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We are using Veeam Data Cloud Vault for offsite copies of our backups. When I look at the copy properties in VBR console, I see under the “Immutable Until” column a whole lot of restored points that say Expired with a date in the past. What does this mean?If they are expired does that mean I can delete them and if so, how would I do this?Many ThanksRoy

Veeam Backup & Replication v13 has arrived with significant improvements in security, performance, and data governance. I recently performed the upgrade from version 12.3, and in this article I share the entire process, from preparation to post-upgrade validation, following the official Veeam documentation. The goal is to present a practical, real-world experience while highlighting what’s new in this anticipated release. Preparing for the UpgradeBefore starting the upgrade, I followed Veeam’s recommended best practices to ensure a smooth and safe process. This included: Checking system compatibility, supported OS, storage repositories, hypervisors, and all backup infrastructure components. Ensuring no backup jobs were running. Updating the Guest Catalog and cleaning up old sessions. Performing a Configuration Backup, which stores all settings from the Veeam server. Creating a server backup or snapshot as an additional safety measure—especially recommended for production en

in this configuration we run daily incrementals (Monday thru Friday) to disk (Linux Repository)on Saturday Morning (just after Midnight) we start our Tape Backups job,(there is only 1 job that looks at the entire repository)  it is a GFS job that Generates synthetic full backups for Weekly / Monthly retention.  the HP Library target contains 2 LT08 Tape drive that are streaming at about 540MB/Sec.  This would probably be acceptable with the exception of one 42 TB file server (starts about 1/3 of the way through the job and grabs one tape drive for 50 Hours+.)   This causes the Overall tape Backup to run up to 76 Hours.  Spilling into the next days incremental Jobs.   I’m considering a change to the Daily’s Backups jobs  to have them Generate Weekly Full backups on the repository, and then use Tape Copy Jobs to move the Full backups to tape?  is it worth the effort?  is it Supported?

The phone rings and someone asks you to restore a file for them.  You look at your furthest restore point and notice the date they gave you is before that.  You restore the file anyways and find out it was off by only a few days. What do you do? Do you give up, or do you check to see if there is something running keeping data for just a little bit longer? Many users forget that windows can take VSS Snapshots, ShadowCopies, and restore points that often hang around, or are even automated to run. Depending on how much space is provisioned determines how many you can have and the retention.  These snapshots can even help during Veeam restore by sneaking out a few extra weeks from what you thought was the furthest restore point in your environment.   Lets start with the basic commands on adding VSS Shadow Storage on your disks. This is a per drive setting, and it is also selecting the target drive.   In this command, I’m keeping it on the same drive, allowing 5% of my disk to store shadow

I upgraded to Veeam 13 a few weeks ago.   I finished adding my 2.5G network and VLANs on Thursday.   My Ubuntu 24.04 servers are backing up fine.   Veeam 13 in my workgroup wants certificates now.  I had to spin up a Windows 2022 Standalone CA to create certificates for all Windows 10 and 11 workstations.   I will be creating the workstation certs from it today and installing them.   Any suggestions on getting Windows 11 to backup?  I hope the cert does the trick.  2.5G network is much faster.  I will post numbers tonight.  

I want the Hyper-V VMs backed up to restore each of the 6  (600GB+)I want the Windows 2022 Standard Server to be bare metal recoveredWhat is the best way of doing it? 

Previously, we were able to CTRL+C rows from the Tape Infrastructure tab and paste them into an Excel sheet for tracking. Now when copying the rows and pasting into Excel, it results in empty cells. Pasting into notepad and other text editors shows blank spaces as well. Is this some sort of bug that anyone else is experiencing?

Could you please help with the script in powershell to fetch the backup health check / maintenance schedule for backup jobs and the status or can this be fetched from Veeam ONE ?

Quick question.How do I view the attachments that I previously uploaded to a case?Just to make sure they're there.I have a feeling attachments from my email responses do not get attached to the case (although noone reacts on it even though I explicitly refer to those filenames) I’m asking because I had a Zoom session with one of the support guys and he only looked at my screen for a second before telling me how to proceed, however it was the exact screen I already attached to one of my responses as an e-mail attachment.Thanks.

