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I just want to share two tips for the VBR console that can make life simpler. Both of them are related to the live job protocol. I made two GIF files to illustrate them better.Historic viewFirst is to show not just the current running respectively last run, but also log of all previous runs. This can easily be done be using left and right courser keyswithin the log viewer. This looks like this: Last 5 minutes vs. all time performanceSecond is to simply switch performance graph between last 5 minutes and all time view. This can be done by just clicking into the graph. I hope you find this useful as me!

I have scheduled a year end backup and it’s not working as expected.  What I have done is grabbed all of my VMs and set them to backup at 10PM on the last Friday of the month of December.  See screen grab.What is happening is that it’s running on odd and random days.  For example, the year end backup started on Sept 4 at 4:51AM.  It’s not chained to any other job.  It’s not scheduled to run at any time other than what is shown in the screen grab, but that’s three months in a row that’s the job has fired off at random times during the month.Anyone seen this before or have any thoughts?PS:  Let me add that both jobs show scheduled to run again on Oct 10 of this year! 

Thought I’d quickly post this to end the week. Our current backup strategy utilises a virtual tape library with GFS with tapes periodically expiring after a set retention period. When tapes are archived to the vault, even though they will expire, the data is still recoverable when the tape is retrieved. Anyway, we needed to recover a folder that our user remembers working on quite a long time ago but was no longer able to find it. A quick look on the Veeam B&R Tape Infrastructure tab to determine which tapes were required, perform retrieval, import the tape, retrieve the data and folder recovered. Could not be simpler. Have a good weekend!

Is there a report or way to use VeeamOne to show which machines in our vcenter environment are running a database

Dear Sir,as you know, in Windows 10 and newer, there is the option “Persian Date” (Solar System Date).Please add “Persian Date” to the Veeam Backup & Replicate as feature.thank you. 

I am a keyboard junkie - use keystrokes rather than reach for the mouse if I can.I love Veeam’s use of the F1 keybind in any dialog window of Veeam Backup Console will bring you to the Helpcenter web page document specific to that dialog.I was playing around in the Job Session - detail window pane and you can use CTRL+A and then CTRL+C or right click any line or just white space in that pane and Copy to Clipboard.The resultant line(s) will be available to be pasted as text to your text/word/email application.Great. 💡 What about in the wider other views of Veeam Backup Console. 🤔When I have been wanting to show someone overview of Repositories I would screengrab... switch to the view and press WIN+SHIFT+S (brings up Windows Snipping Tool) drag select and then switch to application and press CTRL+VMaybe screengrab is not best for say something that might later on want to be searchable. Certainly OCR and the like have become more quicker and much easier available. Take Microsoft OneNote

Happy Friday Everyone! This week I took part in some Kasten partner training, which I’ve got to admit, was pretty awesome.It got me thinking, how ‘ready’ is the data protection community for Kubernetes? For this I shall bring back one of my favourite Community Hub features, THE POLL! So please, answer honestly, it’s anonymous after all! And contribute to the conversation with anything you may have achieved in Kubernetes you might be proud of, whether it’s the creation of your first lab environment, your first data protection policy live & working, the creation of your own blueprint, whatever it is, I’d love to hear it!

The roadmap for LTO tape has been extended up to generation 14 which is projected to store up to 576TB of uncompressed data and a unbelievable amount of 1440TB of compressed data on one tape.It will be interesting to see if this can be realized and the capacity be doubled with each of the coming generations...See more here:https://www.lto.org/2022/09/lto-program-announces-extension-to-the-lto-tape-technology-roadmap-to-generation-14/ 

I’m curious how long you all wait to update to the latest version, firmware, or software release in your production systems.  For me, I would say I am on the early end of the spectrum, but I usually try and roll things out to TEST first if I can and verify for a few days. This doesn’t always work as there are times it won’t fully mirror PROD. VMware is one I’ll try and wait a little bit due to some pretty significant issues in the past I have had with host failures.  Being extremely critical infrastructure downtime isn’t allowed AT ALL for us.  Another thing I use to decide is the support I get. With Veeam, I have had so many good experiences I am confident they will resolve my issue.  I also tend to keep my config backups and having to reinstall once or twice it’s quite doable in a pinch.  

We need a consistent backup for a containered DB2, some one worked around the problem, there are working solution for do it using Kasten ?Thank’s Luca     

Hello there,I have a customer who wanted to restore some DBs multiple time per month from production to different stages (dev, test ...) and doesn’t want to delegate the rights with EM or to the console to the devs (surprised Pikachu face). Nor spend hours behind their screen to do it themselves. So i created a script that can be scheduled (windows task) or triggered with their own automation tool.As the source databases are split with multiple NDF I had to figure it out. So here it is, it's far from "State of the Art" script but it does the job.(I have a "vaulted" version that can pick credentials from an encrypted file but I'm not that happy with it so here is the script without it. Feel free to improve it.)# Restore a specified SQL database to a specified folder on the same or different server, rename it, add it to an availability group.# Used, for example, to "restage" the prod database to Dev/Qual# Created by Christian Bocquet - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vchris/ on 11.07.2022# V

