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Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
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VBR v11 - Step by step: Installation & Configuration Best Practices - PART 2

  BR v.11 - Step by step Install & Configure (Best Practice) | Veeam Community Resource Hub#########################################################   CREATE NEW JOB add multiple VM 15 restore point Incr Weekly sinth full Saturday  ######################################################### #Create new Job:$test2 = Find-VBRViEntity -Name "spc*"$repository = Get-VBRBackupRepository -ScaleOut -Name *****-SOBRAdd-VBRViBackupJob -Name "D002-TEST2" -Entity $test2 -BackupRepository $repository #Set 15 restore point:$retention = New-VBRJobOptions -ForBackupJob$retention.BackupStorageOptions.RetainCycles = 15$job = Get-VBRJob -Name "D002-TEST2"Set-VBRJobOptions -Job $job -Options $retention#Configure job schedule and enable it:Get-VBRJob -Name "D002-TEST2" | Set-VBRJobSchedule -Daily -At "23:30" -DailyKind Everyday | Enable-VBRJobSchedule#Set Forever Incremental:Get-VBRJob -Name "D002-TEST2" | Set-VBRJobAdvancedBackupOptions -Algorithm Incremental -TransformFullToSyntethic $true -TransformIn

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Chris.Childerhose
Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VBR v11 - Step by step: Installation & Configuration Best Practices - PART 1

The virtual machines I use for the deployment are generated from a Template (Golden Image) through a configuration file unattend.xml Answer files (unattend.xml)https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/update-windows-settings-and-scripts-create-your-own-answer-file-sxs What is Windows System Image Manager?https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-vista/cc766347(v=ws.10) Useful links for sizingVeeam Architects Site https://www.veeambp.com/ Veeam Size Estimation Tool (VSE)https://vse.veeambp.com/#/ The Restore Point Simulatorhttp://rps.dewin.me/ Veeam Ports Calculatorhttps://www.veeambp.com/ports/ REFS Calculatorhttp://dewin.me/calculator/ Bandwidth Calculatorhttp://rps.dewin.me/bandwidth/ Pricing calculator for small businesshttps://www.veeam.com/pricing-calculator NAS Calculatorhttps://cloudoasis.com.au/nas-calculator/ Veeam Clikable Demoshttps://veeamclick.be/ Prerequisite: System Requirements - Veeam Backup Guide for vSphere

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Veeam AWS 3.0 - Patch 1 released

Veeam has released patch 1 for anyone that uses the AWS agent.  Notes here - https://www.veeam.com/kb4094 

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Chris.Childerhose
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texastigNot a newbie anymore
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Run Veeam Endpoint twice a day.

I tried to search for Run Veeam Endpoint twice a day, but nothing came up. I heard their was some scripts. Could someone point to some?Thanks.

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Mildur
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omar.desouzaComes here often
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Veeam O365 Backup Applications

Hello, I created 10 new auxiliary backup applications into my organization. How could I know if my backup job is using all the new backup applications?Thanks in advance, Omar De Souza.,

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Mildur
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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Veeam Backup for Office 365 5c Released

Veeam have snuck this update out late in the day! Veeam Backup for Office 365 5c has been released! Full notes hereIn addition to the key Teams bug fix that has been doing the rounds as a hotfix there seem to be mainly other Teams related fixes such as inability to backup chat messages newer than October 2020 and Backup Proxies out of memory when backing up to object storage! Time to get patching! Thanks @Mildur for clarifying it’s a CU for 5c as 5c was released earlier this year!

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Nico Losschaert
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
VUG Canada - Sign Up now

Not sure how many people check the Events section but the first VUG Canada meeting is happening on September 21st. There are only two attendees including myself so be sure to sign up. We have Rasmus attending 😎https://community.veeam.com/events/sept-21st-rasmus-haslund-at-vug-canada-meeting-56Hope to see more people there.

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Nico Losschaert
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PaulDNot a newbie anymore
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Veeam Cloud Connect Question

Hi,We’re a long time user of Veeam B&R and it’s worked very well for our on-site backups.I’m now testing/evaluating Veeam Cloud Connect with a UK based Veeam CSP (PeaSoup) to additionally backup some of our critical VMs to a Cloud Repository. This is a 5TB trial, but I’m not sure if this has any bearing on my question.This is my scenario:When running a Cloud Connect Backup Copy Job containing 15 VMs only 2 of these VMs will ever be running/active concurrently. The other VMs will be “Waiting for backup infrastructure resources availabilty” until 1 of the active backups completes and then the remaining VMs are processed sequentially; but never more than 2 concurrently. Whilst I understand what this means, I’d like to know what “decides” this limitation.So my questions:Is it an internal Veeam algorithm, available bandwidth or is it the Cloud Service Provider that “decides” this? As a trial user is it possible that we’re being limited to 2 concurrent connections by the CSP? Is it a “ha

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Nico Losschaert
JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
[Changed in V11] - Handling of exported and orphaned backups

I see one more change in VBR V11 Beta - the handling of exported backups and of backups with no associated backup job. Exported Backups:Up to V10 exported (disk) backups were put in the section “Disk (imported)”In V11 the exported backups are put in another section - “Disk (VeeamZIP)”. Up to V10 I have seen this section when creating a VeeamZip archive intentionally only. Backups from deleted backup jobs:Backups which were created from deleted backup jobs were put in the section “Disk (Imported)”, too. In V11 there is a new section: “Disk (Orphaned)” I think this describes the status of these backups much better than before.

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AbelaNot a newbie anymore
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Executing shell script inside a guest OS after backup completion

Hello there,I want to execute a shell script inside a guest Linux VM automatically after a backup job is completed. I wonder how can i achieve this. What is the best way for me to do this?

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MicoolPaul
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dmarkhamComes here often
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Rebuilding a Veeam Repository server

I have a customer that needed to rebuild the Windows VM that was acting as their Proxy/Repository server at their secondary site.    He is using all of the same IP information on the new server.   The repository itself is on a NetApp E-Series access via iSCSI.   Once the server is rebuilt, what is the process for getting it back into the B&R server.   If the server is the same name, will the B&R server just need to push out the Veeam proxy/repository services to the rebuilt VM or will we need to delete and re-add the proxy and repository to Veeam?   If we discovery the repository LUNs on the new VM via iSCSI will we need to re-scan the repository to discover the backups or will they just be there?If there is a process document for doing this it would be appreciated. 

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JMeixner
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
See Veeam at VMworld 2021

Many are already tired of participating in online events. But I think a lot of the community will join VMworld 2021. Which is a 100% virtual event again.Join VMworld 2021 (free):https://www.vmware.com/vmworld/en/index.htmlFind Veeam at VMworld 2021:https://blogs.vmware.com/vmworld/2021/08/see-veeam-at-vmworld-2021.htmlA few announced Veeam-sessions:Designing for Disaster, Design vSphere for Disaster Recovery with Veeam [MCL2834S]. [Melissa Palmer (@vmiss33)] Quelling Cloud Chaos: Data Protection for Any VMware Cloud Solution with Veeam [MCL2832S]. [David Hill and Anthony Spiteri] The Kubernetes & Data Conundrum Untangled with Veeam [MCL2833S]. [Michael Cade (@michaelcade)]

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Nico Losschaert
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omar.desouzaComes here often
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Veeam O365 backup job stopped to work and cannot start it again

Hello,I created a new backup job only for Mail and Archive 2 weeks ago, it was working fine doing the full backup, but today I found that it was frozen, I restarted the Windows Server (weard, it took too much time), but I cannot start the job manually again, I receive a message “synhronisation failed”, I reconfigured the organization authentication but it doesn’t, also now when I try to rescan the proxy (that is the same server), there is an error: “this request operation sent to net.tcp://127.0.0.1:9193/ProxyAdmin did not receive a reply within the configured timeout (00:01:00)”. I tried to restart the Veeam Proxy Service, however it didn’t work, then I restarted the server again (it took too much time again) now the Veeam Proxy Service is up again, but the problem persists.Do you have any idea?Thanks in advance. Omar De Souza.

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Chris.Childerhose
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omar.desouzaComes here often
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Veeam O365 backup job very slow

Hello, We have a Veeam Backup O365 5.0.1.225 with a new backup job created two weeks ago, only for Mail and Archive. I think that the performance is too slow, the processing rate is 5.4MB/s, bottleneck: source, read rate 3.9MB/s and write rate 5.8MB/s. Is that normal? Our bandwidth to Internet is 280Mbps  (35MB/s), download and upload,how can I troubleshooting this problem? Thanks in advance, Omar De Souza.

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Chris.Childerhose
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
[Post digest] Performance Best Practices for VMware Snapshots

Because backup of a vSphere VM almost always involves taking a vSphere snapshot, this VMware blog post will be interesting for every backup administrator. https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2021/06/performance-best-practices-for-vmware-snapshots.htmlVMware has tested the performance impact of snapshots. Baseline performance is a VM without a snapshot. After that, performance testing is done with 1, 2 and more snapshots. Tested was default IO-tests and java application performance (SPECjbb). Tests included: vVOL, VMFS and vSAN.Test Results:Impact on vVOL depends on the storage system, because snapshots are taken there. VMs on VMFS have a huge performance penalty even with one snapshot. To be more exact: the first snapshot has the greatest impact! vSAN does not suffer much from snapshot with sequential workload. To be honest I think this is interesting to know but has no meaning in reality. SPECjbb does not show worse performance at all.Recommendations:Let snapshots exist as short as p

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Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #42
Veeam Community Recap #42

Hi everyone,It’s Friday, and it’s time for me and @Rick Vanover to recap this week's activities!Shout outs to @vNote42, @regnor and @Chris.Childerhose  Check it out now, and we look forward to seeing you at LinkedIn Live event later today. 

