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JacksonNew Here
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Restore from Backup Copy to Another Server

Hello,I need support to restore an Oracle base via RMAN with the Oracle Plugin on another server.Running the command below returns the following message:[oracle@oracle01]<ORACLEBKP> #OracleRMANConfigTool --configure-restore-from-copyYou will be unable to run RMAN backups while "Restore from copy" mode is enabled. Proceed with enabling?  (y/N): yNo secondary destination jobs available[oracle@oracle01]<ORACLEBKP> #I followed the directions in the link:https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/plugins/restore_from_copy.html?ver=110Can anyone help me please?Regards,Jackson 

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ShawnANew Here
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Using B&R 11 to backup Physical Workstations Windows 10 Pro is installed VEEAM shows Microsoft Windows 11 (Next, 64-bit, Technical Preview) and brings a warning.

The workstation is in a Protection Group and Agent Version 5.0.3.4708 is installed.The workstation was added over the Active Directory and the AD shows Windows 10 Professional is installed.  I also logged into the workstation and yes indeed Windows 10 Professional is installed.  Windows 11 is blocked from installing in our Network using a GPO and the Workstation was not upgraded to Windows 11 and then reset back to Windows 10.Its been showing the warning since Tuesday.  Removing it from the Protection Group and re-adding it does not help. 

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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Fun Friday #61: Unexpected Incidents / I can't believe that happened!

Happy Friday everyone, Today’s inspiration for Fun Friday comes from Reddit. I saw a picture today of a fibre cable broken by… an arrow!https://www.reddit.com/r/nevertellmetheodds/comments/10ya76l/arrow_accidentally_pierces_fiber_utility_line_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Sometimes shocking events like this happen that you just wish you’d caught on camera. Reminds me of the time that I had a 2-post UPS, had just installed it into the rack, and all the cage nuts sheered simultaneously, and it crashed down onto an LCD monitor that we weren’t allowed to relocate. The best part? The hinge bent back on the monitor but was still in-tact, and the screen! Of which the bezel had taken the full force of the UPS! Anyone got a good “Can’t believe this happened” story to share?

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Geoff Burke
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
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Troubleshooting a very weird issue right now

I’ve randomly had two backups corrupt at one of my clients. Not sure why it happened, but they did. On one of them, I deleted from disk all of the restore points on the local datastore, and took a new full. I left the cloud data alone, and as we speak, the new restore points are peacefully transferring offsite, no issue. The second backup has been a different story… Because of the nature of the server, I decided to take a new full and leave the old data in place, just in case. The new full local backup was fine, but the offsite failed. I tried running an active full of the offsite, but same deal; the offsite failed. So now I am trying a new strategy. I took a look at the restore points and 99% were corrupted (I believe this was the offsites), so I decided to just wipe everything and start from scratch, because I think the corrupted restore points are causing issues with the new data going offsite. The offsite failures have been throwing an error I’ve never seen before. I’ll paste it be

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AlexeyGoncharovComes here often
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Linux bootable media does not work with Secure boot

Team,Having a hard time trying to get physical server boot from the bootable media if Secure boot enabled. Docs says it is supported, but I can boot up from the media as soon as it is disabled. See the error below. Any suggestions?  Cheers,Alex

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regnor
regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure: Register Resource Provider "Microsoft.ServiceBus"

After the initial setup of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure I’ve had two different issues.The backup jobs finished with following warning:Crash-consistent snapshot of XYZ has been created. Cannot download VSS agent binaries from the storage account: The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.ServiceBus'. See https://aka.ms/rps-not-found for how to register subscriptions. Also FLR restores failed:Preparing worker for restore failed. Error: Cannot find any worker. Worker deployment failed, see logs for details Both of these messages had the same root cause and especially the first one already points to the right direction, the “Microsoft.ServiceBus” Resource Provider wasn’t registered in Microsoft Azure.The solution is really simple, just register this Resource Provider via the Azure Portal or use the Azure Powershell. Register-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.ServiceBus I’m not sure if this Resource Provider should be registered by default, and if so,

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Chris.Childerhose
RK99
RK99Experienced User
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Veeam is one of the 20th coolest #CloudStorage Companies of the 100 Here comes the details

Time to celebrate as Veeam rated as 19th position out of Top 100 #cloudstorage See the Link  as follows The 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Companies Of The 2023 Cloud 100 | CRN

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bharathnNot a newbie anymore
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Veeam Instant recovery for Agent based backups

Hi All, Currently we do an Instant recovery from the ‘Entire Computer’ backup taken by Veeam agent, it goes for P2V conversion. Once the instant recovery completes, when we initiate ‘Migrate it to Production’ (may be to VMware Hypervisor using dedicated proxy which can handle 4 concurrent tasks. But it seems Veeam is treating the restore as single task and the number of VMDK files/Disk associated with the restored VM is migrated one by one which prolongs the RTO. Is there a way to consider each VMDK file as separate task (which will allow for parallelism) during the entire VM restore (using instant recovery method and ‘Migrate it to Production’)?

