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Spring is here 💐 and with it comes another script. This time for Veeam Backup & Replication.The script shows different job configuration settings and can be used to quickly identify differences in job settings.The Readme and code lines can be found in GitHub:Bits & BytesMore to come depending on your feedback (I already got one related to NAS backup)

The problemHave you ever needed to know how much data you need to backup incrementally from your VMware environment? Because you need to design a new backup storage? Because you need to know, if your WAN is capable of transferring everything into the cloud or from your branch office? Because you need to know the change rates of your VMs? The solutionNow you can track these data changes with a simple script! Let me introduce you to GetChangedBlocksV2! It is a PowerShell script which uses the VMware PowerCLI to read the changes from your VMware disks each time it is run and saves it as CSV. It keeps track of the changes between each run, between each day and between each week. In order to get good results, you need to run this tool on a regular basis, e.g., with the Task Scheduler.There is even a basic Excel file included to analyze the results for you. But if you have better tools feel free to utilize them. Where to get it?https://github.com/turboPasqual/GetChangedBlocksV2 Other stuffWh

Hi All, I have recurring intermittent issues with restoring VMs. Host machine is Windows 2016 Hyper-VWith VMs ranging from Windows 2012 r2 to 2016 server.I am not getting any errors reported in the backup or restore process, but what i find is on starting up the VM a database might be corrupted. This can range from NTDS, DHCP, or single exchange databases.I have noticed that if i do a restore of just the disk file, instead of a full VM restore that the VM will then work fine.Backups are made to a set of rotated USB hard drives, however, issues still occur when the files are copied to a local hard drive.We were running an old version of 9.5 but have since tried community editions of 11 and 12.Anyone have any thoughts? Im guessing it might have something to do with replaying transaction logs?

If you do not run VeeamONE, it can be challenging to check if every VM that should be backed up, is really backed up. Therefore I wrote a small PowerShell script. Basically this script looks for each VM if there is a restore point for this VM. If not, it gets listed. Extra feature: Script connects to every vCenter that is registered in B&R server. There is a Blocklist included: when VMs should not be backuped, just place their name in the blocklist and they will not be shown in the list. So you can exclude VMs without editing the script.Notes:CredObject.xml is used for stored, encrypted credentials. Script connects to local B&R server, so it should run there if not changed. # Load Plugin and moduleAdd-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapinImport-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Core# Configure for multiple vCenter ConnectionsSet-PowerCLIConfiguration -DefaultVIServerMode Multiple -Scope Session -Confirm:$falseSet-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Scope Session -Confirm:$false#

Likely a noob question, but just want to be sure things aren’t broken.I’ve got a setup with Veeam B&R Community Edition on a single windows machine. I have full backups scheduled weekly, and daily backups every day, to a Quantum LTO-7 drive, using LTO-6 media.The console reports the total capacity of the tapes as 2.1TB. Allowing for the whole base 10 / base 2 argument, this is what I’d expect. The full backup (done last night) reports total transferred is around 1.1TB, but the tape is only reporting around 250GB free. I’m expecting around a TB free (2.1TB - 1.1TB). You can also see that the “daily” tapes are reporting 2.1TB free (again, this is expected - there’s not a lot written, maybe ~90MB per day, so not enough to make a difference to the free space reported)Is there something amiss somewhere, or am I going to have to migrate to LTO-7 media a lot sooner than I thought?  

Hello, I have a query.In a scenario with large mail files (OST and PST) that only change partially.Is there an option in Veeam Backup to only copy the part that has changed?How does deduplication.Does Veeam implement this functionality?Thank you for your attention.A greeting.

