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Happy Friday everyone! Anyone that’s worked with Kubernetes for some time has probably seen or used aliases for common commands. For those that don’t know what an alias is in this context, it’s creating your own shorter command that executes another binary. For example, typing k to run kubectl. I was on Twitter the other day and saw Mick Douglas commenting on the state of the Microsoft Graph API, which by itself is a good read: As I got further in I saw an incredibly funny alias he’d said that he’d created to circumvent his frustration:And I just thought it was brilliant! Especially when you see it in action: That’s my story for the day! Anyone else got any aliases (funny or otherwise) that have made their lives easier/more bearable?

Hi all, To all the API gurus out there that like Go I’ve put together a package that takes care of all the authentication for you.https://github.com/shapedthought/go-veeam-authReally easy to add to your project. Just put this into the terminal in your project directory:go get github.com/shapedthought/go-veeam-authMost of the APIs are covered:VBR VB AWS VB AZURE VB GCP VONE VB365Instructions are on the GitHub. Video:Note that this isn’t a full SDK like the one on VeeamHub, it just does the authentication, but there are some convenience functions to make calls a bit easier.If you have any recommendations or would like to contribute, feel free to raise an issue or send a pull request.All the best,Edx

HelloSorry if this is a basic question or a topic already discuss in the forum, but I really need advices regarding GFS before doing an upgrade from version 10.0.0.1 to version 11 .In the documentation it’s said: “Do you have backup copy jobs with synthetic GFS full backups? Before the upgrade, make sure that all GFS candidates (incremental restore points created on days when GFS was scheduled and that are expected to be transformed into full GFS restore points) are already transformed into GFS restore points. To force the backup copy job to transform all GFS candidates, you can temporarily decrease the short-term retention to a value less than the number of restore points between the latest restore point and the most recent GFS candidate and then wait till all the candidates are transformed.” I’m not sure what they meen by “short-term retention” This is my config:thanks for your help 

Hello, everyone,I wanted to share the sizing of an accelerated WAN infra and the differences between WAN Low bandwidth mode vs WAN High bandwidth mode. The DR consists of 6 replica VMsSizing for Low bandwidth under 100 MBhttps://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/wan_accelerator_sizing.html?zoom_highlight=sizing&ver=110 Using RVTool extract the list of VMs with the total Original VM on Source Vmware Tenant side: 1649 GB = 1.649 TB  · The connection between the client and the DR is a 100 Mb.Server1                                           1024 GB   Digest  2% 20.48                          Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) Server2                                           200 GB    Digest 2% 4                                    Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) Server3                                           150 GB    Digest 2% 3                                    Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (64-bit) Server4                                           200 GB    Di

Hello Community,imagine you no longer have access to your most important Exchange Online mailboxes? Or you want to perform some checks, but you don't want to touch the productive mailboxes and your production Microsoft 365 tenant? What if a script and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 could help you?Down below is a simple recipe.IngredientsVeeam Backup for Microsoft 365 An Exchange Online backup job protecting the mailboxes A second Microsoft 365 tenant with already configured (target) mailboxes A configured Azure AD application in the second Microsoft 365 tenant A CSV file with the mailboxes to be copiedThe script with all information can be downloaded here: ScriptIf the destination mailbox is empty, all objects are restored. If the objects already exist, only missing objects will be restored.Please share what else could be achieved using this script. 

This little thread got me thinking, and makes me wonder….if you’re tasked with backing up data with a 50 year or 100 year or infinite data retention, this is more than just running a backup and storing it somewhere.  Because what good is a backup that is 30 years old if you have no infrastructure to do anything with it? On a somewhat related topic, I once had a client that needed to keep their Dell/Quest RapidRecovery backups for 7 or 10 years.  They were looking to move to something like a Dell IDPA appliance (I proposed Veeam with a DataDomain).  But the question what, what do you do to keep the servers and MDxxxx DAS’s appliances with the data available for the next 7-10 years?  Or do you somehow convert or restore all of the data and move it to your new backup solution whenever there is some sort of major change?  And then avoiding bit rot?Hypothetically speaking, or practically speaking for you folks that are tasked with such extraordinary retention policies, what is your plan for

For legal purpose we have to make a full backup of one of the server and store it in either the server or tape for infinite retention. If I click on inventory, vcenter server, server name, there are few options like Quick backup, add to backup job….. Can the copy of the backup job be stored for infinite retention in the server since we do not have tape copy activated. Can this job be also used to restore files from backup.Backup server stores files(.vbm and .vbk) for 5 months but the edit backup job retention policy is 12 days. Not sure how the files in the backup server are stored for 5 months.

