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So our company is growing, and planning for the future we are moving our VEEAM to a new server, and of course decommission the old one. With this move we want to start fresh, but retain access to the old repository. Is there a certain process we can do, so that the old jobs will not be migrated to the new server, thus reducing clutter, and allow us to restore from the old repository?The reason for this is the backup job infrastructure was created, and adapted to a fast growing company so it was sort of a reactionary solution. We now have the storage and plan on moving to the cloud. This will hopefully allow us to move away from our aging tape drive a good bit.Thank you all for your help in this matter.

As many of you know I have written two books on Veeam and they have done well. Since going to VeeamON this year I am actually excited to write a third edition now. So based on what you have tested with the Beta what would you like to see covered?I am waiting for the what's new document so I can plan things out but if there a few topics of interest I will try to incorporate them. 😁

Hi guys,Which one is better for ensuring about our backup files health:Validating backup files by run Backup Validator as a script after backup job is done. Schedule Storage-Level Corruption Guard BRDavoud

Hey guys, this is query related to failover plan. Is failover plan dependent on replication job? When u select failover plan, u can select from replicas or infrastructure. From infrastructure option, can we select the VMs which are not replicated? 

Happy Friday from me to you all today! Today’s Fun Friday is a random one. I moved home this week and last night I was putting together my new office and thought to myself, I wonder if everyone else has as much random tech as me? So my question to you all is, what does your workspace/computer space look like?Hasn’t got to be pictures, but just little things like, how many screens? Any servers/lab tech?Favourite gadget in there such as a streamdeck or a ring light etc? For me, my favourite little gadget is my Crash Bandicoot “Cable Guy” that holds my Xbox controller!I’ve got 2x 28” screens and I’m really happy I finally have a long enough wall that both my screens can sit next to each other instead of at a near 90 degree angle! (It’s not good for the spine to twist that much in your chair

Does anyone have experience with data recovery (VMware to Nutanix AHV) with Veeam?

We are beginning to put together a cloud based backup infrastructure, so we want to insure that we are leaving some bandwidth available for our employees, and not hobbling our internal backups. I have been doing some light research, and was wondering if there was a way to throttle only the backups that go up to the cloud, while leaving the on premise back up to disk jobs running at full.  I have seen how to setup the global rules, but they seem to apply to all jobs unless I am mistaken. Thank you in advance for any advise you can give me, or point me in the right direction.

Customer running v10 on 3 existing VBR servers and Enterprise Manager. EM has perpetual socket license.Replaced perpetual socket license on the EM server with new instance license.Opened up all three backup server consoles, and opened up the License dialog. All three showed perpetual licenses still.When Update or Install or Remove were clicked, the warning came up that the licensing was managed by an EM Server, did we want to continue? Cancelled this.Backup Service and Guest Catalog services were restarted: no change.Backup server was restarted: no change.Removed backup server from EM server; opened up license dialog on VBR, removed license so it is now Community Edition. Started Database collection. Closed and reopened dialog box on VBR, no change.Finally just put the new Instance license on the VBR. The other two servers are still showing perpetual, although successive database collections all showed successful connections to the backup se

I am striking out on my Google-Fu and Forums-Fu ! I can't find a definitive result for what happens to backups when the source VMDK is resized (larger). Can anyone point me to the correct link for a customer to review? I think the backup job runs a new full because the block map changes. But for Replication, a rescan of the disk supposedly prevents resending the whole disk. 

Sorry for the repost but my last post doesn’t appear to exist anymore.Trying to install V11 onto a server 2012 R2 but just getting a red crossJMeixner “SQL set up ends with “Process returned exit code: 0x84B30002” Do you have a SQL server installation on this machine already? “There are some SQL installed but I believe this is from the first time I attempted to install VBR as they have the same install date and below is all the apps installed on the first date 

Hello Team,Greetings!The option mentioned in below link:https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/file_share_backup_job_secondary_target.html?ver=110 Is this only applicable for Veeam backed up VMs and we cannot use the secondary target for having a duplicate copy of replicated VMs correct?Thanks in advance!~ Ravi Kumar S

Hello, I’m trying to restore a full backup on a new ESXi host but it says Restore Point(s) is corrupted however the backup file is Full Backup Appreciate your support.

I didn’t see anywhere a discussion about this, so I say to myself: ok, let’s try.I tried a bare-metal recovery on a laptop I use for testing purposes, an HP 250 last gen laptop. On that I installed a Ubuntu 22.04 and then a copy of Veeam Agent (last version, of course).Did a backup (not encrypted) on USB drive and then I created a recovery-USB from a patched ISO linux ver with drivers.After that, I installed Windows 10 21H2 on that notebook, with drivers and Veeam Agent 5.0.3.This time I didn’t create a backup, but just a USB for bare-metal recovery.Lastly, I remove every partition on that laptop. What I wanted to test was the possibility of running a bare-metal recovery using a USB created from a different OS than backups.I expected process to go smoothly, but that’s not the case.What I got was this error. 

