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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 ne

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

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

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.

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

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 35 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

Don’t miss out on this opportunity, be sure to apply before January 28th, 2022. The vExpert awards will be announced on February 18th. Want direct access to 10 VMware Business Units? Apply for vExpert before we close applications. http://vexpert.vmware.com  

If you ever wondered what security updates are in the Veeam Agent updates look no further.  This KB covers each release and the security implications - https://www.veeam.com/kb3108 

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Opened The word from @Gostev this morning and he mentioned a new VMware vulnerability. With a score of 7.7 it is definitely up there. If you are on ESXi 7.X there is no patch yet but a workaround here: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87249 which is basically disconnect all virtual CD-ROM drives and they provide a PowerCLI command to do it easily.If you didn’t sign up for the newsletter, I strongly recommend it - always great content for a Monday morning. You can get it by registering af https://forums.veeam.com too.DescriptionThe CD-ROM device emulation in VMware Workstation,

Last week I had to troubleshoot a tape (GFS) backup problem. I guess the solution could be interesting for others too.I this environment, synthetic full and tape backup are scheduled at the same day. Full prior to tape jobs. Normally we do see any problems with this configuration. But last week we saw this error in the tape job:12.01.2022 07:04:45 :: Error: Storage ('c97b8ddb-a9dc-4b49-b441-dc1031100a58', CreationTime '08.01.2022 23:15:25') not found As a result the whole job failed. After taking a look at the logs, I found out, the related storage object was a VIB-file of one of the backup jobs, tape job had to bring to tape.[08.01.2022 23:45:07] <01> Info         [CTapeVmTaskBuilder] Storage c97b8ddb-a9dc-4b49-b441-dc1031100a58, mediaset: Weekly, path: servername.vm-187205D2022-01-

Hi Id like to find out what people think the best course of action would be in my circumstances. we have an agent backup job that was running on a WSFC failover cluster file server. this was backup up to a SOBR which was tiered to AWS We have just removed the WSFC cluster in favour of single servers, I have had to create new backup jobs within Veeam (cant use clustered type for non clustered) which was fairly easy my question is what do to with the old jobs, they have backup data attached to them in performance capacity tiers which I don’t want to accidentally remove but I am unsure whether it is best to just disable the job, or remove the protected volumes from the jobs, but I think that if I disable or remove the selections that Veeam wont be able to manage the retention policies thanks!    

It is #VeeAmazing to such great interest recently in becoming a Veeam Certified Architect. I’ve wanted to share the two primary sections of interest:VMCA Study Guide VMCA Practice examsMany of you have left very kind comments on the video walkthroughs of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam and requested a full list split by sections on the exam as to more easily study one particular section. I always aim to please, so please find the list below.Some of you may have noticed the text says exams with an s at the end. I fully intend to write an unofficial practice exam for VMCA as well; however, it is a rather large project so it will take some time before it will be ready.I will continue to produ

I started to relax yesterday, after all made it through airports, covid testing and LAX jammed with people. Just when I was going to relax I saw this, Ah and now Tsunamis!!!!!  Always have a DR plan for any situation :) and down let your guard down! 

Have you ever wanted:A Veeam Backup & Replication demo environment to quickly try something out on? A clean environment you could install Veeam Backup & Replication and configure backup from storage snapshot? Two Cisco HyperFlex clusters to test backup and replication on? A comprehensive Veeam Backup & Replication guided tutorial?If you answered yes to any of the above, do you have a Cisco.com login?If not, register for an account, click here. If so, you may want to considered requesting your own private Veeam + dCloud environment.PLEASE NOTE - Cisco dCloud access requires your Cisco partner Access Level to be L2 or higher.On Cisco dCloud you will find two different Veeam Backup & Replication environments. The first is a “l

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 30 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

Last year Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5 added purpose-built backup and recovery for Microsoft Teams. Since then many customer and partners asked me "How can we protect all of our teams and exclude specific teams objects based on names automatically?".As there is no filter logic within the UI for the Backup Job object exclusion list, I solved this "problem" using the script down below. First we store the credentials (encrypted) in a txt file:$credential = Get-Credential$credential.Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Set-Content <path to secure.txt>And here's the script. Just change the values for the following variables: $organizationname Name of the tenant - Only needed if more than one is configured$backupjob            Name of existing the Backup Job$filter                    Name of the team that needs to be excluded. Regular expressions can be used$userName            Username for retrieving