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Looking to build your own chatbot but don’t want to break the bank on hardware and keen on some privacy ? I’ve created 2 blogposts on how you can create your own AI LLM powered chatbot.The first post is live and tells you how to get to your source data. I gave it a little twist and used the transcripts of several YouTube instructional videos to train the model.Interested, remarks, comments ?Read it all here: https://integriservices.blogspot.com/2023/06/create-your-own-private-offline-ai-q.html My second post will become available later this week. Then I’ll take you on the tour how to deploy your own private chatbot and train it with the data we’ve collected before. 100% private free and local AI LLM powered Q&A chatbot at your disposal. 

We’re trying to do a rolling OS upgrade of two physical servers in a Window Failover Cluster. The roles/resources are two Storage Space disks holding >20Tb of data each. When we add a new node to the cluster, Veeam is insisting on a Full backup of each shared disk, which is not ideal. According to documentation at the link below, this appears to be “by design” but this is very painful and our only option is to significantly expand the size of our backup target. Is there any way to skip this full backup requirement? We do weekly synthetic fulls, so I added an additional one to the schedule but it still insisted on an actual full, not synthetic. From a technical standpoint, I could understand needing to reset or ignore CBT and do a scan of the whole disk, but this is the only backup software I’ve used that arbitrarily requires a full backup when cluster node changes happen. Does this affect other cluster workloads like SQL or VMs? I had planned on moving those into our Veeam backup en

The final week of June has arrived! As we mentioned earlier, we had made a commitment to conduct a poll to determine the top blog of the month, which will be featured on the homepage during the first week of July.For this month, we have a special edition in which we will consider blogs from both June and May. This is because we had skipped our May edition due to VeeamON Miami. We want to ensure that all the deserving blogs from both months get a chance to be featured.Our selection comprises of three blogs that were featured in the weekly recap, as well as three additional blogs that were not mentioned. Please help us determine the best by voting on your favorite one by June 30th .   Good luck to all participants! 😊@MicoolPaul , @benyoung , @Geoff Burke , @Michael Melter , @Nico Losschaert , @Scott Please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to vote for you!Sneak Peak: In July we will have another special edition dedicated to SysAdmin Day that

DemoLet's rip the band-aid off, as I know most of you really just want to see it right?!  My ObjectivesBuild a Chatbot interface, nothing new here, but it's a hot topic right now Use the Veeam KB data as the primary data source,(the clean data didn't exist, but i built my own API for it as well as the scraping engine... you can use it too) Learn about embeddings, using the OpenAI models because they're super easy (and certainly at the time) to interact with Learn about Vector databases, I used Pinecone but there are like 20 more since Feb... lots of funding for startups in this space already Learn, have fun along the way, share the knowledgeI really just wanted to share the project with y’all, the techy-details about the various bits are over on my blog if you were interested!Let me know what you think, good idea? would you use it? How would you improve it?

Hi Folks, I have someone who ran out of space on their Linux immutable repo, they are asking to remove immutability on the fs (chatter -i) as root. I am wondering what Veeam DB will think? and what other issues might arise. They seem to say they have done it before then just rescanned the repo? 

In the blog post below it states the sources that support the backup of Direct to Object but do all of these also support the restore of the data Direct from Object without having to go through a Gateway server or Proxy?  Specifically when S3-compatible storage is being utilised.Virtual machines backup (VMware,HyperV,AHV...) NAS backup Backup copy SQL, Oracle Configuration backup Veeam agent 

Hello guys 😄Hope everyone are well ! In my side I'm in vacation 🤙. I wanted to share with you some tests done with the beta of Veeam v12 (build 12.0.0.817) and the incredible new feature backup directly to Object Storage.Object StorageFor my test I used Wasabi as cloud object storage. You can find really great posts about Wasabi:Wasabi is now available in the list of providers when you want to add an object storage repositoryWe have less information to enter, it's appreciable You will find your repository with Wasabi Cloud Storage Type. Backup JobThe advantages of this kind of backup are multiple:Financial: you can use on-prem object storage, object storage can be cheaper than SAN Built-in durability & reliability Reduce hardware to manageLet's take a look at the setup, because there are technical side effects.As usual you select your repository, the GFS part still available and you could configure a backup copy job if necessaryIn the advanced options, it’s simplified ! Bye backu

