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Folks, I don’t want to sound like an old grumpy grand pa but.. Software is a mass noun so you don’t make a plural form out of it. I just bet and won $20 that there is no such thing as Softwares :) . Now that does not mean that language does not evolve over time, but so far that is still the case. https://www.grammarflex.com/posts/whats-the-plural-of-software

Hello everybody,to backup the 2VM with a File Sevrer Role on Windows 2012 R2, is better agent less or with agent?I have a Job for Backup Hyper-V VM, ca i backup every VM with this? File Sever - Exchange? SQL? Or better save this with agent?Thanks a lot

30 years ago today, CERN made the WWW available to the public free of charge. The beginning of the Web as we know it today. https://www.home.cern/science/computing/birth-webWhat is your earliest experience with or memory of the WWW?How did it influence your life and professional career?

Hi,we have a customer with 15 different vCenters (each one is different environment)how many vCenters can we connect to one Veeam backup server ? didn’t find any KB on that.each one have it’s own proxy server for backup.

Hey Guys,Has anyone performed a patch update? Please tell what can go wrong after that?

Hi Folks, I am back into the wild and wonderful world of Veeam Service Provider Console after a brief sojourn. I wanted to see if there is a quick answer to this and if my old solution perhaps has a better one now.I have a VBR that is connected to the Service Provider and all backup copy jobs are working fine. In VSPC the company is smiling with a happy green Healthy! However, at the VBR level the when pressing the Management Agent icon it complains that is connecting, and can’t connect after rolling through all the gateways. I tried running through the SP properties again but no luck. Is it time to un-install the pesky agent and redeploy? The ClientAgent_error, Communication and ClientAgent logs have things like CloudGate “No such host is known” and “Endpoint Hanshake Failed” and The write operation failed, see inner exception. ---> System.TimeoutException: Could not finish read operation in timely manner.Now could this be that if they have running backups and have used up the Tena

FolksOnalytica just came out with their who is who in the cloud: I seem to see a familiar beard :)  https://onalytica.com/blog/posts/whos-who-in-cloud-top-50-influencers-to-follow/

HelloI’m trying to find a solution to a hypothetic scenario: tl;dr is it possible to change/swap the target repository of a Backup Job by the repository of the BackupCopy Job I have 2 datacenter, 1 VBR server, and 2 repository on each site, one for backup job target, and the other one for BackupCopy job targetevery job have a copy job associated with it, and there are a few dozens of jobs running every dayI want to plan the failure of the repository system and being able to continue to do backups, in the case where the issue is hardware or would need multiple days to repair I have no problem with restoring from the copy jobs, all the data is there as intended, but how to restart the service of “backups” during this failure?so is it possible to tell VBR to use the the existing backup copy chains to use as an existing repository (I can’t seem to be able to remap)or is that impossible and I would need a new repository, and so startiing new backup chain ? 

Hi, ive just setup Veeam - Backup and Replication v12 and im a little stuck on how to setup my backup scenario.What i would like to do is perform a daily weekday backup to NAS with a retention of 10 restore points (Mon to Fri, so 2 weeks) with an active full on saturday plus a full daily backup to Tape.The data is 2tb, and i use LTO6 tapes (2.4tb).The Nas job is setup, and works perfectly, but im struggling with the Tape part. The problem is that the source job, having 10 restore points (and 2 active fulls), becomes too big for the tapes but can easily fit the actual data being backed up. The active full plus the daily incremental should fit, but its the 2nd Active Full that makes it too big.Is there anywhere to set the job to backup only one chain, daily, as a full?I may be looking at this the wrong way round, and there is a probably a better solution to this, but my thinking was that the data should fit on one tape, so why not back that up, in full, daily. This would save using pools

I want to added multiple VCentres spread across trusted domains to one console ( 1 from each Domain)..  At first glance I should be able to add the the second Vcentre Server. Is this as straight forward as it appears?

