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I was thinking of using a bare metal restore into a VM and have actually made it work, but what I wasnt able to do successfully was resize/shrink the disks in the process. The physical server has lots of wasted space which I would like to avoid in the VM. Is it possible to accomplish a “disk shrink” using a bare metal restore?

In my environment, all of my switches and all of my virtualization hosts support jumbo frames. as well as the Data Domain that is my storage infrastructure.  However, my VBR environment - 3VMs (the VBR server, 1 proxy, and 1 managed server used to mount restores) and the physical server that attaches to the tape library are not currently set to use jumbo frames. I am wondering if setting them to use jumbo frames would help, improve performance, reduce bottlenecks?I can’t imagine that it would hurt, right?Anyone using jumbo frames? What is your experience?

If the Hyper-V integration services are not installed, you cannot restore any data from Veeam Backup.Please follow the steps to install Hyper-V integration services in the Ubuntu Linux VM of Hyper-V.  1.Login to Hyper-V host.2.Open PowerShell as Administrator.3.Run the command as follows.Get-VMIntegrationService -VMName "ubuntu2310"  4.Open the Hyper-V Manager tool.5.Right-click the VM and select the Settings.  6.Select Integration Services on the Settings of the VM page.  7.Select the Guest services checkbox on the Integration Services page and click OK.  8.Run the command as follows to ensure the Integration Services of the VM are enabledGet-VMIntegrationService -VMName "ubuntu2310"  9.Login to the Linux Server.10.Run the command as follows to edit modules.vim /etc/initramfs-tools/modules  11.Add hv_modules to initramfs-tools modules.hv_vmbushv_storvschv_blkvschv_netvsc  12.Run the following command to update the apt packages.sudo apt update  13.Run the following command to upgrade t

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 has an error in one of the mailboxes. The error message is "There is an error in XML document…The specified type was not recognized: name='SharingMessage'. It happened after I upgraded the VBM365 from version 6 to version 7a. This is a known issue, and Veeam released a HOTFIX on December 15. Please download the HOTFIX from  https://www.veeam.com/kb4527 and follow the steps to fix it. 1.Login to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Manager server.2.Open Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Console.3.Verify the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 console (Help |Abut).  4.Ensure the Version is 7.1.0.1301 or 7.0.0.4388.  5.Right-click all jobs and select Disable to stop all active tasks.  6.Close the console and stop the following services on the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server.Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Veeam Backup Proxy for Microsoft 365 and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 RESTful API.  7.Open https://www.veeam.com/kb45

Hi Folks,I decided to talk about something a bit different today. A non Kubernetes quick video. One of the main components of Zero Trust when it comes to Backup and Replication is not put all of your components together, otherwise it can get messy like in my video. Whishing everybody a great upcoming New Year!  

Veeam Backup and Replication release 12.1 delivers new features and enhancements.Among them is the Four-Eyes Authorization.In this video, there is a brief demonstration. I hope this information is helpful! 

Hello,I want to recover one computer account password from Veeam B&R credentials, I followed the KB4349 article, but I was unable to locate the DATA key under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication to view the EncyptionSalt value. I didn’t found any article or guide for such case, can anyone guide me how to find the EncryptionSalt value if it is not available in registry?

Hello,if I understand it correctly, in Veeam 12 the backup health check is performed independently from the backup copy job.In my case that leads to a problem because the backup repository which is the target for the backup copy job is only switched on for the backup (powering on and powering off is done by job scripts in the backup copy job).Is there any solution for this?In my opinion there are several ways that would lead to a solution:Starting health check immediately after the backup before the after job script. But that could not be configured any more or I didn’t find it. Adding the functionality to execute scripts before and after the health check. Starting health check manually from the command line. Then I could execute a script which starts the repository, performs the health check and power off again. I found powershell commands to perform a backup health check, but that doesn’t work anymore. Or I used it wrong. Starting and stopping the backup repository by a windows job a

Hello - total newbie here,I installed CE 12.1.0.2131 on Windows 10 Pro (desktop computer type) I wanted to try creating a simple backup job to see how it works. I intend to chose just a single folder of files to be backed up. I am in Home > Backup Job > New Agent Backup Job > Tab = “Objects”I checked the box for “The following file system objects:” It displays a windows form with a single line text box, I do not see any buttons to open a file picker dialog box to be able to select just the single folder I want to backup.I see a similar constraint when I click “Next” to go to the tab labeled “Local Storage”. There is just a text box on a form and no file picker dialogs. I need to type the full path to the storage location where I want the backup to be written to. Is this intended behavior to not be able to use a file picker dialog box? Is this a limitation of the Community Edition? Thank you. 

