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For those that happened to attend the VUG Canada or even those that will watch it later can please drop some feedback over in my other post so I can ensure we have great content for the next one.  Any comments welcome on content, flow, improvements, things you did or did not like, etc.I am working on the next VUG and hopefully we will cover something like Orchestrator in this one. 😎Feedback thread is here - VUG Canada Feedback

Hello, Customer have an existing veeam on prem setup plus tape, they do manually  tape vaulting - they manually transfer the tape from HO to dr site (vaulting site).What is the best and seamless approach so that customer no need to go to Dr site to do vaulting.Can we relocate the Tape from HO to Dr, setup veeam resources (server and storage) and have copy/move from HO to Dr then do the tape backup jobs?  Thanks

Does anyone have a network diagram of how to restore through a proxy and without, with ports and protocols?

Hi everybody!Im writing this question more like as curiosity and to re-think in my home lab, I've been using a HP 360 Gen8 with 128GB Ram and 2TB SSD with vsphere 7 to host my full home lab: 3 hosts Vsphere cluster, TrueNas for NAS & NFS storage, and pfsense for routing and firewalling, and a Windows Server 2016 with Veeam B&R.Now Im thinking in something more “electricity friendly” , but I would love to read some setups and ideas from all of you, and maybe mixing them up a bit we can get with the SUPER HOME LAB!thnx!read you in the comments!

I tried to update veeam 5.0... but it didn't work. I tried to install the patch and it didn't work. I uninstalled version 5 to install version 6 and it didn't work. I tried to install version 6 on two other stations and it still does not work. I get a windows installer popup when I try to install VEEAM and then it crashes. can you help me please.

Here we go, another Friday, another Fun Friday chapter!As an architect solution, we normally develop, deploy and maintain a vast number of data protection scenarios. We often take care many backup environment and occasionally, we have contact with many technologies and professionals.So, what was the stranger thing that you saw in a backup infrastructure?It could be anything:Strange kind of deployment scenarios. Bad behavior during backup executions. People doing strange things during the project.Starting now.... 

Good afternoon Group.It is the first time that I am going to install veeam with a client, I have been reading a lot of the documentation and watching the how to videos, but I can't find anywhere that recommends me how to partition all the installation paths and on which disks to put the installation paths for 100 VMs. From what I've read, it would be something like this: 1.-Installation folder at least 40 GB in path A, in this path the database is installed, wouldn't it be better to install the database in another path? 2.-Write cache folder of at least 10 Gb in SSD in path B:? 3.-Guest Catalog Folder, on SSD in path D:, how much space? Hopefully someone can give me their recommendation.Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone 😊 With so much Veeamazing content being produced daily, it’s great if we can keep this all tidy. Once thing I’ve noticed recently is an increase in content that’s been miscategorised. When creating a topic, such as this one, the very first thing you’re asked is “What kind of topic are you creating?” Alt Text: Image showing the new topic layout, it asks the question ‘What type of topic are you creating?’ with two radio boxes, one labelled ‘Question’, the other labelled ‘Content’ Today I want to discuss, when is a ‘Question’ appropriate? To put simply, a question should be chosen when you are in need of a specific answer for your needs/information. This would be questions that have a specific goal in mind,

Hi, can you help me figure out this scenario.Customer have a license for VBR version 11 with few instances.They want to backup their Azure VM’s and store the backups on their Azure blob or Azure Smb file share. So the plan is  to spin a vm instance on their azure,  install VBR on that new VM instance, add the license, add their VMs as managed server on the VBR, configure target backup repository as Network attached storage (SMB) or configure target backup repository as (Object Storage - Azure Blob).Note: License is for VBR version 11 and not for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.Now the question is, what is the proper approach for this scenario?Can we add each vm instance from their azure as managed servers to be able to backup it up or do we have to connect through Veeam backup Microsoft azure appliance? (Note: Customer does not want to deploy Azure Appliance)Is adding Azure SMB share as backup repository supported? Can

Dear concern, I’m looking for a way (if even possible) to migrate a Windows Server 2012 Foundation(!) to an upgradable Windows Server 2012 Essentials or higher. Final goal is to get this system on a 2022 Essentials including all installed applications. The Server 2012 Foundation is not a DC !A direct upgrade of a Windows 2012 R2 Foundation to any other Windows Server version is imho not possible.Previous steps so far:New machine running main lates ESXi7.02 Migrate physical Server 2012 to VMware host. All test have been successful executed. Install Veeam Community main lates to the VM  Backup VMNow my question concerning the restore. Will this be done to an existing VM e.g. running on a Server 2016 Essentials or even higher? What restore method will be applicable?highly appreciate your comments/hintscheers

Dear Veeam I need your help,1-I would like to know, How Veeam names each file. Exam xxx_Backup_2022-08-18T22018I refer to the last numbers. 2- I don't want to change the name of the backup job, I want to be able to edit or change the naming convention of the backup objects in the repository. like YYYY-MM-DD. 

