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Hi All, check my first  V100 Summit expirience ! https://pulia.com.br/my-veeam-100-summit-experience/ 

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Hi everyone,I would like to share my lates experience at the V100 Summit in Prague.For those you don’t know what the V100 Group is an exclusive community of Veeam experts and enthusiasts that includes the Legends, Vanguards and VMP.Once a year, we are gifted with the opportunity to meet in person, attend to many conferences and be hand to hand with the Community team, as well as the Marketing and Product strategy team, getting access to all cool content, new ideas, etc. Many of the other V100 members had share already their experience, from tech perspective mostly, Im going to turn that into more sentimental or “romantic”. Have you ever feel that you don’t belong to anywhere? Or simply you don’t fit with the “standard” like around you?In the Veeam community, I have found a place where I can be myself, and be surrounded by people who likes and live the same things like I do, technology, knowledge sharing, and friendship, no matt

Tape Library (Tape Library) What is it? A Tape Library is an automated storage system used for backing up and archiving data onto magnetic tapes (cartridges). It fundamentally consists of the following components: Tape Drives: Hardware components where data is written to or read from the tape. Slots: Physical locations where the tape cartridges are stored. Robotic Mechanism (Picker/Robotic Arm): An automated arm that retrieves cartridges from their slots and places them into the tape drives, or vice-versa, according to software commands. This system is ideal for storing large volumes of data at a low cost, in an energy-efficient manner, and for long periods. Cartridges typically use LTO (Linear Tape-Open) technology. How to Use Tape Library with Veeam? Veeam Backup & Replication supports tape units,

The Veeam 100 Summit 2025 was more than just an event, but a journey of innovation, intense human moments and shared visions. Once again, the Veeam community demonstrated why it is considered one of the strongest and most technical in the IT landscape.In this article, I want to share my personal experience and explain what inspired me, what struck me, and why this Summit gave me insight into the next stage of my professional growth. I wrote about my first impressions of what happened in my previous article. Innovation at the core: Veeam V13 and Veeam Data CloudThe event was a succession of information aimed at conveying a clear message:Veeam V13 and Veeam Data Cloud are reshaping the future of data protection.The new V13 version is not just an upgrade but a reworkin

Hi Everyone,In the ever changing landscape of data protection… Shut Up AI!!!!!! Sorry I just felt like saying that today 😁 Turn off the Playstation turn on Veeam 13 in the Lab! Like most of you I have sidelined my PC gaming activity (somewhat) in order to dive into the latest Veeam 13.0.1 release.Veeam Security Officer Reminder, always follow Veeam’s best practices and create a Veeam Security Officer or as we all know them as veeamso! The veeamadmin then is forced to ask for approval to enable certain services, like ssh and shell. Veeam Green? After following diligently the new process (caveat, this is my home lab where I wear many hats, in fact like all my jobs ever in IT :(, I am the security officer), asking the security officer for approval, I received access to the shell. Immediately I noticed the green. In fact I am lying I did not but a colleague at work m

Hello Community,I encountered the following error while performing a restore operation: 8:26:00 PM Error: bad allocation Failed to upload disk. Skipped arguments: [EmulatedDiskSpec]; Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk} What I’ve tried so far:Verified network connectivity between components. Checked available storage space on the target. Restarted the Veeam Backup service.Despite these steps, the error persists. Has anyone faced this issue before? What could be causing the bad allocation error during disk upload, and how can I fix it? Any insights, troubleshooting steps, or best practices would be greatly appreciated.   