The new year starts very well...with a new problem in regards to Office 365 backup.Since 01/01/2022 teams backup could fail with the following error:Failed to process team: XYZ Organization (ID: XYZ) which the team (ID: XYZ) belongs to not found.Veeam is aware of this problem and currently preparing a hotfix for this issue. If you want to be among the first to receive the fix, then open a support case. If you can wait, I will update this post as soon as the fix is publicly available.For further information see the following R&D forums post:https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-office-365-f47/o365-backups-fail-since-1-1-2022-01-00-t78479.html#p439853 Update #1:The Hotfix is now available via SupportThe hotfix for the latest 5d CP2 (build 5.0.3.1051) has been provided to support.Update #2:The fix is now available through this KB; only for the latest VBO build at the moment (Thanks @JMeixner):https://www.veeam.com/kb4268Update #3:The hotfix has been replaced with a cumulative patc

Hello, I have a customer who has agents deployed using service provider console. They’re requesting to know what there compression ratio is for their backup jobs. Is there a way to pull this from Service Provider Console. 

Where do I see the warning logs? There are no errors but need correct warning messages.

Doc Veeam validatorKB2086: How to Use the Veeam Backup ValidatorVeeam Backup Validator - Veeam Backup Guide for vSphere It is essential to verify the status of the backups at the CRC level on the storage and the possibility of restoring them via Surebackup.During the wizard for creating a backup job you can enable "Storage backup files healt check (detect and auto-heals corruption. https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_health_check.html?ver=110I prefer to automate the validation process to have a detailed report every 2 weeksCopy past and save .ps1 format <#.SYNOPSIS    Performs a validation of all server backups.DESCRIPTION  .NOTES    File Name      : veeam_validator.ps1    Author         : Me and my colleague    Prerequisite   : PowerShell V2 , VeeamPSSnapIn installed#>#------------------------------------------ VARIABLES TO CHANGE -------------------------$email_infoTO = "yourmail@yourdomain.com"$email_infoFrom = "$($env:COMPUTERNAME)@ yourdomain.com "$email_

Hi, We’re going to upgrade our vCenter to 8.0U1 and the process as far as we can tell involves creating a new vCenter with the same IP but different hostname (i.e. I can’t find an upgrade process that retains the same name for the vCenter). Just wondering what the impact of that name change would be to our existing Veeam backup jobs if they are all set to contact the vCenter on the old name. I’ve tried searching the community for “VCSA name change” and “vCenter name change” but have come up empty. Has no one else found this to be a problem? Or did we miss something and there is a way to retain the old vCenter hostname?

Morning, Just to copy this sentence directly from the latest “Word from Gostev”:“So I do expect the on-prem object storage adoption to go through the roof after V12 comes out with its support for backing up directly to object storage.” There’s been talk of it before, but it’s great to see this as near to a commitment from Veeam as possible, prior to seeing it in the final product. This will do wonders for efficiency and scalability, I’ll be interested to see how this changes the dynamic of ReFS/XFS volumes vs just deploying object storage. V12 is going to change the game!

Hi all,today I checked and solved a Veeam One issue during Veeam M365 data collection.This is the scenario:1 Veeam M365 in AWS cloud with its DNS_HOSTNAME 1 Veeam One customer on-premIn Task and Events tab I see the error:Fired by event: VeeamEventCollectionFailedEventEvent description: Failed to collect events data for object AWS_HOSTNAME. The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)Initiated by: Veeam ONE Monitor (ONESERVER-NAME)The RPC service is running on both hosts.From the ONE server I can ping the DNS_HOSTNAME and telnet on needed ports are ok (Firewall is ok).Why I’ve bolded DNS_Hostname?Because it’s different from AWS_HOSTNAME. This difference cannot permit to use RPC connection and start collection data.What’s my solution?Added AWS_HOSTNAME in host file on Veeam ONE server with DNS IP Address and collection starts properly.I hope this solution can help someone.   View original

