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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"

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/

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

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 

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

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

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! 

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 

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

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. 

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

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     

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

I have a server I am running VBR 11 on. The option to rescan repositories has just outright disappeared. I have tried closing and re-opening VBR, but this did not resolve the issue. A server reboot has also not resolved the issue.

We wish to run the replica on a different IP periodically to extract data from the VM.  Hence time and again I perform failover to replica using the RE IP options within Veeam and then undo the failover. Just checking if anyone has anyone automated failover and undo failover for a Veeam replica using Powershell. 

Happy Friday! We know snapshots/checkpoints aren’t backups, but sometimes people don’t know this, and other times people forget to tidy up their snapshots. (Even worse when they don’t have Veeam ONE notifying them of this). So the question today is, what’s the longest time you’ve seen a snapshot/checkpoint in use? I’ve seen one customer environment whereby all VMs have multiple snapshots going back as far as 6 years, and counting! They’re engaged with VMware support due to the chain age and depth but they also can’t just take a backup and clear them down due to the lack of performance from the system now as a result!

I thought it would be good to share this here, although this is already covered on many news sites.Yesterday VMware did publish a Security Advisory regarding multiple vulnerabilities in vCenter Server. The most critical one "CVE-2021-22005” did receive a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 (of 10) and an attacker could take over the control just be uploading a file via port 443. Although vCenter shouldn’t be reachable from the WAN/internet, the vulnerabilities should still be seen as very critical; an inside attacker could already be waiting.All together there were 19 CVEs published and fixed by VMware. All currently supported vCenter Server releases are more or less affected:vCenter 7: <7.0 U2c: affected by all vulnerabilities → Patch to 7.0 U2d 7.0 U2c: “only affected” by the minor vulnerabilities → Patch to 7.0 U2d vCenter 6.7: all 6.7 releases are affected → patch to 6.7 U3o vCenter 6.5: “only affected” by the minor vulnerabilities → Patch to 6.5 U3q → the minior vulnerabilities are still cr

Hi, is there a smart way to update attached s3 object storages. Not used in sobr(!). I am useing capa offloading to s3 on aws. in our Prodution environment (B&R Local). Thats working fine. I also attached the s3 on another Veeam B&R in VMC on AWS. I can see all backups once I attached the object storage in the repository view. Thats fine. I can do restores direct from s3 in vmc on aws. thats fine too. But ...I only do backup and offloading from B&R Local. Veeam B&R in VMC on AWS is only for restore purposes in our desaster environment. Unforunatly the attached s3 will not be update once B&R Local completet a new backup an offload. I can not rescan the object storage repository. The only way is to detach and do an import again. Thats working, its ok, but a more smart way to do a rescan during attatched s3 would be great. Thank you.

As many know last year I wrote a book on Veeam v10 and you can see the post here -Veeam Book - Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10Also you can check my blog - https://just-virtualization.tech as well I have since been approached and will be updating it to Version 11 this year to hopefully get it out way before v12 hits.  I will be putting in all the new features and updating much of the content to focus around v11.  Also some things will be removed.I wanted to ask those that read my book if there are any improvements or things you might want to see in this version of the book.  It will be nice to see some community feedback. 

Hello community,I have an issue with a file to tape backup in combination with the usage of VSS.I have to copy the files of the RMAN Backups to tape. The backup files of the RMAN and SAP plugins are not recognized as backup Jobs with the tape jobs, so I have to copy them as files and not as jobs.The RMAN backups are running 24/7 - so there are some open files every time the copy job runs. And therefore I have activated the usage of VSS in the file to tape backup job.Every time the job runs an VSS error is given - "Shadow copy provider vetoed the operation"I did not find useful information to this error.Does anyone have some idea why VSS is not working properly? A reboot did not help. On the drive is enough free space (around 62,5 TB free of 105 TB total).

Today I want to talk about backups, and the importance of encrypting them, everywhere. When people think of encrypted backups, the usual first thoughts are around portable backups such as tape and USB or backups outside of your trust domain such as cloud storage.This is a great starting point, and if you’re not currently encrypting these I urge you to do so as these are normally your highest risk backups. But here’s a an emerging scenario to consider.Security is a constant battle of escalations, attempting to out-do the efforts of each other. Whilst we’re seeing an industry reacting to ransomware threats with immutability, these malicious actors have also moved on from just encrypting your data. Now these bad actors are attempting to steal your data and extort a ransom to prevent leaking the data.Scary stuff right? It’s for this reason and more that backups are being targeted for data exfiltration. Consider the positives a good backup meets. Storage and Bandwidth Efficiency Now malicio