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Veeam One Multiple Vulnerabilities - CVE-2023-38547 | CVE-2023-38548 CVE-2023-38549 | CVE-2023-41723

A bunch of new vulnerabilities was discovered on Veeam One against the SQL Server connection: You can see all of these on the new Veeam KB4508. Don't hesitate and update your Veeam One environment right now.

5 months ago

marcofabbriVeeam Legend

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Direct to Windows Object Storage on premise with MinIO

Happy monday everyone!Are you considering integrating the feature direct-to-Object Storage into your backup plan, which allows you to add Object Storage as a primary backup repository?Perhaps you'd like to test it locally on-premise first, on a Windows Server environment, without having to purchase, or testing purposes, paid cloud solutions? Or maybe you're specifically seeking a reliable On-Premise Object Storage solution that can also run on a Windows Server?Well, this guide is just for you.In this example I used:VMware ESXi 8.0 U2 Windows Server 2022 VM with 2 disks MinIO 2023-11-15Prepare your Object Storage Windows serverLet's set up and update a Windows Server 2022 VM. Keep it in a Workgroup. Then partition two disks: a smaller one for the OS and a larger one for data. In my example, I allocated 50GB to the OS and 500GB to the data.Visit https://min.io/download#/windows and download the executable.Place that in C:\ and create a PowerShell script with the following code:setx MINIO

5 months ago

Iams3leVeeam Legend

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Application for vExpert and Cisco Champion 2024

Hi there,I would like to share with you that applications for the following 2024 program are open. Existing vExperts and those aspiring to be part of this esteemed community are encouraged to submit their applications for consideration. Similarly, the Cisco Champion program welcomes both current members to reapply and prospective participants to submit their applications for review.For more information on the vExpert program, please take a look at this piece from @victorwu

5 months ago

SteveHeartVeeam MVP

posted in YARA and Script Library

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 - Azure/Entra Application Creation Script

A long time ago, my colleague @StefanZi had provided a Powershell script to create the necessary Azure/Entra appplicaton to be used in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. In the meantime, new permission requirements have been added to this application and the Powershell cmdlet AzureAD will also be retired next year (see here), and one of my Powershell scripts also requires the automated creation of an application in Azure/Entra.These were enough reasons for me to update the script. So what's new?- Use of the Microsoft Graph Powershell Module- Revise and add permissions- Adaptations to the text (e.g. adapted product name)- Optimize outputAnd the good news are. Script is ready to use. More details in my GitHub repository here.Enjoy!Steve

5 months ago

IT AdminNot a newbie anymore

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MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam B&R – NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck

Alt Text: Banner graphic displaying the post titleHi,Another quick hint from the field. I’ve seen on multiple occasions that Veeam can get stuck when moving metadata between cache repositories. I needed to move a batch of NAS Cache metadata to a new location, due to a change in Veeam Backup & Replication v12, whereby now it is recommended that you provision no less than 1GB of cache space per 1 million file versions, per backup job. A bit different to some of the previous ‘best practice’ guidelines of ~4GB total!As a quick side note, the Veeam Best Practice documentation now suggests 5% of the source data size as your cache size when using object, but I’m sticking to the Veeam Helpcenter documentation’s 1GB per 1 million file versions guidance, as it’s a good minimum for sizing. The Veeam Best Practice documentation doesn’t always scale well once you’ve got TBs of data. For example: At 50TB of data across 25 million files, your sizing with the best practice starts at 2.5TB of cache

5 months ago

ScottVeeam Legend

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Quick Summit Recap

I know I’m late, but spending an extra 4 days in Prague was a blast and the jetlag kicked in hard after being awake over 26 hours coming home! First off, Thanks to @Rick Vanover @Madi.Cristil @safiya @NikolaPejkova Nikki Adkins, and everyone else for their hard work. As this was my first summit (and first time out of NA) I had no clue what to expect and a bit nervous about the trip. Everything exceeded my expectations from the hotel, the sessions, events, the venues and swag 😄! I already want to go back to EU and explore more. The flight there was a bit rough. Having someone take their shoes and socks off and bump you with their foot for a few hours is not my idea of a good time, but I was able to keep my cool and power through. I met @Chris.Childerhose and @Matt Crape at the airport which made my trip to the hotel stress free. We were all a bit more tired than expected so the Uber instead of transit was the right call. I was pretty happy with the weather in Prague when I checked my

