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IntroductionOver the past few months, I have had customers report over-consumption of VUL, when leveraging Veeam NAS backups.Veeam NAS backup is licensed by the amount of protected source data. The protected data amount is rounded down to the nearest 500GB and consumes one VUL per 500GB (see the user guide for details).The important licensing caveat is that if, for instance, a same share is protected by two different backup jobs, even though it is the same source data, its protected amount doubles (in this particular instance).It easy to see how your VUL consumption can very quickly get out of control. The purpose of that short post is to share a ver

Hi allFinally previous week I took the time to perform the new VMCA 2022 exam, this to extend my Veeam Architect certificate (VMCA-1) to an up-to-date status. This just before the summer holidays 😎.Previously (7 months ago) I wrote another post regarding my personal experience for the VMCE 2021 exam (VMCE exam personal experience | Veeam Community Resource Hub).I know that @Michael Melter already wrote a great post about his VMCA 2022 exam review, but next to that nice post, I want to add my own personal experience and recommendations 😉. I will use the same content as I used before in my VMCE post 🤗. Requirement : Taking an official 2-days VMCA course

Inspired by the post by @MicoolPaul:I wanted to ask the community, how many of you are running MS SQL corruption checks using DBCC? How often do you do it? Can you share some examples of issues that was discovered using DBCC?

Hi all, I'm using Veeam B&R v11 and I have 1 Repository (HPE StoreOne) and 1 Tape (HPE MSL 3040). When data is transferred to StoreOne, the process is as follows: Source data -> Backup Proxy Server -> Backup Gateway -> HPE StoreOne.I am confused about how the data is transferred to Tape. From source or from StoreOne? Thanks/Tunglh

In this article I will explain how to configure the AWS SSM on EC2 Instances to Veeam Backup for AWS be able to create VSS Snapshots for those instances.Veeam Backup for AWS depends on AWS SSM to create the VSS Snapshots, so before enable the Application-Aware option in the policy we need to configure the instances correctly with all the necessary components. Let’s start creating a IAM policy with all permissiona that we need: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "VisualEditor0", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "ec2:DescribeInstances", "ec2:CreateTags", "ec2:CreateSnapshot", "ec2messages:AcknowledgeMessage", "ec2messages:DeleteMessage", "ec2messages:FailMessage", "ec2messages:GetEn

I’ve looked for an answer and can’t seem to find one … Can a hardened Linux repository be used by more than on VEEAM server? I’ve tried it an it is working I wondered if there are any limitations or concerns to be worried about? For example both servers running backups at the same time? I can see based on directory naming I will need to be careful with job names that they are unique. Thanks for your time … 

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 

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

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!

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...

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.*?$"

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 f

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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?  

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 t

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

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 arra

 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 eve

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.