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vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
"Still" use tape for backup? Interesting reading about tape usage in 2020 and in future.

The Tape Storage Council has released summary of 2020’s usage of tapes and a future outlook:https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/07/tape-storage-council-2020-outlook/Summary:Capacity shipments rose to record amounts in 2019 >225 million LTO cartridges >4.4 million drives [IBM and Oracle enterprise tape shipments are not included] Tapes are still cheaper than disk Several public cloud deep archives use tape, such as AWS’s Glacier ESG found a majority increasing their commitment to tape (61%) Tape’s two big advantages: low cost longevity Big drawback: lengthy file access time 

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vNote42
3 years ago
Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards
Google Cloud backup and recovery

Hi I read through Gostev newsletter of this new integration also with GCloud.I'm impressed how the Veeam suite progresses technologically and keeps up with the new technologies.Secure Google Native Backup & Recovery (veeam.com)  Has anyone tried this feature yet?Opinions?Discuss: D

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Cloud_dizzle
3 years ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Do you participate of VUG?

Today is the day of the first VUG of 2021! So, I’m ever fell anxious about this kind of event. Specially this one that @Rick Vanover and @Kseniya are gonna participate with us here in Brazil.Just me But now, I'd like to know who of you gets involved with VUG?How is the VUG in your country? Just let me know!I wanna hear you.

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MicoolPaul
3 years ago
BertrandFR
BertrandFRInfluencer
asked in Discussion Boards
Backup strategies for a large VM

Hello everyone,I’m wondering what is your strategies/tricks about backuping a large vm (many TB+)? Duration? Active Full ? Synthetic one day a week? I look forward to reading you  

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MicoolPaul
3 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
Veeam v11 Teaser Trailer

Hey guys,With two weeks to go the hype is getting real for Veeam now.I saw one of Rick’s bloopers on Twitter and got an idea for this little mash up Avengers Infinity War / Veeam teaser. It fits a little too well IMO! I’d like to thank @Rick Vanover / Thanos / Ricknos? for being a good sport about this abuse.

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
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bigneo7New Here
asked in Discussion Boards
Restore files from tape

Hi all, Can I add new backup server in this Tape?  Thanks in advance

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JMeixner
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
When to use Planned Failover 👀

  If you know that your primary VMs are about to go offline, you can proactively switch the workload to their replicas. A planned failover is smooth manual switching from a primary VM to its replica with minimum interrupting in operation. You can use the planned failover, for example, if you plan to perform datacenter migration, maintenance or software upgrade of the primary VMs. You can also perform planned failover if you have an advance notice of a disaster approaching that will require taking the primary servers offline.When you start the planned failover, Veeam Backup & Replication performs the following steps:The failover process triggers the replication job to perform an incremental replication run and copy the un-replicated changes to the replica. The guest OS of the VM is shut down or the VM is powered off.If VMware Tools are installed on the VM, Veeam Backup & Replication tries to shut down the VM guest OS. If nothing happens after 15 minutes, Veeam Backup & Repli

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regnor
3 years ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
posted in Discussion Boards
What do you want in a "How to upgrade" guide?

One of the things that I will be doing, starting with the v11 release, is preparing a “How to upgrade” Blog and Video situation that I will post here in the Veeam Community site.  This will be an exclusive resource you will only get here!Now just to be clear, this post will be straight blocking and tackling, it’s not going to cover what’s new, it’s for the person who has a previous version and is ready to upgrade. Here’s my loose agenda of what I plan on covering:Pre-Steps Key documentation to review Licensing and Product How to get license updated, steps to secure license admin/access How and where to download the product(s) Must-See Information Noting key changes/dropped platforms Known issues Key advice from Veeam Tech Support Common Case Summary thru RTM Note scenarios where “If you are using _X_ existing capability, it will be new this way: See this” Configuration Backup - Verify it is done, where it is, etc. Upgrade and Beyond Information of doing the upgrade (Possibl

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Link State
3 years ago
regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
SureBackup Troubleshooting mode

When creating SureBackup jobs there are often VMs which need additional care before their first successful run/test; like tweaking startup times of OS/applications or changing firewall rules. Also if you’re adding custom test scripts & roles then it might require multiple tries before they work like expected.On the other hand there could be a VM where the SureBackup job discovered an existing problem and you need to debug the system to find the root cause.This is where SureBackup troubleshooting mode (KB1216) comes into play. Instead of restarting the whole SureBackup job with all included VMs, you can just select a single VM and start it via right-click.After clicking start the SureBackup job will only run the selected VM and keeps it running regardless of its state (as opposed to the normal mode where an error will stop/abort the job).So with troubleshooting mode you can save some time when configuring or debugging SureBackup because you don’t need to wait for all VMs inside your

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
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Rogeranson@yahoo.comNew Here
posted in Discussion Boards
Holiday Giveaway

You were supposed to post the Holiday Giveaway contest winners on veeam.com/holiday- giveaway.com by 2/2/21. Please post.rogeranson@yahoo.com

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3 years ago
Eddie Kwok
Eddie KwokExperienced User
posted in Discussion Boards
Get a chance to win some awesome tech gadgets for Veeam

Bring even more joy to your holidaysIn the spirit of giving this holiday season, Veeam® wants to give you a chance to win some awesome tech gadgets. https://www.veeam.com/holiday-giveaway-2020.htmlHow do you enter to win? It’s as easy as following these steps:Fill out the form by Dec. 31, 2020 including your business email address. Check this page after Feb. 2, 2021 to see if you’ve won one of the prizes. 20 winners will be chosen. 

