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Hi Folks, I think I remember hearing that Veeam was coming out with their own Self Service Portal for O365. I can’t remember where I heard this (VeeamONUpdate?). Does anyone remember? And would this be based on the previous unofficial Portal that was on the VeeamGitHub site? cheers Geoff

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 38 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions? 

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 26 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

For those that use Veeam Agent for IBM there is an issue with the LIBPATH variable when changed.  See the KB from Veeam - KB4273: Unable to use Veeam Agent for IBM AIX after LIBPATH variable has been changed

Hey! Sorry it’s late in the day but happy Friday! Today’s Fun Friday question is. What year did you first use Veeam? Bonus points if you can remember what you were using it with! For me it was 2013, I’d just gone to another company that was using Veeam + VMware and I immediately felt like this was the first truly user friendly backup solution. It was really intuitive and actually saved me during my first ever ransomware battle later that year! (Thanks to rotated USB disks!)

Veeam has published a storage plugin for  NEC Storage M Series.Find the release notes here:https://www.veeam.com/kb4274

Today - on January24th, 2022 - is community manager appreciation day.It is celebrated annually on the fourth Monday of January.https://nationaltoday.com/community-manager-appreciation-day/ Lets say a big thank you to our community manager @Kseniya  and @Rick Vanover who listen to all our demands and are growing this community in the best way you can think of.   

During my presentations on VBO to customers and partners, people sometimes ask whether the recoverability of data can be checked automatically (Our Veeam Backup & Replication customers love SureBackup). However, this functionality is not available.Since I have now been told this "wish" several times, I thought "New Year, New Luck!"First, I share the Powershell script to check backed up Exchange Online restore data. With this script it is possible to save an email from a mailbox to a local directory and check if a certain pattern can be read.More functions will be added soon. Please give me feedback what can be improved or added.A script for checking OneDrive for Business data will also be available soon. The script can be found here:https://github.com/yetanothermightytool/powershell/tree/master/vbo/vbo-exrestore-checker And don't forget: Always post feature requests in our R&D forum!

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 37 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions? 

Hi all, I am trying to create a Monthly Full Backup with Incremental Backups in between. In the ‘Advanced’ section, so far, I have created a Backup Job with ‘Incremental’ option selected. I have also enabled ‘Active full backup’ which will run on the last Friday on Monthly basis. In the ‘Schedule’ section, I have selected the ‘Run the job automatically’ with condition that it will run at 10 pm of the last Friday, every Month.So, the question is have a configured it correctly ? Thanks,Abhi

Has anyone had any success getting email notifications via Office 365 to work from their Veeam Azure backup appliance? I keep getting SMTP auth errors, even though I’ve confirmed the credentials are correct. I’m using SSL and authentication over port 587 and have tried various Office SMTP endpoints without success. I have added the appliance IP to our on-premise connector in Exchange Online.Weirdly, I am able to get it to send the test email if I relay via Gmail, but cannot for the life of me get it to work via Exchange Online. Hoping I’m just missing something obvious.For what it’s worth, the same account I’m using can send emails from our copier via Exchange Online without issue. Any suggestions appreciated!

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 36 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to set up and perform a VMware vMotion.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released. 

I have several SQL jobs that currently perform nightly (or weekly) restores of a production database on other servers.  Since we have now migrated to the Veeam Backup and Replication solution, I am trying to accomplish these same tasks within the Veeam environment.  (BTW, we are on Veeam version 11.)  I set up the Veeam PowerShell environment as described here https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/powershell/getting_started.html?ver=110#remote and wrote a script to perform a database restore (see attached).I ran the script interactively within a PowerShell session and it completed successfully.  I ran it again as a Windows Scheduled Task and it worked.  However, I can’t get it to run as a SQL Server Agent job. Here’s the error message that I’m receiving:The term 'Start-VESQLRestoreSession' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.Sinc

Hello,I tried to install a new VBR server with the iso of Version 11a P20211211 (VeeamBackup&Replication_11.0.1.1261_20211211.iso).This fails at once with a strange error…Tells you everything you have to know…  After that I tried the install on the same machine with an iso Version 11a P20211005 (VeeamBackup&Replication_11.0.1.1261_20211005.iso) and the Patch to V11a (P20211211 VeeamBackup&Replication_11.0.1.1261_20211211.zip) and all is working fine. Did anyone get this error, too? I did not find anything in the forums to this behavior…Unfortunately I did not have much time and had to get this installed, so I did not get all logs for Veeam support. I will try to recreate this situation….

