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Hi team, I have a new backup I am running that is failing at the first full. It fails and says that it cannot find a VMDK file that is located in an excluded disk. The error reads: “Processing servername Error: File 'X.vmdk' was not found. This disk is a USB attached storage device, but it was added to vmware as an iscsi drive so that we can exclude it in VBR. I have double checked the disk exclusions and confirmed that I have told the job to only back up the correct disks (the disks that aren’t this USB attached storage). I have also checked the checkbox to remove excluded disks from configuration. The file is present in vcenter. I checked. I can’t figure out what is going on and why this job is failing due to a file that should not even matter because I have excluded from the job, the disk the file is located on.

This is more of a processing issue but . . . I have one VBR system that processes some rather large file servers.  We’re going to be setting up Scale Out Repo to Wasabi into an object locking bucket.When Veeam locally merges the latest incremental into a new full, does it push the complete newly created full out to the bucket or is there some magic that happens where Veeam is only updating the current full that’s sitting out in the cloud.  People with small internet pipes want to know.  With a small domain server it’s no big deal to push 20gig but when it’s 25TB…..I’m also going to assume since Veeam is in control of the object locking and retention, I won’t have to figure out when things will be unlocked and the magical merge is going to happen.Thanks ahead of time.

Hi !I’m using the extract utility for test all the password of encrypted jobs and it work well. Just a problem when the password contain a double quotes (“).I pass the good password but it seem that the extract utlity fails when we used password with double quote.The main command i use is that one : .\Extract.exe -dir $full_dir -password $mdpI got the error message “Password is incorrect”obviously I already have verified the password and he is correct. Does anyone have an idea ? or do i have to change all the password that contain a double quote ?

HI,We are doing a POC on client with all instalation parameters OK. There are 3 CSV volumes and on volume02 with 104TB all VM backup failed with this error: Failed to create snapshot (Microsoft CSV Shadow Copy Provider) (mode: Crash consistent) Details: Unknown status of async operationVss error: '0x80042306' Only with this CSV Volume.Does anyone have any idea?ThanksWeberth Moreira

i am updating Veem backup free edition but it is sending me an error.[05.04.2022 15:53:29][INFO] Creating Installer Application instance.[05.04.2022 15:53:30][INFO] Installer Application instance created.[05.04.2022 15:54:04][INFO] InstallerEngine session started.[05.04.2022 15:54:04][INFO] Stopping tray application.[05.04.2022 15:54:04][INFO] Tray application successfully stopped.[05.04.2022 15:54:04][INFO] Stopping exisitng services...[05.04.2022 15:54:05][INFO] Service name: VeeamEndpointBackupSvc[05.04.2022 15:54:05][INFO] Service process: Not specified[05.04.2022 15:54:05][INFO] Stopping service...[05.04.2022 15:54:16][INFO] Service successfully stopped.[05.04.2022 15:54:16][INFO] Exisitng services have been stopped.[05.04.2022 15:54:16][INFO] Checking presence of Microsoft Universal C Runtime redist.[05.04.2022 15:54:16][INFO] 'ucrtbase.dll' module is found, redistributable is already installed.

I am not sure how many of you use or have looked in to Wasabi S3 storage that are in Canada but they have now got a region within Toronto that can be used for their storage offerings.  I use this in my homelab to send my Veeam backups to and will now work to migrate from the US-East region to Canada.  Great expansion for Wasabi and offering to Canadians now. What are the service URLs for Wasabi's different storage regions? – Wasabi Knowledge Base (zendesk.com)

Sometimes you just want to do a quick test which requires S3.You can in seconds flat setup a Minio instance on your laptop for this purpose.Go to Minio’s download page: Run the Powershell command as shown in the instructions: Minio will be downloaded: The instructions on the Minio page say to set a username and password. I did this below but when I brought up Minio it still had the default password. 

Hello,I am working as System, Virtu and Backup engineer.Currently designing a VBO architecture for a customer who has a huge amount of data in Azure O365.I see everywhere on the forums problems with VBO 1st backup speed even on quite small environment.Do you have any reference or use cases about customers with more than 5000 users, or 5000 SharePoint sites and how long it took to perform the fisrt backup ?Is VBO well suited for this kind of customer with more than 100 TB of data in AZURE to INGEST ?Would it be a good strategy to fix a short retention (5 days) to catch few object on the first run and then change it to 10 days for the 2nd run and so on in order to reduce the overall amount for each run ? Or does not make sense as after each retention change the job will start as if it is the first time ?

After my last post highlighting the Veeam software that reaches end of support in 2022, I wanted to expand this further and discuss software that Veeam works with that will be approaching end of life in 2022. Why does this matter when I’m just trying to protect the data?Times change, and software changes with them, until it’s no longer supported. At any point, a patch to an operating system, a .NET framework update, or anything else really, could end up with the software no longer being backed up properly, or not working at all in production. Without valid support there’s no process to get a fix, and whilst your backup software may still be in support with Veeam, if the vendor won’t fix the problem, it’s time to start panicking.With this in mind, lets explore the software & operating systems being declared end of life in 2022 so we can start planning our upgrades/migrations if necess

Hello Everyone I going to deploy VOR for one of my customer soon as PoC purpose. Any suggestions for me? If anyone have can you please share best practice document for VOR.

