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Today VMware released a new Important Severity VMware Security Advisory. The VMware Tools was impacted by this vulnerability issue (CVE-2022-31676). Resolution: Upgrade VMware Tools to 12.1.0 For details, you can go to below link.https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0024.html

Hi There!I've just shared this story in my VUG Group, Spain,But I wanted to translate it to English and share it with all of you,Its a Personal experience, Hi,I want to share with you my latest experience as a IT Infrastructure responsible, just a week before moving into a new company.August 10th 2022, enjoying my holidays, I was celebrating my birthday with my family, my mobile dings and I saw the message:“We’ve got a Virus in our Systems”I left everything I was doing, quickly went to the office to get a better understanding of what was going on, and execute the necessary actions to mitigate and solve the issue.Into my head I had the crazy idea:“Its just a joke” my colleagues are doing this to scare me and its a surprise… I was wrong.We confirmed that the virus was a ransomware called <DonkeyF*cker> and hit our servers and spread himself like gunpowder into our Servers.After a huge effort, we finally find the origin of the Infection and encryption, we took it offline, formatted

Hello everyone! It’s Friday again! Recently I saw this music video:(115) Silas Fernandes - Heavy Droids (Official music video) - YouTube At the beginning of music, we can see three sentences about AI: Artificial Intelligence is like nuclear energy - both promising and dangerous. - Bill Gates With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. - Elon MuskThe development of full Artificial Intelligence could spell the end of the human race. - Stephen Hawking They are 3 influence and smart guys that have peculiar and interesting point of view about Artificial Intelligence.So, I would like to know about all of you… What are your conceptions about this theme?Do you have any concern about that? Let's talk about it! Happy Friday!😀🤖

Hi all!I stumbled across an older post from Tom Sightler here: https://forums.veeam.com/post137077.html#p137077The content still holds true and to summarise:If using LTO5 or older (which hopefully no one is doing for new deployments): Disable hardware compression unless your Veeam backups have compression disabled For LTO6 and newer: Keep hardware compression enabled but don’t expect big savings, maybe put 2.6-2.7 TB on a 2.5 TB media.The reason it makes sense to keep it on is the new algorithm recognises already compressed data and passes it through.

what is the best option to integrate nimble storage directly with veeam or to present it as disk on veeam servers and configure backup repository.considering backing up physical infra as well.. 

Hii Guys, I'm trying to find a backup to tape strategy on veeam, our company has the following two backup policies:1. Daily Policy- Backup job runs every day, job schedule starts at 07:00 PM and must be finished before 06:00 AM.- Using the Forever forward incremental method- Backup defragment is done once a week- Backup Health Check is done once a week- Retention policy is set for 30 restore points2. Weekly Policy- Job backup runs once a week, starting at 07:00 PM and must be completed before 06:00 AM.- Using the Forever forward incremental method- Backup defragment is done once a week- Backup Health Check is done once a week- Retention policy is set for 4 restore pointsHere's what I want to achieve:1. Backup is stored on tape for 1 month2. Media pool in one month is divided into 4 media sets3. Use as little tape as possible (Due to the limited number of tapes) Can someone give me some input on how to configure it to reach my target, or can anyone give me better input for my backup str

While presenting our powerful file share protection and recovery capabilities, I often show the Instant File Share Recovery feature. One possible purpose for this feature is scanning the share with an AV solution. For this, I created this script to be able to quickly show it to our customers and partners:https://github.com/yetanothermightytool/powershell/blob/master/vbr/vbr-nas-scanner/More to come....stay tuned 

Hi Community, I have configure my secondary backup location as aws-s3 object storage. previously I used virtual tape backup to aws via aws tape gateway. Now It gave warning when backup to aws-s3.  8/17/2022 7:10:36 PM :: Using Backup Repository 1 scale-out repository extent (unable to meet data placement policy)  

I case you haven’t seen. There are currently two ongoing surveys from Veeam; one about the Help Center and the documentations, the other one about the livestreams (Industry Insights, TechBytes). So in case you want to share some feedback on those topics, here’s your chance:Veeam Help Center: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JFBXD2HVeeam Livestreams: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VeeamStream22A Sources:https://forums.veeam.com/post461204.html#p461204  

Hello,I have an interrogation, about how Veeam works with Forever forward  Incremtal backup job and immuability.I know that’s not possible to use this kind of job with an hardened repository, even if you try to configure it, Veeam will pop up an error message. But how it work with capacity tier with object lock enabled?Veeam doesn’t transfer all data block to the capacity tier but only the new data blocks and metadata from each new backup file. (System similar to ReFS/XFS). I read the documentation about block generation but it’s not really clear in my head.If someone have a schema that would be nice.thanks

Anyone wishing to attend the VUG Canada on September 8th to learn about Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure and see a demo sign up at the Event link here - Simplify backup in the cloud with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, Thu, 8 Sep. 2022 at 11:00, America/New_York | Veeam Community Resource HubHope to see you there. 😎

Hi,We have just taken a trial of Veeam for AWS backup. It expires on the 11th of Sept so we want to get a licence for this product. But when we go to the ‘Production licences’ link in the menu the page is not available.eg.  Page not found. Sorry, the page you were looking for doesn't exist, was removed or the URL you are using is not correct. We are on this trial licence:Veeam Backup & Replication Sept. 11, 2022  1000 InstancesCan someone explain how we buy a licence and where from please?Many thanks,Bob

50 Episodes of GTwGT celebrating with a great interview with David Friend, CTO of Wasabi... he is a very engaging and smart individual... really knows what he wants Wasabi to achieve. Learnt a lot about what makes them tick.

