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Hello, at my home lab, i have a home server running VBAR community edition with the BR(Backup Repository) on the same windows server.I have a storagebox account with hetzner, which allows smb over internet.I have created a BR using that smb share and it works great.Not sure if I am violating the community license?and that bring up another issue, I could rent a cheap vm from hetzner and install a linux hardened repository?

Hello I would like to know if the Veeam installation process enable xp_cmdshell under MSSQL

 Hey! Microsoft SQL Server backends some of the organizations' most critical applications. Any loss of data or even the inability to fully recover this environment can cause catastrophic damage to the business.Veeam offers several options to simultaneously protect the most business-critical applications and Microsoft SQL Server environments.Starting with version 12 of Veeam Backup & Replication, the Veeam Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server was made available.This plug-in natively integrates with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, the Microsoft SQL Server management tool used by organizations' DBAs (database administrators).With this plug-in, DBAs have complete control over the database backup and recovery processes, with zero friction with daily activities and an integrated manner with the organization's data protection policy.Therefore, the same Veeam platform protects virtual servers, Kubernetes clusters, physical servers, notebooks, desktops, and public cloud services.Some di

Hello,One of our customers uses VBRv12 on premise with Azure an Repository. They have about 2TB of data backed up locally and via backup copy jobs to an Azure Blob Repo.We were very baffled to notice that at the end of the month, the cost with transactions was matching the cost of the storage.I am looking for an advice on how to optimize the number of transactions other then reducing backup frequency.For a fact we checked his environment and he has 1server per job and 1 backup copy job per production job. I wonder if aggregating all in a single backup copy job towards Azure would address maybe this issue?We are also testing this scenario but to be relevant we need to run it for at least on week so if anyone ran into this please let me know.

We start the day with @kirststoner12, Roman Kuksov, and @jorge.delacruz   First up is Jorge talking us through the Veeam ONE Threat centre.Jorge talks us through the data platform scorecard, made up of the following four contributing components:Platform Security Compliance - This is driven by the VBR Security & Compliance Analyser (Formerly known as the best practice analyser) Data Recovery Health - This score looks at backups marked as suspicious/infected, you should hopefully see a 100% health when you first deploy this Data Protection Status - This score is based on the percentage of protected workloads vs unprotected Backup Immutability Status - This score is based on the number of workloads that are not compliant with the immutability target.Within each of these widget sections are call to actions for a related report to provide drilldown information on the appropriate topicsEach of these widgets have options to include/exclude settings for example:Data Recovery Health can cho

hi team,hope everyone’s ok. just wanted to ask and get some ideas/suggestions regarding retention policy on a backup copy job.first of all, i have on-site a Qnap for local backups and on a remote site another one for copy jobs. local backups have their own retention policy while on remote i have different ones.from my understanding, backup copy works with forever forward incremental backups and when the retention policy kicks in, i get a full backup of the backup job.so my question is: shall i add on the retention policy i have set on each backup copy job the “keep certain full backups longer for archival purposes” with a different duration?many thanks

Not really a Question, just sharing and curious if anyone else has thoughts on it. In my experience Veeam’s Support asks for incredibly excessive data, asking for the same logs over and over, asking for logs that don’t seem at all related, and asking for copies of databases on VBR servers.Some other people have shared privacy concerns with me about the behavior. Personally, I’m not fond of it, but accept it as a cost of using Veeam. From my perspective none of this should be necessary if the software itself was:A, less buggy to begin with.B, had actual useful error messages so I could tell what the problem was without involving support.C, had actual useful error messages so that Veeam’s support could tell what was wrong.Noting B and C are different because I can accept that Veeam’s support may know more than me about what an error message means. Though if B and C are different, then it’s a good time for me to mention that Veeam needs to publish their “internal documentation” publicly.

Good day Community -With Linux being more prevalant in environments, including Veeam supporting Linux within its deployment components, it is a bit cumbersome to manage all these devices individually. So my question for the Community today is → what centralized management tool(s) do you use to manage your Linux server footprint?..to update, push scripts, monitor, etc? I’m needing to update & even push a script (change) out to our Linux servers and don’t want to touch all of them individually. Any info you can provide is greatly appreciated.I did a little bit of searching before posting and saw a tool called Landscape which looks promising, but don’t know anything about it & open to hear anyone’s experience with it...or again..any tool. Thanks in advance!

Today kicks off with another all-star cast! @Julia F Morgado, Lyudmila, Vitaly, and Alec all on stage to talk the shared features of all Veeam Backup for Public Cloud, and individual product updates! Shared FeaturesFirst up, we’ll see Veeam enabling us to leverage more granular permissions for service accounts, with a built-in validation check to confirm the permissions are assigned.We’ll also see updates to the workers, with the ability to assign tags automatically to all worker nodes for their lifecycle.The biggest announcement from this however is that we’re going to see future Veeam Backup for Public Cloud updates only become available to Veeam Backup for Public Cloud instances integrated into Veeam Backup & Replication. This will make the Veeam Backup for Public Cloud instance appear as a ‘managed server’ within VBR. The standalone Veeam Backup for Public Cloud will still exist, and all existing functionality will remain. Veeam Backup for AWSWe’re going to see support for Dyna

Hello, I am looking for a method or script to run backup jobs on a custom schedule.The built-in scheduler seems very basic, and as a result, I have to run all jobs as incremental and then manually trigger a full every two weeks.I have searched the veeam scripts and forum, could not find an solution.so does anyone have a script or technique to run backups on a custom schedule?perhaps using windows task scheduler, powershell, python or any such way?Thanks much,David

Dear Support,    We have encountered a backup problem and cannot perform any backup operation at present. Please see the attachment for details. Could you please help us?