Hi all, I have a backup that fails with the error Failed to call RPC function 'PluginsHost.StoreOnceReadFile'and RPC function call failed. Function name: [DoRpcWithBinary].I couldn't find anything that talks about that plugin or that function on the internet.Do you know more about this function and why this problem can happen?Thanks

I have a quick question regarding enabling backup file encryption. I would like to start using this option, but not clear on how it is being used once it is enabled.It appears that Veeam B&R continues to use the selected encryption password (in my case loss protection is disabled) during backups and restores.If someone were to gain access to the NAS that I am backing up to and attempted to restore a VM, they would need to have the password to restore the VM or guest files correct?If I do a test file level restore from an encrypted VM, I am not prompted to enter a password during the restore process.Thank you in advanceDon 

Hi to all,I try to understand the behavior of my lab jobs.I have a backup jobs (of one VM) with the following settings:Scheduled: every days at 22:00Retention: 7 daysSynthetic Full: SaturdayGFS: 12M, 5YRepository: Hardened for 7 daysenabled a secondary copy to backup copy job with following settings:Scheduled: every days at 08:00Retention: 7 daysGFS: 12M, 5YRepository: Deduplicate storageOn backup jobs all work fine but on backup copy jobs appears only the first full (example of today) and then all incremental until the end of June and at 30 June has copied (created) a full backup (MY) not deleting any of the previous backups.Restore point

I used to be able to use the Veeam Agent software to back up a single physical Server 2019 server but when I went to the Veeam website last week it looks like the Veeam Agent software is no longer able to be used to back up physical servers for free. Is there still a version of the Veeam Agent software or another Veeam product that I can be used to back up a single physical Server 2019 server for free? I need to use a free solution until my organization is able to purchase another Veeam license.

Hi All,with latest version of Veeam B&R, i have a Backup Jobs (that make copy on a remote Mac Folder via SSH that ends with this warning: 23/06/2022 04:33:51 :: Failed to transfer operation summary to backup server: Failed to delete file 'C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\vMac_Files\__IP_USERNAME\Report\__IP_USERNAME_2022-6-23T4331.csv'   If i go to that folder i’m able to delete the file.Any suggest?Thanks 

Hey guys, I have faced this error in customer environment where backup SOBR offload to cloud failed because it shows the error “ TLS version is not permitted on this storage account”, the TLS version is 1.2. I referred some articles and they suggests to add a registry value. One article shows the following registry value details:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\Dword: AzureConcurrentTaskLimitvalue: 1 will this registry value work?

Probably you’ve heard the rumors or news already, but today Broadcom announced that it’s going to acquire VMware.https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-acquire-vmware-approximately-61-billion-cash-and-stockI personally don’t know what to think about this, but I don’t have any positive feelings about the future of VMware. After they were split of from Dell I was hoping that things would get better, especially their quality. But now being merged with Broadcom (they’re going to rebrand as “VMware”) I’m not sure what we can expect from them.What do you say about this? Anything positive or negative about this?Update 26.06.2022:Broadcom did publish a new blog post. It doesn't contain mu

 It’s that time of the IT lifecycle again, where we talk upgrades and decommissioning.On the 12th July 2022, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 will go End of Life. Not just to extended/security patch support, but completely out of support.So, why am I talking about Veeam? If you’ve got an installation of Veeam that utilised a SQL Server Express database, and you installed Veeam prior to 9.5 Update 4, odds are you’ve got a SQL Server 2012 Express database. This creates a security risk as of the next Microsoft patch cycle, scheduled for the 12th July 2022.I would also like to state that whilst this isn’t the focus of the article, if you’ve got a Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam ON

I am going to start a PoC for my client. My client using Apache Cloudstack. any have any idea how can i do this using Veeam backup.Thnaks  

If I survive the Tsunami, Sea Monsters, or hordes of American fishermen I will return later to talk about RedHat’s Kubernetes distribution for testing: Local Openshift!  

Happy Friday everyone! Thats right, this Friday I’m gonna share a fact that will likely make you sigh 😩 Did you know Christmas is only 26 weeks away? We’re halfway there again! Everyone start your Christmas shopping if you celebrate it 😆 If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice took place earlier this week, meaning every day is now slightly less bright, inversely if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, you’re through the darkest day of the year now and things are looking up! The curiosity Mars Rover sang happy birthday to itself one year after landing on Mars, making it officially the loneliest known birthday celebration. At some point your parents picked you up, put you down, and never picked you up again! Now, who’s next 😆