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I’m using Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 4.0 and want to copy all of the OneDrive data from users into their new accounts $DestinationSubfolder = 'Restored Work'$VeeamBackupJobName = 'BMC_M365_Data'$M365Credentials = Get-Credential$Job = Get-VBOjob -Name $VeeamBackupJobName$Session = Start-VEODRestoreSession -Job $Job -LatestState$UserToRestore = Get-VEODUser -Session $Session -Name 'Joe Bloggs'$UserDocuments = Get-VEODDocument -User $UserToRestoreif($UserDocuments){ $TargetUserName = 'Joe Bloggs 2' Restore-VEODDocument -User $UserToRestore -RestoreChangedItems -RestoreDeletedItems -Credential $M365Credentials -TargetUser $TargetUserName -TargetFolder $DestinationSubfolder}Else{ 'No OneDrive content found.'}Get-VEODRestoreSession | Stop-VEODRestoreSession The commands return this error th

I noticed VBR v12 RTM removed the " Install a new instance" selection from the Installation setup with the Microsoft SQL Server.An error message will pop up if the Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft SQL Server Express does not install locally or remotely.That means I need to install Microsoft SQL or SQL express before installing Veeam Backup and Replication manager server (I knew v12 supports PostgreSQL) if I would like to work with Microsoft SQL? or is it a bug? 

I want to restore a backed-up 365 mailbox to another user. I’m following the guide in the Restore-VEXItem help page:https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/explorers_powershell/restore-vexitem.html?ver=120I’m following example 5:$session = Get-VBOExchangeItemRestoreSession$database = Get-VEXDatabase -Session $session -Name abc.onmicrosoft.com$salesmailbox = Get-VEXMailbox -Database $database -Name "sales"$creds = Get-CredentialRestore-VEXItem -Mailbox $salesmailbox -Server outlook.office365.com -Credential $creds -RestoreChangedItemExcept I’m restoring to another mailbox, so my last line is like:Restore-VEXItem -Mailbox $salesmailbox -Server outlook.office365.com

G'day fellow Community "Hub-sters"! On the Weekly Recap a couple weeks ago, @Rick Vanover brought up what he thought would be a great Blog post for the Hub – "Rate My Design", based off a discussion he had with a customer; a diagram of folks' Veeam infrastructure.After thinking about what he said for a bit, I thought it would be fun, and thought-provoking, to provide a bit of a twist to his suggestion. What twist did I think of? To not (initially) share what my environment looks like, but rather provide what resources I have in my environment, then ask you, the Community, how you would best implement Veeam using those resources. From a high-level, I'll share capital and operational items. Then based off what's already in place (can't add other OP/CAP expenditures), you can provide a high-level design. This is just for fun only…so have fun with it. 😊After a few days or so, I'll share how I've implemented Veeam

With the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 the Self Service Portal was also unleashed. In this video we run through a scenario where a new tenant is being onboarded from the Service Provider point of view as well as what steps need to be actioned by the tenants.

Hey guys!I just wanted to show my love for VEEAM - I have brought them with me from company to company over my nearly 20 year career and the product only gets better over time - I know it has some flaws as does every solution but I am happy to be implementing a new VEEAM environment and finally getting rid of the atrocious Rubrik chaos  I have been a VEEAM champion for a while now - and I have brought my VEEAM team with me from company to company and with any luck, one of these days, I will find out how to earn the “VEEAM Legend” title 

This works great for me using forever forward incremental jobs. If you are using synthetic fulls, or reverse you may get unexpected results as your latest job will show as the full size. I took my previous script and modified it so I can look at the previous 2 weeks, and see the size of the backup for each day.  If you change the (-14) you can make this weekly, monthly, daily with ease. # Location of the Veeam backup folder$BackupFolderPath = "f:\Backups"# Start and end dates$EndDate = Get-Date$StartDate = $EndDate.AddDays(-14)# Function to convert bytes to GBfunction ConvertTo-GB { param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [int64] $bytes ) return "{0:N2}" -f ($bytes / 1GB) + " GB"}# Go through each day from the start date to the end datefor ($Date = $StartDate; $Date -le $EndDate; $Date =

