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I’d like to draw your attention to a small but significant feature that was introduced in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1: Syslog support. As documented in the user guide (and in Veeam KB4522 with a few extra details), VBR 12.1’s syslog conforms to the industry standard RFC 5424 specification and supports UDP, TCP, and TLS transports.This feature opens the door to a huge array of security solutions. As you’ll see, this creates new opportunities for customers to incorporate VBR’s application events and malware signals into their broader security architectures and workflows to fortify their digital immune system.Veeam Backup & Replication, Meet Microsoft Sentinel

In my previous article, I walked through the process of setting up Microsoft Sentinel and configuring Azure Arc and Azure Monitor Agent to collect Veeam application events using syslog. It had a great response from the Veeam community both externally and internally, and I’m happy to share part two with you today. Let’s dive right in. Analytics rulesNow that you have your Veeam events ingesting into Sentinel, it’s time to define the business logic that scans the data for notable events. These are called analytics rules. Based on the rules you define, Sentinel will create alerts and incidents based on the events occurring in your environment.You have a

We’ve installed the SQL Server Plug-in on a couple of test boxes, but the Veeam toolbar isn’t showing up in SSMS when we open it up. Is there a trick to get it to show up so our DBA can manage Veeam backups from within SSMS?We installed the plug-in with an account that was in the local Administrators group. We right-clicked and selected “run as administrator” when we launched the installer. We went through the Veeam Plugin Configuration application. But after all of that, when we open SSMS the Veeam toolbar doesn’t show up like it does in all of the demo videos. We’ve checked the “view” settings but Veeam plugin isn’t an option there.Any help what we are missing would be appreciated. Edit: Veeam 12.1.0.2131, SSMS v15.0.18369.0, Windows Server 2019 Standard

I have three backups jobs: one that runs once a week, one that runs every evening (Monday - Friday), and one that runs twice a day.  I want all of these backups to be copied to tape each night.  Currently, only the daily and bi-daily jobs are being copied.  Today’s logs states that no restore points were found for the weekly job between 05/11/2025 and 05/13/2025. (the last time the job ran was 05/10/2025)Is there any way to get this (weekly) job onto the tape each night?  I have synthetic fulls being made each night so that I get a full backup of all jobs on every tape.David

I was looking for an alternative to Macrium Reflect for my home PC backup after I learned that their free version was no longer supported, and quite a few people recommended Veeam, so here I am having downloaded the free community version, but now that I’ve installed it, I think I’m in way over my head lol I am not a professional and have no experience or education in IT, but I have been able to follow instructions well enough to troubleshoot and maintain my own machine in most cases. All I want is to set up a straightforward and regular (as in repeating regularly) backup for my home pc on a local external drive, no servers, no ports, not on any cloud, but I can’t even get past the login screen. Having read this page in the help center it seems like I’ve either missed a few steps (I have no server to provide c

I have been working at Veeam going on 9 years now and most of this time has been working with the VCSP/MSP team. Over the years there is always the question for a Veeam appliance to simplify deployment for the MSPs wanting to backup and protect their customers. Obviously as a software-based product you can always create a Veeam branded appliance, basically you pick the hardware vendor of your choice and install Veeam on it and you have an appliance 😀. At VeeamOn this year, a Veeam software appliance was announced along with an appliance partner mentioning an appliance as well. So, I thought it was a good idea to put up a post to break down options that I see coming from these offerings as well as just what is an option based on just the install.I would say there are basically 4 types of deployments that can be done, and they each have

With the topic of data freedom and the shakeup in the market caused by Broadcom. Customers are looking for alternative hypervisor choices.Nutanix AHV has been coming up lately as one alternative. In order to prepare a demo for a customer a little preparation is needed. Attempting to perform an IVMR without the preparatory steps will cause a blue screen stop code for a Windows VM see figure 1 below.  The reason for this is that Nutanix requires specific drivers for the Windows boot device. The drivers can be downloaded from the Nutanix downloads website see links below. The release notes will tell you how to download drivers see figure 2 below. You should also install Nutanix Guest Tools see link below, or they can be installed once from the hypervisor once the VM is migrated. I installed them on the Windows VM. Once the VirtIO drivers' and Nutanix Guest Tools packages are installed see figure 3, take another backup and perfor

I hear sharepoint personal use onedrive in the backend, so are we need to backup both services?