Did you know there is a curriculum in VeeamIQ called “Veeam Advanced Concepts for Partners”? I didn’t until last night. Like the description says, the videos are all about 10 minutes long and cover all topics like how to set up the backup server, proxies, repositories, transport modes, NAS, CDP, VCC, Automation, Tape, SOBR, etc. Take a look if you haven’t seen this before. This is a great resource for deeper learning or for review of areas you don’t work with often.  

I was wondering if anyone else does this.When we delete a VM, I often have someone come ask me where it was 6 months to a year later and sometimes there is something unnoticed that is broken. Due to the amount of storage we use here (PB’s) I tend to not want to keep all these old VM’s powered off, or even on the Veeam SANs as they take up a ton of space for something that most likely isn’t needed. To resolve this I created a media pool on both tape libraries that has a retention of 2 years. When I power the VM off for the final time I do a Veeam zip, then add it to a file to tape job at both sites.In the file to tape job I just grab the VBK from the repo and then can remove the Veeam ZIP when it’s done.  Even though it’s not 3-2-1 technically the VM’s are requested to be deleted anyways. If I lost them it wouldn’t be critical. Having them on tape is cheap, and people are very happy when they can get their data.      

Hi guys, what is the best option/tool/software to migrate, minimizing downtime, VMs from an esxi host with Intel CPU to an esxi with AMD CPU? I can think of: Veeam CDP policy Veeam quick migration VMWare cold migration VMware converter Can you think of any other methods? Marco S.

My backup job suddenly occurred the error beloow:Failed to pre-process the job Error: Failed to call RPC function 'FcWriteFileEx': The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Failed to open file [D:\Backup\Backup Job Hyper-V\Backup Job Hyper-V.vbm_1_tmp].Error: Failed to call RPC function 'FcWriteFileEx': The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. Failed to open file [D:\Backup\Backup Job Hyper-V\Backup Job Hyper-V.vbm_1_tmp]. Thanks a lot for any help.

I know this question has been mentioned several times on various boards, but I have not found one specifically for SQL Express.Anyone have an idea?Unable to truncate Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs. Details: Failed to process 'TruncateSQLLog' command.Failed to truncate SQL server transaction logs for instances:  SQLEXPRESS. See guest helper log. This is one of the errors in the log:1/30/2023 9:06:49 AM   2772                                  Database found: DBName. Recovery model: 1. Is readonly: false. State: 0.1/30/2023 9:06:49 AM   2772  WARN                            Cannot truncate SQL logs for database: IncuitySample.     Code = 0x80040e141/30/2023 9:06:49 AM   2772  WARN                                Code meaning = IDispatch error #30921/30/2023 9:06:49 AM   2772  WARN                                Source = Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server1/30/2023 9:06:49 AM   2772  WARN                                Description = The server principal "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" is no

Hello Northwest Veeam Customers and Prospects!2022 was a Veeamazing year! If you missed what happened or need a refresher, please join Vinh Pham and Benjamin Petersen for the upcoming Northwest Veeam® User Group (VUG) recap meeting this Wednesday from 12 p.m. — 1 p.m. MT. During this technical session, tell us what Veeam features you want us to discuss, what demo you want to see and get answers to your technical questions.Register Now!

Morning all! Happy Friday! As the first month of 2023 draws to a close, most New Year’s resolutions of being healthy, or picking up a new hobby, or quitting a bad habit, tend to lay in ruins. So I ask, what goals have you got for 2023? It’d be nice to commit them to this topic and then see how everyone did over the year. It could be passing an exam, learning a new technology, a career change, or anything! What’ve you got in mind? I’m aiming to finish my Azure Architect journey by achieving the AZ-305 certification, and learning more about Kubernetes. 🙂