Someone can help me to understand how forward forever incremental work on immutable storage?Example the retention set to 7, the immutable period set to 7 days, block generated is 10 days and the source job with ‘no periodic full’ configuredThe time line is :Day 1: full backup Day 2 - 16 : incremental Day 17 : Day 1 full backup will be expired and can be deleted. Will veeam delete this point since the retention is over? If yes then how we can restore if there no full backup? Or will full backup merged with 2nd incremental, but 2nd incrementall still in immutable.

Greetings friends,I wanted to share a new community-driven PowerShell report for Microsoft Entra ID protection in Veeam Backup & Replication.VBR can protect Microsoft Entra ID, which is great. But I wanted a cleaner way to answer a few simple questions without jumping between logs, CSVs, SQL queries, or job sessions.This is how it looks like: Why this report?Microsoft Entra ID is now one of the most critical identity layers in most organizations. It contains users, groups, applications, service principals, role assignments, conditional access policies, and many other objects that are essential for Microsoft 365, Azure, SaaS access, and automation.Having the backup is step one.Being able to report on it, search it, export it, and send it to the right people is the next step.This report helps answer:Are my Entra ID backup sessions running successfully? What completed with warnings or failures? How many objects were discovered and stored? Which users, groups, applications, service pri

Today while I was working in the Veeam Windows Console for v13 I hit a strange error when copying a job error message to the clipboard.  It let me paste but the error noted is just a minor annoyance.  I have reported this and you can read it below and on my blog.  Once confirmed I will update things on the community and my blog post.Veeam Console – Possible BUG – Copying to Clipboard Veeam Console – Possible BUG – Copying to Clipboard I have been using Veeam v13 more frequently lately, particularly the VSA and the Windows Console application. Today, I encountered an unusual issue with the Console application while copying an error message from a job to the clipboard for investigation. The message below appeared, but I was still able to paste the clipboard contents regardless.Copy to Clipboard Error (Potential Bug?)I have posted this in the Veeam 100 thread (not everyone will see this, as it is a special section of the Forums) as a possible bug, which you can see here if you have access

​Hi folks,If some of you have already try to delete a S3 bucket from the Object First interface you probably got the following error, even if you have delete all backups. S3 protocol does not allow deleting the bucket that contains any objects. In case the bucket was already in use, it should be cleared before deleting.Good new ! There is an utility to delete all the data from a bucket, including buckets with enable versioning.😮Oh god ! What could happen if I have some backups protected with immutability ?Don’t worry,  in case if the bucket has immutable data, it can not be deleted before the immutability period is expired. 💪 1. Installationclear-bucket utility does not require installation.Download it with Web browser using the following link: https://repo.objectfirst.com/helpers/clear-bucket.zip Unpack the zip file2. UsageStart the clear-bucket.exe program as usual. It interactively requests the information required to connect to S3 storage Endpoint URL: use the same format you use

One consequence of the market changes resulting from Broadcom VMware's new positioning of its software solutions and licenses is that the topic of “hypervisors” is now being analyzed in greater technical detail than ever before.In search of more realistic alternatives that fit IT departments’ budgets, organizations are turning their attention to market options.On the other hand, there is the open-source software community. I truly have a great admiration for the thousands of programmers, engineers, and software architects who dedicate their efforts to free software communities.Today, alternatives to the VMware hypervisor are solutions built on a stack of open-source projects, with varying degrees of customization and architectural differences.The purpose of this post is to analyze how a generic hypervisor architecture, based on QEMU and KVM, handles disk write I/O requests.It´s a fascinating topic (at least for me).Let’s explore the rationale behind the development of each component of

In the current Veeam Backup & Replication V13, a daily software updates summary is sent automatically.According to support, this can only be disabled as an “AI-powered summary” in “Veeam Intelligence Advanced mode.”Can this be disabled in all editions, please?

  When running a Veeam backup, you may encounter the following error:One or more errors occurred. (The remote certificate was rejected by the provided RemoteCertificateValidationCallback.)This issue is typically caused by a trust problem between the Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) server and a managed server or backup component.ResolutionTo resolve the issue:Open the Veeam Backup & Replication console. Navigate to Inventory. Trust allRetry the backup job.Once the certificate trust is restored, the backup should complete successfully.ConclusionIn most cases, this error indicates that the remote certificate is no longer trusted by the VBR server. Re-establishing the certificate trust relationship resolves the problem quickly.