Some of you may have noticed a certificate validation error when using the Automatic Update function in the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 console. The error is due to a certificate expiring (which is needed to validate server updates). There is no cause for concern; the certificate was not compromised, and the option to manually patch the server was not interrupted. This certificate has since been updated, but a manual patch is needed to get the new certificate for validation. For those who want the quick fix, head over to KB4341. The rest of this article will cover some good-to-know information about certificates and some lessons learned.What is PKIWe commonly hear the term “certificates” with applications or websites and understand this is generally associated with security but may not understand what role certificates play. To start, let's talk about what a certificate is. A digital certificate is used to initiate an information exchange in two major parts; first, by saying, “ you

The following are the useful sizing tools for Veeam. I often use these tools for my projects, enjoy it.Veeam Sizing Toolhttps://propartner.veeam.com/vm-sizing/ Veeam Backup Capacity Calculatorhttps://calculator.veeam.com/vbr/ Veeam Alliance Technical Programshttps://www.veeam.com/alliance-partner-technical-programs.html Veeam Size Estimator (VSE)  https://vse.veeambp.com Veeam Stencils for Microsoft Visiohttps://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-stencils.html Veeam Backup & Replication support for VMware vSphere https://www.veeam.com/kb2443 Veeam Product Lifecycle Policyhttps://www.veeam.com/product-lifecycle.html

Hello,I'm using Veeam 11 community edition.  I'm having trouble booting from the recovery media.  First of all the "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD" is displayed in German.  When I do press a key the system hangs at a screen with the blue 4 pane window image, a MS Windows image.  I also noticed I don't get the option to include drivers when building the image. Please let me know if you have any ideas.Thank you,Frank 

So part one of the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 discusses the shared responsibility model and outlines both Microsoft and Customer responsibilities. I also took at why you need to backup briefly but will dive more into this for part two. You can find resource links and part one here - Part 1 When it comes to backing up your Microsoft 365 data, there are seven reasons why you NEED to back it up -Accidental deletion: This is actually the most common cause of data loss in Microsoft  65. If you delete a user, whether you meant to or not, that deletion will then be replicated across the netw rk. A backup could restore that user, either to on-premises Exchange or Microsoft 365. Retention policy gaps and confusion: Retention policies in Microsoft 365 are designed to help organizations comply with regulations, laws and internal policies that require that they retain or delete content; they are not back ps. But even if you do rely on your retention policy in place of a backup, these retention

It’s that time of the week again! Happy Friday everyone! Following on from last week’s Fun Friday, what’s your favourite tech YouTube channel or TikTok account? It hasn’t got to be related directly to backups, just anything technology related 😊 For me it has to be John Savill’s YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/NTFAQGuyI’ve used him extensively to help study for exams and expand my knowledge of the Azure platform. What’s yours? 😁

how to find veeam run time logs while integration with azure and deploying appliance

Hello guys! The question is in the title 😄: How do you use Surebackup Job?I ll not remade the speech why it’s important to apply the 3-2-1-1-0 rule and why we have to perform restore tests at recurring intervals. A backup it’s good, a verified backup without errors it’s better !Personally I have two use casesThe first one: Application GroupI create a dedicated  job for an application group, when I need to create a sandbox, test specifics roles with vms who must be interconnected or if I need to test only one VM for troubleshoot for example.In the configuration of my surebackup job I select only my Application group.The second : Linked JobIn this case, I want to test all my VMs in backup jobs. Unlike a job in Application Group mode, which starts one vm at a time and if one of the tests on a vm fails, the job fails immediately.With the Linked Job option, Veeam can start several vms in the Datalab environment in parallel, if a test fails on one vm the job continues to perform checks on t

I am attempting Connect to Repository in community edition to my Google Cloud account.  I have my access and secret keys and am able to connect to my bucket but do not see any folders listed when I browse so I am unable to complete adding the repository.  I made sure the folder was created before I created the secret keys and I have tried several attempts with new/different projects within G-cloud.  Any idea why it can see my bucket but not the folder?  I have given the service account within G-cloud owner rights. Thanks for any help or suggestions   

Hi,we have 4 different backup priorities and vCenter Tags which our VMs are assigned to. Now i would like to implement 3 different vCenter Tags for application-aware processing options. Unfortunatly i can’t remove the Prio4 Tag from aap settings, because it’s used for default. Whats happens if a VM has assigned 2 Tags in aap options? Is there some kind of hierarchy which option will be used? What would be best practise in this case? 

UPDATE: Please see Update 3, as the hotfix/workaround needs to be undone because of possible side-effects.Just a quick information.Currently there could be an issue with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Sharepoint. Some sites will be backed up with the following warning:Processing site XYZ finished with warning: Failed to backup list: XYZ. Unknown ErrorI have seen this with 2 different customers and Veeam support is aware of this issue and actively working with Microsoft on it. At the moment I don’t have any further information, but I’ll keep updating this post.Update 1:I just found out that there's already a hotfix available: https://www.veeam.com/kb4326I haven't tested it so far, but will report back next week. Also here's the corresponding R&D forums post: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-f47/warning-on-my-sharepoint-site-t81314.htmlUpdate 2:It looks like the issue itself is gone since Saturday; perhaps Microsoft did change something on their side. I did

Hello!#veeam customers and prospects! Join Lewis Tsai and Kyle Jung TOMORROW at noon PT for this virtual regional VUG meeting and increase your #Veeam knowledge! It’s one you don’t want to miss. They will share lots of useful Ransomware information, do a live demo and answer your technical questions.Register  

Hi Everyone, When trying to create a post with multiple or one big code box the post does not get created and instead goes back to the green create post button. Is anyone aware of any limitations for code box sizes or code box numbers in relation to post text? Thanks