Hello everyone 🐈🛫 Similar to previous year, I am disclosing the dates for VeeamOn Tours and Forums 2023. Please register in here: https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-regional-2023 Here we go:  EMEA :VeeamON Tour Ireland- 20 June 2023, Dublin  (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-dublin )VeeamON Tour Romania- 22 June 2023, Bucharest (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-romania )VeeamON Tour Austria - 13 June 2023, Linz (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-at)VeeamON Tour Austria - 14 June 2023, Vienna (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-at )VeeamON Tour Switzerland- 15 June 2023, Zurich (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-ch-de )VeeamON Tour Switzerland- 22 June 2023, Lausanne (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-ch-fr )VeeamON Tour Germany- 20 June 2023, Munich (hybrid) (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-de )VeeamON Tour Germany- 17 October 2023, Düsseldorf (hybrid) VeeamON Tour Italy- 15 June 2023, Milano  (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-it )VeeamON Tour It

Hi Veeam Community!We are looking to migrate our backups from a standard repository to an SOBR in order to utilise Wasabi storage for capacity tier. We current have backups jobs storing to local storage repository with 30 day retention, with copy jobs to a another backup repository at one of our other sites for offsite/archival backup purposes. Local repository is around 30TB and ‘offsite/archive’ repository is around 100TB. Ideally we would like to move the primary repository to performance tier of an SOBR and remote repository to capacity tier. Is this a supported migration, or will the backup copy job part cause us issues? Ideally we would prefer not to have to create new jobs, and maintain backup history. We are running B&R V12. Any insight or tips on how to achieve the above would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!Cameron 

Hi everyone!I have new Vms window 2019 serve. it is new and I don’t understand why it complete with Warning. on the same Veeam application I have more than 12 other Vms  which have larger file and alot programs. but all of the completed success. but this new VM show warning:6/26/2023 12:38:44 PM :: Unable to perform guest file system indexing: Failed to install via Deployment Svc    

Has anyone got an error about a Tape Library backup job:tr:Error code: 0x0000045d--tr:TapeFileWriteStream failed to write 2097152 bytesCannot append file block to the end of file. File: [\\.\Tape0, pos: 3, blockOffset: 1024, size: 27401388032]. Write position: [1260388352].[15.06.2023 15:50:46] <35> Error          --tr:Unable to asynchronously write data block. Block identity: [Data block. Start offset: [1260388352], Length: [2097152], Area ID: [601].].[15.06.2023 15:50:46] <35> Error          --tr:Processing of asynchronous write requests has failed. Output file: [\\.\Tape0, pos: 3, blockOffset: 1024, size: 27401388032]. 

Hello guys,A quick question about the upgrade process for a periodic backup copy job.I have a backup copy job to a NAS repository with Per-Vm option set. To upgrade the chain I have to create a new job and map the backup, during mapping Veeam will synthesize full backup from the current backup and build a per-vm chains for every object.In the case where the repository it’s not a ReFS/XFS partition, Veeam will recreate a Full Backup and I must have enough space on the disk partition right?

For a hardware server (no vmware) I use the Agent for Windows and backup to a local NAS. I added a cloud backup job to Wasabi which works but I noticed it disabled the schedule to the local NAS. I turned it back on and made sure the times do not overlap. Is that the only way to have a local and cloud copy with the Agent, two separate jobs? I like local for speed when restoring, cloud is only in case of disaster...

We are looking to install Enterprise Manager and was wondering where the best place was to install it.  We have one VBR server with less than 100 instances to backup.  I have a Server setup for Orchestrator, can I put it on the same Server, or should I stand up a new separate one?

Hi,is it possible to use immutable repository like this repository from local disks RAID-5 on a physical windows 2019 server that have Veeam V12 installedand a Linux ubuntu 22.04 64bit on as virtual machine. thanks

IntroductionOne of the standout features of Veeam Backup & Replication is SureBackup, which allows for the automated testing and verification of backups. SureBackup creates isolated environments, called Virtual Labs, to ensure the recoverability of your virtual machines. During a SureBackup session, it sometimes would be helpful to connect the virtual machines to the Internet  By default, the VMs within the Virtual Lab run in an isolated environment and do not have access to the Internet. If you want the VMs in the Virtual Lab to access the Internet, select the Allow proxy appliance to act as an Internet proxy for virtual machines in this lab check box. See  Setup Proxy Appliance and Veeam KB1165.With the HTTP proxy settings in place, you can easily download security patches, update antivirus definitions, and install software updates on your Linux VMs. With this you can enhance your software testing and patching processes, streamline deployment workflows, verify compatibility, and