5 months ago

Nick StanfillNot a newbie anymore

asked in Discussion Boards

SQL Log Backups While Excluding the SQL Volume

My question is, if we are excluding SQL data volumes from the original backup job, can we still do full SQL backups and transaction logs using application-aware processing?For some background, in our current state my team is backing up our Windows SQL VMs using a Backup job, then use a Backup Copy job to get those offsite. Since the team has historically ran SQL Agent jobs to do daily full and hourly log backups for each DB they decided to exclude any volumes storing SQL data from the Veeam Backup job. I see the reasoning and I suppose this works, but I’d like to shift to including Veeam on SQL backups so we can easily get those offsite using the existing backup copy jobs.Finally, a sort of related question, if we can use Veeam and the SQL agent jobs in tandem, which one should truncate those? In my testing I’ve had to set the SQL Agent job to copy only mode for things to work, but I feel like setting Veeam to copy only mode should work as well, but I must be missing something since I

5 months ago

Rick VanoverRICKATRON

published in News

Veeam 100 Summit Special Edition, V12.1 Malware Detection DemoVeeam Community Recap #141

This week the Veeam 100 Summit program members gathered in Prague for the annual Veeam 100 Summit! What a great show of community and focus on product information. We had a chance to interview a number of members, both new and previous to the programs, for their takeaways and impressions. Rickatron also got to put in the 12.1 Malware Detection capability as so many are interested in this. Watch this episode below hosted by @Madi.Cristil and I:Members on this Episode (In order of appearance)Thank you @MatzeB @jos.maliepaard @HunterLAFR @dips @bradlinch @Tyler Jurgens @Wesley.Martins (note that he gave a shout out to his mother in Brazil!) @HannesK @tsmith and @Cragdoo !

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5 months ago

NemanjaJanicicInfluencer

asked in Discussion Boards

Multiple VMs with same OS

Hello to all,As I configure a testing Job with Multiple VMs with the same OS, I can see that there is no difference in the deduplication rate in Report when I run the VM itself alone or in the Group.One more point to ask:The VMs in the Backup Copy Job are all started at the same time when the job starts.Is this how it should be or they need to be run one at a time?

5 months ago

benyoungVeeam Vanguard

posted in Discussion Boards

AI meets API - would you chat with your backup server? (feedback wanted)

I'm here to show you a little working proof of concept I put together during the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague last week. It's very much a work in progress, but I'm excited to share it with you.(video and callout at the bottom for feedback) Let's dive into the tech stuff and some notes on what we're using.So, we're making use of the Veeam VBR Rest API, as you will know I am a fan of any API especially when it comes to Veeam. The prototype is put together using Node.js. It's like the middleman between the frontend and my VBR server and OpenAI. (we're rocking the gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 model). Although I'm thinking about going with a locally hosted model in the future, especially for sensitive backup server data. But for now, in this prototype and my lab setup, I'm good with this setup, nothing for me to worry about with the few machines I am protecting.For this prototype, I've focused on Backup Jobs and Backup Sessions, and it chats with four VBR Rest API endpoints to make it happen./api/v1/jo

5 months ago

MooseComes here often

asked in Discussion Boards

Backup copy job interferes with backup job

We have configured our backup copy jobs to execute in a continuous mode and hadn’t any issues until the other day. Ten (out of 100) of our backup copy jobs failed, with the error of “Unable to copy the backup: some backup files are located on an unavailable scale-out repository extent”. Checking the restore points on the source and target repositories, we noticed the restore points (for the most recent backup) for the target repositories were in an incomplete state. We performed the following manual steps to resolve; Disable backup copy job After reviewing the target repository from the backup copy job, the identified servers with the error, have the most recent restore point showing incomplete. Rescan the target repository Then process the incomplete restore points by selecting forget Rescan the target repository Enable backup copy job and executeWe did open a support case and the engineer discovered the issue we experienced stemmed from the backup copy job interfering with the bac