For those doing forever forward incremental jobs, this is a handy scrip to see the size of your jobs each day. If you use Synthetic jobs, or reverse incremental you may get unexpected results as your latest file will be the full backup file.  While doing some planning for new storage I wanted to see how big a daily backup of all jobs on a proxy was.Here is a little script I came up with that you can modify the section “Current.Date.AddDays(-1)” to look back further. I may modify the code at a later time to fine tune this.  This worked well to go back a few days, then see the average daily size. Add that to your total full backup size and you can predict out the space needed to meet your retention policies. # Location of the Veeam backup folder$BackupFolderPath = "F:\Backups"# Current date$CurrentDate = Get-Date# Date of the day before$PreviousDay = $Cu

📢Join this webinar on July 18th for an exciting discussion featuring our CTO, @dannyallan , Opti9's own Sagi Brody, who is also one of our Veeam 100 members, and cybersecurity expert Guy Mizrahi, CEO of CyPROS. They'll be discussing how to tackle ransomware risks, why backup infrastructure is a top target for attackers, and how our Veeam+Observr solution sets us apart from other backup vendors in the battle against ransomware, revolutionizing your protection strategy. Don't miss out!Register in here: https://opti9tech.com/events/webinar-anatomy-of-ransomware-attack-preventing-attacks-on-your-backup-infrastructure/ Best, Madi

Hello everyone,I faced a weird issue, I am not sure it’s normal or not, however it wasn’t like that before. The issue is when adding Proxy or Repo by clicking “Add New” it doesn’t work and show errors in the installation, however when add the machine in advance from adding servers, then add it as Proxy or Repo from the existing servers, it works. Please advise.

Just so nobody is caught off guard, Wasabi announced a rate increase on Object Storage pricing a week or two ago from 5.99/TB/Mo to 6.99/TB/Mo for Pay-Go and new RCS accounts on Aug 1. (increasing on Oct 1 for existing RCS accounts). If you’re like me and on the brink of moving to an RCS account from Pay-Go, do it in the next two weeks to capture that extra $1/TB/Mo savings.Still an awesome value either way, but I know more than a few of us use it so wanted to make sure everyone was in the loop.https://knowledgebase.wasabi.com/hc/en-us/articles/15566987584795 

Hi, Has anyone experienced VBR spinning up huge amounts of instances of a process, and consuming all RPC ports? I suspect it’s AV related due to the customer’s AV change occurring at a similar time, but we’ve got the rules in place to exempt directories and binaries. I’ve seen VBR have port exhaustion exactly once before, that was a VCC installation and the firewall was half-closing sessions and Veeam wasn’t doing a good job detecting this and freeing up ports subsequently. This scenario is different however.VBR server that is only for job orchestration (all backup & repo roles are on physical appliances, proxy & repo roles uninstalled from VBR). Server was up for less than 6 hours yesterday, and it spawned 18,000 threads of VeeamTransportSvc, all looping back to itself. But the server ran out of available ports and/or buffer space and then normal connections such as backup repository availability checks were fai

Hi,  I am trying to create a backup to tape job. The source is a repository. The repository is a catalyst store (StoreOnce 3640). Although there are backup files on the catalyst store generated by an RMAN plugin job, The job is unable to read any full or incremental backup files and the job completes but doesn’t process anything. I can browse the store on the devices management interface and see the backup files. But it is not being detected on Veeam side. I’m using Veeam version 12. I’ve attached a screenshot.  Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks! 

I have heard of a few 3rd party apps for iOS but they dont seem to be up and running anymore does anyone know of a way to manage or even view my VEEAM environment via an app for iOS?  

Do you guys use these? If you do give an example of how they help you in your day to day activities. For myself, I have been a RoboCopy guy for years. I often schedule a task and let it run with no issues. It’s great for seeding directory's for file server migrations, or just making sure you have a mirrored folder somewhere else on the network. Recently I had an odd request to sync a folder from one location to another, but there were strict firewall rules for security an access rules. RoboCopy was not an option. As Veeam had access to both servers, I was able to create a copy job on a schedule and solve this issue.  As we have very strict user permissions in many areas, this feature is a game changer for us. Even if it’s to copy files to another location for safe keeping.  