Currently we backup our M365 using Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) including to backup SharePoint site.I have one SharePoint site with large size (around 12TB) and the VDC backup this site need time more than 3 weeks or more for incremental.Contacting the VDC support and they said the backup was throttling by Microsoft.Second app already registered also. From VDC point of view, what can we do to improve this?

Best practices for a one time back with a 1-year retention period in cloud and 30 days on prem. Cloud is Wasabisince it is a one-time backup, how do I set that back up to be 30 days onsite and 1 year in the cloud? 

Virtualization remains a cornerstone of modern IT infrastructure, with VMware ESXi historically recognized as a market leader for its robust enterprise features and mature ecosystem. However, as technology evolves, organizations—particularly small to mid-sized businesses—are increasingly prioritizing simplicity, scalability, and cost-efficiency.Enter Scale Computing’s SC//Platform—a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution designed to unify compute, storage, and virtualization in a single, integrated platform. This article offers a professional comparison between VMware ESXi and Scale Computing SC//Platform, outlining key architectural differences, licensing models, core features, and considerations for migration and vendor lock-in.Core Architecture & ManagementVMware ESXi is a Type-1 hypervisor that runs directly on bare metal, providing a solid foundation for virtual machine (VM) hosting. It is typical

Here is a report I developed in PowerShell to document Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructures. If you have any recommendations it will be welcome!Project Info:AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR is a PowerShell module used to generate an as built report on the configuration of VEEAM Backup & Replication Infrastructure. Veeam VBR As Built Report works in conjunction with AsBuiltReport.Core.Module InstallationInstall-Module -Name AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBRReport URL:https://github.com/AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBRSample Report:AsBuilt

kasten can edit multiple resource with transform sets which gave flexibility to change multiple object especially when restoring DR or different domain. put resource category and leave resource name empty. resource info put regular expression to change resource content (host of route) regex config example hosts before transform: elasticsearch-ui-elastic.apps.ocp.demo.localkibana-ui-elastic.apps.ocp.demo.local example hosts after transform: dr-elasticsearch-ui-elastic.apps.ocp.demo.localdr-kibana-ui-elastic.apps.ocp.demo.local It is important that host of ro

OK, so this will be a bit odd. I have a Windows cluster set up as a file server. It’s a bit on the large size (11 TB - yes, TB :-)). Here’s what I want to do. We backup data to  NAS (Dell Data Domain). Then we also copy to tape and send off site. So here’s what I want to do with this huge job.I want to backup to NAS incrementally every day, and a FULL backup on weekend (either Fri night or Sat, either is fine). The problem is .. I am currently limited on the number of tape drives (LTO 7 drives). And so what I want to do is:copy to tape the incremental daily, but only write the FULL on Thu (Thu is the day when I have the lightest load of jobs writing to tape). And I don’t see a way to do that.I see ADVANCD options on Tape jobs for “Process latest full backup only”. But what I want to do is to write out the FULL back on Thu, even though it was created 5 days earlier, and without any incrementals made since the full (i.e., no “chain”).Meanwhile, I *also* wan

Hi Community, During the projects I have been working on, or in the VMCA classes I teach, I use drawio.com to make diagrams. It is a simple and free tool to use. However, the Veeam icons are not always up to date on it. So, to improve the quality, quantity and standard of the Veeam icons, I share many other formats with you.So, you can use drawio as a diagram tool and the Veeam icons in SVG format. Once drawio is open, you just need to copy and paste the desired icons into the drawio window.For those who use Visio, I’ll attach the visio stencils as well.  