Happy Friday! Let’s kick off 2022 with something helpful for everyone! Have you got a tip/secret weapon that you live to use to better protect environments? Maybe it’s something to help the service desk keep tickets down, maybe it’s something that helps improve your accuracy when sizing a deployment, whatever it is share it below! Anyone that reads my blog posts will know I’m a strong believer that backup frequency shouldn’t equal your RPO, you should under promise and over deliver. You can see more on that here:  I preach this to everyone. But my favourite trick to delivery an awesome recovery experience involves storage snapshots and file servers. Commonly I see organisations backing up their file server daily or twice daily. But we all have seen those pesky shared spreadsheets that are used by many people all day amongst other use cases. There’s a huge amount of data change per day on file servers and there’s always an accident or two. So my trick when the customer has a SAN that su

Hey all, A file backup job started failing when it attempted to run on Saturday the 15th. When the job ran on Friday evening, everything was fine, but it decided to start failing on Saturday. On Friday night, the recent Microsoft patch (kb5009557 2022-01 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 (1809)) was installed after the Veeam job ran so I am thinking that the failure might be due to the update? Currently using Veeam Backup and Replication Build 11.0.0.837 installed on a Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V machine. When looking in Event Viewer, I looked under the Applications and Services Logs tree and the failed job is given an Event ID of 190 with this message, “Job details: Error: Agent: Failed to process method {NasMaster.CreateIfNotExistsJobBackup}: You can't access this shared folder because your organization's security policies block unauthenticated guest access. These policies help protect your PC from unsafe or malicious devices on the network.” I have looked at the network and

The ProblemLast week we were troubleshooting a Veeam Backup & Replication environment, where jobs were slowing down since some time.Looking at the jobs, the backup performance itself was quite good, but the processing of some VMs took longer then expected.The task log of those VMs showed that "Collecting disk files location data" was the cause; for some VMs it lasted 20 minutes, others were waiting for several hours.I first suspected a vCenter problem, as the debug logs showed timeouts and an unsupported API, but after patching and some restarts the problems persisted.The ResolutionDoing some research I’ve stumbled over an R&D forums digest from @Gostev from the year 2018 (Veeam Community Forums digest at that time ). And this one brought us in the right direction as Anton mentioned disk fragmentation as a pausible cause for this issue.I’ve opened up a Veeam support case just to be sure, before approaching the storage team, but later on our customer discovered some left-over s

I was reading an excellent article by Randy Lee, https://www.randylee.com/misc/dr-temperatures, and wanted to see what is your DR temperature? Do the categories align to your business?What is your range for RPO and RTO? “Who” was involved in deciding the values? When was the last time you confirmed the numbers are achievable?

New LTO-9 for HPE products are available:LTO-9 is available as of January 10, 2022, for the following entry and mid-range HPE StoreEver solutions:HPE StoreEver LTO-9 45000 internal and external standalone tape drives HPE StoreEver MSL 1/8 autoloader HPE StoreEver MSL 2024 tape library HPE StoreEver MSL3040 tape library HPE StoreEver MSL6480 tape library https://community.hpe.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block/Great-news-for-the-new-year-LTO-9-comes-to-HPE-StoreEver-tape/ba-p/7157794

Do you want to receive a weekly summary of the latest KB updates or immediate notices about Veeam security advisories? If yes to either or even both   then head over to https://www.veeam.com/knowledge-base.html and sign up right at the top of the page.In case you prefer RSS don’t forget they are available here:https://www.veeam.com/services/open/kb/security-feed https://www.veeam.com/services/open/kb/rss-feedHere is an example of what the emails look like:Thank you @HannesK for the heads-up on these.

I have a question as we are looking to make sure that our backup environment is as recoverable as possible in the event of the most extreme events.We have our VBR server virtualized in HyperV.  We do a backup job for the configuration database.  We also have a replication task setup to replicate the VBR server to our DR location.What we are looking at is that the location that the config database is backed up to is in the primary data center.  What has anyone done to create a task to copy the config database offsite, like to SharePoint or OneDrive or something like that.

Hi Guys, Need your help to vote for my Blogs. My Blogs are in the final list of Cisco IT Blogs award 2021 !please vote and check the Procedure !https://www.thenetworkdna.com/2022/01/it-blog-awards-2021-hosted-by-cisco-and.htmlCisco Link for voting ! https://www.ciscofeedback.vovici.com/se/705E3ECD767BAEDD

See an excellent tutorial how to use the restore to Amazon EC2 function via AWS PrivateLink.https://www.veeam.com/kb4264