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As the headline suggests, Veeam recently released a “version 3a“ of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.Whilst there are your usual mixture of security fixes and bugs resolved, it actually brings a new (and welcome) change to the licensing structure around protecting Azure SQL workloads (not to be confused with Azure virtual machines running SQL Server). Licensing Per Server, not Per Database It’s not unusual to see Veeam adapt their pricing models over time to provide better value for customers. We’ve seen this historically when, for example, Veeam adjusted their NAS licensing to increase the amount of storage protected

I see a interesting thread on Veeam Forumhttps://forums.veeam.com/vmware-vsphere-f24/case-05192176-problem-restoring-backups-from-multiple-rdx-tapes-t78398.htmlwhere they’re trying to restore .vkb from RDX and got this error:  From your experience, what do you guys think it can be?In my opinion, the RDX device was broken BEFORE the backup job, or it is a known bug due to the missing update KB4025334 and ReFS enabled on Windows Server 2016.And above all, RDX in nearly 2022? What do you think?Let’s flow this thread with our experience in cases like this one, and just leave real solutions on R&D Forums.

Just wanted to let everyone know my new v11 book is set to publish in approximately two weeks so I am doing the marketing of it.  You can see my blog post below and can preorder the book at Amazon. Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication v11 - Publishing SOON 

I am just starting out doing Veeam SQL backups and one thing I found is I need to be able to exclude certain dBs from getting backed up in Veeam. The dBs that I do not want backed up are for dev and the dB is restored to a different server nightly so when a Veeam SQL log backup happens I’m getting the error “Collected SQL Server transaction logs do not match any existing database backup: DatabaseName” which is 100% accurate.I do not take full backups every day so when the logs are getting backed up this particular dB does not have a full associated with the log backups.This dB would not need to get backed up at all.

The following error can occur in Veeam Enterprise Manger during catalog replication. Catalog replication is needed to transfer guest indexing information from the VBR server to the Enterprise Manager server.By default, replication task runs automatically after each backup job. You can trigger it manually within Enterprise Manager GUI. Just enter the Configuration section, select Settings and press Update Now.Log files can be seen beneath Sessions.Meta-file errorThis error is about the meta-file that does not contain a certain attribute.

For anyone that is an MSP and happens to use the Veeam Service Provider v6 console for managing your tenants and VCC environments there was a patch released today for this.  I will take the build from 6.0.0.7739 to 6.0.0.8787.It contains some nice fixes including a new downloadable EXE file for the Windows agent installation.  Check here for further information - KB4277: Release Notes for Veeam Service Provider Console v6 Patch 1We will be patching and testing our server sometime this week or early next.

Veeam has just released the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a. Check release notes here - KB4279: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a

The Dell Technologies Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing competition is an industry award-winning platform which provides an opportunity to share your expertise, unique deployments, best practices, or any other relevant technical topic of interest. I have been participated in this competition for 4 years, fortunately my articles were selected for publication by Dell Technologies. I enjoyed this competition. My articles are list as below: 2021 – Get Ready for Edge Computinghttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2021KS_Wu-Get_Ready_for_Edge_Computing.pdf2020 – Multiple Active DataCenters Solution

VMware vSphere 7.0 u3c was released last week, the Log4j security issue can be resolved by this version. Dell VxRail appliance is a black box solution (Dell hardware + VMware solution). Dell just released VxRail 7.0.320 package that includes the resolution of VMware Log4j. Please refer to below for details. 

I have an issue on Veeam Storage Integration with IBM SVC. It hold the storage discovery for a long time. Anyone can help me?Veeam B&R: v11aIBM SVC OS: firmware 8.3.1.6Troubleshooting: Already restarted the VBR 

Pluralsight is a good platform to learn the skills of the different products, e.g. VMware, Kubernetes and Veeam, etc. If you’re Microsoft MVP's, Microsoft RD's, or VMware vExperts, etc, you can apply the complimentary subscriptions (1 year) to access all courses. Refer to below for details Please don't miss out. VMware experts, the 2022 vExpert application deadline is Friday, Jan 28th. https://vexpert.vmware.com/https://www.pluralsight.com/teach/resource/vips

Hi Folks, After a hiatus of wild IT academia activity and other events I want to get back to doing some posts. I am thinking of setting up a separate blog and then linking on to here like I noticed some people do. Looking for any recommendations on where to host my blog from the experts here? Thanks Geoff

Another check script for OneDrive for Business data, protected by VBO. The script downloads a specific file and compares the hash value with the value specified by the user. Feedback welcome!Download Linkhttps://github.com/yetanothermightytool/powershell/tree/master/vbo/vbo-odrestore-checker Outlook upcoming scriptsI have a script ready that uploads the detected file hashes/the files to a cloud-based detection and prevention solution and returns the result of the scan. 