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
posted in News
Veeam Vanguard Nominations are now open for 2023 class

Dual posting because I can LOL. I just pushed this blog on the main Veeam blog:Veeam Vanguard nominations are now OPEN for the 2023 class!But the title says it all, Veeam Vanguard 2023 nominations are now open. We have Veeam Vanguard 2023 nominations open for a limited time via this survey: https://vee.am/vv2023 so if you know someone who would be a fit; please refer them to nominate! On the Veeam blog I put a longer narrative but wanted visibility here too! Update: Nominations are closed now, will re-open towards the end of the year.

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dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Vanguard
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Wordpress Backup to Wasabi

FYI, for those of you with WordPress sites (looking at you Vanguards, but I’m sure there are others), I came across a nice plugin for backing up to Wasabi.  This isn’t really Veeam specific at all, but I figured I’d share anyway.You can find a WordPress plugin called backWPup and create a Wasabi bucket and point the plugin to backup there.  Wasabi actually has a page dedicated to it, but honestly, it was so easy to setup, it was probably unnecessary.  It can of course backup to FTP, Dropbox, Google drive and such like most apps, and there are probably other plugins that do this as well, but since a lot of folks have Wasabi accounts already, I figured it might be helpful for others if they don’t already have something in place.https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001900632-How-do-I-use-BackWPup-with-Wasabi- 

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JonahMay
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
vSnow App to integrate Veeam Backup Enterpriser Manager with ServiceNow

Following the line of some of my topics, in Veeambp.com we can find a very useful unofficial tool                                                    This tool is not Veeam supportedIt was developed externally and is not linked with Veeam Software or ServiceNow in anyway, No support is offerred or inferred from Veeam Software on this tool. vSnow App is an application to integrate Veeam Backup Enterpriser Manager with ServiceNow vSnowApp for ServiceNow:The application offers integration with Veeam Enterprise Manager.vSnowApp provides following capabilities:Performance Dashboard Incidents Management Manage Backup Jobs. Failover Plans Agent Jobs Backup Servers Management How vSnowApp Works: vSnowApp function as an intermediary between Veeam Enterprise Manager and ServiceNow, after you deploy the vSnowApp, you can manage reporting and management of backup infrastructure from ServiceNow. Pre-requisites:ServiceNow MID Server Veeam Enterprise ManagerSupported ServiceNow Instances:New York Orl

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marcofabbri
marcofabbriOn the path to Greatness
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What is the Cyber Security Space and what should it become?

Hello world.Hello friend.Welcome to Cyber Security Space. There will never be truly secure backups and backup storage if we don't learn the fundamentals of cybersecurity.Veeam offers awesome solutions to protect you from ransomware or data corruption or backup consistency or much much more. Think about 3-2-1-1-0 rule. Secure Restore. Immutable backup. S3 buckets. Harden Repository. And you'll see what's next in ver12!Amazing solutions, but all of them need our expertise to make them operational, safe and functional. This space was born for this: to help us to understand the vast world of cybersecurity so you can build up your knowledge and be a better IT girl/guy/sysadmin/sysops/ethical hacker/programmer/devops/cat-on-rex/unicorn.What can you do at the Cyber Security Space?1. Create posts and share news2. Check for FREE certification and course (link below)3. Ask any question about ANYTHING cybersec related4. Do you have an interesting solution for a real world IT problem? You rocks!5.

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regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VBR: Error during guest credentials test ("Building list of machines to process Error: [...])

