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Microsoft 365 (M365) has become indispensable in everyday office life: emails, documents, Teams chats, SharePoint – everything in one place, all in the cloud. But many admins rely too much on the idea that “everything is somehow secure.” That’s a mistake!  Why should you back up Microsoft 365 services at all?The well-known Shared Responsibility Model states: Microsoft provides the infrastructure, but you are responsible for backing up and restoring your own data.In short: Microsoft protects against infrastructure, network, and hardware failures and takes care of maintaining the Microsoft architecture and software. However, Microsoft is not respo

We use AWS VTL for backing up some of our larger SMB file shares (mainly AWS FSx for Windows) that run into a few terabytes each.When running a tape backup job we’d run a powershell script to check there were at least 10 free tapes before starting each job (there’s around four or five chained jobs).The script worked fine on VBR v12, but always returns “TooManyRequests” on v13.I have found various “retry” scripts, but the VBR commands ALWAYS return “TooManyRequests” so never complete.Is there now an alternative method to auto load blank tapes that didn’t exist in v12?Our script that worked in v12:# Get Library$NOVA_Tape_Library = Get-VBRTapeLibrary -Name "Novasol Gateway-VTL V3"# Get Number of Free Tapes$NOVA_Free_Tapes = (Get-VBRTapeMediaPool -Name "Free").medium | where {$_.LibraryId -eq $NOVA_Tape_Library.Id}# if number of free tapes < 10 import tapes and format for

Hi teamA hardened repo using the VEEAM Hardened ISO experienced a power cycle and upon reboot its out of band interface lit up like a x-mas tree.Upon further investigation it appeared that the virtual disk was just gone. A message indicated that RAID6 detected foreign configuration.Been working with vendor and they have asked to install storcli on to the server.Would this be possible, being a hardened repo? They have a non-recommended method alternative too.Can’t believe that a power cycle did this and not sure what the root cause is but would be good if we could get it back. Otherwise will have to rebuild and sync primary backups againcheers

Hello,i would like to ask, if somebody is not experiencing that issue, that big environments have issue with SSL connection? we have all in one boxes - VBR, VEM and postgresql is on the same machine at the end of postgresql.conf #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# CUSTOMIZED OPTIONS#------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Add settings for extensions heressl = onssl_cert_file = 'backup_server.crt'ssl_key_file = 'backup_server.key'ssl_ca_file = 'backup_root.crt' in svc_veeambackup.log we see[02.03.2026 11:40:10.307]    <35>   Error (3)    0: Breaking connector[02.03.2026 11:40:10.307]    <35> Warning (3)    Failed to obtain connection: [Failed to connect to [::1]:5432]. Attempt 1 of 20. in pg_hba.conf is preferred connextion via ssl# IPv4 local connec

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) centralizes and simplifies datacenter management by providing a single platform to configure, monitor, and control virtualization hosts, networking, storage, and deployment resources. Thereby, enabling administrators to efficiently provision and manage virtual machines and services across private clouds. Before integrating SCVMM with VRO, you must install the VMM Console on the VRO server. Else, the integration will fail. Note that, this article is a continuation of the following:Note: A Hyper-V cluster can be added to the Veeam infrastructure and is ready to serve as a source and target for backups, replication, and other operations.

My recent blog post was about installing the plug-in on a Windows server; this blog will go through the installation on a Veeam v13 software appliance.I recently deployed the Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials version 13 (RTM) on my lab Veeam software appliance, which is running v13.0.1. Once tested, I'll have it available to demonstrate to my customers.Veeam has introduced a dedicated plug‑in that enables image‑level backup and restore for virtual machines running on HPE VM Essentials. This integration brings VM Essentials into the same unified protection workflow as VMware, Hyper‑V, and other supported hypervisors. The plug‑in is not bundled with the main Veeam Backup & Replication installer, so it must be added separately. What the Veeam Plug‑in for HPE VM Essentials DoesThe plug‑in extends Veeam Backup & Replication to understand and interact with HPE VM Essentials resources. Without it, Veeam cannot discover

Sometime last year, ​@ertelle1 created the below blogpost where she stated Veeam Recovery Ochestrator now supports Microsoft Hyper-V “Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 7.2 - Available Now!”With the current opportunity available to some of us as documented below, I have decided to create various articles to reinforce my knowledge.Since the Orchestrator server must be connected to the SCVMM servers or Hyper-V Cluster (which I no longer have in my lab) enviionrment. I will be showing you guys the steps to

