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Support for the newly released v12 (VBR/EM/ONE) is now available in the Veeam Collection for Ansible!What enhancements can you expect?Support for Windows Server 2022 Full support for PostgreSQL when performing VBR/EM installs Including local & remote DBs A new module to apply PostgreSQL performance tuning Leverages the Set-VBRPSQLDatabaseServerLimits PowerShell cmdlet Automatic enabling of the PostgreSQL pg_stat_statements extension during PostgreSQL installation This assists in performance troubleshooting Additional sample v12-specific playbooks Upgraded dependencies leveraging the latest ansible collections for Windows: ansible.windows: 1.13.0 community.windows: 1.12.0  For those not familiar with this Ansible collection, please see this blog post for an introduction.

Network throttling is not used in every environment. Mostly in connection with branch offices. Here it is essential to not overload the connection to the head quarter. To throttle network before, you had to configure source and destination network and time windows to limit bandwidth for backup traffic.With v12 there are new features:Generally use public addresses for target range. Option to never throttle restore activities. Select a time frame to higher the limit.

Hello everybody! Say hello to Veeam Help Center v12: https://www.veeam.com/documentation-guides-datasheets.html   

Another new feature when restoring (Windows) files is the possibility to restore only the permissions. This can be helpful if you accidentally activate inheritance for a directory.You can select single files or a directory. As usual, a summary is displayed when the job is completed. The error shown in the screenshot is due to a file that has already been deleted and for which the permissions cannot be restored.For this to work, network connection must be established. VIX does not work here.

A feature that was already available in Veeam Explorer for Active Directory now finds its way into the Windows File Level Restore: Compare with Production. This gives you the option to view the differences between the files in the restore point and the current files in production.After pressing the button, you will be asked for the user with the required permissions.Then you see state for files and directories. What you not see are new files in production that are not in the selected restore point.You can also show differences in file attributes.At least in tested version, this feature (and the following) does not work for Linux.

Hi all, I need support to find the correct way to merge 2 VEEAM Server into one.We have VEEAM A and VEEAM B, both with their data domain. for now these two servers are separate and we want to merge A and B to have only A.In my head we have to:Configure the DD of the VEEAM B on VEEAM A and rescan it. Configure a backup job with the VMs of the VEEAM B on the VEEAM A and, during the configuration, map the backup.if we take these steps are we OK or I’m missing something?Thank you.

I have a very unstable wireless connection on an endpoint that likes to go down during periods of high use, or just whenever it feels like it. Addressing the connection issue remains its own task, but for the time being, it seems like the Veeam Agent (Agent for Microsoft Windows 5.0.3.4708) is very intolerant to any sort of network issues. When the connection inevitably goes down, the backup process will be cancelled with the error:Error: write: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host Failed to backup file. I’ve looked through the backup settings, and I did see one section titled Backup Cache which apparently is supposed to cache the backup locally until Veeam can connect to the server. Despite having this option enabled, the Agent still throws its hands up at the first sign of network trouble.Hoping there is someone here who knows a magic trick to get the Agent to tolerate unstable connections, or can at least pass this along to the appropriate team.Thanks!

Just a reminder if you have not already signed up and want to learn more about Tape join the VUG Canada group of myself, @HangTen416 and Vinh Pham (SE) on February 16, 2023, at 12PM Eastern as we discuss all things tape!  Link below to register -VUG Canada - Feb 16/23

When auditors come knocking—or worse, when bad actors strike—not having accurate and complete event logs can make all the difference in how your organization survives the encounter.However, users are often understandably more focused on day-to-day operations and only think to look for this information once it’s needed (and when time is of the essence).The good news is that all the information you need—including where to find changes in Veeam server user access permissions, failed login attempts, and failed RDP connections—is available in several different locations, including:Windows Event Viewer Veeam Backup and Replication Audit logs for performed restores Veeam One Audit log The individual application log(s) Windows Event ViewerMany Veeam activities (success, warning, and failures) get logged to the Windows Event viewer by default. To see these events from within the Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR) server, open the Windows Event Viewer console and Migrate to the Veeam Backup node