Hello,For those who missed the information, there is a new snapshot mode for VSAN in vsphere 8. It looks promising for speed specially on large scale infra with vsan, it will obvisously reduce the time needed for snapshot processing on the backup jobs.Scalable, High-Performance Native Snapshots in the vSAN Express Storage Architecture | VMwareCan’t wait to test it in production to compare real number from the field!If anyone already tested it, i will curious to have a feedback.

I have put together a blog post going through what we have hacked during the Veeam Community Hackathon. I wrote about why we have done the project, how we developed the main functions and how we published the modules. Here is a link for the blog,https://adammazouz.com/post/2023/10/powershell-sdk-module-for-veeam-backup-replication-rest-api/happy reading :) cc:/ Team 2  @Markus.K1985 @Chris.Childerhose 

I want one Tape full backup per month, do I need to configure the Media Pool for Incremental Backups?

Hi all.Trying to run a Backup Copy on a Dell T110-II with WinServer 2012 and Veeam Bkp&Rst v. 12 to a RD1000 cartridge drive (Sata).The drive works perfectly copying small and huge files from windows explorer, but doesn’t work at all with CopyBackup.After starting the job it creates a 4-5kb file on the corrected created folder and then hungs with the following message: 27/10/2023 02.14.11 :: Error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.Asynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 524288] [offset = 4096]The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.Asynchronous request operation has failed. [requestsize = 524288] [offset = 528384]Failed to open storage for read/write access. Storage: [H:\Backups\Backup Copy Job 1\Backup Job 1\W22-APPS.vm-1005D2023-10-27T021229_94BF.vbk]. Any idea? (RD1000 drivers and tools are installed)Thank you! 

Alt Text: Title image with the topic title as it’s textHi, a quick workaround story today from the field.I configured a NAS Backup job that was to protect an SMB share with a bunch of sub-folders & files. When the job ran, no files and only a few folders had been processed. When I browsed the backup, the folders I was critically aiming to protect were all missing.Upon further investigation of the share, the folders weren’t “actual” folders, but were instead unsupported symlinks. I discovered this because I attempted to change the scope of the backup job to a particular subfolder to confirm access. When I tried this, I received the following error message:Unable to backup root folder <Folder Name>: folder is unavailable. Invalid root item type: a file or a symlink is detected when a folder is required. Path: [Path [<Path>], RootId [ffffffffffffffff]]Well, that’s not good! Because these were soft symlinks, this was the reason why Veeam was unable to process the data. But

Hi Team,Do we have any mechanism in VBR to transport all logs to external Syslog Servers?  I do understand we save most of the logs on Installer folder but my requirement is to automatically transport all the logs to external syslog server.Regards,Sunny 

Hi everyone, greetings…I am not sure the math behind for this settings I seen the default is Forwards Incrementals with Weekly FullsSo mean Mon-Sat incremental x6, Sun full x1Daily 30 which keeps 26 incremental, 4 fullMonthly 3 which keeps 3 fullYearly 3 which keeps 3 full For full I think it’s related to ReFS, but not sure how it become 9.92TBFor incremental backup I calculated as 30TB *5% *30days *50% = 22.5TB (somewhat different)Weekly 0 because GFS set 0Monthly 3 copies = (30 + 30.25 + 30.5) * 50% reduction = 45.375 TB if w/o ReFS (but I tested it is 39.24TB if w/o ReFS in sizer) - I tried it by index 30+30.24+30.48 *50% = 45.36TB also different Btw, what are the ReFS ~50% compression comes from? any docs for that? And lastly for yearly (30+33+36.3)*50% reduction = 49.65TB w/o ReFS (very close to calculator this time but not exactly) And why the ReFS does not significant in yearly ?Turning on /off does not affect the yearly sizing much If ReFS turned off 

Anyone using Veeam Enterprise Manager have issues with the API URL?  We use a custom built tool that connects to VEM (VBR behind the scene) and provisions customers for our VCC.  I have one server that cannot get to the API for some reason and shows the below connection reset message.I have upgraded the VEM to the latest patch from July and ensure everything with FW, etc. is configured correctly.  Any suggestions appreciated.Veeam Enterprise Manager API URL - Connection Reset Message 

Hi everyone,I am thinking of a design like that A tape library with x3 FC drives (say XYZ), connected to SAN switches Then the SAN switches connecting to 4 servers (say ABCD)Normally, the tape drives are backup up servers ABCWhich mean drive X-A, drive Y-B, driveZ-CWhen one of the servers down, (say B), server D will take up the role become X-A, Y-D, Z-Cwill it work and if Veeam support setting like that?

I have on the VBR a copy job, a backup copy job to a hardened repository and a tape job. Now for VBM the customer also wants the data to be copied on the primary repository, then a copy on the hardened repository and finally on tape, how can I configure this?