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Hartmut
HartmutComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards
Best Practices Backup VMs with Disks on different Storages

Hi,we are running VMs on vSAN (VxRail). Backup with hot add mode works fine. Anything is ok.We are planning now, to offload big disks (>3 TB) to an iSCSI Storage device. z.B. PowerStore. So the VMs are running a mixed disk placement. System Disk stays on vSAN. Data Disk will be on iSCSI Storage. iSCSI Storage is attached to the same TOR Switch as the Veeam Rep Server. VMs are not stretched in the vSAN Cluster. Whats the best way to backup? What is your recommandation?  

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Hartmut
3 years ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #25

Hey everyone!Veeam Community Recap #25 is here!Check out this episode to learn community highlights of the week.Shout out to @coolsport00, @vNote42 and @wolff.mateus for delivering awesome content to community!  Check it out now  

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vNote42
3 years ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Big news An industry first. Ransomware protection for Kubernetes by Kasten/Veeam

Kasten 4 by Veeam is out today folks and it has some big news!! https://blog.kasten.io/ransomware-protection-kasten-k10-v4?hsCtaTracking=01895365-d3ab-4328-82e7-7e8e93bcc630%7C15fc9b41-2024-489a-890b-62fd5b66231f

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JMeixner
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
Which Application Aware Backup method do you use?

@Gostev mentioned some data loss issues in conjunction with VMware Tools quiescence in his current “the word from Gostev”. This method is used, when Veeam application-aware processing is not enabled ...… but “VMware Tools quiescence” is.Also because of such issues, Veeam recommends using their application-aware backup.So I want to ask the community, which backup method for application awareness do you use for Windows vSphere-VMs:Veeam application-aware processing VMware Tools quiescence.I personally try to implement Veeam processing whenever possible (security, network,...). At least for AD, SQL-based applications, Exchange, ...  

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marco_s
3 years ago
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syntax-errorNew Here
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No VM available when creating new backup job on hyper-v standalone

Hi, I have installed Veeam B&R v11 on a windows machine running a 5 Hyper-V vm. I have registered my Hyper-V using backup infrastructure > Add server. It now shows up in backup infrastructure > managed servers > microsoft Hyper-V > Standalone servers. I have created a backup repository on a NAS on the local network. But when I want to create a backup job (home > backup job > Virtual Machine), I have no VM listed. Any advices on what I’m missing to be able to backup my VM?  

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MicoolPaul
3 years ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Backup Copy job Immediate vs Periodic

Hi Folks, Just wanted to share my opinion on this. I was around when Cloud Connect was introduced and remember the struggle with customers when explaining backup copy job copy intervals. Often I would hear.. “can we not just have our legacy, backup job done then offsite?”. Veeam brought in the immediate copy not to long ago and I have already noticed some issues. When you leveraged periodic BC jobs you could set the copy interval differently for tenants with different quality bandwidth. I could be wrong but with Immediate copy if it gets behind it will copy one day, then right away try the next in order to catch up. If you have many backup copy jobs and only so many concurrent connections available this then becomes an issue. I prefer periodic copy, I can say to the tenant, yes we will get your backup copy jobs over the wire but with your current bandwidth we need 3 days… then it is up to them to increase bandwidth. 

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Tyler Jurgens
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Windows scheduled tasks get problematic slower over time

The following post is not directly related to backup. I hope it is helpful anyway.At a customers backup server a very strange behavior was observed. After a few days without problems, scheduled tasks never seem to get finished. So a current running – never ending – task prevents the next run from starting. A reboot of the server resolved the problem – for a few days.SolutionAfter a research I found out, scheduled tasks get started with a lower priority than interactively started tasks. See my scheduled PowerShell script in screenshot here.Normally this is not a big deal. It does not matter when tasks like reports last longer than manually started. Nevertheless they should at least finish.The solution is to rise the priority of scheduled tasks. Unfortunately this cannot simply be set in the GUI. It can be done in a few steps, I list here.Start Windows Task Scheduler, right-click your task and select Export… and save XML file to a temporary location. Edit XML file with an editor of your

