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Good Monday everyone! Another week, another script 😉 This time for the Veeam file share backup jobs.IntroAlso last Friday another script was ready for release, but I didn't want to "interrupt" the World Backup Day celebrations with a dull script ;) And my last script also caused quite some buzz in our backup world:vbr-job-scanner-ps1And I promised that more will come...    The scriptIn my GitHub repository you can find a script that checks if a unexpectedly high number of files have been backed up via file share backup compared to the last times. There are two versions of this script:vbr-nasjob-scanner.ps1 - For manual checks vbr-nasjob-scanner-post-script.ps1 - For use in the Backup Job as a post

We had some problems with restoring VMs in the last time.After some research we found that the Proxy on Linux has a problem with the assignments of physical volumes. It seems that there are PVs of target machines are preserved in the LVM archive files of the proxy… This is causing problems at restore time – leaving the restored VMs unbootable.I have double checked the Veeam documentation about prerequisites (https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_proxy_requirements.html?ver=110) and found no hint that LVM is a problem with Linux proxy.The problem occurred with Suse Linux only, we are in the process to check if there is the same problem with RedHat Linux. To visualize the problem, I will show it from the Veeam Proxy perspective and from the target VMs perspective. 

Run Restore -- Agent -- Entire machine -- Instant recovery -- instant recovery vmware vSphere Recover VM OK. The vm starts with a blue screen and the stop code is :INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE. Veeam v11 ,wmware vSphere 7 , vm os win10

Hi, we have customer with VMware infra in Production and using Nutanix AHV in DR. They want to replicate from VMware to Nutanix and failback if needed? Is that possible or what will be the work around using veeam?

Hello,I have upgraded "Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition" from v11 to v12 and "Veeam Agent for Linux" from v5 to version v6.0.0.1060.Since then, I receive no more Backup Status mails from any Agent running v6.The only status mails I receive, ist for a Windows client with Agent version v5.0.3.4708.I have already checked the notification settings on the "VBR" several times. Various test mails are delivered successfully.Does anyone have similar problems after the upgrade, or a solution?I would be very grateful for any feedback

Hi, i need and advice on how to configure Veeam v12 where i would like to setup immutable repository where i would put the last 7 backups and in the same time have that same backup copied on DellEMC DataDomain were i have GFS with for example 7 daily / 4 weekly / 3 monthly. I know that with SOBR i can make performance (immutable) and DD (capacity tier), but will it delete/move the data from immutable repo.

I know this is not Veeam related but I am also part of the vExpert program with VMware and had the chance to get some Intel Optane drives through the program, so I wrote a blog on how I got them set up and some initial testing done.  You can find it here- https://justvirtualization.blog/2023/03/31/intel-optane-vexpert-awesome/  Intel Optane + vExpert = Awesome!  Thank you to @Intel and @vExpert for the opportunity to test some unique technology in the Intel Optane drives.I have been part of the VMware vExpert program for four years now, and in 2023, there was a webinar done by Intel on their Optane drives. After the webinar, there was the chance to be chos

I ran several V12 updates through our Service Provider Console and just wanted to make sure that anyone else running these upgrades watches for this issue as well.  The issue being, when you push the update and it updates successfully, check the results to make sure that it reenabled all backup and copy jobs at the end.  I had a handfull of upgrades where it stated the upgrade was successful, but in checking the logs, the update didn’t reenable a couple of jobs at the end.  It seemed to me mostly copy jobs, but I had at least one or two backup jobs as well.  ​​​​Veeam Service Provider Console log results for upgrading a VBR server to v12 that indicated success in the upgrade but failed to reenable jobs afterwords. One other thing to look out for is that when you update, make sure that the client is

Hi guys, It is (again) that time of the year: 31/03/2023 is world backup day.What is “hot” nowadays: AI. Join me in the challenge and come up with some Veeam Action Figures.https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stijn-marivoet-3695a48_veeam-backup-worldbackupday-activity-7047497640883691520-c8qa?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop   

What do you guys do in your VMware environments for VMs using CDP or replicas? Once I have a bunch of snapshots at the DR site vCenter likes to give nice little red alerts. Other monitoring systems tend to remind you that there are too many snapshots too. I found the easiest way is to disable that alert at the DR site, but I have to be manually monitoring my environment to make sure an unwanted snapshot doesn’t get left behind somewhere.  