Hi there, I didn’t know where to  question, so here I post it for any help or explanation.it’s weird for me not not find a SPAIN OR SPANISH VUG, so how can I request to create it? Or any other information?is there any VUG responsible, leather or so?also anyone interested to participate in a Spain / Spanish VUG? thanks,

Hey! Just like in March when @regnor posted about the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge, Microsoft are back again with their November 2021 edition! Didn’t see regnor’s post? Check it out here:The exam list is different this time and the options are:MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams MS-720: Microsoft Teams Voice Engineer MD-100: Windows 10

This Friday I’ll be delivering a talk alongside @Rick Vanover  on a key data protection best practice that I don’t believe gets enough attention: Data Encryption.Join myself and Rick as we talk about the escalating stakes in the battle against malicious actors and some of their latest tactics to extort a ransom out of you, some of the steps you can take to better protect yourself, and some of the gotchas that you’ll be glad to know when you remediate this in your environments.You’ll be able to see this on LinkedIn here or if you prefer, on YouTube here.Hope to see you there!

I created a SOBR in order to tier off data to AWS.  That process works perfectly.My capacity tier setting is setup to Copy and Move.  The Move is setup for 14 days (operational restore window)My backup job has a retention of 30 days with the Backup Repo being the SOBRAnd I am doing Forward Incremental with weekly Active Full on Sunday My issue is that in the Performance Tier, I only have 1 backup chain (currently there are 3 restore points Sun-Tues), not 2 as I would have anticipated with my Move policy.  My Object Storage is showing the correct number of restore points / backup chains based upon the 30 day Retention I have setup on my job.What do you think I am doing work with this configuration?  I am looking to have 1 complete backup chain plus current week, so 7 + 7 in my performance tier.What am I doing wrong that I am not getting my 14 days on Performance tier? Thank you everyone for your support 

Veeam has release a plugin for Datacore if anyone uses it.  Check out the release notes - KB4128: Release Notes for DataCore Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication

Issue Date:2022-01-04Updated On:2022-01-27VMSA-2022-0001 - VMware Workstation, Fusion and ESXi updates address a heap-overflow vulnerability (CVE-2021-22045)- Please see the updated advisory here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0001.html Below is a related post.https://community.veeam.com/topic/show?tid=1966&fid=81  

Veeam has just released the Nutanix AHV 3a.  Check release notes here - KB4272: Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 3a Release Notes

VMSA-2021-0028 - VMware Response to Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) - Please see the updated advisory here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html

Morning all, This slipped under my radar on Friday, VMware have fixed some huge bugs such as inability to enable HA on ESXi U3 hosts in this release. But they’ve also pulled the original U3 update due to issues with failing rollup upgrades! But you first need to patch vCenter before upgrading to ESXi U3b vCenter Patch Notes:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-70u3b-release-notes.htmlESXi Patch Notes:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-70u3b-release-notes.html

For those of use that have won the “Nike Air Force 1 shoes”. Kindly endeavour to share on your Twitter and Facebook, and Reddit (sub-reddit) platforms.  https://www.reddit.com/r/TDArchive/comments/sdb0id/my_nike_air_force_1_shoes/ (Unfortunately, Reddit yanked my old community off.. Here is a new one and I have no time yet to grow it). https://www.facebook.com/TechDarchive/photos/a.135315758105436/487508049552870/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CZM4fhaI_

Hi all!I’m engaged in a project where we have to backup several physical servers with agents via WAN with very small bandwidth.I prepared a portable server with local disks to collect the first full backups within the ROBO locations’ LAN.Back in the central datacenter I would like to use that as a seed for future incremental backups. I’m aware of the basic procedure for that (copy VBKs, rescan repo, map job).But in the end I would like to have only one agent backup job for all servers; though the mapping option lets me only choose one job to map to thus loosing the previous chains.Any options I am missing or not possible?Thanks for any input!Tim