  Back in the days...Do you remember the Matrix screensavers from back in the day? Green characters cascading down your screen while your PC idles away. Everyone had one at some point. And somehow — it was just cool.The idea hit me during one of those moments where you should really be doing something else: What if the characters weren't random glyphs, but instead IMMUTABILITY, RANSOMWARE RECOVERY, ZERO-TRUST RESILIENCE and VEEAM DATA CLOUD VAULT?As some of you may know, I have absolutely no clue about coding — but every now and then I get crazy ideas. This one is for you.     From One Idea to Almost 100 VersionsWhat started as a small weekend experiment turned into a real project. I had the idea, the direction, the requirements — and with Claude as a coding partner, we built it step by step. Every version tested, verified, adjusted. Comments added, fine-tuning done. Across multiple evenings and iterations.Then, somewhere around version 35, another idea: What if there was also a Star W

​@Rick Vanover  announced (thanks Rick!) during today’s Weekly Recap the new #EmpowHerVMCE+ Accelerator, and I can’t describe how proud I am. A lot of people worked on this initiative, but special recognition goes to ​@ertelle1, who first had this idea and whose drive, vision, and collaboration made this happen.I took part in leading the 2023 edition of EmpowHer VMCE+, and I saw firsthand how this program was an opportunity to change trajectories. Participants did not just become better technical professionals, they strengthened their confidence and sense of empowerment. They confidently stepped into the room and proved that they belong in this industry, and that they have a place on the front line.And that is powerful.Some of them changed roles, many progressed in their careers, and some, like ​@leaha  and ​@brnavarro, became familiar names in the community and are now leading the WA-IT! conversation. The impact they created is significant, they became role models and are inspiring ot

I hope this is the correct forum to ask this question. When you use VDC Vault as 3rd offsite copy for your backups, but want to write archive data for 5 year retention to Azure (same datacentre) - what costs do you incur (ingress/egress/transactional costs) when writing it off to archive storage? I have heard rumours of an archive tier coming into VDC Vault? 

Hi there!I`ve been thinking a bit about this, and finally the time has come to share it with you all.After trying different apps, AI, classrooms, etc… it came to my mind,Why dont give this a shot?We are world wide, many languajes and tons of native people, with differet accents and slangs, but we do share something in common, IT and Veeam love! the idea is simple, to create different conversation groups depending on the Languaje you want to practice / learn.Im more than happy to share some of my time if somebody wants to practice some Spanish.I know we do have French, Dutch, German, English, Portuguese, Italian (😉), and many others…What do you think?Is it something you may be interested in?Summer is comming (for me) and would be a great time for sharing some experiences and give some time to others.cheers.Luis F. 

During the upgrade of Veeam Backup & Replication to version 13.2.29, I encountered the following warning during the Configuration Check phase:Trusted hosts hardeningYour remote host trust option is set to Manual. After the upgrade, open a backup console and make sure all your backup infrastructure servers are trusted. At first glance, this message may seem concerning, but it is important to note that it is not a blocking issue and does not prevent the upgrade from completing successfully.Why Does This Warning Appear?Starting with recent Veeam releases, the platform has introduced additional security controls to strengthen communication between backup infrastructure components.In my environment, the Remote Host Trust policy was configured as Manual. This means that Veeam does not automatically trust remote infrastructure servers such as:Backup Repositories Backup Proxies Mount Servers WAN Accelerators Other managed Linux or Windows hostsBecause the trust relationship must be verifie

Hello,I'm hitting a wall as we do not necessarily want to configure OS credentials for each and every single VM. Sure we can pre-deploy SSH keys, play with Tag to identify the Guest OS (different types of authentication between Windows/Linux) yadda yadda, but there must be a simpler way.I have tried with a Linux VM:1. installed deployment kit, we could just predeploy it everywhere automatically2. it listens on 6160 (installer service IIRC)3. When running a job using Guest OS credentials: "Use management agent" it doesn't even talk to 6160 but claims that it's falling back to trying to connect to guest since transport service is not availableWhy isn't it just installing it using installer service? Is it possible at all to use VBR in some kind of "agent" mode (while veeam optimally takes care of updating the agents as it sees fit)?Or do we have to use it in this shady ephemeral client "access-all and install whatever I like" mode?What is deployment kit then good for anyway?Thanks