It’s World Backup Day! First of all, come and join me and @kirststoner12 for the World Backup Day Live Stream later today https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6909612880619298816/  Secondly, you have probably noticed Alfred the Cat is back and sitting in the chair...There are some Easter eggs hidden in the homepage header based on different technologies! Find all them all and share your answers in the comments.Let's see who'll collect them all! 

Well, I certainly can’t plan for when Fun Friday falls on April Fools, but here we are. So, everyone, I invite you to share your April Fools stories here, but also, I invite you to share recent stories that you WISH were April Fools. April Fools:A UK ISP has announced their retirement of their IPv6 ‘trial’ after 20 years, citing ‘colons just don’t belong in IP addresses’: https://www.aa.net.uk/etc/news/ipv6-end-of-trial/ Not April Fools:https://www.dyson.co.uk/newsroom/dyson-zone (announced 30th March)

Hi,Though I know the answer but still curious to know, Can anyone migrated backed up data from HP Data Protector to Veeam Backup & Replication?  Is there any automation/Tool available to perform this? Secondly, if my VBR 9.5 Tape Server is running on Windows 2008 & I am installing a new VBR V11a on Windows 2019 with new tape server & Drives.  Does new VBR V11 will be able to read the files from old tapes? Regards,Sunny

Hi all,I have an issue on our Veeam ONE server and I could not find the root cause of performance charts delay. The server has been upgraded to Veeam ONE v11 recently and the issue happened after upgrade.Deployment type: Advanced Scalability Deployment modeDatabase: External SQL Server 2019There is no performance issue on the server. Monitoring server and database server are placed on Flash datastore. Could you please help me to resolve the issue if there is misconfiguration?

VMware just release vCenter 7.0 U3d this week. Just list out some key resolved issues for reference:Deploying a virtual machine by using an OVF template might fail on a cluster with VMware NSX-T Data Center Incremental patches of vCenter Server 7.x fail with Exception occured in postInstallHook error When you try to log in to the vSphere Client, you get an error that you cannot connect to the vCenter Single Sign-On server https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-70u3d-release-notes.html

Hi Everyone, The countdown to World Backup Day 2022 continues!If you missed the previous Fun Friday post/game then check it out here! I want to stick with the fun theme here and have a new game. I’ll provide a scenario and you can choose what type of backup YOU would want, and leave a comment as to the why below! There’s no right or wrong here, just perspectives. What has worked for you? What gave you buyers remorse and made you want to choose something else? Scenario:You’re responsible for data protection in your organisation and have asked for budget to get some form of immutability or airgapped backup in-place. You have only one chance to get your budget approved and need to justify why you believe it is best. What do you go for? Why? Infrastructu

Here’s a collection of scripts that can be used to automate the setup and configuration of the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Restore Portal. These scripts can be used for VB365 environments protecting a single Microsoft 365 Organization and for those with multiple Microsoft 365 Organizations in a multi-tenant setup (like in a Service Provider scenario).For more detailed information, please follow the VeeamHub link:https://github.com/VeeamHub/powershell/tree/master/VB365-RestorePortalSetup

M365- anybody restoring mail contacts details

which type 0365 accounts credaicials need to take backup of 0365  all backup type like teams,onedrive

If you are member of vExpert 2022, now you can apply vExpert 2022 sub-program.February 29th, subprogram applications open.  March 16th, applications close. March 28th, program awards are announced.Apply at: https://vexpert.vmware.com/my/subprograms  

Hi,Does anyone know how to get Veeam to copy the Full backup + incrementals to tape daily? As in each day a new tape has both.  Alternativly I would be happy for it to create a synthetic full to tape each day.Ideally i dont want to do a reverse incremental incase they decide to go to cloud as well at a later date.Veeam just seems to refuse to backup files it already has on another tape! Thanks for the help.

Dear All, I would just like to know, if I want to protect my Azure workload using Veeam backup for Azure by downloading the preconfigured appliance available in marketplace, Can I use Veeam universal licenses file onto it. I dont want to create any VBR Server either on-premise or hybrid. Any help or support is highly appreciated. Regards,Sunny

Hi, I am new to Veeam, I am trying to restore my already backedup  VM to AWS ec2. I did following test run TestVM  backup >  Tape BackupAWS tape Gateway > Sucesss  Restore from backup > VM Restore > Restore to EC2 > FailedRestore job failed Error: File does not exist. File: []. Failed to open storage for read access. Storage: []. Cannot open a local backup for the file level restore. Storages: [AWS-TEST-RUND2022-03-23T101007_BE57.vbk]. Agent failed to process method {Mount.QueryOsInfo}.