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regnor
3 years ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards
SOBR placement policy not adhered to - solution included

This issue I’ve seen with larger SOBRs having many ReFS extents. Having a backup-copy job (pruning) with GFS there were sudden unintended switches of backup chains to other extents. Thus loosing all space efficiency for the GFS points. We used scripts here to detect chains spanning more than a single extent. It turned out to be a bug solved in V10 paired with a very conservative process in VBR to detect extents near space exhaustion. There is some estimation here due not being able to estimate the space savings due to block recloning. This could be tweaked with two regkeys:Pfad: HKLM\Software\Veeam\Veeam Backup and ReplicationName: SOBRSyntheticFullCompressRate Value: 35, DWORDDescription: override the estimated space VM would take on SOBR in a full backup. % of previous full backup size.  Name: SobrForceExtentSpaceUpdateValue: 1, DWORDDescription: enables advanced SOBR extents free space update logic. With this set to 1 (enabled) service updates cached extent free space every time tas

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Rick Vanover
3 years ago
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smiddyNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards
Backup MaxDB databases with veeam

Dear all, is it possible to create backups (full, incremantal etc.) for MaxDB 7.9 with veeam and backint? The OS is SLES 12 SP5.  Kind regardsSmiddy  

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falkob
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
What scripting/programming language do you use for monitoring/reporting/automation?

I am curious what languages are used by the community for reporting, monitoring and/or automation. I personally do a lot of scripting with PowerShell. What language is worth learning it?I wish, Veeam will replace their PowerShell Plug-In by a PowerShell module in www.powershellgallery.com.@Kseniya Just a little thing: when embedding code here in the community, PowerShell is no language-option. Maybe this can be added in the future? 

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Rick Vanover
3 years ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #13

Happy Friday!In this episode, I and @Rick Vanover discussed community activities, highlights of the week, and also weather in Saint-Petersbourg and Columbus (spoiler - it’s getting colder in both places )Check it out now!   

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eprieto
3 years ago
D
DatIDMNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards
Odd error for all OFFSITE backup jobs

Here is the text from the e-mail received from the server:Failed to preprocess target Error: Failed to call RPC function 'FcWriteFileEx': Incorrect function. Failed to open fileDoes this look familiar to anyone? If so.. how did you resolve it??Thank you for any Help, 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
What do you like on Veeam B&R?

Just a question really simple… What do you like most about Veeam Backup & Replication?What is the main feature on Veeam that completely drive you crazy?  

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Link State
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
[What (esle) is new in v11 - V] Tape stuff

As @eprieto did already post an excellent 3-part series of new v11 tape features. I want to highlight 3 small other features here.Tape Consolidation As Esteban already explained, it is possible to copy tapes in v11. But Veeam put wood behind the arrow. You can use this feature to copy more old-generation-tapes to a few new-generation-tapes. In my example I used LTO2 as source and LTO6 as target.Select tapes you want to consolidate.You can also select tapes by media pool in wizard.Select the target device and target media pool.Choose your options and run the job.After that - in my demo - I copied two LTO2 tapes to one LTO6 tape.  Full Tape Restore With v11 you are able to restore the entire Tape to a Folder.In wizard you choose the folder. Veeam knows how much space is needed and don't let you continue, when too less is left.When tape includes file backup, there are a few more options then. After the restore, all files are there like on the tape New column in Tape viewThe column shows w

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regnor
3 years ago
Harry Bos
Harry BosNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards
New Veeam Certified Architect exam in 2021?

In 2018 i’ve passed VMCE-ADO which is now renamed to VMCA. Will there be a new exam release this year?

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Chris.Childerhose
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 37 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Have you used the Veeam Extract utility? GUI? Command line? Windows or linux? Can it extract from VBK? VRB? VIB? How did you get the files back to your hypervisor environment?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 39 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. What is your use case for staged restore? Which applications are you using it with? Which format of scripts are you using?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Presentation: How to pass your (VMCE) exam

Hi everyone!I recently had the honor of presenting at the Veeam User Group for CZ/SK and think the topic will be of interest to the general Veeam community.The presentation does cover some VMCE related topics, but will provide great advice for anyone studying for any IT certification exam.Hope you enjoy the presentation and any feedback would be very welcome 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#HomelabWednesday - How to deploy VMware vSphere ESXi nested in a virtual machine

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to deploy two nested ESXi hosts and add them to a cluster in your VMware vCenter.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released. 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VBR v11 🔥Instant Recovery Of ANY Backup To Hyper-V 🤓in a Chart

I took the time to put together this table in Draw.io and was impressed when I finished it, in v11 it will come with this great improvement in Hyper-V.    

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 42 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you using replicas? What about failover plans? How often do you test them? How many failover plans do you have? and… how many VMs could be in a single failover plan? :-)Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago

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