the backups in Brazil's South Region in an LRS redundancy schema is possible?Choose the Right Azure Region for You | Microsoft AzureThanks so much for your help! 

Hello everyone,VSPC allows us to be alerted when a computer has not been backed up for a specific number of days.However, when a device has multiple jobs configured, what if one of those jobs has not been running for some time but other jobs completed? An example scenario is this:Job 1: when a backup target is connectedJob 2: daily at midnight What if job 1 never gets executed as the target is never connected but job 2 does?Is there a way I could be alerted? Thank you in advance.Daniele Capuano

Hello again! Onto my second post for world backup day, this time looking at the moments leading up to a disaster. In this post we’re going to look at ways to proactively prevent failures. After all, the best backups are the (tested) ones that didn’t need to be used because everything is fine.Let’s kick this off with a trip down memory lane. During the days that all storage media was a traditional hard drive with spinning disks, it was typically pretty obvious when a hard drive was failing, we could hear issues such as failed bearings or the scratching of a needle as these were mechanical faults that were developing. However, when we look at flash storage, which doesn’t contain any mechanical parts, the lack of being able to hear problems developing can result in people taken by surprise when storage fails.Nearly 30 years ago, Compaq released S.M.A.R.T into the public domain, providing a standard of storage health for all vendors. S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Tech

Hi Community,i would like to give a suggestion for maybe a future release.When moving a backup to another repository, the job occupies all free task asap. Other jobs on that server will be delayed until the Move-Jop is finished.I suggest a dialog where one can limit the tasks the Move-Job is using, so the normal backup routine is not on full hold.What are your thoughts on this?

I’m not sure if this is an existing issue or new, however, when doing a Quick Migration in VBR 12.1, I see no processing rate of the job when completed.  In VBR 11, we would get a XYZ MB/s or GB/s in that “area”. Any ideas? Can this be found in logs? Some DB table (how to connect to DB if so)?

Hello, Running free community edition Veaam backup agent for Linux on RHEL9.3. For the past few days I am getting an error when checking for the update from Veaam repository. This is the same repo I initially used to install the agent. Is there another Veeam repo that I can use for RHEL9? [root@bnrhlx:~ ]$ yum check-updateUpdating Subscription Management repositories.Veeam Backup for GNU/Linux - x86_64                                                                     2.1 kB/s | 986  B     00:00Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'veeam':  - Status code: 403 for https://repository.veeam.com/backup/linux/agent/rpm/el/9/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 108.138.26.22)Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'veeam': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried[root@bnrhlx:~ ]$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [root@bnrhlx:/etc/yum.repos.d ]$ cat veeam.repo[veeam]name=Veeam Backup for GNU/Linux - $basearchbaseurl=https://repository.veeam.com/

hi Veeam community I want to buy new storage for the repository and I got acquainted with the option “Backup direct from Primary Storage Snapshot”My question is where is the best way to use this option?For what server and services it is better to use?It also has disadvantages?And finally, if you have the experience of using this feature, I would appreciate it if you could share and what kind of storage you used.thanks

Each time I talk to customers at installation dates or health-checks, I spend some time talking about vSphere transport modes. These are: Direct Storage Access, Storage Integration (I take this as a separate mode), Virtual Appliance and Network mode. This is a topic with a lot of facets still not widely known. Here I will try to compare these transport modes on the basis of some characteristics. Direct Storage AccessSecurity Honestly rather bad. Since production volumes are presented to a Veeam proxy host, a local admin/root can easily delete all volumes within seconds. Much better if the storage system is able to present volumes in read-only mode. Network As the name suggests, backup traffic is kept in storage network. Configuration Effort It is more complex to configure than other modes. This is also because you need to configure different layers like storage switches and arrays. You may have to configure the array with each new volumes for backup too. It could be more tricky to

Hi, for this year’s world backup day I’ll be providing two posts on topics that I believe are important for data protection, this is the first one: SLAs & Exceeding them!So, what is an SLA? An SLA (Service Level Agreement) is typically an accepted standard for a service. In the case of data protection, SLAs might be RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives) or RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives). The metrics measured by these are already well defined from various others so I won’t go over old ground here, but they are important for the topic at hand.Typically any organisation will have an RPO, the maximum tolerance for data loss when restoring from backup. There might be multiple RPOs depending on the “tier” of the service being protected. 24 hours for a reporting server but 1 hour for a SQL database as an example.Whenever I engage with a customer and look at configuring backups, I’ll ask for how frequently they want to backup their data, and the frequency I’m given always equals the RPO for th

I have a pretty simple request that I just can’t seem to identify the correct command for.I’m just looking to be able to query what job a system is a member of. It’s very easy to do for any virtual systems, but harder for physical. Connecting and getting the job are easy. And the $Job.BackupObject property contains the Physical Infrastructure object I’m interested in, but not the actual members of the Physical Infrastructure box.The script:The Physical Infrastructure Object:The contents I’m really trying to get:  

dears, please we have configured the backup job to be encrypted from advanced menu and we create and pass for encryption, but when try to restore individual file the file restored normally and visible without asking for key, so please i need to know how to fix it  

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, ransomware stands out as one of the most insidious and pervasive dangers facing organizations today. As cybercriminals use increasingly sophisticated tactics, it is essential for IT professionals to establish robust measures to securely protect their data protection solutions from ransomware attacks.In this article, we delve into specialized backup strategies and technologies tailored to combat this growing menace. Understanding the Ransomware ThreatRansomware attacks continue to plague organizations worldwide, posing significant operational and financial risks. Attackers deploy sophisticated malware to encrypt data and demand hefty ransom payments for decryption keys, often leveraging tactics such as phishing emails, exploit kits, and remote desktop protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities to infiltrate networks. In addition to encrypting files, ransomware attackers may also target backup systems, aiming to disrupt recovery efforts and ma

After a successfully instant restoration of hyper-v vm to another hyper-v host, not able to open AD users and computers, it is throwing error of not supported OS version.