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If I’m creating a Windows backup, for a particular drive on a file server….is it best to create a File Share backup or a Volume level backup (essentially both backup the same set of files).  ie which is most efficient or recommended as a best practice?

Disaster’s happen and businesses need to be ready for them. If 2020 taught us anything, it might be to expect the unexpected. Sometimes we can’t plan for the unexpected, but when it comes to data and applications businesses depend on, planning for the unknown is critical. Whether it be a natural disaster, a data outage or a ransomware attack, businesses need to remain online, and by creating a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan now, it can save us later. One technology that is included in this type of plan is failover. Utilizing replica failover can help achieve the best Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) by having a copy of your VM in a ready to start state.  If your new to Veeam, you might be unsure of the different failover capabilities it has to offer. Throughout this post, I will walk through Veeam’s failover capabilities and describe their meanings and benefits of each. Introduction to Failover Failover is a process

IntroductionPure Storage released the FlashArray//C (FA//C) as tier 2 storage back in 2019.  The FA//C uses QLC NAND flash drives to deliver flash performance near the price of spinning disk.  The FA//C reduces costs further by applying several data reduction technologies including compression and variable block data deduplication.  Pure Storage FlashArray//C should be considered as backup storage for Veeam Backup & Replication due to its high performance, and immutable SafeMode snapshots to protect the Veeam backup repository data.Veeam Backup Repository Decompress settingI recently had several conversations about whether the Veeam backup repository Advanced settings -> Decompress backup file data blocks before storing (Figure 1) should be turned

Hey guys,Are there any internal components in veeam software for NAS repository?I recently faced an error in customer environment where the backup copy job resulted in an error saying “Can’t call Remote Procedure Call for NfsIsExist “

 I had to share this - I really enjoyed watching it, @Julia F Morgado ! It got me back to that moment! And many of the V100 members are included in the story! Great job! 👏

Alt Text: Veeam Backup & Replication + Oracle - RMAN Plugin Unexpected ThrottlingI’ve just resolved a case with Veeam Support that I wanted to share.I was working on a project that was protecting Oracle RMAN databases on an IBM AIX platform, and the performance unexpectedly dropped.During testing, all had been fine, but when we came to the migration, the backups were taking a painfully long time. We backed out of the change and began to review.This blog post is a write-up of the troubleshooting steps we took, and what the root cause was.Firstly, we looked at Veeam’s statistics screen to review where Veeam perceived the bottleneck to be. Veeam reported an extremely high value for both the source and the network as the bottlenecks, with the target being idly waiting. We tested RMAN backing up to

I was able to solve this challenge in a project and would like to share the findings. The challengeConsider you want to restore Exchange items (e.g. mails, calendar objects, etc.) using Veeam Explorer for Exchange as well as Veeam Enterprise Manager.Consider also, that you have a larger multi-domain infrastructure with the VI and backup infrastructure in a sub-domain (infra.mydomain.com). For security reasons, we are not able to reach the GC of the root domain. The mail addresses are derived from the root domain though (myuser@mydomain.com).This might lead to the situation that neither Veeam Explorer for Exchange nor Veeam Enterprise Manager can determine the CAS server of your Exchange environment, as they want to contact the GC in charge first. This is even if they can easily reach the CAS itself. You can observe this in the corresponding logs (%programdata%\Veeam\Backup\ExchangeExplorer\Logs): 13.04.2023 15:35:39

Title Image: ‘Veeam Backup & Replication - Linux Agent Deployment & Management with Active Directory’ against a colourful background.Veeam Backup & Replication has some nice out-of-the-box features for Veeam Agent management if you’re using Microsoft Windows or Linux Operating Systems. I don’t like talking about a possible solution though until I’ve tried it for myself. This way I can gauge the problems that’ll occur by how I’ve tripped up in testing.This brings me to the topic of today, Linux + Veeam Backup & Replication Agent Management.Nowhere within Veeam’s documentation could I find references to what was/wasn’t supported for creating an Agent Protection Group. I see this as a potential risk, without stating which operating systems you can target via the mechanisms such as Computers from CS

Good evening, several of my Replications and backups take a long time to complete and I would like to know the cause and the means to resolve this.   

Hi everyone, I thought this was a good conversation point I wanted to share, as the more I thought about it, the more my thoughts on the subject changed. AMD have released an errata listing that details how their AMD EPYC Rome (7xx2) processors can, under specific conditions, crash. I’ve included the statement in its entirety below:I’m conflicted on this, my initial reaction was “wow they won’t fix this?!”, then I thought, well I guess it would involve a new stepping, and the chips were released in 2018, that’s not too unreasonable.The security conscious part of me thought, oh boy who isn’t patching their servers in nearly 3 years, but even that thought then pivoted to consider that actually with some of the live/hot patching options now available, OS-level patching is becoming less tied to a reboot. Then th

Wonderful initiative for Community and Friends.You have probably heard Danny Allan announcing at Veeam ON: Veeam Software people believe in empowering and enhancing female talent and support a more diverse environment across our ENTIRE ecosystem that is why 150 women will participate to a FREE VMCE Training.If you are interested or if you know the perfect candidate this is the registration link! 💚https://go.veeam.com/women-in-it-empowerment

Hi Folks,I just wanted to share some of my experiences and thoughts after the trip, and sitting now and reflexing of them after a crazy week! (My Inbox was packed! as many of you I guess)Lucky me, I have the “privilege” to meet and flight with @jos.maliepaard  and @mkevenaar!We met in Madrid, and instantly starting chatting and discussing like we knew each other for some time! awesome!The flight was “looooong” and we made it to Miami evening, soo tired and hungry!Back to the hotel, we were not in the mood of having dinner, so we went for a couple of drinks after the check in! The days were great, the hotel had amazing pools, ambience, people around 24x7, and I started realizing were I was located at, Miami, Florida, USA!! OMG!Next day, getting ready for registration, I met @Scott , and instantly we connected

Hello guys, how are you?I have two backups at the moment, one is on storage and one is on external hard drives. The problem is in the external hd's the error that appears is this: Failed to connect to Installer service.Job has failed. See logs for details.Can you help me? 