Hello,I want to share with you the last script I make to get hardening configuration of the VBR server and then remediate some of them.The script need to be executed on the VBR server itself.It's built with Veeam 12.1 beta. That means some checks can break on GA version.I seperate it into 4 choices when you execute it :choice 1 = Apply Level 1 security (security check done by veeam product itself when you execute security and compliance on the VBR console)choice 2 = Apply Level 2 security (best practice about hardening Veeam product)choice 3 = Remove VBR console (Carreful, you can't use anymore Veeam powershell after this action)choice 4 = Get HTML security report That means choice 1 or 2 or 3 will performs modifications on the system.Choice 4 will not do any modifications, it just make the HTML report.Some sample available on fresh installation, fresh installation + L1 applied, fresh installation + L1 + L2 appliedIf you want to see report on fresh installation + after doing choice 1 +

Continuing with my Linux theme this year, I thought I'd share how easy it is to implement Linux OS as Veeam Repositories in your environment. Instituting immutability with the Veeam Hardened Repository has certainly gained traction, and for good reason. There are several good posts out there on how to do so, including a couple of my favorites from @HannesK and Paolo Valsecchi here and here, respectively. But maybe you're not quite ready to go all in that route yet. Or maybe there's some organizational policies in place preventing you from doing so. Well, you can still use Linux OS as a Veeam Repository and not have to configure it as a VHR. In this post I'll share exacxtly how to do just that.System RequirementsThe first order of business before installing Linux is to make sure you have the supported hardware and software. Below shows a list of Veeam-supported Linux distributions: Linux OS RequirementsBesides the above, there are CPU and RAM requirements. The amount of CPU cores and Me

I’m planning on making a better writeup with my settings and some photos, but for now this is on my mind after helping someone today.  I often see Veeam setups with 1 large datastore / volume in Windows for their repository. Other times quite often it will be multiple disks spanned into a single logical Volume, lets call it D:\. You can still get good performance like this, and the simplicity is quite nice, but can it be better? If you have some spare storage kicking around I encourage you to try this in your lab. Run your benchmarks on this single volume (D:\) record your results and then then delete the logical and physical volume. Create 3 new equal sized volumes with matching logical volumes. Lets call them E:\ F:\ and G:\. Next run IOMeter or your favorite benchmarking tool.  Make sure you are pushing the queues to see the benefits of multiple physical/logical volumes.  The next thing you can do is check and modify queue depth on the adapters and Windows server. With a large backu

Hi, built a new home server just in time to test the new 12.1 Community Edition.  Everything seems to work fine except I can’t seem to create a usb recovery stick.  When I click on Recovery Media, I get an error message that says “Cannot find backup file for <Server Name>”. I’ve created a backup on this server and it finished successfully.  Anyone else run into this issue?Thanks!

I’m happy to announce that the storage report script, by @Jim Jones, has been updated for Veeam Service Provider Console v8 and is now available on VeeamHub.This script will return usage and metadata for all backup repositories for the specified VSPC server. It will also provide the name and UID of the provider/reseller/company to whom the repository belongs.Be on the lookout for the BackupSizeGB metric which was added in Veeam Service Provider Console v8. This metric is the total size of all restore points and is a useful chargeback metric for service providers.On top of that, this report could be used by operations to see the current status of all backup repositories in their environment.For more detailed information, please follow the VeeamHub link.https://github.com/VeeamHub/powershell/tree/master/VSPC-StorageReport

Hi, I'm a new user trying the Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition v12.1 for the first time. I’ve installed Veeam on a Windows 10 computer, and was able to make a backup of all the drives from a client computer also running Windows 10. But when I tried to restore a file from the backup, I got the error message shown below. I am initiating the restore via the Veeam console running on the same computer as the Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition. Restore failed Error: Neither Installer service nor Admin$ file share are available Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?

Hello Everyone,If the backup at SP is deleted, it should go to recycle bin, however restoration options is to restore it backup or copy it to removable disk to the tenent without meta data. how could copy it to removable disk and restore it without meta data? 

VeeaMover is a cool new feature available in the next Veeam Backup & Replication v12 that allows to move or copy backups to different locations.If you need to change the target repository for a Backup Job containing existing backups, a warning message is displayed and the procedure cannot be finalized until the backups have moved to the new repository.With current versions of Veeam this is a manual, time-consuming operation. Here is where VeeaMover come into play. Use casesCommon VeeaMover use cases are the following:Move backups to different repository Copy backups to different repository Migrate ReFS to XFS for Hardened Repository Migrate NTFS to ReFS Re-balance Scale-Out Repository Scale-Out Repository extent evacuation Move backups to a different locationThe target Repository can be changed also in an existing Backup Job. Move a VM to different Backup Job Copy backups to a different location Migrate backups from NTFS to ReFSAnother cool capability of VeeaMover is the option to