Just a quick post on an interesting issue with the Guest Credentials test in Veeam Backup & Replication we’ve seen last week. Instantly after clicking “Test Now” in the Guest Processing section of a certain backup job, an error was displayed."Building list of machines to process Error: (Child group-vXYZ (Folder) for object XYZ was not found)"Normally you see such errors with vSphere when a certain object has been deleted or recreated. While Veeam displays names of objects, internally it works with MoRef IDs. So we’ve checked the job selection, custom credentials and the application aware processing settings. But all listed objects were still valid, especially no folders where used anywhere.We’ve contacted Veeam Support and had a remote session. The support engineer discovered some orphaned VM folders in the exclusions. After removing those, the error disappeared and the credential check worked again. From a logical point I thought those weren’t relevant for the check, so I didn’t c

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #106
Veeam Community Recap #106Veeam Community Recap #106

This week I’m twisting the rules on breaking the rules 😁. @Madi.Cristil  and I share this week’s content with some great special department news and we are all focused on V12! Watch our recap here:The Linksvia @Geoff Burke via @bp4JC via @mkevenaar via @HannesK on the Veeam blog, 2 outstanding posts on the VHR (Veeam Hardened Repository):Veeam Hardened Linux Repository Best PracticesInstalling Ubuntu Linux for Veeam Hardened RepositorySpecial Department NewsV12 is soon! The Fun Friday post from @MicoolPaul had 3 people very close to the date, congratulations to:@regnor - 30th January 2023@BertrandFR - 31st January 2023@chetantikandar - 13th February 2023Recently @Geoff Burke and @michaelcade hosted a Kubernetes Corner event: Kubernetes Korner: A reflection on 2022 and a look into the future. We will put up the recording in next week’s recap! Did we say V12 is coming soon? There is still time to sign up for the Launch Event! Veeam Backup & Replication v12 launch event and see the r

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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Fun Friday #60: Aliases

Happy Friday everyone! Anyone that’s worked with Kubernetes for some time has probably seen or used aliases for common commands. For those that don’t know what an alias is in this context, it’s creating your own shorter command that executes another binary. For example, typing k to run kubectl. I was on Twitter the other day and saw Mick Douglas commenting on the state of the Microsoft Graph API, which by itself is a good read: As I got further in I saw an incredibly funny alias he’d said that he’d created to circumvent his frustration:And I just thought it was brilliant! Especially when you see it in action: That’s my story for the day! Anyone else got any aliases (funny or otherwise) that have made their lives easier/more bearable?

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EdxHComes here often
posted in YARA and Script Library
Go-Veeam-Auth - API authentication package for Go

Hi all, To all the API gurus out there that like Go I’ve put together a package that takes care of all the authentication for you.https://github.com/shapedthought/go-veeam-authReally easy to add to your project. Just put this into the terminal in your project directory:go get github.com/shapedthought/go-veeam-authMost of the APIs are covered:VBR VB AWS VB AZURE VB GCP VONE VB365Instructions are on the GitHub. Video:Note that this isn’t a full SDK like the one on VeeamHub, it just does the authentication, but there are some convenience functions to make calls a bit easier.If you have any recommendations or would like to contribute, feel free to raise an issue or send a pull request.All the best,Edx

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CABelangerComes here often
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Upgrade preparation to version 11 and GFS

HelloSorry if this is a basic question or a topic already discuss in the forum, but I really need advices regarding GFS before doing an upgrade from version 10.0.0.1 to version 11 .In the documentation it’s said: “Do you have backup copy jobs with synthetic GFS full backups? Before the upgrade, make sure that all GFS candidates (incremental restore points created on days when GFS was scheduled and that are expected to be transformed into full GFS restore points) are already transformed into GFS restore points. To force the backup copy job to transform all GFS candidates, you can temporarily decrease the short-term retention to a value less than the number of restore points between the latest restore point and the most recent GFS candidate and then wait till all the candidates are transformed.” I’m not sure what they meen by “short-term retention” This is my config:thanks for your help 

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Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
WAN Accellerator sizing & WAN Low bandwidth mode vs WAN High bandwidth mode!

Hello, everyone,I wanted to share the sizing of an accelerated WAN infra and the differences between WAN Low bandwidth mode vs WAN High bandwidth mode. The DR consists of 6 replica VMsSizing for Low bandwidth under 100 MBhttps://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/wan_accelerator_sizing.html?zoom_highlight=sizing&ver=110 Using RVTool extract the list of VMs with the total Original VM on Source Vmware Tenant side: 1649 GB = 1.649 TB  · The connection between the client and the DR is a 100 Mb.Server1                                           1024 GB   Digest  2% 20.48                          Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) Server2                                           200 GB    Digest 2% 4                                    Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) Server3                                           150 GB    Digest 2% 3                                    Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) Server4                                           200 GB    Di

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SteveHeart
SteveHeartInfluencer
posted in YARA and Script Library
vb365-exo-recovery.ps1 - A delicious recipe for many occasions

Hello Community,imagine you no longer have access to your most important Exchange Online mailboxes? Or you want to perform some checks, but you don't want to touch the productive mailboxes and your production Microsoft 365 tenant? What if a script and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 could help you?Down below is a simple recipe.IngredientsVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365 An Exchange Online backup job protecting the mailboxes A second Microsoft 365 tenant with already configured (target) mailboxes A configured Azure AD application in the second Microsoft 365 tenant A CSV file with the mailboxes to be copiedThe script with all information can be downloaded here: ScriptIf the destination mailbox is empty, all objects are restored. If the objects already exist, only missing objects will be restored.Please share what else could be achieved using this script. 

