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I know how much everyone is excited about the upcoming Veeam version v11 and its amazing new and/or enhanced features. Whats your favorite?• Veeam Agent for Linux v5• Veeam Agent for Mac NEW• Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows v5• Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN (AIX) NEW• Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN (Linux) v3• Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN (Windows) v3• Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA v3• Veeam Plug-in for SAP on Oracle NEW• Veeam Availability Orchestrator v4• Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v2• Veeam Service Provider Console v5 Mine is Veeam agent for Mac.

I recall from one of the recent Veeam R&D Forums Digest newsletters that Reverse Incremental for Hyper-V is being removed or has been removed in VBR.  This is useful for sending full backups to Tape, otherwise we have to do synthetic full to Tape (heavy use of virtual memory for our TB-sized backups) or create a synthetic .VBK (use more disk space).Which VBR version did Veeam start doing this?  Luckily still on 9.5I feel like Hyper-V is getting short-changed ... 

Here I want to show how to query space in VBR Repositories with a few PowerShell snippets. These can be taken to check used space and compare this with restore points in VBR database. It can be used for larger environments to analyze repository space. I used these codes to analyze differences in size on the repositories at a customer.First check: Restore points in database and compare them to allocated space on repository.$VbrVMs = ((Get-VBRBackup  | Get-VBRRestorePoint)  |select vmname, @{N="Job"; E={$_.getsourcejob().name }}, @{N="Repo"; E={$_.getrepository().name }} , @{N="size"; E={$_.getstorage().stats.BackupSize }})  The output of this one-liner should be the same as properties of disk backups.

Hi All,I have 3 destinations for my backup and it’s all in the same network. I would like to secure my last copy of my backup. I have multiple possibility.Second internet connection and qnap sync with ACLQnap backup SSHVLAN and Qnap backup sshWhat do you prefed and for why ?I have 200Mpbs for the second internet connection and my second vlan is on the other building with 100 mbps mpls.I would like to have a backup outside of my first building.Thanks you

Hi, A feature I believe would be extremely useful would be scheduling SureBackup around the completion of a Backup Copy Job. Backup Copy Jobs aren’t scheduled the same as usual jobs so I understand the additional complexity around this however the reason for my request is simple.One of SureBackup’s primary limitations is Disk IO, if we create a SureBackup job to run after a backup job is complete, a Backup Copy Job could then start consuming IO to transmit this backup to an archive tier, Cloud Connect or to some other secondary repository. This creates contention for IO with SureBackup, impacting the ability to validate virtual machines.A key example of this behaviour is when VMware Tools fails to start within the traditional 30 seconds (I’m aware of registry keys that can amend this behaviour, but it’s just one example). If we could chain either BCJ’s to run after a backup is validated (so we know we’re copying good data firstly) or even inversely whereb

As you know, we need a name for this cat There were a lot of suggestions from you across all social media channels, so we put together a shortlist, a poll for community members to choose the best name.  

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. How familiar are you with the terms RPO and RTO? What about combining that information into questions about backup job run frequency and amount of restore points?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

Veeam Backup and Replication provides two different backup modes to process Hyper-V backups, both relying on the Microsoft VSS framework.On-Host backup mode, for which backup data processing is on the Hyper-V node hosting the VM, leveraging non transportable shadow copies by using software VSS provider. Off-Host backup mode, for which backup data processing is offloaded to another non-clustered participating Hyper-V node, leveraging transportable shadow copies using hardware VSS provider provided by the SAN storage vendor or SMB3 functionality Performance wise, since both backup modes are using the exact same Veeam transport services, the only differentiating factors will be the additional time requested to manage transportable snapshots (in favor of On-Host mode) and the bal

Since the years when I was NetApp SE at Avnet/Techdata, I have always carried NetApp in my heart.And since I've been at Veeam, if there's one product I really like, it's Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO).So you can imagine that when Veeam announced VAO v3 with the major new feature of integration with NetApp technologies, it was a total excitement for me.In a NetApp environment, one of the promise of VAO is to drive the entire ONTAP storage failover during a DR to a  recovery site and then orchestrate the restart of applications at that recovery site.Is the promise really being delivered? YES, it is… Enough blah blah blah, I suggest you watch all this in this little 5 minutes demo.The voice over is in french, but I think the demo is easy to understand for non french native speakers. If it's not the case, let me know in th

These days I invested the possibility to programmatically export the same job log shown in VBR console (GUI). @JMeixner gave me the missing link. Now I want to share my outcome here.First, select the backup session of the job you want to get the log from. To select the job session run latest, you can do this with a command like this:$BackupSession = Get-VBRBackupSession -Name "Job 1*" | Sort-Object CreationTime | Select-Object -last 1Here the name of the job is actually "Job 1". But -Name is the name of the running job. This means it includes a postfix like "(Incremental)", therefore *. I use -Name because this is much faster than using | where {$_.jobname -eq "Job 1"}

