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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

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 39 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions?The final video in this series will be available tomorrow :-)

I was recently made aware that Veeam have released the 2021 edition of the Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) exam. If you’ve already got a VMCE 2020 certification, or have taken the VMCE 2020 training course within the past year, (or even been lucky enough to already take a seat on the VMCE 2021 training course) you’re eligible to take the exam.To take the exam simply head to the VMCE certification page, sign in with your company email address that was used for either your training course or previous exam and you should see the below.Description: An image showing the VMCE certification page with a button labelled “Manage VMCE 2021 Exam”Simply click on “Manage VMCE 2021 Exam” and you’ll be taken to the PearsonVUE website to organise eit

Hi Folks, I think I remember hearing that Veeam was coming out with their own Self Service Portal for O365. I can’t remember where I heard this (VeeamONUpdate?). Does anyone remember? And would this be based on the previous unofficial Portal that was on the VeeamGitHub site? cheers Geoff

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 38 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions? 

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 26 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

For those that use Veeam Agent for IBM there is an issue with the LIBPATH variable when changed.  See the KB from Veeam - KB4273: Unable to use Veeam Agent for IBM AIX after LIBPATH variable has been changed

Hey! Sorry it’s late in the day but happy Friday! Today’s Fun Friday question is. What year did you first use Veeam? Bonus points if you can remember what you were using it with! For me it was 2013, I’d just gone to another company that was using Veeam + VMware and I immediately felt like this was the first truly user friendly backup solution. It was really intuitive and actually saved me during my first ever ransomware battle later that year! (Thanks to rotated USB disks!)

Veeam has published a storage plugin for  NEC Storage M Series.Find the release notes here:https://www.veeam.com/kb4274

Today - on January24th, 2022 - is community manager appreciation day.It is celebrated annually on the fourth Monday of January.https://nationaltoday.com/community-manager-appreciation-day/ Lets say a big thank you to our community manager @Kseniya  and @Rick Vanover who listen to all our demands and are growing this community in the best way you can think of.

During my presentations on VBO to customers and partners, people sometimes ask whether the recoverability of data can be checked automatically (Our Veeam Backup & Replication customers love SureBackup). However, this functionality is not available.Since I have now been told this "wish" several times, I thought "New Year, New Luck!"First, I share the Powershell script to check backed up Exchange Online restore data. With this script it is possible to save an email from a mailbox to a local directory and check if a certain pattern can be read.More functions will be added soon. Please give me feedback what can be improved or added.A script for checking OneDrive for Business data will also be available soon. The script can be found here:https://github.com/yetanothermightytool/powershell/tree/master/vbo/

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 37 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions? 

Hi all, I am trying to create a Monthly Full Backup with Incremental Backups in between. In the ‘Advanced’ section, so far, I have created a Backup Job with ‘Incremental’ option selected. I have also enabled ‘Active full backup’ which will run on the last Friday on Monthly basis. In the ‘Schedule’ section, I have selected the ‘Run the job automatically’ with condition that it will run at 10 pm of the last Friday, every Month.So, the question is have a configured it correctly ? Thanks,Abhi

Has anyone had any success getting email notifications via Office 365 to work from their Veeam Azure backup appliance? I keep getting SMTP auth errors, even though I’ve confirmed the credentials are correct. I’m using SSL and authentication over port 587 and have tried various Office SMTP endpoints without success. I have added the appliance IP to our on-premise connector in Exchange Online.Weirdly, I am able to get it to send the test email if I relay via Gmail, but cannot for the life of me get it to work via Exchange Online. Hoping I’m just missing something obvious.For what it’s worth, the same account I’m using can send emails from our copier via Exchange Online without issue. Any suggestions appreciated!

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 36 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to set up and perform a VMware vMotion.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released.