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HelloI’m trying to find a solution to a hypothetic scenario: tl;dr is it possible to change/swap the target repository of a Backup Job by the repository of the BackupCopy Job I have 2 datacenter, 1 VBR server, and 2 repository on each site, one for backup job target, and the other one for BackupCopy job targetevery job have a copy job associated with it, and there are a few dozens of jobs running every dayI want to plan the failure of the repository system and being able to continue to do backups, in the case where the issue is hardware or would need multiple days to repair I have no problem with restoring from the copy jobs, all the data is there as intended, but how to restart the service of “backups” during this failure?so is it possible to tell VBR to use the the existing backup copy chains to use as an existing repository (I can’t seem to be able to remap)or is that impossible and I would need a new repository, and

Hi, ive just setup Veeam - Backup and Replication v12 and im a little stuck on how to setup my backup scenario.What i would like to do is perform a daily weekday backup to NAS with a retention of 10 restore points (Mon to Fri, so 2 weeks) with an active full on saturday plus a full daily backup to Tape.The data is 2tb, and i use LTO6 tapes (2.4tb).The Nas job is setup, and works perfectly, but im struggling with the Tape part. The problem is that the source job, having 10 restore points (and 2 active fulls), becomes too big for the tapes but can easily fit the actual data being backed up. The active full plus the daily incremental should fit, but its the 2nd Active Full that makes it too big.Is there anywhere to set the job to backup only one chain, daily, as a full?I may be looking at this the wrong way round, and there is a probably a better solution to this, but my thinking was that the data should fit on one tape, so why not back

I want to added multiple VCentres spread across trusted domains to one console ( 1 from each Domain)..  At first glance I should be able to add the the second Vcentre Server. Is this as straight forward as it appears?

If you want to restore a deleted Exchange mailbox (on-prem), you first have to create an empty mailbox within Exchange for the user. This has already been described earlier: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/restore-deleted-mailbox-with-veeam-explorer-for-exchange-t16174.html Challenge is, while creating a new mailbox you also create a new ID for it. This leads to loosing some functionality (permissions to folders for 3rd parties etc., recurring appointments, etc.). Is there another known way to recover the mailbox including its original ID?I would rather have expected VEXE to create the mailbox for me while recovering - including all metadata.

Primary backup is configured with daily retention 14 days , synthetic on Sunday and GFS (Monthly - First,  Yearly- April) option and target to disk storage.Monthly - 1st of every month Yearly - 1st of April Now Backup to  Tape , above primary backups ,  incremental in incremental media pool , weekly synthetic  backups  to go in weekly media pool, monthly in monthly media pool, yearly in yearly media pool. like wise is this possible with GFS media pool configuration.

Hi,I have installed the testlicence of veeam o365 Version 7. Exporting single items from a mailbox works fine, but export the hole mailbox of a user ends up with: unable to read beyond of the end of the stream. How can I solve this?

Final week of April 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 May.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 May 3rd.   Good luck to all participants! 😊@coolsport00 , @MicoolPaul , @Nico Losschaert , @Iams3le , @Scott , @Geoff Burke Please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to vote for you!Best, Ma

Hello everyone! @HangTen416 & I are delighted to introduce to you all the latest ‘thematic’ Veeam User Group: Cloud City. What is Cloud City? Cloud City is a Veeam User Group focused on Veeam’s Public Cloud and SaaS Product Offerings. We wanted to create a dedicated space in the community for people to share their knowledge and ask questions related to these products, or the relevant services that provide the platform these products interact with. Where can I find out more? Firstly, you can check out the group here: https://community.veeam.com/groups/cloud-city-107This page has more information on the purpose of the Veeam User Group, and you can join the group via this page. @HangTen416 and I

An incremental update has been released for Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV. Version 4a has a few new enhancements and some issues that were resolved. The download link is in the KB link below.  Note: Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 4a only supports integration with Veeam Backup & Replication version 12. What's NewUpgraded OpenSSL to version 1.0.2zg Configuration restore now assigns a default start time to a restored job that used an active full schedule but did not have a start time configured Configuration restore now assigns proper value and proceeds if BackupUID is found to be a

Hey everyone, Has anyone ever seen Veeam throttling bandwidth with the RMAN plugin? I’m working with a really beefy Veeam environment at the moment. Source data is all on flash, 40GbE networking available, high performance RAID controller + 4x RAID 60 repositories in a SOBR. Backups are flying for most workloads, VMware, Agent, NAS etc, but RMAN is letting me down. For example, a Veeam Agent using an unoptimised network path via the firewall can still do over 200MBps (Firewall is the bottleneck here), but RMAN is doing 5-7MBps and it’s on an L2 network with no firewalls involved. Testing with iperf can get 6-8Gbps easily without tuning between the hosts and the backup repositories, one test with iperf between the backup repositories was giving 26Gbps, so the network really is moving quick.When I’m going through the Veeam logs I’m finding things like this: plugin_co| [8b43]

As the proverb says, "A script a week keeps the doctor away". This week, we'll turn our attention to the Veeam Data Integration API. The idea for the script was to program a kind of SecureRestore for Linux VMs. There are many blog posts about the Data Integration API together with Linux, but nowhere could I find a script that covers the following requirement:Restore a Linux VM with prior AVscan. Abort the process if a virus is found, otherwise do the restoreLet's start…PrerequisitesInstall the latest Win OpenSSH package on the host where the script will be used Win32-OpenSSH Generate a public/private key pair using PuTTYgen A Linux server with ClamAV installed (I used Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) Add the Linux server to Veeam Backup & Replication using the generated key:

Hi,I have setup a new Veeam Advanced version 12. Connected to domain and Windows Server 2019 install.I have checklist:Ip ping ist ok domainname.local pin ok Windows FW Deaktiv Veeam Server ist domain member Join ist with Domain\Administrator i have add Regedit LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy  DWORD 1I did this check, they are all working. However, I am getting the following error : Faild to connect to host 192.168.2.100Invalid namespacePossible resaons:Invalid credentials. Specified host is not a Hyper-V server.Can you help with this ? Thankyou 

If you have Veeam on your domain, or Enterprise Manager and want to give a user access for a specific amount of time, you can achieve this with a simple PowerShell command.  Add-ADGroupMember -Identity ‘Group_NAME’ -Members ‘Username’ -MemberTimeToLive (New-TimeSpan -Minutes *****) The issue with this is trying to calculate minutes to days, weeks, months, or having some sort of searchable way to do this task.  Onboarding users with this method was proving difficult so I thought of easier ways to achieve this.  What started off with an overly complex excel spreadsheet to extract minutes from dates and generate a command has now become an PowerShell based GUI.  In the below script. anything with “*****” should be replaced with items from your own AD infrastructure. This allows to search 1 o

For those that use Veeam ONE they have released a patch that adds a few new things and fixes others.  One of the main additions is for the upcoming vSphere 8U1 update.https://www.veeam.com/kb4430

Hello Community,I just wanted to share some good news that my third edition of my book based on v12 will be published this Friday the 28th.  I will share links once I get them from the publisher as I will be doing a blog post.Hope to see lots of orders going in once it hits the market.  😎Cheers,Chris

Hello Everybody, i’am new……...i need to buy the god licence for my new backup.I habe 45VM wand more or less 15TB backup stuff…….what you mean better to buy a Essential Licence or a Advanced. (i will use also Veem One).The Veeam funtionallity for Essential are the same as Advanced?I have only Hyper-V VM onprimise, but in 3 yeas maybe we go to Azure, so i think better VUL Licence and not Core. Thank for the help Thank a lotAlfred

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) V6 can provide orchestration of recoveries to different locations (original location, a secondary site, or Azure) from backups or secondary backups. VRO   The feature that I love the most about VRO (well, really one of the many features) is the ability to easily have VRO scan multiple backup restore points of a server (virtual or physical) for malware infections that may have been missed before a backup so bad backups don’t get put back in production!  VRO will use a the update AV software installed on the mount server to perform iterative scans of multiple restores to find a “clean” restore point to recover from. This can be performed in a few easy steps. First, launch the orchestration plan for the server(

I found this tool today. I thought it would be helpful for anyone evaluating a migration to cloud. The sections for object storage are also particularly interesting with respect to Veeam products.https://projector.cloud-mercato.com/projects/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-vs-ibm-vs-oracle-vms-q2-2023

Hi All,This is my first post on this site.I have been asked to backup a database on one of our servers before setting it up to be decommissioned. The DB needs to be retained for 40 years and before I can archive off the DB I need to ensure that we are able to access it. I am very  new to veeam and wondered if anyone knows how I can backup just the DB and not the VM? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In Feb 2023 NetApp announced the release of ONTAP 9.12.1 to introduce some new hardware the C-Series models. One big item that customers were eager for was large volume and LUN support. This was experimental and was not enabled without support assistance.It is now enabled by default in ONTAP 9.12.1P2 and later releases. Please see images below to compare the old and new Volume and LUN sizes.This will open up new opportunities for existing customers running out of space on their ONTAP Veeam backup repos. They can increase them to use larger LUNs 128 Tib or Volumes 300 Tib.  Image 1 - Max LUN size on ONTAP 9.12.1P2 LUN 128 TiB versus ONTAP 9.12.1P1 LUN 16 TiBImage 2 - Max Vol

Hello everybody, i use MABS and Veeam for backup the same Exchange Server and SQL whats happen with the transaction logs? Is this a good Idea or not? Better to user only Veeam? Can This cause of problems. Thank a lotAlfred

I just upgraded to v12 and the direct-to-object storage feature is exciting but I am having trouble doing what I would like to do.I have the veeam service provider console and associated cloud connect server, and several single physical servers at different customer sites that I would like have a local backup + direct to object storage backup strategy for.  I was hoping to use veeam agents on the physical servers and just use my console + cloud connect server to manage / monitor the backups. Ideally backup data would just go to the local storage at the same physical site as the server (NAS/external USB), and be uploaded directly to object storage without going through the cloud connect server.I considered using a scale-out backup repository for this, but trying to configure a scale out backup repository on my cloud connect server, but I can’t have an extent be local storage.I considered installing a backup server on the physical server but this seems like a bad

Hei,  I’m trying to understand a mysterious problem with Veeam Agent on Windows 7 SP 1.  The system is relatively old and backed up occasionally on request only. The last backup is about two years old. When I tried start Veeam Agent today (version was ~2019ish), no window appeared. Not even the icon in the task bar showed up. I decided to uninstall the old version and went for 6.0.2.1090. However, this time the installer (even when run as administrators) doesn’t do anything. No error messages, no exception - nothing. 

Is there a way to take VMware snapshots instead of production data?