A question I ask in all of my customer demos is, " Do you have a 3-2-1 backup strategy and most of the time, I get the answer yes. Other times, the answer is what is that? I’ll take that opportunity to educate them on what it is and how to protect themselves. In this article, I’ll go through what the 3-2-1 backup strategy is and how to implement the 3-2-1-1-0 strategy. IntroductionYou've probably heard the 3-2-1 rule a hundred times. Keep 3 copies of your data, on 2 different media types, with 1 copy offsite. It's been the gold standard of backup strategy for years — and for good reason.But the threat landscape has changed. Ransomware doesn't just encrypt your production data anymore; it hunts for your backups too. That's why the industry evolved the rule to 3-2-1-1-0, and if you're running Veeam in your environment, you're actually in a great position to implement every digit of it.In this post, I

 I am sharing with the community the procedure I followed to resolve the failure of the Application Aware backup  post-installation of Sentinel One. Exception procedure S1 VSS SafeBOOt Tamper ProtectionOpen Administrative CMD cd "C:\Program Files\SentinelOne\Sentinel Agent your-version"sentinelctl unprotect -k "<passphrase>"sentinelctl config -p agent.vssConfig.enableResearchDataCollectorVssWriter -v false -k""PASSPHRASE"sentinelctl config -p agent.vssConfig.vssProtection -v falsesentinelctl config -p agent.vssSnapshots -v false

Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) is Veeam’s cloud-delivered backup platform designed to simplify how partners deliver backup services. It removes the need to manage the underlying infrastructure while providing protection for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Microsoft Azure workloads, Salesforce, and secure storage through Veeam Data Cloud Vault.If you’re a VCSP partner looking to explore VDC, getting started is fairly straightforward.The primary license administrator of the VCSP partner account (with an active rental agreement) can register the business for Veeam Data Cloud through VCSP Pulse.Steps to access Veeam Data Cloud in VCSP Pulse Log in to the ProPartner Portal and navigate to VCSP Pulse. In the top menu, go to Licenses and Subscriptions. Click Veeam Data Cloud Subscriptions.

Modern businesses today generate an extraordinary volume of operational data ranging from performance and capacity trends to risks and anomalies. When it comes to data protection, the data is there, and organizations need to use it to reduce risk and improve recovery readiness. This is where Veeam ONE, a component of Veeam Data Platform, comes into play. If you are already familiar, it’s no secret that Veeam ONE collects and stores data about virtual and backup environments. What’s important is Veeam ONE’s ability to transform this data into clear and actionable insights. Through its vast number of reports, you gain structured documentation of what is happening in your backup environment and why.  This helps bring to light any risks, issues and trends so you can plan and make decisions accordingly.  Veeam One’s HTML-5 based reporting engine provides maximum flexibility, allowing you to reorder columns and filter data sets based on your organization’s requirements. Different t

Hi,we are planning to use the Veeam Data Cloud for Salesforce Backup. We need to keep backups for 2 years. What, if we decide to switch the backup-partner. For example Salesforce native backup? We cancle our subscription. Fair-Use-Policy will delete the backups after 30 days, correct? What options do we have, to keep  the backups as long as our requirements are? The same question would be, if we decide to use veeam backup for m365 in the data cloud. Here we would have onedrive files, with a retention time of 2-10 years.  We do not plan to quit anything, but we need a valid exit strategie if we decide to use a cloud product. 

Hi everyone,I am currently reviewing the design of our Veeam Backup & Replication server and would like to follow best practices for disk layout.At the moment our VBR server is a VM with the following specs: 8 vCPU 32 GB RAM Windows Server Local SQL instance Only one virtual disk (C:) which is a VHDX located on HDD storage Currently everything is located on this single disk, including: Veeam installation SQL database Veeam logs Veeam catalog configuration backup Windows OS I am considering adding an additional virtual disk located on SSD storage and moving the Veeam-related components there to improve performance and follow recommended architecture.My questions are:

As a celebration after getting renewed as a Veeam Vanguard, I decided to invite myself to my own podcast 😂! (perhaps I can punch in two timesheets?)Joking aside, someone asked me the other day after listening to my long boasting session “so Geoff what are these communities anyways?”.. I thought good gracious you don’t know? Time for action! Why IT Communities matter? Here is my take!Listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2545760/episodes/18799148-why-it-communities-matterDownload: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2545760/episodes/18799148-why-it-communities-matter.mp3?download=true 