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JMeixner
3 years ago
Hartmut
HartmutComes here often
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Archive Offload to AWS Glacier error

Hi,I would like to offload Archives to AWS Glacier. I added a AWS Glacier Repository to an sobr as archive exent. Once offloading starts I get the following error messages.I thing that the gateway server is not able to connect by ssh to the ec2 proxy appliance? Are these Appliances deployed in advance, or just temporary during archive offloading job? It is a new deploy, we didnt use these feature. 01:42:55    Failed to provision a proxy appliance: Unable to connect by SSH to appliance.     04:3201:47:28    Queued for processing at 28.04.2021 01:47:28     01:47:33    Task failed. Error: Unable to archive backups: no proxy appliances are available.     01:47:33    Processing finished with errors at 28.04.2021 01:47:33      

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Hartmut
3 years ago
JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Veeam at Pure Accelerate - get your free T-Shirt

Register by May 13th for Pure Accelerate and get your free T-Shirt.https://www.veeam.com/pure-accelerate-2021.html#veeamatpureaccelerate 

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haslund
3 years ago
Shaokat
ShaokatInfluencer
posted in Discussion Boards
Veeam VMCE Trainig On Demand

i want to be a Veeam VMCE, but in my country no Veeam Training center. As per I know that it is need to take trainig before sit in the exam.So that I request to Veeam, is it possible to crate any on deamnd course like VMware, so that we can take the training and sit in the exam. I request to Veeam to see the issue. Stay Home, Stay Safe.

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coolsport00
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
[Quicktip] Rest root password in VMware vCenter VCSA - since 6.7 U1(!)

It is not uncommon to reset root password in VMware VCSA (vCenter Service Appliance). This can be necessary when account is locked or password is expired. Normally, you have to shut it down, enter GRUB and edit start parameter to boot into bash. There you can reset root password. Afterwards you boot VM again. Here is the link to this procedere: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147144With vCenter 6.7 U1 it us much easier! Since then it is possible to use a Single-Sign On (SSO) administrator account (for example: administrator@vsphere.local) to login to Appliance Interface (Port 5480) and shell. And exactly this can be used to reset the root password. In short it goes like this: Take a snapshot/backup of VCSA - it is always a good idea to start with a backup  Login as a SSO-administrator using a SSH client or console. Enable and start shell: shell.set --enable true shell Change root password sudo passwd root​​​​​​​​ DoneHere is the link to the more detailed VMware KB-article: https:/

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Shaokat
3 years ago
Hartmut
HartmutComes here often
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Suggestion: Veeam Training Focus on Cloud

Hi,since Veeam is offering more cloud features, it would be great to get an new training with a focus on all the cloud features. AWS, AZURE etc. DR/AWSSo as add on to the VMCE Veeam Cloud Certified Engineer :-)  

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Geoff Burke
3 years ago
michaelcade
michaelcadeProduct Strategy
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Building the Home Lab Kubernetes Playground Blog Series

Hi Everyone, I wanted to start sharing some of the content and learning paths I have been taking to get a better grasp on Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies.   First of all I am going to be putting my learning and findings on this page as I continue to navigate these new technologies.  And then I will keep adding if possible to this post with the latest blog posts.  Part 1 - Choosing your platform Part 2 - Setting up your Kubernetes cluster Part 3 - Playing with stateless workloadsPart 4 - Setting up dynamic shared storagePart 5 - Helm & MinIOPart 6 - Context is ImportantPart 7 - Load Balancing your Kubernetes Home Lab with MetalLBPart 8 – Deploying KubeApps the visual marketplace for all your Kubernetes AppsPart 9 – A Mission Critial App - PacmanPart 10 – Backups in a Kubernetes worldI would love to get your feedback useful links to add or things we should share with the community. 