While updating our VCSP stack with V11-RTM, I just stumble again onto this small but fine new feature to prioritize your primary backup jobs:More than once I had customers request several jobs to be finished with priority.You could of cause concatenate jobs with the schedule option “After this job:”. But this is not recommended as it does not use the ressources of your backup system accordingly. Valuable proxy/repo slots would linger out-of-work for quite a while.Overlapping jobs would lead to the second job jumping in with the first one still running, so saturating ressources. But this might easily oversteer and thus delay the first job.With the new option this problem can be solved by just the click of a checkbox.Prioritized jobs get a nice little flag in the job list. So how does it work?The Veeam scheduler runs all its tasks according to priorities:800: Restore jobs — restores are obviously the most important jobs 700: Continuous data protection jobs — new CDP ist also considered v

This no new part about what else is new in v12, because I this is great improvement in the upcoming release.With Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v12 it will be possible to use a Linux Hardened Repository (LHR) server as proxy server. Only limitation seems to be the transport mode. Only Network mode (NBD) is supported! This is because of security reasons. Network Mode was possible to implement without requiring root permissions on service. This is no show-stopper, because it is the most secure among all available transport modes. How does it workHow to get a LHR proxy server to work? It is simple as any other proxy server. Just create a new proxy server in VBR console:And select a LHR server in dropdown list:With that selection you get the information that only Network transport mode is supported for LHR.With confirmation, transport mode is set to Network in repository settings. Next I create a job that uses this proxy for backup. As backup target I use the local Hardened Repositor

Hey guys,I am trying to get a Veeam Restore report from Veeam One Web client but I am not finding Veeam backup & replication widget. Can anybody suggest what should be done next?

Is there a way to test the encryption key on backups without having to run a restore? I ran into a situation recently where the encryption password did not work on restored data. I want to setup Enterprise Manager for everyone, but in the interim, I’d like to manually test each encryption key and reset it/run a new full backup if need be. Is there a way to recover an encryption key with Service Provider Console?

Hello Team,Quick question - Does the Veeam Replication Re-IP concept work only for VM with Single network adapter?What if the replicating VMs has multiple network adapters? The Re-ip cannot be used?Thanks in advance!~ Ravi Kumar S

Job site - Backup USB\site - Backup Job cannot be started Job failed unexpectedly Job finished with error. How do I correct this issue? We have plugged and unplugged USB drive but that did not resolve the issue. Using Veeam Back and Replication 10

While I was studying for the VMCE, a detail on deduplication caught my attention.I’m talking about inline deduplication. What's about?Inline deduplication is a feature offered by Veeam B&R and it’s used to reduce the amount of storage space required to store backup data by removing duplicate data. One of the main benefits of inline deduplication is in fact that it can significantly decrease the amount of storage space, amount of time and resources required for backups and this can be especially beneficial for organizations that generate a large amount of data on a regular basis.   Another advantage of inline deduplication is that it can improve the efficiency of backups, ‘cause backups can be completed faster and the amount of data that needs to be transferred and stored is reduced.  An example?An immaginary company named CatsFood has a file server that contains 10 terabytes of data and the organization wants to create a backup of this file server using, proudly, Veeam. Without inl

 Today’s post is a direct result of experience in the field, and it was certainly an interesting one!I was recently working with a customer that wanted to migrate to the Veeam Availability Suite. They had an Enterprise SAN solution that they were using for booting their VMware ESXi hosts, in addition to storing their workloads on. The customer’s virtual estate was large, with some servers that were highly transactional, and a great candidate for storage snapshots.Everything was going well, until I performed the storage integration with Veeam, and hit a severe issue. after performing the storage rescan, all of the ESXi hosts within the cluster suffered a PSOD near simultaneously. I’ve certainly never seen that before, and upon asking all of my peers in the wider Veeam community and even some Veeam technical contacts, NOBODY had seen this before. The Culprit: The issue thankfully was not one that required much troubleshooting to discover what was going wrong. Each of the ESXi hosts were

This script showcases just how easy it is to use Veeam PowerShell cmdlets to export an M365 mailbox. This script is designed to be executed on a Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VB365) v6 server and it's interactive so no parameters are required. Upon execution, the script polls for information which culminates in the specified user mailbox being exported to a PST file.The code in this script could also be referenced to create a script to fully automate the mailbox export process.For more detailed information, please follow the VeeamHub link:https://github.com/VeeamHub/powershell/tree/master/VB365-ExportMailboxToPSTHere’s a screenshot of what it looks like in action: