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This topic is replaced by the V12 Upgrade Center: Doing something new! Here in the Veeam Community Hub I thought this would be a good place for a new piece of content that gives some practical information for the upgrade process for Veeam Backup & Replication V11. We wanted to put this together here to give each of you an additional way to start the upgrade process! Watch this quick video below for an overview: Now, let’s get into the specific bits that you need to upgrade to V11! We may add sections or clarify things based on feedback, so please leave a comment below and maybe come back to the news section here for updates!Pre-Installation SectionWe recommend you review these key pieces of documentation: The Release Notes should be the first thing you read (these are with the download). Then, I recommend a good read of the What’s New document. Help Center User Guide (VMware vSphere version). Help Center User Guide (Microsoft Hyper-V version). Veeam Backup & Replication V
With version 10 and 11 of the Veeam plugin for Oracle RMAN was a new backup metadata format introduced.But what is the benefit of the new metadata format?In the older versions all metadata was written to one file – the “Veaam backup chain metadata file” (Extension of this file is .vbm).This file gets rather big over time and it takes some time to read and write the metadata for a single backup session from or to this file. Because of this the amount of time needed for a plugin backup session gets longer and longer.The new metadata format writes the metadata of a backup session in an own file (Extension of these files is .vasm). Now you have many small metadata files. If a backup file expires, the metadata has not to be searched in the big file and deleted from it. Now the metadata file can simply be deleted with the backup file. This is much faster than the former procedure. Additionally a new small file is written for the backup chain with some general metadata information (Extension
Veeam has released a new patch with some good fixes for SOBR and F5 refresh. Check it here - https://www.veeam.com/kb4245
What happens if I loose VBR Server?How can I perform the Failover?What option do I have for DR of the VBR Server itself?Thank you!
Happy Friday, everyone!It’s Veeam Community Recap here Shout outs to @benyoung, @vNote42, @Yongkang, and @MicoolPaul (special mention for the Friday Funday threads!) for making it into this episode Check it out now
This week I was investigating some imbalance in size on two (scale out) repositories. Every repository gets the backup of a subset of all VMs and copy these to the second repository. And vice versa. So in theory, both repositories should be very similarly utilized. But when you look at volume properties, this is not the case. We see quite a large difference. So I used PowerShell to query VBR and sum all data of each VM on both repositories (I will post some code snippets next week). And I found out, VBR does not know about a notable amount of data (VBR-query showed much less used data than volume properties did).So there seems to be backup data, VBR is not aware of. I call these files orphaned files. What are your experiences with orphaned files? Do your see them very often or not at all? Or are you not aware of their existence? Please let us know.[Update] See my new blog post on how to find orphaned backup fileshttps://vnote42.net/2021/11/30/query-backup-job-space-on-veeam-repositorie
Morning!In the latest “The Word From Gostev”, Anton Gostev has announced that the v11a platform update should be entering early availability this week. Normally you’d have to engage with Veeam support to receive this as a download but based on what appears to be a lack of engagement with this method (Anton stated they were never happy with the number of downloads yielded via this method), Veeam are looking to release the new updates during EA status via the Veeam R&D forums. If you’ve been living under a rock and you’re not aware of them, these are at https://forums.veeam.com To download the update you’ll need to go to the relevant product section of the forum.I’ll update this post when the EA downloads become available.Update:Thanks to @Mildur we know the updates will be available via the normal update threads on the R&D forums. When the downloads are available you’ll be able to find them here: Veeam B&R | Release Notes | Latest CUVeeam ONE | Release NotesVeeam Backup for
Hi I use veeam v11 Enterprise plus solution to back-up my environnent. Veeam is installed in all-in-one configuration a local physical server.I bought a google cloud storage in order to get an other copu of my datas on the cloud.I created a SOBR on my backup infrastructure, with a local NAS as performance Tier and GPC bucket as capacity tier with the copy operation.This operation succeeded and i see on GPC administration page a Veeam/Archive folder.Then i created a job to back-up a small folder in order to try it.The job succeeded with a warning regarding to cache serve limited space.In local repository i can find backup files, but on the bucket ther is nothing.I don’t understand why i have no error message but i can’t see backup files on the GPC bucket ?
Hey guys,Can anyone give reasons on why Veeam Backup & Replication is installed on windows and not on linux?
I wanted to ask this question earlier, sorry . We celebrated the first year of our community. I wonder what means this community to you? What drives you to add content, write comments or just read what’s published?I start with it: When I first read about this new Community Hub, I though this would be just another community platform, like many others. But I registered and began to add posts. And of course I learned a lot from other posts. Because it seemed to be normal in here, I also added lot of comments and questions to posts. For me the start of the Hub was at the perfect time. Subconsciously I was searching for a new focus topic. I did a lot of Veeam stuff before but rather incidentally. With the Hub the theme slipped into the center. What keeps me motivated is mainly the great feedback! At my own blog I just see the number of views as in indicator how popular a post is. Here I get great feedback from peers. That means a lot to me! It is also awesome to see how @Kseniya and @Rick
Morning, Thought I’d try something new with you guys, see if it’s something you’d be interested in me continuing. There are a huge number of features within Veeam, but often you have either a default setting that you never change, or a setting that YOU never configure other than one particular way. I’d like to explore some of these and get your own stories as to when you’ve had to change these, so we can all share in our knowledge and see the “edge cases” for such decisions. For our first one, lets talk about Application Aware Processing. We know that we need this to move from a crash consistent backup to a transactionally consistent backup, and to leverage some advanced Veeam feature. So, why can we disable it completely, when it’s so important? I was working with a customer recently that had another backup vendor in use, and the backups hadn’t been running for 18 months (). The customer had two physical servers in different locations, both were domain controllers (and one was even ru
Hi guys,The beta for Hypervisor KVM support is finally out \o/Veeam Backup for Red Hat VirtualizationVeeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization 1.0 | Release NotesOverview - Veeam Backup for RHV User Guide
Was talking to @Kseniya about this the other day, those of you that don’t have your real name as your username, what’s the reason behind your name?
Hello, Can someone share the main difference of veeam replication and CDP, on where scenario best to use them and other details as well :) thanks
