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Just a heads up for a hotfix to VB365.We recently faced multiple errors within our MSP stack for VB365:Processing mailbox xyz failed with error: There is an error in XML document (1, 5332).. The specified type was not recognized: name='SharingMessage' Turned out to be a problem introduced by some changes Microsoft applied to M365.Veeam published a hotfix just a few days later: https://www.veeam.com/kb4527It’s applicable to the most recent version of 7 (7.0.0.4388) as well as 7a (7.1.0.1301) and I can confirm it to solve the issue.You have to stop all services and replace Veeam.Ews.dll in 4 different locations.Make sure to rename or copy the files to be replaced beforehand and have or create a backup of the VB365 system.  

A much awaited feature request is coming to Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5.1. This will require Veeam Backup and Replication 12.1. It is the ability to scan backups with SureBackup. This will not be the full blown version like the vSphere edition with Data Labs capabilities but it is a good start. The need to protect your restore points from malware and ransomware attacks it a must. Customers can no longer wait for an infection to happen. As you see in the headlines when attacks happen, these could have already been dormant in the company for some time. I heard this time and time again. It just takes one time for a bad actor to be successful but you have to be correct one hundred percent of the time. SureBackup allows for scanning backups utilizing your antivirus software or Yara rules. If you search google this is what you will find as a definition for Yara - Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym. Veeam Data Platform 12.1 will bring radical resilience to assist in a time

Just a short post today - I cherry picked a couple of my favourite features of 12.1. There were so many to choose from, but the features I love best in new releases are often the big heroes that hide in the shadows.  Maintenance mode enhancements — running Cloud Connect Replication jobs and Cloud Connect CDP policies will now be stopped gracefully and prevented from starting automatically for the duration of the maintenance mode. This one has long been a thorn for us Service Providers. You put the environment into maintenance mode, but replicas continue to come through. I’m excited to see this new feature being implemented! Now maintenance on CC environments are going to be much less troublesome! PostgreSQL database support — following multiple optimizations and QA testing, starting from v12.1 we’re removing the previous recommendation not to use PostgreSQL as a configuration database for  Veeam Cloud Con

I built a Hardened Repository using the ISO provided here many months ago.  Very happy with it, until I decided to upgrade Veeam to 12.1.  Now it wants to update components on the Hardened Repository end or it will no longer be usable, which it can’t.  Is there a workflow to deal with this or do I have to start all over again on the Hardened Repository side?

One of the things I have been looking at recently is automating the process of upgrading Veeam Agents. The great thing with Veeam Service Provider Console is how easy we can bulk update agents from one place. However, I wanted to take it a step further and have this totally automated - mainly because I am lazy. To do so, I have used the VSPC API to do this for me. I am not the most proficient with PowerShell, someone can probably make this run more efficiently. However the below script works just fine for me, so thought I would share it with the community. I use this via an Azure Function that runs every morning and kicks off an upgrade of any agents that require it, however you could schedule this from a RMM product etc, whatever works best for yourself. At the moment there is no property in the VSPC API to show if an agent requires an upgrade, so it starts by adding this property by comparing the installed version to the current released version (this part you manually have to upd

I have a basic question. I am using VMWare ESXi Free license and the Free Veeam Backup. Was using just the Windows Agent for a long time but am now using the Backup and Recovery 12. I have an OLD ESXi host running a Windows 2012 Essentials server, and a new ESXi host I am transferring it to for legacy purposes. For Testing I originally just copied the Virtual Machine files to the new box, registered the VM and that worked. When I finally decided to actually move the machine I tested by restoring a backup from Veeam windows agent to the VM as a bare metal recovery. This worked the first time, and the second time. I was testing on the weekends after hours so there was a week between. The next week I decided to actually do it following the procedure that had been successful previously. The restore said it completed successfully, but the server would not boot normally and went to the Recovery Console. It apparently had problems with the active directory database.I tried this seve

Hello,I have a Hyper-V host with 2012 R2 on it and already added to Veeam as a host and it was working fine.One day I found a VM backup job fail.I tried to rescan the host and found the error Access Denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))I tried to edit the host and check the credentials and found I removed the job and removed the host and tried to add it again but the same error in image above appears.I don’t know where the issue comes from. The credentials are the same didn’t change  Regards,Muhammad

We ended up losing our file server disk, we make a backup with the Veeam agent because it is a physical machine, but several files are corrupted, and I can't get them out of Veeam, I saw that there is a Veeam tool that can help to recover these files but I couldn't find them.

Hi guysI’m having a problem that I can’t seem to resolve.Perhaps someone already have had the same error or experience.Environment :It’s not on a production environment, but on my personal lab I’m using NAS backup of a big file-share to an on-premise repository without any issues I’m using a secondary copy of this backup to another repository without any issues I want to have next to that also a secondary copy of this backup to object storage in the cloudSince version 12 of VBR that is possible, before it was only possible to use object storage for the archive backup of a NAS-backup.I’m having an account at iDRIVE for E2 Immutable object storage.With that latest copy I’m having an issue that I can’t seem to resolve.Because it’s on my lab with my NFR license, I can’t create a support case for this 🤣 Issue : The job start, but after a whi

Hello,How would my Backup copy Job chain look?Backup Jobs are 7 restore points (Incrementals + Synthetic Fulls)Backup Copy Jobs will also have 7 Restore points.As I’m going trough some old discussions I can see that with Forward incrementals and first Full Backup with backup copy jobs everything has stay above 7 restore points.Also one more question, do I need to seed backup copy jobs if I’m going to use WAN Acceleration in High Bandwidth Mode 

Hello all,What would be your recommendations on Initial Seed for Backup copy Jobs over WAN Accelerator to Secondary site?Do I need to manually copy full backup of each VM that will go over WAN to secondary site or is there some Veeam functionalities that are build for this?What would be your approach 

Hi Everyone,My most liked new features in Veeam 12.1  

Hello everybody,I have the following question regarding Backup Copy Jobs:I will create Backup Copy Jobs with Immediate Copying Backup Jobs are configured with incremental + Synthetic Full Backups going to Windows Repo (ReFS 64KB) connected via iSCSI to our NAS storage, Utilizing FastClone option.Now I would like to know is this going to be the same for backup copy jobs?I have 2 Wan Accelerators (Source and Target), Windows Repo on Target Location also connected via iSCSI to NAS Storage that is formatted as ReFs.Are they going to do the same configuration as primary backup chain, incrementals + syntethical (Fast Clone)What are the general best practices for Backup Copy JobsI would like to have identical setup as Backup Jobs on Primary Site

Data copies from the Linux hardened repo to S3 On Prem lblows up spacew up space consumption on object storage without a clue why.In this case, the disk consumption on the Linux Repo is about 900TB (after compression & dedup) on XFS. Copying the same data to Object storage scale-out-repo (using 4MB block size as recommend in best-practices guide), object storage size is currently 1.66PB of data and the cluster is almost full (86%)As the disk space was calculated using the VEEAM sizing tool, we calculated with about 1.1PB on object storage with additional space to grow.And the second thing is, that the S3 object deletions object storage receives from VEEAM are much less than they should be, but the immutability time (+ 3 week) has already reached, so there must be much more objects deleted than what is actually happening.

Recently I added to my home lab, an Ubuntu Server with a Hardened Repository for Veeam Backup, you can find more info here (Spanish).Now, the thing is, I want to be able to get notified if some user logs into the server via ssh, as a extra control, since I disable the SSH service when I dont use it.Also the idea came, to be able to get notified from other applications via telegram, so wasn't a crazy idea at the end.You can easily find how to create a Bot, and how to get your ID, so Im not going to dive into that, from previous entries, or the internet.So first, once we have create

We all have seen the raft of big-ticket new features but there are a lot of ‘small’ things in this release as well. One of my favourite features is the Disk Space check when doing an upgrade. This should make performing upgrades a smoother process, especially for those managing multiple VBR deployments. The private hotfix check is another welcome addition.What’s your favourite ‘small’ feature in this release? 

Hi, according to Dell R550 is compatible with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS but when checking in Ubuntu web site. it’s look like it’s support only with Intel Gold CPUIs it OK to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for Immutable on Intel Silver CPU? Thanks 

Author's note:Today's article lays the foundation for best practices for a general backup strategy. The description mentions many terms and procedures that will be discussed in more detail in later articles. In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the importance of a comprehensive data backup strategy cannot be overstated. IT experts tasked with safeguarding valuable data understand the critical role that backups play in ensuring business continuity and mitigating potential risks associated with data loss or corruption. To establish a reliable data protection solution, it's essential to embrace key best practices that encompass robust strategies, security measures, automation, and seamless integration into disaster recovery plans. Align Backup Strategies with Business NeedsA fundamental step in crafting an effective backup strategy is aligning it with the specific needs and objectives of the

Is there any good information on how to transition from Barracuda backing up 365 data to Veeam?

Hi Everyone,Recently I took an old powerful desktop and leveraged Proxmox in order to turn it into a cheap and non intrusive (furniture wise) virtual lab. My previous lab was an old but pretty powerful IBM Thinkpad. I was not using virtualisation just various flavours of Kubernetes on an Ubuntu 20.04 server OS. Old Thinkpad​​​​​​I had done quite a bit of work on my old lab despite its humble characteristics and I was also thinking about re-inventing this laptop with some mini Linux distribution or even FreeBSD. I had already setup a VBR server in my Proxmox setup with a Linux repository so I added my Thinkpad to a protection group, installed the agent and ran a full backup. This was easy enough and I believe has been covered here many times so I will jump to the BMR restore.I downloaded the

Hello community,I’m working for a customer with a v12 using MS SQL and I have to install the latest v12.1 on a new VBR server with PostgreSQL.Reading the documentation, I see that “Veeam Backup & Replication supports configuration database migration between different database engines only within the same Veeam Backup & Replication version”.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/vbr_config_migrate.html?ver=120Can you confirm that I must install v12 on the new VBR server, migrate the configuration and then upgrade to v12.1?Is the migration scenario between same db engine still supported within the upgrade?Thanks