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Shaokat
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
How SQL Instant Recovery in v11 works

See here how it works in a step by step guide.To start in Instant SQL Recovery wizard, select your server and choose Restore application items.Here you choose if you want to restore to the latest available restore point, or select a listed one. At the end of wizard press Browse. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server starts.Choose the database you want instantly recovered and select to do so. You have these options to choose from: Latest restore point. Point-in-time state. Recover to another server. This you can used to recover DB using a different name while original DB is still in place. In this demo, I selected point-in-time state to show additional options.Select point-in-time state you want recover to.Notice:First option recovers to date and time, recovery point was created. Second option lets you choose the exact date and time to restore to. As noted, transaction log backup is required here. Checking option to restore to a specific transaction, lets you choose a marked tran

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vNote42
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
When teamwork 🎸 is summed up in a photo 📷 -- Veeamazing!!! 🏆

Why do you think Veeam is in this place today?   

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Shaokat
3 years ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
How to modify vCloud URL in Veeam

With the recent topic of how to change the IP/DNS Name of the vCenter recently posted I wanted to share for those with experience in SQL how you can modify the vCloud URL within Veeam.This requires some SQL knowledge and that you shut down the Veeam services during the process.  The main query is as follows:SELECT * FROM Hosts WHERE type=1 OR type=6 OR type=14; Under the "options" column for the relevant row(s) we're going to see the reference(s) to the old cell hostname. Then once you are ready follow these steps:0) Veeam Configuration Backup1) Stop Veeam Services2) Backup VeeamBackup SQL DB3) SELECT * FROM Hosts WHERE type=1 OR type=6 OR type=14;4) Copy the "options" value5) Modify the copied "options" column value to have the new VCD URL6) Note the id column of the related row7) Perform the update query on the objects that need the new URL:UPDATE Hosts SET options='NEW_options_VALUE' WHERE id='ID_FROM_STEP_6';8) Start Services9) Open Console, and "next" through the properties of the

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Shaokat
3 years ago
Eddie Kwok
Eddie KwokExperienced User
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
[Blog Post] Step by step of Veeam Agent for Mac 1.0 @ Part 2 (Restore from VBR v11)

From Veeam Backup & Replication restore Mac OS FileOpen Veeam Backup & Replication console and click Backups, Disk. You will see the Mac Agent Backup. Right-click “Your Mac Device Name”, Restore guest Files, Linux, and other…Select the available restore point.A new feature of v11 is the ability to leverage an existing managed Linux server to act as the file-level recovery appliance, you can choose a Linux host that I have in my environment.v11 will open the Veeam Backup Browser, which enables the ability to see the structure and the ability to recover your files and folders.You can restore folder or file to the v11 Desktop only, If you need direct restore the Mac device, please continue to see “Step by step of Veeam Agent for Mac 1.0 @ Part 3 (Restore from MacOS)” Coming Soon…Reference Link: https://vexperthk.com/2021/03/09/step-by-step-of-veeam-agent-for-mac-1-0-part-2-restore-from-vbr-v11/

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Shaokat
3 years ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #24

Hey everyone!In this episode, I and @Rick Vanover recap this week's activities with a twist  RICKATRON was in charge and chose highlights of the week on his own! (he broke the rule again! )Check it out now 

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Shaokat
3 years ago
J
JaySTComes here often
posted in Discussion Boards
Ransomware discovery time and retention times

 i had some discussion on the matter of retention times in context of protection against ransomware/insider attacks. Setting up a hardened repository and making data immutable for a certain amount of time is great stuff to implement. But how long is long enough?I can remember some research or reports stating there is an "average" discovery time of ransomware / encrypted data , but i cant seem to find the articles anymore.What would people here recommend for setting retention times for specifically protecting against these attacks?I'm thinking about something arround 14 - 31 days of immutable daily backups at minimum. Any shorter has higher chance of matching an attackers' maximum amount of patience for example, to just let data expire on the repo before taking action perhaps.Or are you seeing pretty short detection times in your experience and the most recent backup was used most of the time to recover? I'm crossposting from the R&D forum. Perhaps it is better to dicuss this here.