I did it again. Went to hit the like button and missed. lol Can you uncheck best answer once you check it? It’s not a big deal, but the second I clicked it i was thinking, that is going to look odd.  

What an event! I will admit I was slightly nervous about attending my first VeeamON. From not knowing what to wear, looking at the heat and temperature for the week or what to expect.  My flight there only had a 30 minute layover which was a bit concerning as well. After getting swindled at the airport for a “TAXI” when the guy clearly took me in a Mercedes SUV, I sucked it up and paid the large fair and arrived at a beautiful hotel. (I knew the second I got in and he stepped on the gas it was going to be expensive lol)  The SUV was quite nice and he got me there quick but that hurt the wallet pretty bad. I quickly installed Uber for the rest of the trip.  The view from my room was better than expected and I wandered around by the pool and had a great meal at La Cote.  I believe this was the night Chris took me to CVS to get some snacks which was good as I didn’t have any clue where I was going and most likely wasn’t going to wander off solo

have "borrowed" the content from the VeeamON event website before it disappears. I have extracted all the session details and saved them in markdown documents. Additionally, I have downloaded and stored all the referenced presentation files in this archive. Each session markdown provides comprehensive information including abstract, speakers, and resources for download."But why, Ben?!"Yesterday, a call for help was issued on the Vanguard Slack channel... And now we have an archive of the VeeamON sessions that took place in Miami!No point in embedding much here so head on over tohttps://github.com/benyoungnz/VeeamON-2023-ArchiveEither clone it offline, or you can navigate through the Github interface, all markdown

Hello friends, all good with you?I have backup making in a storage and in external HD's, the backup of the HD's is giving the following error: Failed to connect to Installer service.Job has failed.Can you help me to solve this problem?

I did a VeeamON review post on LinkedIn. You can find it here. Thought it would be neat to have a central place for others, who didn’t write a post on the ‘Hub’, to share a link to their own write-up so people can read them. Or actually, if you want to share your Hub post...I think that’s cool too...all in a central spot! 😊 If you feel so inclined, please post a link to your review below.Thanks all!

Hi Folks, One topic that I don’t think has been addressed or discussed is VeeamON in relation to all of our many duties and responsibilities. How do you fit it in? How do you deal with the extra stress levels? VeeamON was a success and thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended but we would be kidding ourselves if we thought that it did not add extra pressures in our daily lives. First of all some of us might have to convince the  bosses of this world that a trip to VeeamON is not, as the British would say just a “Jolly” i.e. vacation have fun only party. Yes we have fun but there is a lot of intense activity and knowledge transfer back and forth. I personally come out of VeeamON with my head exploding with new ideas and initiatives that I have gained from the sessions but even more from simple in person one on one conversations. Then there is the fact that no one is taking away the day job. Some of the folks there were having to simultan

Hi,I have a Dell Data Domain repository for local backups and i want to send some critical VMs backups to the AWS S3, to withstand disasters.So when I tried to create a scale-out using the existing Dell data domain and AWS S3, the interface told me that all tasks that use the Dell data domain will be updated to point to the the scale-out repository.Is there a way to keep the majority of backup jobs pointing to the Dell data domain and choosing some backup jobs to point to the scale-out repository?

Now we have a specific best practice for Veeam Backup Cloud Solutions: https://bp.veeam.com/vbcloud/

For all those that could not participate in the "VeeamOn2023", share with us your best moments in photos so that all can enjoy them visually.Pour tous ceux qu'il n’a pas pu participer au  "VeeamOn2023" , partager-nous vos meilleurs moments en photos afin que tous puis en profiter visuellement. 

First time sharing, so feedback is much appreciated. There is a lot improvement possible but this short script did the trick. A while ago we came across an issue after automation made some unforeseen changes to the vm. Therefore I was tasked with the restore of a system file from +1000 vms from a specific date (not the last backup)VBR backup  Agent backups Netapp snapshot onlyThe CSV file exists out the vm name & backupjob name for the VBR & Agent restores. (extracted this from the notes in vcenter where possible)For the netapp restore the vmname was only needed.Here is the script that made my life easier:function Get-TimeStamp { return Get-Date -UFormat "[%Y-%m-%d %T]"}# Starting script# --Write-Host "$(Get-TimeStamp) - Starting script"$vmlist = import-csv C:\scripts\Veeam\restore\vmlist.csv -Delimiter ";"

IntroYou know the stories: Sometimes an incorrect keyboard layout can lead to incorrect entries. Or while coding, , you must make sure that you use the correct special characters such as ' or ", etc.  But let's focus on the main topic - Veeam ONE AlertsVeeam ONE Alert - Suspicious incremental backup sizeYou probably know this Veeam ONE Alert: Veeam ONE Alert - Suspicious incremental backup size. What many may not know is that you can configure Veeam ONE to perform remediation actions when alerts are triggered. These actions can be performed automatically or after manual approval.Veeam ONE offers the following types of remediation for alarms:Predefined actions that are configured for the most commonly used out-of-the-box alarms.