Finding Indexed JobsWhen many users start with Veeam, they turn indexing on for everything not understanding what it does or that it requires Enterprise Manager. The environment I inherited had this exact issue.  I have modified the jobs that the file servers are still indexed for quick search/restore but here is a handy little PS command to find all of the jobs using indexing on your Veeam Server. Script Get-VBRJob | where {$_.GetVSSOptions().WinGuestFSIndexingOptions.IsIndexingRequired -eq $True}   Listing all VM backup sizesAnother helpful PS script is to get the size of all of the VM backups. I often want to know which VM’s are taking up the most room, and having a total of the VBK’s and VIB’s without doing math on 30+ incrementals.This will gather all the required info and can be exported if needed. If you have multiple repositories the jobs may show up more than 1 time as there will be a separate entry for each repo.  It’s still a great way to charge back to the VM owners.    Scr

Hi everyone,  For a possible upcoming project on the Veeam Community Hub I am looking for someone who has a feeling with Automation. While I cannot share much about the project just yet, I am looking for someone that would have time to assist me and probably someone else in organizing events, blogs, content etc. Please reach out to me with an DM if you are interested

According to this KB https://www.veeam.com/kb4264 I successfully configured restore to AWS EC2 via endpoints and VPN. So I can restore VM from vsphere to EC2 via VPN.And now I have question :)Is it possible to make restore from EC2 to on premise via VPN, not thounght Internet?

I was wondering how the point system works for this community.   I see some people that are brand new at 600 points, then people who have topics and comments at only a few points.   I can see when I am active, points being added.Can someone confirm if this is correct. I am assuming if you are not active your points go down month after month.  I am also at the assumption when you are a new member you are starting around 500-600 points. I joined a while ago and wasn’t active for a bit, so I’m just trying to make sense of why brand new users have so many more points :)   

In other topics I have talked about how to make a Veeam On line design, but ... For those who continue to use visio, I leave here the Stencils where you can download them for free …https://www.veeam.com/es-lat/vmware-esx-stencils.html?ad=in-text-link   

Trying to clean up data from an old backup copy job, after deleting the backup copy job.It’s now showing under Disks(Orphaned) and Object Storage(Orphaned) - All needed restore points are available from Capacity tier(Azure Object storage). No more restore points are available to move to Capacity tier(because all have been moved already).Still multiple TBs are stored on the Performance tier, but if I select Delete from Disk, it tells me it will delete the dependent restore point also in the Capacity tier…? There are 3 restore points available on Performance tier, and 60+ on capacity tier.I would like to keep all restore points in Capacity tier until I manually delete them according to retention policy. Can I say Yes to this, and still have restore points available from Capacity tier?

One of my customer upgraded the vSAN cluster to 7.0 U3d from 6.7 U3, unfortunately my customer reported the performance of some virtual machines is dropped. We have opened the SR to VMware GSS, but they do not find out the reason. I search some useful information in the internet, it may be related to a known issue exists on vSAN 7.0. I shared the following information to VMware GSS, now we are waiting for confirmation from VMware. https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSAN-Discussions/vSAN-7-0-poor-write-performance-and-high-latency-with-NVMe/td-p/2807761https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/88832

Hello Veeam community!I have been trying to determine best approach for a backup migration from one object storage bucket to another and need some help.  My customer has a large amount of data in the 100’s of TB’s of backups and a bucket copy will take 30 days which is too long.  They also don’t have the space to pull it all back down locally to copy to the new bucket so that option won't work.  I am going to have them setup a new capacity tier in SOBR and start new jobs going to the new bucket.  But the issue is the old backups on the old bucket are left orphaned.  i need to move some but not all of the backups due to retention policy.  I was trying to determine which backup objects are related to which backup jobs but can’t determine backup_id via powershell.  my thinking is this would allow me to “grab” the backups that need to be moved to the new bucket.  Does anyone have a helpful tip on how to get this accomplished?  Thank you!

Hi,Please can you clarify if it is possible will Veeam to do a backup copy job directly to say an AWS bucket, or Azure Blob? We want to move away from using tape, but do not want to implement Veeam Connct and all its associated complexity.Kind regardsAndrew Rycroft  

Hi.I use restore from on-premise to aws via veeam. It works perfect but I need option to run scripts on aws after restore. Something like user data on aws ( Specify user data to provide commands or a command script to run when you launch your instance. Input is base64 encoded when you launch your instance unless you select the User data has already been base64 encoded check box. )Is there such a functionality?

In VBR11 in scale-out configuration there is an option “Copy backups to object storage as soon as they are created” which is missing in VBR9.5. Is there a forcible way to copy it anyway? :)

I have Scale-Out repository which sends backup of vm to Azure Blob Storage. Is it possible to restore VM from azure blob storage directly to azure vm?

Happy Friday everyone! So, next month it will have been two years since the Veeam Community Hub was first revealed during VeeamON Update 2020. During this time, there are now over 13.6k users, nearly 20k comments, and over 2.6k topics. Lets take a moment and reflect on those numbers, it’s VEEAMAZING. What’s also amazing is the visibility this platform gives to amazing content, even content that isn’t directly related to Veeam can get hundreds or thousands of viewsExhibit A: Exhibit B:Exhibit C:Now I turn to the community and ask, was there any particular topic or content that you were especially impressed with? Maybe it didn’t get the visibility you thought it deserved at the time and want to re-share it? Whatever the reason, please share your favourite topics below and why you like them! For me, it’s actually this awesome recovery post from @falkob that I wish had got more attention:It’s a scenario we never want, but will inevitably face due to one reason or another, having someone ex