IntroIn the past I’ve shared some scripts with the community which were related to security stuff. Among my many ideas (I should put down on paper everything that is buzzing around in my head), someone recently asked in our internal Teams Veeam MVP chat the following question: "Can somebody please integrate VONE's Suspicious Backup file size and job duration alarm into VBR?" Friday MoodI try to keep every Friday afternoon free for some exciting projects. Most of the projects are related to customer or partner requests that can’t be handled directly with Veeam products. So, last Friday's slogan was "It's Friday again.....". (Who knows the song?)My approach was to create two scripts. One for manual execution, the other for integration into existing backup jobs with the possibility to display the result in the backup job statistics. The ResultPlease have a look into Brad's post, who was asking for the possibility to identify this in VBR: Linch TipsRelease v1.1 of the script will include t

I am having a hard time trying to migrate our Veeam365 (azure marketplace image) VM in Azure to another subscription, due to Microsofts restriction regarding move VMs with a plan attached. My latest idea was to use Azure Recovery Service to replicate the vm, and then do a permanent failover. The ASR supports cross-over subscription so it would do the job.When doing the failover, I get an error saying that I need to accept the terms of the image vms.This should be done with the azure cli command: az vm image accept-terms --urn veeam:office365backup:veeamoffice365backup:3.0.0have also tried with the subscription id in the paramteres, but the results is the same:The VM image can not be found. I guess its because its an older vm-image which Veeam now doesnt offer on that azure marketplace. So where can I go from there..? I am starting to perhaps use Veeam for this just case but before spending more time it would be great to now if this Plan paramteres is somehow following the imagedisc in

Is there any way to report (powershell script etc.) on Nutanix AHV repository hosted content (via Hyper-V) except for using the Veeam ONE “Protected VMs) report.  Information required,  Succesful backup sessions: Job anme, start & stop times, Durations, avg speed, total, processed, data read, transferred, dedup, compression, result.

I sort of understand backup and recovery...but if you have data, you have data, no? What were the reasons you use a backup or recovery service? I don’t understand what problems it might solve

Is there a way to filter out jobs that are disabled? I don’t want to see failures for these in VSPC.

For those that might follow my blog or have subscribed to it, I have done some moving of the URL (changed) and also the hosting provider.  The current hosting provider was just too expensive, so I have moved over to Wordpress.com (Free).  I have also changed the URL of my blog and the old URL will no longer work.If you follow me, you can find the new Blog URL in my signature and also here -https://justvirtualization.blog/

Hello, Just getting into Veeam. Trying to install VeeamOne agent on my Veeam B&R box from my standalone VeeamOne server. However, it keeps failing out. I’ve tried unloading any anti-virus, disabling firewall. I’m running it using administrator credentials. It is not domain joined so it does not have any odd security policies. I’m using ComputerName\Administrator for the installation account. I looked at errors 1639 and 1708 but it provided little help. has anyone seen this or know a workaround?=== Verbose logging started: 3/24/2023 15:57:11 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 5.00.10011.00 Calling process: C:\Windows\OneAgent\Veeam.One.Agent.Deployment.Service.exe ===MSI (c) (20:A0) [15:57:11:775]: Resetting cached policy valuesMSI (c) (20:A0) [15:57:11:775]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0MSI (c) (20:A0) [15:57:11:775]: ******* RunEngine: ******* Product: C:\Windows\OneAgent\OneAgent.x64.msi ******* Action: ******* CommandLine: **********MSI (c) (20:A0) [1

Hello guys, I'm looking some informations about Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and I wanted to know if some of you use this technology and why ? 

Prior to upgrading to Veeam V12, ensure that, "Transform previous backup chains into rollbacks" is not enabled in your environment. If it is, the upgrade will fail as per KB4390: Feature Deprecation: "Transform previous backup chains into rollbacks" (veeam.com)I just wanted to point out a slight caveat when checking our environment. If you decide to check each job setting and disable the option, bear in mind, if you have a snapshot job with storage integration, it may still show as enabled. Normally a snapshot job looks like as follows without an option to select the backup chain option: However, running the PowerShell command:Get-VBRJob | where {$_.BackupTargetOptions.TransformIncrementsToSyntethic -eq $True}returns the following: This can be easily sorted by running:Set-VBRJobAdvancedBackupOptions -Job "Job Name" -TransformIncrementsToSyntetic $false 