Recently found out that the Virtual Router’s port 443 is open. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Test-NetConnection -ComputerName 10.3.14.205 -Port 443ComputerName     : 10.y.y.yRemoteAddress    : 10.y.y.yRemotePort       : 443InterfaceAlias   : _something.netSourceAddress    : 10.z.z.zTcpTestSucceeded : True I tried using systemctl and service commands to verify status. Both do not work in this strip down linux version.  Appreciate suggestions on how to remove apache2 or prevent it from starting at boot. 

Orchestrator Error, Veeam One Monitoring Service cannot access its database.Initially got the error, “The embedded Veeam Backup and Replication server is not Healthy, state = Communication Error”.So digging more into the issue showed the error above. When I ran VeeamOne client, it said it cannot connect to the Veeam One server.I noticed at the top of the client it shows Community EditionThis is weird, why would it say Community Edition, if VRO is showing a valid license

Hi guys,I have a file backup containing several NetApp shares, and at every backup the following error appears in the statistics: Error: Canot Find some NAS backup metadata sectionsIt is resolving that at “Retry 1” but it does this every single backup, and I want to know the root cause of it - even if it gets resolved eventually.(someone told me it might be that backup job contains a lot of NetApp shares, so it can’t “deal” with all of them then it drops few of them and then retires to back them up individually and with success… but i don’t know...) Please let me know if any of you have had the same issue and/or how did it get resolved Thanks!! 😁

When i migrate linux VM from vmware to hyper-v using instant recovery, the VM can boot up but when i migrate to production and the VM rebooted then the VM can’t boot up and stuck in dracut.Anyonw know why? 

Hi All,Wasnt sure where to post this so adding it here.Had a requirement recently to automate the process of adding YARA rules and found that ransomware.live has a great list! fantastic resources for those that havent looked at it yet.leveraging their API, I basically pull the rules and then copy them to the VBR server, pretty simple but hopefully going to improve it as things move on but figured id share with the wider team.https://homelabpro.xyz/posts/2025-05-09-dynamically-download-yara-rules/

I was able to setup and add/use the initial disk to the Backup Repositories. However, I’m thinking, it we reach the maximum drive size, we would need to add a second immutable disk to the Backup Repositories. In doing so, I encountered the following error:Since this is a different mount point, I’m assuming it should work. I tried re-adding the veeamuser (username used to add the original immutable disk) to sudo group and reset the password but still unable to add the 2nd immutable disk to the Backup Repo. My objective is to create an immutable SOBR that would allow adding disks as needed.What do you think am I missing here? Thanks

Hey folks,I work for a Veeam Reseller/MSP and have a quick question about per-VM backup chains.We have a tenant who's switching their local backups from legacy to per-VM format. On our end, all of our Cloud Connect repos are already set up for per-VM.Once they make the switch locally, will their backup copy jobs to us just keep going with incrementals since our side is already per-VM? Or will this trigger a new full backup on the service provider side?Ideally, we’re hoping the chain just continues without needing a new full. Just wanted to check if anyone’s been through this and can confirm.Thanks!

Hi Everyone, Last week at VeeamON I was asking people about SIEMS, if they are using them and if so which ones?I got a myriad of answers. So I wanted to put up a poll here asking if you use and which one?  

Hello everybody,I could not find any Solution in VEEAM Backup and Replication Console, neither searching on the Internet.But I want to request a Feature, so we are able to create Folders in the Backup-Job-View to organzie Backup-Jobs. For example:Daily Jobs SQL Jobsetc.Thanks in advance.

When running multiple backups at the same time backups fail with this error stack. How can I solve this? RMAN-00571: ===========================================================RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============RMAN-00571: ===========================================================RMAN-03009: failure of backup command on ORA_SBT_TAPE_1 channel at 05/06/2025 22:46:41ORA-27191: sbtinfo2 returned errorAdditional information: 3475ORA-19511: non RMAN, but media manager or vendor specific failure, error text: Broken pipe--tr:Cannot write data to the socket. Data size: [18636].--tr:Failed to write data into throttled device.--tr:Failed to asynchronously execute command [plugin.findRMANBackupFilesForSbtInfo] on backup server [xxx.xx.x.xx:10006].--tr:Cannot find RMAN bac