Hi all, Recently I started experimenting with XFS savings calculation. I’ve seen some good work from the community and therefor I want to say, thanks for all people that played with xfs_bmap, filefrag, and especially mweissen13 with some good idea’s on how to find the overlapping intervalsI’m sharing here what I believe is a working implementation:https://github.com/tdewin/ttozz/tree/main/sortedfragmentsSo first of all, I’ve split up the work in 2 parts:Creating frag files: these files are basically filefrag output but reordered on volume level offset. This is required to find the overlapping intervals (shared blocks). Notice that filefrag order the fragments on file level offset. You can cat the files if you are curious. They are basically in YAML format because you should be able to easily parse them with libraries or just pure stream reading line per line. Analyzing the frag files: open the files and read them in ordered fashion. If two files report a similar intervals (starting blo

i would like to know that, can we make multiple veeam servers with one backup repository only.scenario :I have 3 data centers with installed veeam server on each site and i want to backup all of my workload such as VM and physical server in data centers to DR directly without putting any backup repository on data centers

Hi everyone,some days ago I posted about TailscaleBetter than Just VPN for the Home LabNow, I will show a couple cases Im using it for:RDP to my lab Now, from my laptop and anywhere with internet access, I can connect to my “JumpStation” to get into my HomeLab, exactly! and it has a great feature called “Magic DNS” that it does call the remote machine from the Tailscale name, so no IP address needed. Remote access to my Lab Network Yes, you read it right it has a feature that enables the bypass / routing of the networks you have in the Tailscale host, so you can access that network from the remote connected device, in case you need to access a device that has not capability to install Tailscale in it, I use it to access my router, my center and my storage appliance. Proxy form outside routing my internet traffic. Exactly, now I can activate the “Exit node” feature that allows me to route all the client traffic to the “Tailscale” selected host to get to the internet, very useful when we

Hi,Will I need to do full backup again when I change encryption password?

I want to backup two Linux Systems.And i get this error on both systems:Unable to perform guest file system indexing: Failed to establish a network connection to the host. 

I have a lot of tapes and multiple libraries. I recently had a few failures, and wanted to check how many times each tape has been loaded and either read or written too to see if there is a trend with the oldest ones.  I created a little script to do this, and figured I’d sort it from the most loads at the top.    It ended up being a coincidence and I have plenty of life left in all my tapes, but always fun to lean a new command # Load Veeam PowerShell SnapIn if not already loadedif ((Get-PSSnapin -Name VeeamPSSnapIn -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) { Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapIn}# Get all tape media$tapes = Get-VBRTapeMedium# Create an array to hold the results$results = @()foreach ($tape in $tapes) { $tapeInfo = "" | Select-Object 'TapeName', 'LoadCount' $tapeInfo.TapeName = $tape.Name $tapeInfo.LoadCount = $tape.LoadCount $results += $tapeInfo}$results | Sort-Object LoadCount -Descending | Format-Table 

Hi Folks, Someone told me that they tested Rocky Linux versus Ubuntu (most likely 20.04) acting as a Veeam repository and there were significant performance differences between them with Rocky linux seriously outperforming Ubuntu. I don’t have any other details like (test environment, amount of data etc etc) but I personally find this hard to believe but wanted to know what everyone else thought. First off Rocky Linux is a spin off Redhat base distro that was created or gained much more popularity with the demise of Centos. I see Veeam themselves are always using examples with Ubuntu so that must mean something 😃.I am not getting involved in the old Distro wars of years past, i.e. (Debian vs Slackware vs Redhat) etc just want to know people’s genuine thoughts and experience. 

Hi everyone,I want to share a little story with all of you, and also invite you to share yours!! I picked up my Alfred at VeeamOn 2023 in Miami, knowing that he will belong to my daughter.Sha fall in love since the instant moment she saw him (bye bye Mikey 🐭 )Now she always carry him around the house , an if allowed, goes with her to some activities out.For her is her new baby, and as a baby….yes! Dippers!!!🤣🤣🤣Im still laughing every time I remember the situation!!Please share your Alfred’s experiences and funny moments!cheers!