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Hi,Does anybody has encountered the following odd situation: Situation (a): QNAP NAS full/over quota. When running the Veeam backup, it fails as expected reporting that the target directory is full.Situation (b): QNAP NAS with very little space (32MB left of 2TB). When running the Veeam backup, it hoses the NAS ....Top  Where in the second situation the QNAP NAS can no longer be accessed.  Any already attached ssh session becomes ‘stuck’ as soon as it tries to access the disk.  Also the number of smb process on the QNAP NAS keeps increase over-time. I have a Windows 10 machine with Veeam 11.0.1.1261 running backups remotely to a SMB shared on a QNAP with QTS 5.0.1.2194. Is there anything

Today I want to share with you a specific topic about an upgrade. After Veeam released new v12 in February, a lot of our clients ask to go up with their oldest version.I received various requests for upgrade starting from 9.5 or 9.5U4 Veeam Server. All of these are a consequence of previous updates and I start from VEEAM KB https://www.veeam.com/kb2053 to know path and best practice to do.When I start upgrade (9.5u4 as starting point) I receive this error message So at this point the only solution was remove all components and perform a fresh installation.To do this I need to be sure configuration backup was created with correct version. Ok.... starting to check versionFrom Veeam console

Veeam has just informed it’s customers about an existing vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication. Unauthorized users may be able to request encrypted credentials from the VBR service, and therefore get access to the backup infrastructure. The KB articles haven’t received updates so far, but the vulnerability did get a CVSSv3 score of 7.5.EDIT: The KB article has just been published: KB4424It’s recommended to patch VBR as soon as possible!SolutionPatches have been released for VBR V11 and V12. Please keep in mind that older releases are also affected, but no longer get fixes. So you need to upgrade your installation to a supported release.Patch for Veeam V11

@vNote42 already teased earlier, that we will probably see something alike in V12:https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/what-else-is-new-in-v12-vii-universal-surebackup-job-3073With V11 already having brought us cross convertibility between agent backups and VM backups for Instant-Recovery, it was quite logical to have this next.V12 ist in production now, so I couldn’t wait to test this functionality! 😎 How to set up?It’s very easy and straightforward to setup. The only difference here is, that you have to pick your VM from an agent job into the application group for your SureBackup job:

Hello community.I'm testing Veeam's immutability proposal using an XFS repository on Linux. Everything works great, but I have the following doubt: How does cleaning old immutable backups work?I've noticed that the test repository is running out fast, I'm cleaning it manually as root, but I'd like to know how to deal with this situation.Thanks

I foolishly used an IP address for a ‘temporary test system’ which became a permanent fixture.A change of network schema means the repository is now on a new address.It does not appear to be possible to change the IP address in VEEAM (I should have used a fqdn). I could start again with new backups - but is there a method to resume backups to the same repository after re-defining it? All advice welcomed.Latest v11  

In version 11 we could open the properties of a tape and check on tab Jobs to see which sessions are on this particular tape. We used this to note on the case label and could keep track on which tape has the oldest data. Now we have upgraded to version 12 but this information isn't shown anymore on the Jobs tab at the Tape Properties. How can we enable this information to be shown again.We use a HP Autoloader tape library and Veeam Backup and Replication.

Hi,From a backup I want to try and restore a file. We go through the process in Veeam to browse and restore files but when the file browser pop up window appears it never displays any files from the AWS instance. I left it for a long time and it’s not go that much on the instance. Any idea why this doesn’t work?As an aside, we also can’t restore any instances either so wondered if anyone would know of a paid service we are able to use to help check Veeam is set up for our AWS account correctly. I see snapshots but not much use without being able to restore them.Many thanks,Bob

WOW! Accepted for the sixth year in a row. #VeeamVanguard Veeam Vanguard 2023 I was a part of the Veeam Vanguard program for the past five years in 2018-2022, with the hopes of another renewal for the 2023 year. Applications opened up for the 2023 year, and this time, it was all based on your application, whereas in previous years, you could have others nominate you. I have remained active with the Veeam space promoting the product, blogging, Twitter, Paper.li E-Newspaper, and even wrote a third edition of my book for Packt Publishing - Ma

I would like to share with you my experience in achieving Enterprise Observability, and how I utilized Veeam ONE to enhance the visibility of my environment.Quick introAs you may know, achieving Enterprise Observability is not an easy task, especially with the abundance of monitoring tools out there, each with their own unique functionalities that may overlap with one another.However, Veeam ONE stood out to me as one of the most efficient tools, offering over 340 native alarms to keep me on top of anything happening to my Virtual Infrastructure, Veeam Data Platform, and the status of its components.What's more,

Did you know that some tax-related data in Japan has to be accessible for 100 years? I only found out as Pioneer have developed a Blu-Ray recorder and relevant media to achieve the certifications necessary to protect this data in THEORY: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pioneer-new-blu-ray-recorder-and-bdr-promise-100-years-lifespan I say in theory because, discs break all the time, and the standard certainly doesn’t provide any tampering protection in the way of physical damage. And a multi-backup strategy is certainly still key for compliance, but it’s  interesting to see an alternative to tape for long term offline retention. Will it ever catch on? I doubt it. But a good read all the same.

I did a lot of testing with B&R 12 already and I learned a lot so far. But yesterday I ran into a new problem. I have my Backup Server which runs Veeam B&R 12 as domain administrator (using windows authentication to open and run Veeam). Then I have a backup repository on an other machine in my LAN. This machine is equiped with a Tandberg RDX drive. I run full backup jobs every day on these rotating drives. The job shall delete all backups on the disk and run a fresh full backup. This does not work for some reason. So I delete the RDX disks manually (via Windows scheduler) and considered this could be done with a Veeam Pre-Job-Script too. Well, it wont work. I use psexec64.exe to delete content on the machine with the RDX drive. The scipt (.cmd) I wrote works fine under my admin account. No problems when i launch it in cmd or simply double-click it. Script does what it shall do. For some reason this script does not work as Pre-Job-Script. I belive

VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics is a self-service diagnostics platform. It helps to detect and provide remediation to issues in the vSphere and vSAN product line. It provides recommendations in the form of a Knowledge Base article or procedure to remediate issues. It uses the log files of these products to detect issues. vSphere administrators can use this tool to troubleshoot issues before contacting VMware Global Support Service. It can provide the following features:Knowledge Base article or remediation steps to resolve the issue. The summary of VMware Security Advisory Scanning. VCG/vSAN HCL Validation SummaryDownload VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics

Hello Everyone, After renaming the server, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager did not change the target patch, so when I click on the shortcut, it tries to open a web address through my old hostname, can I change my host without deleting anything? It should be like this  https://hostname:9443 I changed the IIS site bindings, but this did not change the shortcut, when I type the correct link, I can open it on the web

hi all… has anyone tried to restore a confidential VM instance in Google cloud? IS it possible? I can’t find anythings in Veeam documentation. thanks  

How can we see here, vCenter IP/FQDN is not possible to change inside of Veeam B&R. In my case I put the IP of vCenter server on Veeam Backup & Replication and now I’d like to change it to a hostname accordingly the DNS server name. So, first of all we need to open the Console / PowerShell on burger menu of Veeam B&R. So, at this moment we need type the command:$Servers = Get-VBRServer -name "old-name-or-ip"On my case the IP of my vCenter server is 192.168.10.100.

Sometimes when trying to restart a service in Windows, the service happens to have a status of Stopping. As a result, it ends up getting stuck and without the possibility of giving the stop and start command. Here in this case, we can see the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager service crashed: So we need to terminate the process of this service through the command prompt. For that, you need to use the following command:sc queryex <service>Now we can obtain the PID (process identifier) of the process related to the crashed service:

Regardless of industry type, meeting compliance standards is an important part of every business. Compliance consists of people, processes and technology as well as the need to train people and having the correct processes and technology in place to enforce that. Meeting compliance requirements helps avoid security violations, penalty cost and data loss. Compliance can serve as a baseline that needs to be followed to protect your business while identifying where gaps lie, especially when you consider security. Having a strong security strategy, monitoring how your IT systems perform and how your data is protected can contribute to meeting and maintaining compliance. Depending on what industry the business resides in, compliance requirements can consist of laws and regulations that are strictly enforced (consider GDPR or HIPAA) or one or more corporate rules or guidance. Whatever it may be in your situation, this blog will further discuss compliance, monitoring and security, and how

Hi i have two entities running vcenter on the same Netapp 9.8 and sharing same NFS shares. i was wondering if it was possible to use snapshots on both veeam backup server without interfering with each other. Will both instances recognise their own stuff?

Hi all, I need your help to know a specific info for the subject pillar.We are preparing proposals for a client which will have to decide a DR solution between Veeam and VmWare SRM. I know both VMware SRM and Veeam with VDRO are great products.VMware SRM is focuses on DR/BC of VM but without application aware  Veeam includes application aware consistency. I add some better features than SRM for me. Failover plan with ordered start Sure-Replica LOW RPO in 2 seconds CDP feature VDRO with dynamic documentationSo I ask you which SRM features can be better than Veeam B&R? Thanks for your reply

We run several Veeam B&R servers with multiple tenants jobs on each.Currently we manually breakdown license instanace use for each tenant.It occured to me, if we could map backup jobs to customers in Veeam Service Provider Console ( VSPC ) we could get that information quickly. In fact, we could have VSPC generate invoices for each tenant even though they are using a B&R server with other tenants.

hi. i’m trying install veeam agent free over my desktop windows 11 and I have this error:=== Verbose logging started: 08/03/2023  23:04:55  Build type: SHIP UNICODE 5.00.10011.00  Calling process: C:\WINDOWS\System32\msiexec.exe ===MSI (c) (90:28) [23:04:55:562]: Font created.  Charset: Req=0, Ret=0, Font: Req=MS Shell Dlg, Ret=MS Shell DlgMSI (c) (90:28) [23:04:55:563]: Font created.  Charset: Req=0, Ret=0, Font: Req=MS Shell Dlg, Ret=MS Shell DlgMSI (c) (90:D8) [23:04:55:583]: Resetting cached policy valuesMSI (c) (90:D8) [23:04:55:583]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0MSI (c) (90:D8) [23:04:55:583]: ******* RunEngine:           ******* Product: C:\Users\jota\Desktop\VeeamAgentWindows_6.0.0.960\Endpoint\Endpoint\Veeam_B&R_Endpoint_x64.msi           ******* Action:            ******* CommandLine: **********MSI (c) (90:D8) [23:04:55:585]: Machine policy value 'DisableUserInstalls' is 0MSI (c) (90

Hello to all,I would need a advice or a suggestion what would be the best way to setup our backups.We have two sites, one in Vienna, Austria and another one is in Novi Sad, Serbia.We have Synology RS3621xs+ with 80TB on both location.Currently what we have configured is that Backups are going straight to NAS in Vienna and its being sync with Synology built in app Synology Share Sync to our NAS in Novi Sad, Serbia.I tried with Veeam Backup Copy Job through WAN Accelerator but as our biggest VM is 7TB its not that efficient.Please if you have a solution or a suggestion feel free to comment. Any help would be appreciated. 

 Hey all!I thought this would be something of your interest therefore I decided to share it in here: On March 29th at 12 pm ET ,Veeam’s Edward Watson, Principal, Product Marketing, will do an exclusive #AMA about NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7 on the official Veeam Twitter account: https://twitter.com/Veeam. He will be answering questions about the newest features, M365 backup and more.If you have questions ahead of time, feel free to submit your questions below here in the Community Hub or use hashtag #AskVeeam on Twitter. Best, Madi

I’ve been using Agent for Windows for a long time. I’m setup to do scheduled daily Entire Computer backups to Shared Folder (on DSM) with periodic Active full backups early one morning each month, with periodic health checks one other morning each month, and with 32-days retention. It’s been rock-solid dependable. Until Windows 11, that is. On Windows 11, I’m seeing two issues:First, and most critical, is that it doesn’t seem to be respecting the periodic full backup setting or reliably respecting the 32-day retention cleanup of obsolete backups. Three months in a row now, I’ve looked the morning after the full backup was supposed to have run and found only the incremental ran--or even it didn’t run (see next issue). I’ve done full backup on request from the UI. This morning for my laptop I have at least 71 backups, full or incremental, with 33 incrementals newer than the second oldest full. The oldest full is 12/25/22--69 days old, with newer full sets on 1/30/23 (33 days) a