I want to continue my post series about little new features in the new v12 realease. Here are 3 little things that will make administrators live a little easier.Modern Authentication for mail notificationsPrior to v12 it was just possible to set SMTP server settings for basic authentication. With v12 you can add Microsoft 365 and Google Gmail for mail notification too.  More intuitive Add Storage dialogIn older version, it was necessary to press Show more vendors when adding a storage product that is not listed. With v12, all vendors are listed in a scroll-able list. New default with new repositoriesWith v12 Use per-machine backup files is the new default option when adding a new backup repository. 

File backup job is failing with above error please assist.

Hello,I need support to restore an Oracle base via RMAN with the Oracle Plugin on another server.Running the command below returns the following message:[oracle@oracle01]<ORACLEBKP> #OracleRMANConfigTool --configure-restore-from-copyYou will be unable to run RMAN backups while "Restore from copy" mode is enabled. Proceed with enabling?  (y/N): yNo secondary destination jobs available[oracle@oracle01]<ORACLEBKP> #I followed the directions in the link:https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/plugins/restore_from_copy.html?ver=110Can anyone help me please?Regards,Jackson 

The workstation is in a Protection Group and Agent Version 5.0.3.4708 is installed.The workstation was added over the Active Directory and the AD shows Windows 10 Professional is installed.  I also logged into the workstation and yes indeed Windows 10 Professional is installed.  Windows 11 is blocked from installing in our Network using a GPO and the Workstation was not upgraded to Windows 11 and then reset back to Windows 10.Its been showing the warning since Tuesday.  Removing it from the Protection Group and re-adding it does not help. 

Happy Friday everyone, Today’s inspiration for Fun Friday comes from Reddit. I saw a picture today of a fibre cable broken by… an arrow!https://www.reddit.com/r/nevertellmetheodds/comments/10ya76l/arrow_accidentally_pierces_fiber_utility_line_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Sometimes shocking events like this happen that you just wish you’d caught on camera. Reminds me of the time that I had a 2-post UPS, had just installed it into the rack, and all the cage nuts sheered simultaneously, and it crashed down onto an LCD monitor that we weren’t allowed to relocate. The best part? The hinge bent back on the monitor but was still in-tact, and the screen! Of which the bezel had taken the full force of the UPS! Anyone got a good “Can’t believe this happened” story to share?

I’ve randomly had two backups corrupt at one of my clients. Not sure why it happened, but they did. On one of them, I deleted from disk all of the restore points on the local datastore, and took a new full. I left the cloud data alone, and as we speak, the new restore points are peacefully transferring offsite, no issue. The second backup has been a different story… Because of the nature of the server, I decided to take a new full and leave the old data in place, just in case. The new full local backup was fine, but the offsite failed. I tried running an active full of the offsite, but same deal; the offsite failed. So now I am trying a new strategy. I took a look at the restore points and 99% were corrupted (I believe this was the offsites), so I decided to just wipe everything and start from scratch, because I think the corrupted restore points are causing issues with the new data going offsite. The offsite failures have been throwing an error I’ve never seen before. I’ll paste it be

Team,Having a hard time trying to get physical server boot from the bootable media if Secure boot enabled. Docs says it is supported, but I can boot up from the media as soon as it is disabled. See the error below. Any suggestions?  Cheers,Alex

After the initial setup of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure I’ve had two different issues.The backup jobs finished with following warning:Crash-consistent snapshot of XYZ has been created. Cannot download VSS agent binaries from the storage account: The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.ServiceBus'. See https://aka.ms/rps-not-found for how to register subscriptions. Also FLR restores failed:Preparing worker for restore failed. Error: Cannot find any worker. Worker deployment failed, see logs for details Both of these messages had the same root cause and especially the first one already points to the right direction, the “Microsoft.ServiceBus” Resource Provider wasn’t registered in Microsoft Azure.The solution is really simple, just register this Resource Provider via the Azure Portal or use the Azure Powershell. Register-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.ServiceBus I’m not sure if this Resource Provider should be registered by default, and if so,