5 months ago

MikeLeoneComes here often

asked in Discussion Boards

Restoring individual files from virtual machine backups

I’m very new to Veeam. We use VMware vSphere. I need to be able to backup an entire VM, and be able to restore just individual files from that backup. I thought that doing a “VMware Backup” type of job, with “Guest File Processing” enabled would allow me to do that (i.e., restore just one file from drive E:, as an example). But when I try “Restore Guest Files” on that VM, , I get “Unable to mount disk: unsupported disk type” when it goes to Browse. Have I totally misunderstood what type of backup job I need to be doing, to be able to do an individual file restore of a Windows VM? What type of backup do I need to be doing then, to accomplish what I need? This type of backup looks like I can only restore the entire VM, like a bare metal recovery. Which is good, and I might need that, but I definitely need to be able to restore individual files. Do I need to make a backup job of type “Windows Computer”? I won’t need to push the Agent, because the VM is always connected.Sorry for the newb

5 months ago

PybarraExperienced User

posted in Discussion Boards

StorageGRID best practices for deployment with Veeam Data Platform

Please see the new NetApp StorageGRID and Veeam Best practices link below. You will see some recommendations from NetApp around using a larger object blocksize. This will increase the size of incremental backups. Please work with the NetApp StorageGRID team to optimally configure and size NetApp StorageGRID appliance for customer capacity and performance expectations. As always if you encounter issues please open up a support ticket to track the issues that the customer encounters😀. https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/storagegrid-enable/tools-apps-guides/veeam-br.htmlThanks,Pete

5 months ago

MartynJ.ElvyNot a newbie anymore

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Veeam Backup for Azure - Azure Files scheduling no yearly retention option

Hi All,Why does Veeam Backup for Azure (Azure Files) have no scheduling option for yearly retention?Is this in some way related to the Azure only allowing up to 200 snapshots on Azure Files? In which case would a feature like we have with VM snapshots being used to create a more traditional backup be worth thinking about if you require longer term archiving? Cheers,

5 months ago

barellagComes here often

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

How to assign custom tags on Veeam Backup for AWS workers

Hi All, In this article I am going to show how to configure custom AWS tags on Veeam Backup for AWS (VBAWS) workers. This is really helpful if you need to use tags for billing purposes for example.This procedure is only possible, at least until the moment I am writing this post, through restAPI. In Veeam for AWS we use by default the port 11005 for the restAPI, so you need to make sure you open this port on the security group that is associated with the VBAWS instance. Since you have the port open, the first step is to access Swagger, the restAPI tool built-in the VBAWS appliance.Open your browser and type:https://<hostname or IP of your appliance>:11005/swagger/index.html Expand the Method TOKEN Expand POST /api/v1/token and click on Try it Out.From the Grant_type drop-down menu, select Password, type the same credentials used to log into the appliance in the fields Username and Password. All other fields can remain blank and click Execute. Wait for the response from the server.

5 months ago

SteveFComes here often

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam Amazing Object Storage Tips & Techniques Part 5

A Deeper Look at the Smart-EntityIn my Veeam Amazing Object Storage Tips & Techniques Part 4 I provided a high level introduction of the Smart-Entity feature of the Smart Object Storage API (SOSAPI). In this article, I will explain how our Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) Object First has implemented the Smart-Entity as part of their object storage solution.Let’s start off with a reminder of how the Smart-Entity feature works:Veeam Backup & Replication will tell the object storage platform how much data VBR is about to send it as well as for what object (virtual machines, cloud vms, NAS file share, and Physical machines). The object storage platform can then use this information to determine what node/endpoint will receive the backup data The object storage platform then provides VBR the node name/endpoint address to send the data toBefore I dive into the details of how Smart-Entity works, let me define what an entity is. Veeam Backup & Replication uses backup jobs to pr

5 months ago

kevin.tsaiNew Here

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Veeam backup to nas, nas backup to aws s3, restore vm from s3

my goal isI use veeam to back up my vmware vm machine to a NAS, and then I back up the backup files from nas to aws s3. Then I can directly read the files from s3 and restore the vm machine in aws.But I am currently encountering a problem. The backup from veeam to nas and then from nas to aws s3 goes smoothly, but my veeam cannot read the files backed up by nas in aws s3. Please tell me how to set it correctly.