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Tom T PCC
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
Free Guide !! Prepare for your VMware Certified VCP-DCV 2020 Exam 🤓

NEW study guide Are you looking to earn your VCP‑DCV 2020 certification ? Well, Shane Williford and Paul Wilk, along with Veeam, have you covered! Grab the latest edition (vSphere 6.7) of our VCP Study Guide.This 131‑page study guide covers all 7 of the exam blueprint sections to help you prepare for the VCP‑DCV 2020 exam. Guide available in .pdf and .epub formats.https://go.veeam.com/vcp-dcv-2020-exam-guide.html  

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Shaokat
3 years ago
S
SuntechNot a newbie anymore
posted in Discussion Boards
Does anyone have advice on a Restore from an AWS Bucket?

Hi,We are having some backups copied to an AWS bucket using Veeam Backup and Replication 11. The backups have been copying up to the bucket okay but today I was going to practice restorations and am a little confused about whether I did a restore from the internet or from the performance tier. The log said the restore was from AWS Veeam Object1 which should be the Amazon server. It seemed kind of quick. I was expecting it to take hours for a small server. It was 34 minutes. Maybe de-duplication is really good.This was in the log:Restoring Hard disk 1 (40 GB) : 30.3 GB restored at 18 MB/s  [nbd] 3.9 GB downloaded from capacity tier, 9.9 GB copied from performance tierSo far I haven’t seen any documentation that specifically walks us through restoration from a bucket.It’s possible I’m still thinking of our network speed with a 2015 frame of mind. I want to be sure I’m doing this right. Thanks,Bob        

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S
3 years ago
JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Get a Free KubeCon Europe Pass

Visit the Kasten website an complete the lab to get a free KubeCon Europe Passhttps://play.instruqt.com/kasten/tracks/kasten-kubernetes-labEven without the free pass is the lab a great starting point for your journey into containers, Kubernetes and Kasten...

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Shaokat
3 years ago
P
PeteMComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards
Instant Restore from Restore Point located on AWS S3 Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4

I am using Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4.My backups are sent to Amazon S3 buckets after 30 days.I am trying to do a Instant VM recovery from a Restore Point located in the S3 bucket.I ran the restore and the Log file is telling me.Restore session Status: In progress.Log (Last 2 lines)<machine name> has been recovered successfullyWaiting for user to start migrationI don’t know where to go from here. I am having a hard time finding any documentation for this.Using vSphere Client version 6.7.0.46000Any help would be appreciated. 

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Mildur
3 years ago
jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager
posted in YARA and Script Library
[Bash Shell Script] How to Secure your Veeam Backup for AWS v2 instance with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate

Hello everyone, today I bring you one more step on how to correctly secure our instance of Veeam Backup for AWS v2.To do this we will rely on Let’s Encrypt, the famous open-source project that allows us to generate free SSL certificates.NOTE: This process is not officially supported by Veeam, and any consequence of following the steps incorrectly, or any incidence derived from these steps will leave us without support. We will have to deploy the appliance again, keep that in mind!Where shall I run this Script?My recommendation will be to run it from a Linux VM, Container, or similar that you have already on your on-prem, or in the Cloud. As a last alternative, not supported of course, is to follow these steps inside the Veeam Backup for AWS appliance itself.Installation of system requirementsTo make it all work we’re going to need a couple of packages to do all this automatically:jq The necessary Let’s Encrypt packagesTo install jq, we will launch the following command:sudo apt-get ins

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Shaokat
3 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Troubleshooting Tip: Recovering Access to a MSSQL Database

Hey everyone,I wanted to share this recent blog post I made with yourselves as whilst it’s not directly related to Veeam, I was helping someone that had locked themselves out of a Veeam database and needed to take a native backup for a support case with Veeam.  I was recently helping a customer create a SQL database backup for a support ticket and noticed that they had an interesting SQL Server configuration. There was only a single account with sysadmin rights, the sa account, but this account wasn’t allowed to sign in. The SQL Server was domain joined but there was just a single group allowed with Windows Authentication and that had the “public” server role only.There are a few reasons this could happen, accidental permission changes, or groups and/or user accounts being deleted from the domain that had been assigned the sysadmin role as examples. Thankfully it’s not the end of the world for you if you find yourself in this situation. Breaking Back into your database! This will invol

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Shaokat
3 years ago

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