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Hey all if you aren’t familar Digital Ocean every year sponsors Hacktoberfest, a month long event in October designed to get people into supporting Open Source software. I’ve talked to Chris A. who is the maintainer for VeeamHub and once again this year VeeamHub will be a participant. Check out the Hacktoberfest site for all the details on participation!

If you Register in this LINK https://dy.si/F8NfS VMware is planting one tree  for every VMworld 2021 attendee!  As we “Imagine That,” for VMworld 2021 we have Veeam Sessions at VMworld Design vSphere for Disaster Recovery with Veeam [MCL2834S] Data Protection for Any VMware Cloud Solution with Veeam [MCL2832S] The Kubernetes & Data Conundrum Untangled with Veeam [MCL2833S]As always, Veeam continues to innovate and work in collaboration with VMware, I hope these sessions will be useful to you, the sessions will be given by Melissa Palmer, David Hill and Anthony Spiteri 

After setting up our first secure linux repo at work I had the thought of adding some more at branch office locations. Initially, I wondered if it would be possible to take a raspberry pi to host the ubuntu server, but soon came to the conclusion the Veeam agent service is not likely to support ARM. I wanted something small we could drop in a locked server closet and push copies out overnight.So where I have ended up is running/testing this on my home lab: Secure linux repo setup on an old SFF x64 Celeron machine that was decommissioned with the Win 7 EOL. It’s equipped with 4GB RAM, gig ethernet, and a 5TB WD USB 3 drive. Loaded up community edition on my Win 10 Hyper V install and loaded the agent on the host desktop. Disabled IPv6 on the Veeam app server and my agent installed desktop to alleviate some veeam proxy connection errors occurring mid-job and away we go. I’m also running backups from my standalone Hyper V host. Being able to use something this sophisticated at home seems

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!

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

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/ 

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

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/

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

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.

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); } }} 

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.