5 months ago

wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam File Extensions

Using Veeam we can have various types of files. But do you know all of those file extensions? Here is a list of the main files: .vbm - backup chain metadata file.vbk - full backup file.vib - incremental backup file.vrb - reverse incremental backup file.bco - configuration backup file.lde - veeam explorer exported file.ldf - Microsoft SQL Server Log file.mdf - Microsoft SQL Server master database file.vsm - Microsoft SQL Server transaction log backup.vom - Oracle database log file.lock - lock file.vblob - file that stores data from the file share (NAS) backup job.vindex - binary metadata file that describes backup files (names and versions) of file share backup job.vslice - binary metadata that describes allocation of data in VBLOB backup files Have you in mind any other kind of file extension that are associated with Veeam?Put here on the comments that I will add to this list.

5 months ago

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

VEEAM 100 SUMMIT IN PRAGUE

VEEAM 100 SUMMIT IN PRAGUE Last week I had the great pleasure to attend the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague Czech Republic.This event is the highlight of the year for the Veeam Community and the atmosphere and energy it creates is enough to keep one fueled with IT enthusiasm until the next summit.So what is the Veeam 100? Well I have described it before but such a great Community needs to be mentioned again and again. What’s more there is no reason why you too can’t join the Veeam 100 as well, either as a Veeam Vanguard or a Veeam Legend.The Veeam Vanguards“The Veeam Vanguard Program is Veeam’s top-level influencer community”. You can get a full description here: https://www.veeam.com/vanguard.htmlThe Veeam Legends“Veeam Legends are Veeam users and data protection industry experts who are passionate about technology, innovation and eager to further develop their career, while sharing their experiences with the community” Again you can get more information from here: https://community.veeam.

5 months ago

Reparto ITNew Here

asked in Discussion Boards

DR Plan - DC restore to AWS

Hi to everyone,I want to create a DR plan in AWS.Is there a way to restore a Domain Controller (Windows Server 2022) in AWS keeping all its configuration and function as AD, DHCP and DNS? When i try to restore it into the cloud, i’ve this error:Impossible join with these credential because your domain isn’t available….. Do you have some advice? Thanks.

5 months ago

isteamtigerNew Here

asked in Discussion Boards

Netapp snapshots created, vscan set to not scan snapshots, performance still impacted

I’m using NetApp 9.12 just a cifs smb share. I followed the instructions from veeam to create the storage infrastructure for netapp and the subsequent NAS filer. I created a file to tape job to use vss and confirm that the snapshot is being created by veeam on NetApp. I have the virus scanning to exclude the directory based on NetApp’s published kb on excluding snapshots from vscan. What is the right format of '-paths-to-exclude' in 'vserver vscan onaccess-policy' command? - NetApp Knowledge BaseUse Snapshots to backup SMB File Shares on your NetApp ONTAP system (veeam.com)With vscan enabled veeam will just stop transferring completely for long periods of time. With vscan disabled it backs up normally. How can I tell if veeam is actually using the snapshot it creates and not just trying to access the files? In the file to tape job I have use ms VSS checked in the options. in the SMB file share I have it set to backup from a ms VSS Snapshot and “failover to direct backup if a snapshot i

5 months ago

Madi.CristilCommunity Manager

published in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam 100 Show - Second episode -Veeam community leverages AI for next gen support and content experiencesVeeam 100 Show #2

If you missed out on the second episode of the Veeam 100 Show with @anthonyspiteri79 , @benyoung and @kristofpoppe , fret not! You can still watch the replay and gain valuable insights, tips, and knowledge that were shared during the event. With the participation of the two #VeeamVanguards alongside #Veeam's Regional CTO for APJ, Anthony Spiteri, this session offers an exciting journey into how the #Veeam Community is delving into the dynamic AI landscape, forging a path and laying the groundwork for a significant transformation in support and content experiences. Best, Madi

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