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Dell EMC PowerMax - Plugin Available

For anyone that uses Dell EMC PowerMax/VMAX there is a new plugin for Veeam just release and can be found here -KB4200: Release Notes for Dell EMC PowerMax Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication 1.0.84Great to see many storage vendors getting plugins to leverage snapshots for backup. 

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
VUG Canada Event - September 21st

If anyone is interested in hearing from Rasmus as well as some information about v11 feel free to attend the VUG Canada event -Sept 21st: Rasmus Haslund at VUG Canada Meeting, Tue, 21 Sep. 2021 at 13:00, America/New_York | Veeam Community Resource HubIt will be the first one and is at 1PM eastern standard time if you can make it.@Geoff Burke @Inder 

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Chris.Childerhose
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
[post digest] How to protect your organization from ransomware attacks

Just read a Veeam blog post about how to protect your organization from ransomware attacks. Because we cannot talk enough about ransomware-protection, I want to give a small summary of the blog post here. Consider it as an invitation to read the original post carefully! https://www.veeam.com/blog/how-to-protect-your-organization-from-ransomware-attacks.html Attack Vectors – often started at endpoints Phishing emails, with/without download links Reuse of compromised user identity Brute-force attacks Exploiting vulnerabilities DDoS attacks   Countermeasures Patch and keep your systems Apply strict MFA for all remote to avoid brute force attacks Protect user Protecting the endpoint Traditional antivirus is no longer enough Email security Data protection Backup, backup, backup 3-2-1 Rule Visibility Monitor ransomware attack specify metrics I personally add: train your employees Other related actions to reduce risk  However, nothing is guaranteed to prote

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vNote42
regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Discussion Boards
VBO365: Object reference not set to an instance of an object (Teams)

I have just discovered on Twitter that there’s currently a problem with Teams Backup in Veeam Backup for Office 365 which could affect many installations.It looks like Microsoft did change something on their side and so Teams backup is failing with the following error: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”If you are affected by this problem, you can request the hotfix from Veeam Support.Here is the corresponding R&D forums topic: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-office-365-f47/teams-backup-failing-with-object-reference-not-set-to-an-instance-of-an-object-t76162.html

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regnor
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DCC ThoasterNew Here
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Email notification has stopped working

Test Mails via Veeam Windows free agent 5.0 work fine!However notification after backup do never arrive anywhere.Checked and found out, that other users encouter the same problem.Problem started after upgrading or installing Version 5.Hope to get a solution soon.RegardsMichael

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Iams3le
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Copy Files to Azure with Veeam

Hello everyone! I have a case here that is about to copy some files on a Linux machine to a blob on Azure.These files are not generated by Veeam. So, I just like to know if it possible to take this files and upload to Azure through Veeam B&R. What you think about it?Any idea or tips?

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Nico Losschaert
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Be aware: SteelSeries bug grants Windows 10 administrative rights plugging in a device

It is being found that the official app used in installing SteelSeries devices on Windows 10 can be exploited to grant Admin rights as discovered by some security research “Lawrence Amer“. As stated by BleepingComputers, the bug can be leveraged during the device startup process using a link in the License Agreement screen that is opened with SYSTEM privileges. A real SteelSeries device is not necessary to exploit the bug. Also, a bug was discovered in the Razer Synapse software that granted unauthorised admin access. Now, a similar bug was found in SteelSeries software that gives anyone who plugs in a device complete control over a Windows 10 PC with admin rights. Emulating a device also works: This discovery became known after news broke out about the Razer Synapse software as it was able to grant administrative privileges when connecting a Razer mouse or keyboard. This motivated the research from Jorhat, offensive security researcher Lawrence Amer (research team leader at 0xsp) foun

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Iams3le
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allezyyoungNot a newbie anymore
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email notification when a job is successful veeam agent for microsoft windows

have anyone encountered such on veeam agent for microsoft windows?

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Nico Losschaert
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Veeam - BaaS & DRaaS

If anyone is interested in Veeam for BaaS or DRaaS then you can find some helpful videos on Youtube here - (36) BaaS and DRaaS - YouTubeIt looks at what BaaS & DRaaS are, how to choose a provider and also if you are an MSP then deploying VCC.

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Nico Losschaert

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