If you want to restore a deleted Exchange mailbox (on-prem), you first have to create an empty mailbox within Exchange for the user. This has already been described earlier: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/restore-deleted-mailbox-with-veeam-explorer-for-exchange-t16174.html Challenge is, while creating a new mailbox you also create a new ID for it. This leads to loosing some functionality (permissions to folders for 3rd parties etc., recurring appointments, etc.). Is there another known way to recover the mailbox including its original ID?I would rather have expected VEXE to create the mailbox for me while recovering - including all metadata.

Here’s one to find out who has the largest backup in the forums. Currently my largest server I backup is 45.1TB.  The largest one I had backing up was 115TB.  It took a while but worked fine.  I’ve been working on splitting it up in to multiple file servers to allow more concurrent streams to our backup/tape jobs. 

Primary backup is configured with daily retention 14 days , synthetic on Sunday and GFS (Monthly - First,  Yearly- April) option and target to disk storage.Monthly - 1st of every month Yearly - 1st of April Now Backup to  Tape , above primary backups ,  incremental in incremental media pool , weekly synthetic  backups  to go in weekly media pool, monthly in monthly media pool, yearly in yearly media pool. like wise is this possible with GFS media pool configuration.

Hi,I have installed the testlicence of veeam o365 Version 7. Exporting single items from a mailbox works fine, but export the hole mailbox of a user ends up with: unable to read beyond of the end of the stream. How can I solve this?

Final week of April is here!  We had previously committed to organizing a poll to determine the top blog of the month that is going to be featured on the homepage in the first week of May.Our selection comprises of three blogs that were featured in the weekly recap, as well as three additional blogs that were not mentioned. Please help us determine the best by voting on your favorite one by May 3rd.   Good luck to all participants! 😊@coolsport00 , @MicoolPaul , @Nico Losschaert , @Iams3le , @Scott , @Geoff Burke Please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to vote for you!Best, Madi

Hello everyone! @HangTen416 & I are delighted to introduce to you all the latest ‘thematic’ Veeam User Group: Cloud City. What is Cloud City? Cloud City is a Veeam User Group focused on Veeam’s Public Cloud and SaaS Product Offerings. We wanted to create a dedicated space in the community for people to share their knowledge and ask questions related to these products, or the relevant services that provide the platform these products interact with. Where can I find out more? Firstly, you can check out the group here: https://community.veeam.com/groups/cloud-city-107This page has more information on the purpose of the Veeam User Group, and you can join the group via this page. @HangTen416 and I are also going to be hosting an introduction meeting on the 9th May, be sure to register and check it out if you’re interested: During this session we’ll talk more about the purpose, some community guidance on what content we intend to focus on and encourage, and our plans for (virtual) meetin

An incremental update has been released for Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV. Version 4a has a few new enhancements and some issues that were resolved. The download link is in the KB link below.  Note: Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 4a only supports integration with Veeam Backup & Replication version 12. What's NewUpgraded OpenSSL to version 1.0.2zg Configuration restore now assigns a default start time to a restored job that used an active full schedule but did not have a start time configured Configuration restore now assigns proper value and proceeds if BackupUID is found to be an empty string during configuration restore Default settings for Active Full and Synthetic Full job settings in the web UI have been adjusted to be consistent with Veeam Backup & Replication.Resolved IssuesA backup job continues to retry when the session ends with a warning.Now, after the first session completes with only a warning, no further retries will occur. Notification emails sent to Enterprise Micr

Hey everyone, Has anyone ever seen Veeam throttling bandwidth with the RMAN plugin? I’m working with a really beefy Veeam environment at the moment. Source data is all on flash, 40GbE networking available, high performance RAID controller + 4x RAID 60 repositories in a SOBR. Backups are flying for most workloads, VMware, Agent, NAS etc, but RMAN is letting me down. For example, a Veeam Agent using an unoptimised network path via the firewall can still do over 200MBps (Firewall is the bottleneck here), but RMAN is doing 5-7MBps and it’s on an L2 network with no firewalls involved. Testing with iperf can get 6-8Gbps easily without tuning between the hosts and the backup repositories, one test with iperf between the backup repositories was giving 26Gbps, so the network really is moving quick.When I’m going through the Veeam logs I’m finding things like this: plugin_co| [8b43] >> : Invoke: Network.UpdateThrottling\n{ (EInt32) KbpsReadBandwidth = 0\n (EInt32) KbpsWriteBandwidth