  Evacuate Tenant With PowerShell • cmdlet enables granular evacuation of:     tenant    tenant’s quota    tenant’s job • Code example: Start-VBRCloudTenantBackupEvacuation $repo = Get-VBRBackupRepository-Name ‘SOBR-01’ -ScaleOut$tenant = Get-VBRCloudTenant-Repository $repo$extent = Get-VBRRepositoryExtent-Repository $repoStart-VBRCloudTenantBackupEvacuation-SourceExtent$extent[0] -TargetExtent$extent[1] -Tenant $tenant

Although there is a lot of great content out there, sometimes you may just be stuck and not sure what your next steps should be.I’ve been planning some YouTube live Q&A/Study group sessions and wanted to check if there would be any interest in such a format from the good folks here? 

Hi, in almost one month from now on October 20th, Veeam will deliver #VeeamLIVE! that will give the audience actionable Cloud Data Management guidance and help propel their business forward. Veeam knows virtual attendance isn’t easy, so Veeam is upping their game and making the entire conference Live to bring you best practices, “how-to” sessions, demos, and Q&As with end-users, industry, and Veeam experts. Attendees will learn to have an opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals, set the strategy right for their organization, and be part of the future of Cloud Data Management. Here´s the landing page that you can check here and already register yourself. What is Veeam Live?The data protection and management scene

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to deploy pfSense in your lab and segment the lab into multiple networks so that it is ready for deployment of nested ESXi in a “Production site” and a “Disaster Recovery” site.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released. 

The ability to perform backups on unstructued NAS/Fileserver data made its way into Veeam Backup and Replication in version 10 and they are now starting to build out on that foundation in v11 which is currently in closed beta testing.  One of these new features extends Veeam's "instant" capabilities further such as Instant Disk Recovery or even Instant VM Recovery which is... you guessed it... Instant NAS RecoveryEarlier in the year I had a lot of fun playing about with the Data Integration API (more here, Data Integration API ) which allows for you to present virtual machine disks out of a backup restore point over the network and do something with them.nstant NAS Recovery works in a similar fashion to other instant functionality by presenting data from any of your restore points to a "target".As an

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you using virtual labs? What about virtual labs in a different site than your backup server? How did you handle it?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

Hi, Hopefully I’m not alone in my wishing of this but I believe that Veeam need to adopt an MFA offering for their sign in systems. The amount of services covered by the Veeam single sign on is increasing and there are some services that would really benefit from the increased security such as the ProPartner portal. Also I’m interested to hear everyone’s experience with the “keep me signed in” setting for Veeam. I don’t find it keeps me signed in longer than a day on average. MFA + keep me signed in for 14/28 days would be awesome improvements this year IMO.

                                                   Tape 📼 Improvements                                                VEEAM v11  TAPE VERIFICATION!!!   Check for media errors Compliance Verify after migration

Yes, this feature is not completely new in v11 - but it is a little bit hidden and I never found it before . So maybe it is new for others too. And there is also a cool improvement in v11!This filter is about getting a better overview of jobs and latest status. You can access them at Job-level in console.There you can create your own filtersand select the options you want to seeOptions are self explanatory. After adding a

This short 20 minute video explains how to setup our object storage integration so satisfy the 3-2-1 rule as well as making your backups immutable.  

Is it possible in the future releases to see Veeam B&R appliance? physical or virtual?

This video explores the history of the first ransomware strain and takes a look at what ransomware has evolved into today. Most importantly, we talk about how Veeam can help you protect your data against ransomware.   

A very interesting feature in Veeam Backup for Office 365.You can get an email alert when data from defined users is accessed in VBO V5.I think this would be a great feature for the “normal” Exchange backup, too.https://benyoung.blog/get-a-notification-when-restricted-user-data-is-accessed-in-veeam-backup-for-office365/ Thanks to Ben Young for the detailled description.

In VBR v11 v11 there are several improvements on User Interface –Console And Enterprise Manager But are you using all the features that Enterprise Manager has?One of them In v11 there will SAML For vSphere Self-Service Portal•Added support for SAML accounts (e.g. at service providers)•External users and groups•Group quotas have usual behavior•Delegation mode: vSphere tags 

I just wanted to post about my upcoming book for those that might be interested in learning about Veeam v10.  The book is title - Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10 from Packt Publishing.  It is in pre-order now on Packt and Amazon. It will cover some of the more advanced topics in Veeam v10 and requires some knowledge.  It will be a great reference for anyone wanting to learn more about Veeam. If you have any questions just let me know.  The publishing date is noted for March 9th but I have fast tracked the chapters which are all done now so that we can move the date up sooner to February timeframe hopefully.  I can post more news once I have some. Pre-Order Links: Amazon -