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dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Hypothetically - How would you go about restoring data with infinite retention 30/50/100 years from now

This little thread got me thinking, and makes me wonder….if you’re tasked with backing up data with a 50 year or 100 year or infinite data retention, this is more than just running a backup and storing it somewhere.  Because what good is a backup that is 30 years old if you have no infrastructure to do anything with it? On a somewhat related topic, I once had a client that needed to keep their Dell/Quest RapidRecovery backups for 7 or 10 years.  They were looking to move to something like a Dell IDPA appliance (I proposed Veeam with a DataDomain).  But the question what, what do you do to keep the servers and MDxxxx DAS’s appliances with the data available for the next 7-10 years?  Or do you somehow convert or restore all of the data and move it to your new backup solution whenever there is some sort of major change?  And then avoiding bit rot?Hypothetically speaking, or practically speaking for you folks that are tasked with such extraordinary retention policies, what is your plan for

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csaha77Comes here often
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vcenter server backing up clients but not copied to tape

For legal purpose we have to make a full backup of one of the server and store it in either the server or tape for infinite retention. If I click on inventory, vcenter server, server name, there are few options like Quick backup, add to backup job….. Can the copy of the backup job be stored for infinite retention in the server since we do not have tape copy activated. Can this job be also used to restore files from backup.Backup server stores files(.vbm and .vbk) for 5 months but the edit backup job retention policy is 12 days. Not sure how the files in the backup server are stored for 5 months.

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dloseke
HangTen416
HangTen416Influencer
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Veeam Advanced Concepts for Partners

Did you know there is a curriculum in VeeamIQ called “Veeam Advanced Concepts for Partners”? I didn’t until last night. Like the description says, the videos are all about 10 minutes long and cover all topics like how to set up the backup server, proxies, repositories, transport modes, NAS, CDP, VCC, Automation, Tape, SOBR, etc. Take a look if you haven’t seen this before. This is a great resource for deeper learning or for review of areas you don’t work with often.  

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Scott
ScottVeeam Legend
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Historical archive of deleted VM's.

I was wondering if anyone else does this.When we delete a VM, I often have someone come ask me where it was 6 months to a year later and sometimes there is something unnoticed that is broken. Due to the amount of storage we use here (PB’s) I tend to not want to keep all these old VM’s powered off, or even on the Veeam SANs as they take up a ton of space for something that most likely isn’t needed. To resolve this I created a media pool on both tape libraries that has a retention of 2 years. When I power the VM off for the final time I do a Veeam zip, then add it to a file to tape job at both sites.In the file to tape job I just grab the VBK from the repo and then can remove the Veeam ZIP when it’s done.  Even though it’s not 3-2-1 technically the VM’s are requested to be deleted anyways. If I lost them it wouldn’t be critical. Having them on tape is cheap, and people are very happy when they can get their data.      

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #105
Veeam Community Recap #105Veeam Community Recap #105

This week @Madi.Cristil and @Rick Vanover are back at it! Rick was in the Veeam Atlanta office recording and we broke the rule on content - no surprise there 😂. You can watch our recap episode here:The Linksvia @MicoolPaul via @regnor via @Nico Losschaert [VEEAMAZING POST NICO]via @SteveHeart Special Department NewsA big thank you to all the members how shared the V12 Launch Event (https://go.veeam.com/v12) in their posts: @marcofabbri @MicoolPaul @vSyntaxError @MarcoLuvisi.Be sure to check the V12 News hub also:Who’s NewI forgot to load this up but we happily welcome +24 members to the Veeam Community with @DesertBlizzard and @Virtamove getting the nod for Coolest New Usernames! 

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marco_s
marco_sOn the path to Greatness
asked in Discussion Boards
Migrate VM from Intel to AMD host

Hi guys, what is the best option/tool/software to migrate, minimizing downtime, VMs from an esxi host with Intel CPU to an esxi with AMD CPU? I can think of: Veeam CDP policy Veeam quick migration VMWare cold migration VMware converter Can you think of any other methods? Marco S.

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