Hi,My backup job, for instance, XYZ fails with these messages:   Question: What could cause snapshot creation to fail in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud, and what should I check first?   ​

From my experience, most organizations leverage tags to organize their backup jobs.But here’s the tricky question: How are these tags managed?Do you tag during deployment? When the business requests it? Based on applications or SLAs? Or do you sometimes forget to tag workloads? There might be a better way:Let Veeam ONE handle the heavy lifting for you. What are we going to do?Reduce operational overhead by dynamically adding or removing VMs from jobs Use Veeam ONE to automate vSphere tags Target workloads with db or sql in their names Exclude replicas of those VMs Create a backup job targeting the newly created tagRequirementsVeeam ONE needs permission to create tags.For this, the Business View must not rely on external sources—Veeam ONE will act as the managing component.Navigate to Server Settings → Business View and disab

Are your Veeam Backups failing because your VMs live in DMZs or tightly firewalled networks? You're not alone! In large-scale, secure environments, traditional network-based Guest Processing often hits a wall (literally!). But there's a simple, yet powerful, fix you might not know about: Changing the order of Veeam's Guest Processing Methods.We're diving deep into the Why and How of prioritizing networkless processing for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. This quick configuration change ensures Veeam always tries the most suitable, hypervisor-channel-based communication first, bypassing those tricky network barriers and keeping your backups successful.https://integriservices.blogspot.com/2025/11/regkey-of-month-november.html

Zero Trust or Bust but Community Trust is a Must! The ransomware avalanche that we have experienced over the last few years has turned most IT people, including Data Protection professionals, into paranoid zero trust fanatics. Everything is viewed through the lens of “beware”. To some this can become overwhelming, after all we humans like to feel safe and comfortable and that requires a trustful environment. So where can we find that comforting trust zone? The community,  that is where!I had the great pleasure of participating in my 4th V100 Summit this November in Prague Czech republic. Veeam is a special company that does something remarkable for its community heroes each year. They bring them together from around the world to share product updates, and gather feedback. Perhaps most importantly they help the community members bond together.I could spend time going over the fantastic sessions and the great content that I was pre

I have three machines, one, an old Windows 10 (22H2 19045.6332) box and two Windows 11 (24H2 26100-6899) boxes.  All are being backed up with nightly incremental and weekly full using the Windows Veeam Agent for Windows Free edition 6.3.2.1302.  Each time a new version of the Agent is released, I install it and create new Recovery Media.Recently, I needed to restore one of the Windows machines, so using Rufus 4.11 and the most recently created Veeam Recovery Media ISO, I created a recovery USB.This USB booted just fine (although it seemed a little slower than other recoveries), but when it got to the initial menu screen, I had no access to either my keyboard or mouse.  I tried re-creating this on both other machines and both had problems; Windows 10 had not network connectivity and the other Windows 11 machine had the same not keyboard, no mouse problem.As I got a warning from Rufus regarding out of date Windows boot files when creating the Win11 USBs, I went ba

Hello, dear community! I am here with another packed newsletter. 🤓 There has been a delay this month as we have been busy planning and executing the Veeam100 Summit at the beginning of the month. In the middle of the month, I was co-organising a local VUG event, so my newsletter have gone slightly out of the standard timing. This one is full of insightful content related to various Veeam products, patches and releases. Take a look for yourself and stay tuned for the November edition, which will be published at the beginning of next month as usual. Veeam Vanguard October Newsletter ​@AndreTheGiant - Veeam beta support for XCP-ng - https://vinfrastructure.

IntroductionThe Veeam Data Platform V13 is now available, and it brings many new features for working with the REST API. With these improvements, it is easier to automate tasks and integrate Veeam into your workflows. Sometimes, it is necessary to check backup data from NAS systems for viruses or similar threats. This helps ensure that the data is safe before being restored or used. Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1, we can trigger an Instant File Share Recovery using the REST API. And why not use a Python script to scan such backup data? There is a Python script for thatThe Python script initiates an Instant File Share Recovery. The backup data is made available to a Windows system, referred to as the mount server. On the Lin

I want to introduce you to another community project I worked on: The Veeam Data Platform Content Pack for Graylog. Graylog is a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that enables the efficient collection, search, analysis, and alerting of various types of machine-generated data. More details about their products can be found on the official website.Content Pack DescriptionThe first version of the Content Pack enables the visualization of security-relevant events transmitted by Veeam Backup & Replication via Syslog. In addition to a pre-configured Dashboard, further information is extracted from the Syslog data, which allows the ingested data to be analyzed further. For more details about the Content Pack, see

Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is the best way to protect accounts from password theft or phishing. Therefore it’s recommended to enable such options, when they’re available. Since some time it’s possible to use MFA for Veeam Accounts, which are used to access the my.veeam.com portal or also the Veeam Community 😉Login to your Veeam account at my.veeam.com and click on edit profile in the top right corner.At the bottom of your profile details, you need to click on “Enable MFA”. As a side note, even after enabling MFA this link still states “Enable” instead of “Disable”.

I have a lot of jobs that are getting a new naming convention. The old way to do this was remove from the job from the configuration, modify the folder name on the repository, rename the job, rescan the Repo, then map the back files to the job.   I found there is an updated way to do this and is a welcome feature to save time. To go one step further, it is not recommended to use the remove/rescan method due to the fact the files get new identifiers that cause the restore points to be seen as new data by all tape and cloud storage offload jobs.  To test it, lets create a new job.In my case it’s called “___TEST_NAME_CHANGE” to keep it at the top of my screen.  Next, after running a job, we will click “Disk” on the left to make sure there is a backup on the Repository. It’s similar, but it’s not q

I upgraded my vmware (esxi and vcenter) from v7 to v8. What i do is install esxi8 and vcenter8 then i migrate the vm under v7 to v8.After migrated to v8 i run the existing job and get error, i can see the vm size is 0 in the backup job. Then i remove the exising vm in the backup job and select same vm in vcenter8. The backup job is running but vbr make full backup, likely vbr see this is new vm.How i can retain existing backup chain so when vbr backup same vm but in the different vcenter the vbr will continue by doing incremental backup? 

Dear Community,I would like to ask about the potential impact of Palo Alto XDR installed on our Veeam Backup & Replication v12 infrastructure, specifically on: Veeam Backup Server (Windows 11) Veeam Backup Proxy (Ubuntu) Could you please advise on the following: Does Palo Alto XDR require any exclusions to ensure stable Veeam operations? What specific paths, processes, or services should be excluded on both Windows and Linux components? Are there any known impacts or compatibility considerations when Palo Alto XDR is active on VBR v12? Your guidance would be greatly appreciated to help ensure both security and optimal backup performance.Thank you.

After a couple of busy weeks with work I was finally able to complete my blog on the V100 Summit in Prague.  Please see below and a link to my blog post where I highlight many of the V100 members.Veeam 100 Summit Recap - Prague 2025  Veeam 100 Summit Recap – Prague 2025 I’d like to first thank Rick Vanover, Madalina Cristil, Nikola Pejková, Safiya Mohamed

HiWe have Fortinet Fortimanager and Fortianalyzer running as VMs. Up until last week, these got backup up absolutely fine. We upgraded these from 7.2.11 to v.7.4.8. Since then, the backups have been marked as suspicous with potential malware activity detected.I’m wondering what is going on. It may just be a coincidence but I don’t believe there is any malware.If I mark the backups as clean, the next backup just gets flagged as suspicious. This only happens on these 2 VMs. All other backups are running fine.  Has anyone come across this sort of issue before? Or am I missing something somewhere?ThanksRoy   

While browsing through Veeam 13 I came across something that truly stuck out: Send me a Daily AI-powered summary of all backup activities!AI-powered summaryNow that is a wish come true! I set the time and impatiently waited in my home lab to see! Sure enough voila!Daily Summary Sometimes it is the little things that make one even more appreciative! 

ChallengeWith Hyper-V as well as other hypervisors getting more resonance in the last months for unspoken reasons, we faced several infrastructures running the Azure Local implementation of it.These can easily be backed up by Veeam Backup and Replication. Just like regular Hyper-V clusters. Though, some peculiarities might arise.One of those for us was, that some auto-generated VMs might appear with names like:In one environment, we found >10 of those VMs in the stack. Roles of These VMsAPI Serve