Today I received a great surprise in my email from Madalina Cristil (@MadiCristil), the manager of the Veeam Community Legends program, and Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) that I was renewed into the 2022 second intake.You can find out about the Veeam Legends program on the Community Hub here - Veeam Community Hub.It has been a great first

Hi Everyone, The new Veeam Legends were just announced and it got me thinking about all the effort everyone puts into the communities. I am finding it a big challenge to keep up. As an IT person you not only need to participate but keep abreast of the all the technologies and ever evolving knowledge base. I have had periods recently when I have struggled to keep up with all my commitments, social media feeds, work, life etc. What are your strategies to keep things moving and keep your sanity at the same time? I am certain that among all the very smart people here there could be some great systems, strategies that we can all benefit from.

One of the things that we have in all our projects and backup environments are Backups Jobs.After deploying all components and servers on our Veeam infrastructure, the first thing that we do is the creation of our backup jobs.Thinking of that, I write this post telling you what is the main nomenclatures that I’ve been used on my Veeam Backup & Replication. B2D - Backup to DiskBackup jobs that we use to send data to any disk repository. B2T - Backup to TapeBackup jobs that we use to send data to tape libraries. B2C - Backup to CloudBackup jobs that we use to send data to cloud. On V11 we need a SOBR to send data to public cloud like AWS, Azure and GCP. However, if we have a Veeam Cloud Connect repository, we can send data to this kind of 'cloud' an

Good morning Community!I’ve a question to you folks, based on a true story.Do you often have not enterpries customers that ask you to NOT enable backups encryption to avoid having to manage “keys” in case of recovery need?And if so, how do you handle it at the security level?Having them not encrypted need to make backup repositories super strong and access notifications enabled.But. Other than that?Do you guys have any other tips to share?

How would you configure the rule for this infrastructure and limitations.Infrastructure:HPE Simplivity - 4 nodesRunning Policy-based backups for near line native restores.Veeam Backup & Replication 11aVeeam Backup Server is a VM Veeam Backup Server is a Proxy Server Additional VM running as a Proxy Server 1x HPE StoreOnce 3650 33TB as the backup target. Wasabi for S3 Storage (25TB capacity) (No physical server in the environment) Enterprise license editionI would like to use the StoreOnce on-premise as my long and deep backup storage say 6 months and only use Wasabi for disaster with say 1 month - 2 month retention on there.Have Production VMs that want offsite, Dev and QAS can stay onsite.If I only use a Backup Job with SOBR for offsite VM’s how do I get that level of retention onsite and that level offsite.Or do I have to stretch to BCJ wit

I’m trying to add an account that does not have MFA using the Veeam O365 Backup Accounts Manager. Password validation using the account password fails. Is an application password now required?

Happy Friday everyone! With the Veeam Legends second intake around the corner, what day do you think it will be announced? Rules:You can’t guess the same date as someone elseClosest to the date wins! GO! —-Entries so far:@victorwu - 30th August@Chris.Childerhose - 31st August@JMeixner 1st September@Scott - 2nd September@Stabz - 5th September@dloseke - 6th September@Nico Losschaert - 7th September@marcofabbri - 9th September@regnor - 16th September

Hi guys,There are some new Veeam ON Tours dates available. You can now share it on your social media channels if you'd like so: CZ Rep & Slovakia https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2022-cz 13th of September  Germany https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2022-germany 5 events – end of September – beginning of Oct   Netherlands  https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2022-nl 6th of September 

Case ScenarioLeverage Veeam VM online replication to migrate VM across different VMware environments EnvironmentVMware ESXi 5.5 (end of supported) Cisco UCS enrionment (end of support soon) Fibre Channel storage (end of support soon) VM Guest: 1000 VM Guests Data size: 200TB Target PlanMigrate all VMs into the Hyperconverged Infrastructure platform DifficultyCompatibility issues with ESXi 5.5 and 7.0 Some dependency problems exist, in-place upgrade to ESXi 7.0 is not supported Minimize the service interruption time during the VMs migration VMware ESXi 5.5 is already end of support Migration ApproachUse Veeam VBR to migrate VMs from different ESXi platform (ESXi 5.5, 6.0, 6.7) to new VM environment (ESXi 7.0).

Veeam Backup for AWS v5 is here!Join Gaylord Friend and Josh Hicks to learn about Veeam Backup for AWS v5 new functionality and enhancements that include:-Amazon Aurora backup-Amazon EFS indexing-Configuration backup and restore-Plus more!Register Now!

As a system consultant I often implement solutions for customers in the SMB market.Working for the SMB market is often more challenging than working for the enterprise market because of the limited financial budget/investment. I always try to deliver a solution that is as good and secure as for customers of the enterprise market but of course with other and cheaper solutions 😉. Of course VEEAM is always being used as the software defined backup solution 😊. For me personally the golden 3-2-1-1-0 rule is one of the most important things to keep in mind when creating a good backup solution for the customer.More info about that you can read in one of my first posts :

Blocks and Files published some details about the ObjectFirst hardware.See yourself:https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/08/26/objectfirst-backup-storage-target-box-details/