As the proverb says, "A script a week keeps the doctor away". This week, we'll turn our attention to the Veeam Data Integration API. The idea for the script was to program a kind of SecureRestore for Linux VMs. There are many blog posts about the Data Integration API together with Linux, but nowhere could I find a script that covers the following requirement:Restore a Linux VM with prior AVscan. Abort the process if a virus is found, otherwise do the restoreLet's start…PrerequisitesInstall the latest Win OpenSSH package on the host where the script will be used Win32-OpenSSH Generate a public/private key pair using PuTTYgen A Linux server with ClamAV installed (I used Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) Add the Linux server to Veeam Backup & Replication using the generated key: Add Linux Server A Backup Job protecting the Linux VM as well as a restore point (the script uses the latest for the Restore)How to install ClamAVA quick guide to install ClamAV on the Ubuntu serverUpgrade your package listsu

Hi,I have setup a new Veeam Advanced version 12. Connected to domain and Windows Server 2019 install.I have checklist:Ip ping ist ok domainname.local pin ok Windows FW Deaktiv Veeam Server ist domain member Join ist with Domain\Administrator i have add Regedit LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy  DWORD 1I did this check, they are all working. However, I am getting the following error : Faild to connect to host 192.168.2.100Invalid namespacePossible resaons:Invalid credentials. Specified host is not a Hyper-V server.Can you help with this ? Thankyou 

If you have Veeam on your domain, or Enterprise Manager and want to give a user access for a specific amount of time, you can achieve this with a simple PowerShell command.  Add-ADGroupMember -Identity ‘Group_NAME’ -Members ‘Username’ -MemberTimeToLive (New-TimeSpan -Minutes *****) The issue with this is trying to calculate minutes to days, weeks, months, or having some sort of searchable way to do this task.  Onboarding users with this method was proving difficult so I thought of easier ways to achieve this.  What started off with an overly complex excel spreadsheet to extract minutes from dates and generate a command has now become an PowerShell based GUI.  In the below script. anything with “*****” should be replaced with items from your own AD infrastructure. This allows to search 1 or many users and add them to 1 or many groups. If you select the TTL checkbox, you can select the end date when the users will be removed from the groups. The user and group names can be searched start

For those that use Veeam ONE they have released a patch that adds a few new things and fixes others.  One of the main additions is for the upcoming vSphere 8U1 update.https://www.veeam.com/kb4430

Hello Community,I just wanted to share some good news that my third edition of my book based on v12 will be published this Friday the 28th.  I will share links once I get them from the publisher as I will be doing a blog post.Hope to see lots of orders going in once it hits the market.  😎Cheers,Chris

Hello Everybody, i’am new……...i need to buy the god licence for my new backup.I habe 45VM wand more or less 15TB backup stuff…….what you mean better to buy a Essential Licence or a Advanced. (i will use also Veem One).The Veeam funtionallity for Essential are the same as Advanced?I have only Hyper-V VM onprimise, but in 3 yeas maybe we go to Azure, so i think better VUL Licence and not Core. Thank for the help Thank a lotAlfred

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) V6 can provide orchestration of recoveries to different locations (original location, a secondary site, or Azure) from backups or secondary backups. VRO   The feature that I love the most about VRO (well, really one of the many features) is the ability to easily have VRO scan multiple backup restore points of a server (virtual or physical) for malware infections that may have been missed before a backup so bad backups don’t get put back in production!  VRO will use a the update AV software installed on the mount server to perform iterative scans of multiple restores to find a “clean” restore point to recover from. This can be performed in a few easy steps. First, launch the orchestration plan for the server(s) you want to restore, right-click on it and select run.  Step through the wizard until you reach the “Ransomware scan” page. If you want to limit the number of restore points scanned, you can set it here by checking the checkbox and entering a val