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Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

SOBR placement policy not adhered to - solution included

This issue I’ve seen with larger SOBRs having many ReFS extents. Having a backup-copy job (pruning) with GFS there were sudden unintended switches of backup chains to other extents. Thus loosing all space efficiency for the GFS points. We used scripts here to detect chains spanning more than a single extent. It turned out to be a bug solved in V10 paired with a very conservative process in VBR to detect extents near space exhaustion. There is some estimation here due not being able to estimate the space savings due to block recloning. This could be tweaked with two regkeys:Pfad: HKLM\Software\Veeam\Veeam Backup and ReplicationName: SOBRSyntheticFullCompressRate Value: 35, DWORDDescription: override the estimated space VM would take on SOBR in a full backup. % of previous full backup size.  Name: SobrForceExtentSpaceUpdateValue: 1, DWORDDescription: enables advanced SOBR extents free space update logic. With this set to 1 (enabled) service updates cached extent free space every time tas

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Rick Vanover
3 years ago
S
smiddyNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Backup MaxDB databases with veeam

Dear all, is it possible to create backups (full, incremantal etc.) for MaxDB 7.9 with veeam and backint? The OS is SLES 12 SP5.  Kind regardsSmiddy  

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falkob
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards

What scripting/programming language do you use for monitoring/reporting/automation?

I am curious what languages are used by the community for reporting, monitoring and/or automation. I personally do a lot of scripting with PowerShell. What language is worth learning it?I wish, Veeam will replace their PowerShell Plug-In by a PowerShell module in www.powershellgallery.com.@Kseniya Just a little thing: when embedding code here in the community, PowerShell is no language-option. Maybe this can be added in the future? 

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Rick Vanover
3 years ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #13

Happy Friday!In this episode, I and @Rick Vanover discussed community activities, highlights of the week, and also weather in Saint-Petersbourg and Columbus (spoiler - it’s getting colder in both places )Check it out now!   

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eprieto
3 years ago
D
DatIDMNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Odd error for all OFFSITE backup jobs

Here is the text from the e-mail received from the server:Failed to preprocess target Error: Failed to call RPC function 'FcWriteFileEx': Incorrect function. Failed to open fileDoes this look familiar to anyone? If so.. how did you resolve it??Thank you for any Help, 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

What do you like on Veeam B&R?

Just a question really simple… What do you like most about Veeam Backup & Replication?What is the main feature on Veeam that completely drive you crazy?  

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Link State
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

[What (esle) is new in v11 - V] Tape stuff

As @eprieto did already post an excellent 3-part series of new v11 tape features. I want to highlight 3 small other features here.Tape Consolidation As Esteban already explained, it is possible to copy tapes in v11. But Veeam put wood behind the arrow. You can use this feature to copy more old-generation-tapes to a few new-generation-tapes. In my example I used LTO2 as source and LTO6 as target.Select tapes you want to consolidate.You can also select tapes by media pool in wizard.Select the target device and target media pool.Choose your options and run the job.After that - in my demo - I copied two LTO2 tapes to one LTO6 tape.  Full Tape Restore With v11 you are able to restore the entire Tape to a Folder.In wizard you choose the folder. Veeam knows how much space is needed and don't let you continue, when too less is left.When tape includes file backup, there are a few more options then. After the restore, all files are there like on the tape New column in Tape viewThe column shows w

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regnor
3 years ago
Harry Bos
Harry BosNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

New Veeam Certified Architect exam in 2021?

In 2018 i’ve passed VMCE-ADO which is now renamed to VMCA. Will there be a new exam release this year?

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Chris.Childerhose
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 37 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Have you used the Veeam Extract utility? GUI? Command line? Windows or linux? Can it extract from VBK? VRB? VIB? How did you get the files back to your hypervisor environment?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 39 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. What is your use case for staged restore? Which applications are you using it with? Which format of scripts are you using?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Presentation: How to pass your (VMCE) exam

Hi everyone!I recently had the honor of presenting at the Veeam User Group for CZ/SK and think the topic will be of interest to the general Veeam community.The presentation does cover some VMCE related topics, but will provide great advice for anyone studying for any IT certification exam.Hope you enjoy the presentation and any feedback would be very welcome 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

#HomelabWednesday - How to deploy VMware vSphere ESXi nested in a virtual machine

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to deploy two nested ESXi hosts and add them to a cluster in your VMware vCenter.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released. 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

VBR v11 🔥Instant Recovery Of ANY Backup To Hyper-V 🤓in a Chart

I took the time to put together this table in Draw.io and was impressed when I finished it, in v11 it will come with this great improvement in Hyper-V.    

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 42 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you using replicas? What about failover plans? How often do you test them? How many failover plans do you have? and… how many VMs could be in a single failover plan? :-)Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Get news about B&R v11

Check out current news about the upcoming Version v11 at the new landing page here:https://go.veeam.com/v11 Sign up for news by mail here:https://go.veeam.com/v11#toForm Watch the video Veeam v11: Top 11 hottest NEW features at:https://veeamlive.com/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 43 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. What happens to your source/original VM when you trigger a failover to a replica? What happens if it is suddenly powered on at the same time as your replica that you just failed over to?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

[Veeam 1-minute] Backup and Restore of Amazon RDS with Veeam Backup for AWS v3

Learn with us on this one-minute video if your Veeam Backup for AWS v3 RDS Policy is working, and How-To Restore an Amazon RDS back to production, all in one minute.For more information, and a fully functional (Free Forever 10 AWS instances) visit here - https://www.veeam.com/aws-backup.htmlI hope you like it! Have not seen much videos, or information around the RDS, and VPC, integration with VBR, so you will see much more one minute videos soon.

