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vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
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[Fun-fact] (Floppy) disk celebrates its 50th birthday!

I guess a lot of the community members know this piece of IT-history:Other will even know this guy: Its a floppy disk! First of these were able to safe 0,24MB (!) And these first ones came out 1971! Is such a disk still in use? Yes it is! Here are a few examples:MS Office Older Boeing 747-400 planes still gets their software update on disksDEF CON 28 Aerospace Village: 747-400 Walk through From a Hacker’s Perspective at about 7:53 Some industry machines still uses disk  You can still buy new disk? Of course, but at a rather high price.For those not knowing disks, you can listen here how they sound.Want to use them to make music?! Yes you can!

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bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
posted in Discussion Boards
Copyjob Best Practices: what are yours?

Hi, all I am wanting to get some insight and pick you all’s brains on your best practices when it comes to copyjobs. Here’s the situation I am in:I have backups servers that have fairly complex backups schedules that range from hourly backups to daily, and even weekly backups. Lately I have been running into copyjob failures that say “the restore point is locked by another job”. This is happening when primary backup file healthchecks, merges, or defrags run. I created a topic about this, last week, and @Chris.Childerhose gave me some good insight. I guess I am at take 2, at this point, and I need you all’s input. The problem is, I have no idea how to schedule the copyjobs around these schedules...there just really isn’t a way, and consequently, i don’t know of a way to avoid these failures. They used to not happen. It’s only been recently that they have started cropping up. I am also working with support on this, but I would love you all’s input and get some insight into how you all ta

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anthonyspiteri79
anthonyspiteri79Product Strategy
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Podcast - Veeam Service Provider Console v6 New Features and Enhancements

Listen as I talk through what’s new and enhanced in Veeam Service Provider Console v6https://anchor.fm/virtualization-is-life/episodes/Veeam-Service-Provider-Console-v6-Release-e181pu3/a-a6jub86This is sourced from the sister podcast to the blog, Virtualization if Life! by Anthony Spiteri https://anthonyspiteri.net/console-v6-service-providers/ 

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Fiorano995New Here
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Restore VM to AWS VPC --- HELP

Hi,  We are using Veeam to back up our on Prem HyperV VMs with no problem.  This is working like a dream.  What we urgently need to do is restore a VM to AWS EC2 that we can RDP onto.Ive tried this but when I start the EC2 instance RDP just doesnt work…. Some backgroundWe have an on-prem domain mydomain.local with two physical host servers that contain around 9 VMsThis onprem set up is also covered by Forticlient VPNIn AWS we have a VPC (for example myVPC) with a public and private subnets.  Im able to spin up new EC2 instances into both subnets and connect them to our domain and login with a mydmomain\User for example with no problem.  The issue is when restoring a VM to EC2 via Veeam to our public subnet - there is no way I can RDP to it.  Ive checked that the security group has RDP 3389 listening but no joy.  I cant imagine that Im the only person who has tried to do this????  Does anyone have any advice or walkthrough on this?  As it’s really giving me a massive headache! Many than

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Iams3le
anthonyspiteri79
anthonyspiteri79Product Strategy
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Podcast - Veeam Backup & Replication v11a New Features and Enhancements

Listen as I talk through what’s new and enhanced in Veeam Backup & Replication v11a.https://anchor.fm/virtualization-is-life/episodes/Veeam-Backup--Replication-v11a-Release-e181pln/a-a6jua5bThis is sourced from the sister podcast to the blog, Virtualization if Life! by Anthony Spiteri https://anthonyspiteri.net/backup-replication-v11a-release/

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Veeam VSPC v6 - Now Available

If anyone works for an MSP and uses the VSPC in their environments Veeam just release v6 of this and it can be found here with release notes and what’s new.  Also the download link as well.KB4212: Release Information for Veeam Service Provider Console v6

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vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
Release Information of v11a

Veeam VBR v11a is pre-released!See what's new and download the new binaries here:https://www.veeam.com/kb4215Attention:Early Availability ReleaseVeeam Backup & Replication 11a is currently in the Early Availability stage. This RTM build is fully supported by our Customer Support for production deployments. Until this version becomes generally available (GA) in October, you will only be able to download the bits from this KB article.