Hello,As I’m doing Backup Copy Jobs to second location I think it would be good to have Veeam B&R on that site also if somethings happens with primary location.For me I would need advice on licensing the second Veeam B&R.My primary Veeam B&R is on the primary site so If everything goes down there is no way to restore VM’s without it.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365’s self-service restore portal was introduced in version 6 of this product and opened up the ability to grant end users access to their backup data and elevated users to restore orchestration over delegated data scopes. With the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7, the self-service portal received some enhancements as well. These major advancements include a refined navigation interface, the addition of Microsoft Teams restore and point-in-time restore options. Along with the more major additions to this release, there were advancements to folder restoration in SharePoint and OneDrive and integrated access from the Veeam Service Provider Console as well. For more information about the complete release, please check out the "What's New" document linked at the bottom of this post.Self-Service Microsoft Teams RestoreMicrosoft Teams has become a critical communication and collaboration tool for businesses worldwide. However, data loss can still occur

I have installed Veeeam Backup V12 Community edition on a local Windows 10 PC.  I have a 4TB external USB drive connected to this machine that I intend to use as a backup repository.The local machine uses a VPN connection to connect with a shared windows server 2019 drive located on a remote server. The connection is always on.In my reading across various forums, Veeam seems to the the product of choice to accomplish this. The tutorials I have read thus far appear to target a much higher level of backup sophistication (VMs, Hyper* and whatnot). Can anyone please advise or point me in the right direction to accomplish this somewhat trivial task?Thanks

Hi,I’ve enabled encryption on repository which allready contain some backuped vm’s.Does the data allready stored on that repository also will be encrypted or only new one ?

While attending the VeeamON conference in Las Vegas back in May, Veeam announced they will be releasing Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v12 later in the year, and gave several sessions presenting what some of those features will be in the new release. I thought I’d do a write-up of what v12 features I’m looking forward to most, as well as provide a few extra lines of other notable features coming.Security-Veeam is upping its security game by implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). MFA is self-explanatory. From the VBR Menu > Users and Roles option, a Security window opens for you to select MFA for your Veeam user accounts (see figure below). But what about the gMSA? gMSA is a fantastic concept as it allows Veeam to use Active Directory service accounts while not storing the password locally on the Veeam server (i.e. when using for AAIP). Instead, VBR retrieves gMSA passwords on-demand from organization domain controllers. Platfo

One of the great features we’ve gotten with V12 is object-lock with Azure S3.@Rick Vanover did a great walkthrough for MS Ignite last year with a V12 beta already.With new storage accounts and containers it works as he explained, which I could prove in a few environments already. My (and some of my customer’s) question now is: can we enable it safely and supportedly on an existing blob bucket with let’s say hundreds of TB of data already inside? First, you would have to enable “version level immutabilty” within the container: Quite easy while creating a new container like Rick has shown, but if you would want to do this afterwards, you first had to enable a policy on the container: Having this policy also makes the container differ from a freshly set-up immutable container. The latter would not have this policy.To add this policy one would also have to enable versioning for the storage account beforehand: I tried that in a testing environment and ended up being able to activate immutab

Hello, it’s about Veeam Backup for M365.would it be possible to start a backup job automatically when a previously specified backup is completed?For example:I’ve a Backup Job which safe just Microsoft Teams on a Server A.So when this Backup Job is finished, then start automatically the second Backup Job with Microsoft Teams on a Server B.

I am sure many of you don’t have access to a lab for testing and showing how Veeam works but I found this little gem which is a site that has clickable demos of different parts of Veeam.  It shows how they work, etc.So you could use this when you don’t have access to a lab or environment to show a customer/client, etc.https://veeamclick.beCheck this out and bookmark it!