Time to celebrate as Veeam rated as 19th position out of Top 100 #cloudstorage See the Link  as follows The 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Companies Of The 2023 Cloud 100 | CRN

Hi All, Currently we do an Instant recovery from the ‘Entire Computer’ backup taken by Veeam agent, it goes for P2V conversion. Once the instant recovery completes, when we initiate ‘Migrate it to Production’ (may be to VMware Hypervisor using dedicated proxy which can handle 4 concurrent tasks. But it seems Veeam is treating the restore as single task and the number of VMDK files/Disk associated with the restored VM is migrated one by one which prolongs the RTO. Is there a way to consider each VMDK file as separate task (which will allow for parallelism) during the entire VM restore (using instant recovery method and ‘Migrate it to Production’)?

Dual posting because I can LOL. I just pushed this blog on the main Veeam blog:Veeam Vanguard nominations are now OPEN for the 2023 class!But the title says it all, Veeam Vanguard 2023 nominations are now open. We have Veeam Vanguard 2023 nominations open for a limited time via this survey: https://vee.am/vv2023 so if you know someone who would be a fit; please refer them to nominate! On the Veeam blog I put a longer narrative but wanted visibility here too! Update: Nominations are closed now, will re-open towards the end of the year.

FYI, for those of you with WordPress sites (looking at you Vanguards, but I’m sure there are others), I came across a nice plugin for backing up to Wasabi.  This isn’t really Veeam specific at all, but I figured I’d share anyway.You can find a WordPress plugin called backWPup and create a Wasabi bucket and point the plugin to backup there.  Wasabi actually has a page dedicated to it, but honestly, it was so easy to setup, it was probably unnecessary.  It can of course backup to FTP, Dropbox, Google drive and such like most apps, and there are probably other plugins that do this as well, but since a lot of folks have Wasabi accounts already, I figured it might be helpful for others if they don’t already have something in place.https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001900632-How-do-I-use-BackWPup-with-Wasabi- 

Following the line of some of my topics, in Veeambp.com we can find a very useful unofficial tool                                                    This tool is not Veeam supportedIt was developed externally and is not linked with Veeam Software or ServiceNow in anyway, No support is offerred or inferred from Veeam Software on this tool. vSnow App is an application to integrate Veeam Backup Enterpriser Manager with ServiceNow vSnowApp for ServiceNow:The application offers integration with Veeam Enterprise Manager.vSnowApp provides following capabilities:Performance Dashboard Incidents Management Manage Backup Jobs. Failover Plans Agent Jobs Backup Servers Management How vSnowApp Works: vSnowApp function as an intermediary between Veeam Enterprise Manager and ServiceNow, after you deploy the vSnowApp, you can manage reporting and management of backup infrastructure from ServiceNow. Pre-requisites:ServiceNow MID Server Veeam Enterprise ManagerSupported ServiceNow Instances:New York Orl

Hello world.Hello friend.Welcome to Cyber Security Space. There will never be truly secure backups and backup storage if we don't learn the fundamentals of cybersecurity.Veeam offers awesome solutions to protect you from ransomware or data corruption or backup consistency or much much more. Think about 3-2-1-1-0 rule. Secure Restore. Immutable backup. S3 buckets. Harden Repository. And you'll see what's next in ver12!Amazing solutions, but all of them need our expertise to make them operational, safe and functional. This space was born for this: to help us to understand the vast world of cybersecurity so you can build up your knowledge and be a better IT girl/guy/sysadmin/sysops/ethical hacker/programmer/devops/cat-on-rex/unicorn.What can you do at the Cyber Security Space?1. Create posts and share news2. Check for FREE certification and course (link below)3. Ask any question about ANYTHING cybersec related4. Do you have an interesting solution for a real world IT problem? You rocks!5.