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 44 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Have you tried the planned failover feature? What actually happens when you perform it? and could it maybe combined with the failover plan feature?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Advanced VMware vSphere Features 🤓 Encrypted VMs

Many times we wonder what happens with encrypted VMs , here is this great explanation of Veeam   Backup of Encrypted VMs Veeam Backup & Replication lets you back up encrypted VMs. The backup infrastructure must meet the following requirements:VM encryption instances must be preconfigured in the virtual infrastructure: you must set up the key management server, create the VM encryption policy and assign it to VMs in advance. The backup proxy used for backup must be working in the Virtual appliance transport mode or Network transport mode with SSL encryption enabled. The backup proxy working in the Virtual appliance transport mode must be deployed on an encrypted VM. Ensure either that you use a common Key Management Server (KMS) or that the Key Management Server clusters at both sites use common encryption keys.  Replication of Encrypted VMsVeeam Backup & Replication lets you replicate encrypted VMs. The backup infrastructure must meet the following requirements:VM encryption in

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
Andrew.Zhelezko
Andrew.ZhelezkoProduct Strategy
posted in Discussion Boards

vTrailMap 2020

Hey community! I was wondering what’s everyone thinking about vTrailMap page, which we designed earlier this year? Would be nice to hear from you whether you liked it or not.https://www.veeam.com/vmware-vtrail-map-2020.html

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam Agent For Mac 🍎 !!! Part 1

  What Can Be Backed Up?User profiles with all content Custom selection File based backup with native APFS snapshots  Restore On Client Side     Veeam Agent For Mac Supports…back up files and folders save coloured tags restore specific files or the whole ‘Users’ folder schedule backups send backups to VBR / VCC / Local drive (including encryption) provide basic local UI for FLR    Snapshot SupportNative APFS snapshot supportAutomatic snapshot mode selection in single jobUsers on APFS backed up with snapshot Users located NAS share backed up without snapshot USB drives backed up without snapshot   MAC OS versions will be supported10.13 (High Sierra), 10.14 (Mojave), 10.15 (Catalina)  Can I restore files from the VBR console?”Copy to” (Linux & Windows) is possible. No direct restore  Deduplication appliances are supported !    

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Tape 📼 Improvements in VBR v11 🔥

When I thought the tape was forgotten ...  Veeam brings us these improvements that I think are excellents!                                                     Tape 📼 Improvements TAPE CLONING !!!  Allows us to Migrate from old LTO to newer tapes generations Additional copy for security reasons  You can Copy from one drive to other drive via tape server You can Modify database and link old backups with new tapes You can Preserve link for old tapes File parts are detected and prompt for additional tape  Note:Veeam can clone all Veeam tapes (B2T, F2T, NDMP), Veeam Can't do it for 3rd party tapes.   What you need to know Requires at least two drives Restore selects automatically the needed tape if several copies exist No scheduler (use PowerShell) One media pool still does only allow one LTO generation What do you think of this improvement?   

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vNote42
3 years ago
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
posted in Discussion Boards

Feature request - force retention

I work pretty heavily with backups in my current role, and we use your product and another product with some of our clients. The other product has a feature that is incredibly helpful and I think would be an amazing feature to add to Veeam. How feasible would it be to add a “Force Retention” feature? I really believe we need this for situations when we run into low disk space. In Veeam’s current state, if I run into an issue where I need to reclaim disk space, I am forced to break my backup chain and delete data. If I could lower retention on my backup and then force retention, that would effectively eliminate the need for me to have to lose data and break a backup chain. For example: if I am in a situation where I am getting failures due to low disk space, and I have retention on said backup job set to 30 days, if I could cut retention down to, say, 20 days, and force retention, I could maintain my current backup chain and then address the disk space issue accordingly (adding more dis

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regnor
3 years ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

[FREE Kubernetes Backup] 2 Ways to Try Kasten K10

Hey everyone,There were a few discussions at Community Hub around Kasten, Kubernetes and the way to try K10 product (if there are NFR keys available)Well, the good news is that there are two ways to test it!Hands-on Lab: Take a Kasten K10 TestdriveYou can take a live testdrive of K10, Kasten's data management platform for all your Kubernetes-native backup, DR, and application mobility needs.What you have to do to get access: To learn how Kubernetes-native application backup and recovery works, complete the form here and receive an email containing a link to the Kasten K10 testdrive.Install from the Cloud - 50 Nodes for 1 Month, 10 Free ForeverK10 Editions (Starter, Enterprise Trial, and Enterprise)The default Starter edition, provided at no charge, is functionally the same as the Enterprise Trial and Enterprise editions but limited from a support and scale perspective. Customers choosing to upgrade to the Enterprise edition can obtain a license key from Kasten or install from cloud mar

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vNote42
3 years ago
Chan Ekanayake
Chan EkanayakeComes here often
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam Backup & Replication v11

Dear Veeam Technical Community, By now, I’m sure you are all aware of the planned launch of the next major release of our flagship solution Veeam Availability Suite v11 on the 24th of February (Click on the link to set up a reminder to join the launch event). In the meantime, I’d like to collect a list of any specific topics that you would like to see any deep-dive technical contents from Veeam for, either in the form of blog posts here on the community hub, or on our  frequent Veeam product webinars etc, in order for you to understand the new Veeam products and  solutions or their key capabilities better? Can you please share your asks via comments?  To get you started, I’m guessing the below V11 specific topics would be of interest? Continuous Data Protection Immutability via secure Linux repository Veeam agent for MAC Archive Tier with Scale Out Backup Repository Estimating AWS Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive consumption costs with Veeam Cloud Tier How to set up Google Cloud Storag

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Chan Ekanayake
3 years ago

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