Hello everyone,For several days now, I have been receiving the following error message during our backup copy job:“Failed to perform backup verification Error: Unable to get block digest: block is not initialized. Skipped arguments: [0]; Agent failed to process method {Signature.FullRecheckBackup}.”I performed a full backup, but unfortunately the same error message appeared again. The copy job does not conflict with the backup job.How can I fix this error?Thanks in advance!Version: Backup & Replication 12, Build: 12.3.2.4165

Good news for Veeam Nutanix customers that are using Google cloud. Veeam supports the 3 Nutanix NC2 clouds, AWS, Azure and now Google. This helps us with workload and cloud mobility of workloads in a hybrid environment. Data resilience and portability is what Veeam does best. Customers always drive demand for solutions with companies that can help them achieve the best results and be there when needed in the future. Please read blog below for additional details and links. If you are attending. Next in Chicago come meet with us there for your questions. There is also an invitation to a networking session and booking meetings with Veeam, customers and partners below. If you are not attending, please feel free to share with your customers and peers. Veeam Nutanix NC2 on GCP

We all have beautifully designed DR plans.Redundant storage. Replication. Immutable backups. Offsite copies.And then the phone rings at 4:07 AM.Adrenaline kicks in. Your brain is half online. Someone is asking for ETAs. Something slightly unexpected is already happening.This post isn’t about the standard “3-2-1-1-0” advice. This is about the obscure, easy-to-ignore details that make or break a real-world recovery. 1. Label. Your. Cables.I know. It sounds basic.But in a real DR scenario: You’re stressed. You’re tired. Things are never exactly as documented. Someone is standing behind you asking, “Is it up yet?” That is not the time to guess which FC cable goes to which SAN port.Label both ends of: SAN connections Uplinks iSCSI paths Replication links

Hello guys,After a basic restart of the VM I can't no longer access our VBR console.All services are up and running.Any recommendations?

 ...and why you still use the Windows Console! We are now used to having the standard console already present on the VBR server or installing it on a bastion host. Change can be scary, but we want to face it and take a leap into the future.If you're reading this article, probably you're thinking: "Oh, finally I can use Veeam with a web console and I can say goodbye to old Windows components!".Well... not quite. If you remember, in my previous article I wrote about this too.Let me tell you what we are doing: in last weeks we started a new implementation project for our client with Veeam v13 version.After installatio

Hi all. Running Windows Server 2019 as a standalone Hyper-V server. The server is in a workgroup.I have installed the community edition of VBR 12, and configured my backup repository.When trying to configure a new Hyper-V backup job, Veeam gives me a message to say that it cannot connect to the ADMIN$ share. However, if I type \\localhost\ADMIN$ into the run box, then the folder does open.I’ve tried setting my host name to localhost, to the server name and to it’s IP address. I’ve also tried with the current logged in credentials, and have tried by enabling the administrator account.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks, and have a great weekend!

I read in the news recently that Veeam has bought Securiti AI, which is going to have a direct impact on its data protection offering. This deal is a game-changer for Veeam's strategy, combining data resilience with data security.But what does Securiti AI do, and why did Veeam decide to buy it?Securiti AI is a big name in the industry, and they focus on Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), privacy and data governance. With a spent about £1.725 billion in total Veeam's big plan is to bring together their data resilience (which they're really good at – backup and recovery) with data security (Securiti AI's thing).So, why's this important for Veeam?I think this purchase is meant to create one command centre where they can use DSPM on data in use and on backup files as well. This means that sensitiv

Two weeks have passed since the Veeam 100 Summit in Berlin. This time the grateful members of this select community were given facts about the upcoming version 13 of VBR and also the opportunity to test the Linux version via an OVA ready to install in a VMware environment. ​@HunterLAFR already showed us some initial screenshots here:LAB- Deploying VBR13 – on Linux – OVA! | Veeam Community Resource HubI’d like to add a summary of what I found most interesting.Before you ask: No, we don’t have a release date yet. There is still some 12.x version(s) to go before. 😎But, what we see with v13 seems already quite complete when looking at the interface.As ​@HunterLAFR has already shown in his scree