Hi,I would like to know if someone else had a issue after upgrading V11 to V12.The machine itself is also added to a Physical Veeam group who is taking backup of himself.Since the update it mentions that there are communication issues between both (same) servers.I have a case with Veeam, but they do not respond already for 2 days, what is odd.I do not want to investigate myself any longer, just curious if there is a simular case or experience with it with other members. Thank you!

Do you actively use Veeam Replication?If so, how long has it been since you’ve implemented it? For me, I don’t currently use it, but am in the process of getting it going again after about an 8yr hiatus. Not too much has changed since then, but there has been some enhancements you might not’ve known about, or some behavior you either didn’t know about or forgot. Below, I will be sharing some tidbits & behaviors I feel you should be aware of when making design decisions when implementing Veeam Replication.Before getting into the “Don’t Know/Forgot” items, let me briefly review how Replication works from a high-level. First, they are a job-driven task. You’ll need to set up a job and configure various settings. Next, depending on the source data you’re wanting to replicate, you can either replicate data directly from your production environment, or from other locations. I’ll touch more on this later. Lastly, the first run of Replication creates a fully functional VM

Hi All, I am trying to upgrade Veeam backup for M365 frm 5.0.179 to 7.0.0.3604. the upgrade is getting stopped just when it gets started. Anyone faced this scenario. how to solve this.  

Hi,I have 2 locations with a Veeam server and a vCenter cluster with 2 hosts.The configuration is on both servers identical.One one location, when running a job with application awareness, the inventorying guest system and the other preparing jobs are taking several seconds, but on the other location, it takes minutes.It does not fail, but the time of processing is much longer.The difference I see, on the ‘slow’ location, all communications running via vCenter. On the fast one, all is going direct from B&R server to the VM.Firewall rules are identical and I don’t see any blocks, so the slow one does not try to direct connect to the VM.Any ideas where to look for?The B&R server is in a seperated VLAN with explicit firewall rules between them, conform the manuals. Thank you!

Hello all,I am looking for a "simple" way to generate a notification when a backup or copy job is edited in VBR. The idea at the beginning is just to get an info (mail), not to rate the modification, if it’s a good or bad modification. Examples of bad changes would be reducing retention, changing encryption password, etc.Ideas how to realize this? Native in VBR i think there is nothing, Veeam One? External monitoring? Script?Many greetingsMatze

Hi Folks, First off don’t ask 😁 “why do you want to do this” :), I don’t but I have no choice as the customer is going to do this and I can’t convince them otherwise. However, they are asking about consequences :(, So a customer has an M365 multitenant backup. They want to rename the server and give it a new IP. The proxies and repositories will remain the same.They are not leveraging S3 only old style repos and they have no portal my understanding is that there is no database that has recorded the console’s hostname and IP (unlike VBR) so changing the name and IP should not have any affect (only perhaps firewall stuff if they have any rules tied to the old IP).Is this correct? Thanks 

Hi Everyone,I went quiet for a few days which had some people wondering whether I had fallen into one of my Burke “everything is depressing moods” that come gleefully with middle age, but in fact I was feverishly torturing myself with learning monitoring. Prometheus is a powerful monitoring tool and can be leveraged in my many circumstances, including of course Kubernetes. I knew this certification was going to be a challenge as monitoring loves precision whereas I am by nature more of an “on the spot, off campus” type of personality thriving when it comes to figuring out fixes or trying to think out of the box which I think in my cases according to my early grade school teachers, there was never any box present in the first place.Forcing yourself to study things that are not necessarily in your natural skillset is always very useful as it stretches your mind which can only make you stronger in the end. Like brushing your teeth with the wrong hand. Yes at first

Hello,  Wondering if anyone knows how to get around this, Iv moved the veeam software to another host and done a clean setup trying to do the first backup of OneDrive it just keeps timing out. The console gives the error “failed to process all objects”.    Is there a setting or timeout limit I need to be adjusting somewhere? It seems to run for different amounts of time before timing out which is throwing me off. Is there a better way to do this?    Thanks in advance.

Hello, I am trying to install an ubuntu server on version 22.04.1 or 22.04.2 without thier I get error "Permission denied Error creating directory /backups/repo001/backups/ agent could not process methodFileSystem.DirectoryCreate"Has anyone happened to you?