Recently we had a vulnerability on Veeam Backup & Replication called CVE-2023-27532.So today, I’m going to show how easy is update VBR and install the patch to correct this threat. According with KB4424, we need to download the patch correctly to v11 or v12. In my case I going to update a v12 environment. So, the first thing is download patch:

 Hi,I had a really strange error that was causing myself some issues recently, so I thought I would share the results.I was protecting a few NetApp ONTAP systems, integrated with Veeam as NAS Filers. And when I was trying to protect one of the NAS Filers, all the SMB shares were working successfully, but the NFS shares were not.What was worse though, I would always get an error that made no sense. If I reviewed the error message for my NFS logs I’d get the error that ‘All backup proxies are offline or outdated’, and then if I browsed into the Veeam logs, there were no tasks logs even being created for the failing shares. If I dug into the logs for the parent job, I could see this error I mentioned above, plus that no scale-out repository extents were available. This struck me as very confusing, as the SVMs contained

Hello community members! Tomorrow, March 31st, is World Backup Day! Who better to celebrate this occasion with than Veeam?  Join Veeam’s Product Strategy and Industry Insights team tomorrow on LinkedIn for a talk about the importance of backup. Let’s see the community active and engaging in the chat tomorrow! 🤗And don’t forget to take the backup pledge & see other resources on World Backup Day’s site! 🌐 

Folks, Please don’t post brain dumps. You are not only cheating the system but also yourselves. I have had to deal with paper cert folks and believe me they don’t last long. The exam and the piece of paper are not the point. It is the process and the knowledge that is what you want. At 1 am when sitting there clueless on a severity 1 call your brain dumps will be of no use. cheers

Hi Folks, I don’t often forward blog post stuff but these ones are great and very important in relation to Veeam 12 and Object Storage.Apologies if someone has already posted. It explained a lot for me about how Veeam now works with S3!check out Luca’s blogs here: https://www.virtualtothecore.com/a-first-look-at-the-new-veeam-sosapi/ 

One of the client recently requested me to help them find the duplicate bios uuid for their environment of 10K desktops, therefore, i am writing this post to help others if they are facing  same issues with duplicate bios uuid.BIOS UUIDs are important identifiers that help distinguish one computer from another. They are typically unique, allowing administrators to manage their systems efficiently. However, in some cases, duplicate UUIDs might exist, causing confusion and possible errors. In this blog post, we'll show you how to create a PowerShell script that detects duplicate BIOS UUIDs on Windows computers and exports the results to an Excel file for further analysis.Step 1: Creating the PowerShell ScriptFirst, let's create a PowerShell script that queries a list of computers, retrieves their BIOS UUIDs, and checks for duplicates. You can get the list of computers from Active Directory, a text file, or an array.Here's a sam

Final week of March is here!  We had previously committed to organizing a poll to determine the top blog of the month that is going to be featured on the homepage in the first week of April.Our selection comprises of three blogs that were featured in the weekly recap, as well as three additional blogs that were not mentioned. Please help us determine the best by voting on your favorite one by the end of the week (31st of March) .Good luck to all participants! 😊  @Michael Melter , @mkevenaar , @marcofabbri , @regnor , @Martin Weber , @wolff.mateus   please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to

What does " Warning: Task was not processed in the current session " mean? I receive the warning after it tries to run a backup copy job.  Any advice on what this means, why this happened, or how to solve the issue?I get the same message after running a new sync after about 10 minutes. Job will finish with warnings, with no successes. 

Trying to migrate Enterprise Manager to a new Server. I stopped the Veeam services on the old server and disconnected it from the network. I installed the EM on the new server and pointed it to an old DB that was used by the old server. There was a dialogue window confirming that the DB was owned by the old EM server and that it would be transferred to the new EM server.What happened next is that the the service account was getting locked out. So I had to roll back the changes. Good thing, I did not uninstall the EM from the old server per the instruction on https://www.veeam.com/kb1889 . Curious what happened here.

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

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

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?