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k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
posted in YARA and Script Library
Restart-VSS.ps1 Script

One thing I’ve found as a Veeam customer is you often have to restart the VSS services on your SQL and other VSS aware servers. Here’s a script I wrote to do just that.# Name: Restart-VSS.ps1# Description: Restarts list of services in an array on VMs with a given vSphere tag. Helpful for Veeam B&R processing# For more info on Veeam VSS services that may cause failure see https://www.veeam.com/kb2041Import-Module VMware.PowerCLI$vcenter = "vcenter.domain.com"$services = @("SQLWriter","VSS")$tag = "myAwesomeTag"Connect-VIServer $vcenter$vms = Get-VM |where {$_.Tag -ne $tag}ForEach ($vm in $vms){ ForEach ($service in $services){ If (Get-Service -ComputerName $vm -Name $service -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { Write-Host $service "on computer" $vm "restarting now." Restart-Service -InputObject $(Get-Service -Computer $vm -Name $service); } }} 

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bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
posted in YARA and Script Library
Validator Script

Hi, all I made a simple script that will allow you to run the backup validator and receive a report.  echocd C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\BackupVeeam.Backup.Validator.exe /backup:"BackupName" /report:"C:\VeeamReports"rem May have to specify name(s) of VMs being backed up in jobrem If there are multiple backup jobs, you must create a new line for each job --> Veeam.Backup.Validator.exe /backup:"BackupName" /report:"C:\VeeamReports"

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anthonyspiteri79
anthonyspiteri79Product Strategy
posted in Discussion Boards
Console v6 – What’s in it for Service Providers

Console v6 is out! Focusing on making licensing as easy and as efficient as possible…along with SSO, security and more product integrations.https://anthonyspiteri.net/console-v6-service-providers/

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Manish.BhandariNot a newbie anymore
posted in Discussion Boards
Unique Features

Hey Guys..Please share the unique features of VEEAM in compare to commvault backup software

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Shaokat
ShaokatInfluencer
asked in Discussion Boards
Architecture Document

Hi, I am going to done a PoC for one of my customer. But before done PoC customer wand architecture document from me. anyone can suggest me which documents I can share to my customer.  Thanks 

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Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
The second Veeam Legends class will soon be announced!
The second Veeam Legends class will soon be announced!

Are you interested in the Veeam Legends program? Now’s your chance to become legendary! We will soon be selecting and announcing the second Veeam Legends intake, and there is still time for YOU to contribute!Ways to engage:Blogs and podcasts: Bring your knowledge and expertise to the Veeam community. Never blogged? No worries; you can still contribute. The Veeam Community Hub is open to everyone, whether you are a beginning or experienced writer. Discussion boards: Join discussions about Veeam community projects, Veeam events, the industry and technology news. Veeam User Groups: Connect with your local Veeam community, share experiences, learn from your peers and expand your network! Check out upcoming events and VUG meetings near you. R&D Forums: Join technical discussions about Veeam products with the Veeam R&D Team and submit feature requests! Make sure to add your R&D Forums nickname into your Community Hub profile so all your contributions will be scored.Before we anno

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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Veeam Backup for Office 365 5d Released

Looks like this update snuck out last week… https://www.veeam.com/kb4203

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Chris.Childerhose
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #46
Veeam Community Recap #46

Hello everyone,It’s Friday, and it’s time to recap this week's activities!I and @Rick Vanover talk about Veeam at VMworld 2021, Nutanix .NEXT and share highlights of the week. Check this episode now!  

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JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
IBM announces three LTO-9 Tape Drives

IBM has announced three LTO-9 tape drives for usage in tape library TS4500. The drives are available from September 10th 2021 IBM LTO-9 models F9C, F9S, and S9C are designed for the heavy demands of backup and archive tape storage, and can help improve data center economics. The number of tape drives, cartridges, and associated floor space may be reduced with LTO-9 models, delivering higher performance and greater capacity as compared to IBM LTO-8 tape drive models.IBM LTO-9 features help improve performance and reliability:Native data transfer rate of up to 400 MBps for full-height (FH) tape drives LTO Generation 9 media specification tape cartridge compressed capacity of up to 45 TB (18 TB native) 8 Gbps Fibre Channel dual-ported drive attachment on models F9C and F9S 12 Gbps dual-ported SAS attachment on model S9C A 1 GB internal buffer Support for media partitioning and self-describing tape with IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition LTO-9 encryption support Open Recommended Acces

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JMeixner
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
Second intake of Veeam Legends 2021 is here!
Second intake of Veeam Legends 2021 is here!

We’re thrilled to announce that the second intake of Veeam Legends 2021 is here!A very big welcome and congratulations to the new legendary members and thank you for all your contributions to the community:Chris Childerhose, @Chris.Childerhose  Shane Williford, @coolsport00  Nico Losschaert, @Nico Losschaert  Inderdeep Singh, @Inder  Christian Eromosele, @chris_eromosele  Michael Melter, @Michael Melter Bryan Parkerson, @bp4JC  Shaokat Ullaha, @Shaokat  Alex Heylin, AlexHeylin  Jeffrey Strik, JaySt Derek Mayberry, theviking84 Per Jonsson, perjonsson1960 Damien Commenge, matteu Albert Tedjadiputra, albertwtIf you have been named a Veeam Legend, you should have received the acceptance email in your inbox, which will explain the next steps and what you need to do to be enrolled in our private Veeam Legends community.We will use the email address provided in Community Hub and/or in the R&D Forums for this process, as well as conducting the kick-off call in a few weeks.Congratulations t

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wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Backup Archive Tier

Hello everybody! Think here about start to use the Archive Tier on my SOBR: Do you have any experience or consideration about that?Just want to know! 

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Shaokat
ShaokatInfluencer
asked in Discussion Boards
Physical to Virtual

hi all,anybody know is it possible converted physical server to virtual VM using Veeam just like veritas backup exce. I am going to physical to virtual migration using vmware conversion tool. But when I converted my Linux server it showing booting error. if you have any other good solutions please suggest.  Thanks in advanced 

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marcofabbri
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
How to set up a standalone Veeam ONE 11 Server

Veeam ONE is a comprehensive solution developed by Veeam Software and it enables real-time monitoring, business documentation, and management reporting for Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Veeam ONE is designed to give IT administrators peace of mind to manage every aspect of the modern virtual environment.Do not turn your eyes away from unknown issues lurking in your environment. Mitigate potential issues even before they occur (threats) with 340+ preset alarms and 150+ prebuilt reports available in Veeam One.Veeam ONE brings deep visibility that helps you prevent common backup problems, stay informed about your storage trends and cut costs through better storage usage and planning, thanks to new insights for NAS data.In the typical deployment scenario, all Veeam ONE components are installed on a single machine, and this comprises of the Veeam ONE Client and Veeam ONE Web Client.– Veeam ONE Client is the primary tool used f

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
VUG Canada - Presentation Recording

If anyone is interested in watching the VUG Canada presentation you can find it here - VUG Canada - Recording for Online Event | Veeam Community Resource HubI will be posting another video later of Rasmus’s presentation once he sends it to me.  I missed recording from the start so missed some of his presentation.  We will see the entire thing soon. 

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broch003Not a newbie anymore
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VCC Restore process from archive storage is concerning

We have been using VCC for two years. We keep a couple of months on performance storage and use GFS to move data to the archive storage.  The provider uses Wasabi for archive storage (news to us). We have never had the need to restore from archive until this week. After trying for two days the provider (a Veeam Platinum provider) has told us they must move the entire archive (app 160 TB , copy jobs from ten office locations) to their local repo, have us restore, and then move it back. Honestly the process is very concerning and we were never told of this.My question is has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal? Is the move of data down and back up to archive reliable (since we can’t test restores once its back there)?Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since I am very concerned about the integrity of our firms cloud backups.Also has anyone moved providers? Is there a migration process or similar? Charlie

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Nico Losschaert
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
How to Maintain the 3-2-1 Backup Rule in VMware Cloud on AWS with Veeam in a single photo

Testing this great tool that he left us @jorge.delacruz , it occurred to me to do in a single photo what would be the scenario for a 3 2 1 rule in VMware Cloud on AWS with Veeam     

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marcofabbri
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #45
Veeam Community Recap #45

Happy Friday, Veeam Community!@Rick Vanover aka Rickatron and I go rogue *AGAIN* with the highlights for this week, some legendary updates to share Check it out now!  

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bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
asked in Discussion Boards
Copyjob failing due to running backup

Hi, team I have a weird one for you. Have you ever seen a copyjob fail due to a normal backup running at the same time? I have been running into an issue where a copyjob is running and then a scheduled backup starts while the copyjob is running. When this happens, the copyjob will fail and throw the error: ”Source restore point is locked by another job ” My understanding is that this should not happen. I did notice that the last time it happened, there was an incremental to full backup file merge happening. I am not sure if that may be the cause in this case, but I do not believe that is always what’s happening when I see this error. The copyjob is set to Immediate with a 24x7 schedule. This server is running VBR v.11

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