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Tape Library (Tape Library) What is it? A Tape Library is an automated storage system used for backing up and archiving data onto magnetic tapes (cartridges). It fundamentally consists of the following components: Tape Drives: Hardware components where data is written to or read from the tape. Slots: Physical locations where the tape cartridges are stored. Robotic Mechanism (Picker/Robotic Arm): An automated arm that retrieves cartridges from their slots and places them into the tape drives, or vice-versa, according to software commands. This system is ideal for storing large volumes of data at a low cost, in an energy-efficient manner, and for long periods. Cartridges typically use LTO (Linear Tape-Open) technology. How to Use Tape Library with Veeam? Veeam Backup & Replication supports tape units, including Tape Libraries, standalone drives, and Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL). The general steps for use are as follows: Tape Server Installation: The Veeam Tape Proxy component is

The Veeam 100 Summit 2025 was more than just an event, but a journey of innovation, intense human moments and shared visions. Once again, the Veeam community demonstrated why it is considered one of the strongest and most technical in the IT landscape.In this article, I want to share my personal experience and explain what inspired me, what struck me, and why this Summit gave me insight into the next stage of my professional growth. I wrote about my first impressions of what happened in my previous article. Innovation at the core: Veeam V13 and Veeam Data CloudThe event was a succession of information aimed at conveying a clear message:Veeam V13 and Veeam Data Cloud are reshaping the future of data protection.The new V13 version is not just an upgrade but a reworking of a resilience project. I already started talking about it in this article. At the same time, the strong focus of the sessions on Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) sparked my imagination regarding new features, strategies and integr

Hi Everyone,In the ever changing landscape of data protection… Shut Up AI!!!!!! Sorry I just felt like saying that today 😁 Turn off the Playstation turn on Veeam 13 in the Lab! Like most of you I have sidelined my PC gaming activity (somewhat) in order to dive into the latest Veeam 13.0.1 release.Veeam Security Officer Reminder, always follow Veeam’s best practices and create a Veeam Security Officer or as we all know them as veeamso! The veeamadmin then is forced to ask for approval to enable certain services, like ssh and shell. Veeam Green? After following diligently the new process (caveat, this is my home lab where I wear many hats, in fact like all my jobs ever in IT :(, I am the security officer), asking the security officer for approval, I received access to the shell. Immediately I noticed the green. In fact I am lying I did not but a colleague at work mentioned it. Green here is not Veeam but Terminal Multiplexer which is now default in Veeam.TMUXSo what is tmux: tmux is a t

Hello Community,I encountered the following error while performing a restore operation: 8:26:00 PM Error: bad allocation Failed to upload disk. Skipped arguments: [EmulatedDiskSpec]; Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk} What I’ve tried so far:Verified network connectivity between components. Checked available storage space on the target. Restarted the Veeam Backup service.Despite these steps, the error persists. Has anyone faced this issue before? What could be causing the bad allocation error during disk upload, and how can I fix it? Any insights, troubleshooting steps, or best practices would be greatly appreciated.   

Hi,My backup job, for instance, XYZ fails with these messages:   Question: What could cause snapshot creation to fail in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud, and what should I check first?   ​

From my experience, most organizations leverage tags to organize their backup jobs.But here’s the tricky question: How are these tags managed?Do you tag during deployment? When the business requests it? Based on applications or SLAs? Or do you sometimes forget to tag workloads? There might be a better way:Let Veeam ONE handle the heavy lifting for you. What are we going to do?Reduce operational overhead by dynamically adding or removing VMs from jobs Use Veeam ONE to automate vSphere tags Target workloads with db or sql in their names Exclude replicas of those VMs Create a backup job targeting the newly created tagRequirementsVeeam ONE needs permission to create tags.For this, the Business View must not rely on external sources—Veeam ONE will act as the managing component.Navigate to Server Settings → Business View and disable synchronization with external sources.Categorization & Conditions In my example, I have multiple database systems. The common denominator? They include db or

Are your Veeam Backups failing because your VMs live in DMZs or tightly firewalled networks? You're not alone! In large-scale, secure environments, traditional network-based Guest Processing often hits a wall (literally!). But there's a simple, yet powerful, fix you might not know about: Changing the order of Veeam's Guest Processing Methods.We're diving deep into the Why and How of prioritizing networkless processing for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. This quick configuration change ensures Veeam always tries the most suitable, hypervisor-channel-based communication first, bypassing those tricky network barriers and keeping your backups successful.https://integriservices.blogspot.com/2025/11/regkey-of-month-november.html

Zero Trust or Bust but Community Trust is a Must! The ransomware avalanche that we have experienced over the last few years has turned most IT people, including Data Protection professionals, into paranoid zero trust fanatics. Everything is viewed through the lens of “beware”. To some this can become overwhelming, after all we humans like to feel safe and comfortable and that requires a trustful environment. So where can we find that comforting trust zone? The community,  that is where!I had the great pleasure of participating in my 4th V100 Summit this November in Prague Czech republic. Veeam is a special company that does something remarkable for its community heroes each year. They bring them together from around the world to share product updates, and gather feedback. Perhaps most importantly they help the community members bond together.I could spend time going over the fantastic sessions and the great content that I was present for at the Summit but I wanted to focus on something

I have three machines, one, an old Windows 10 (22H2 19045.6332) box and two Windows 11 (24H2 26100-6899) boxes.  All are being backed up with nightly incremental and weekly full using the Windows Veeam Agent for Windows Free edition 6.3.2.1302.  Each time a new version of the Agent is released, I install it and create new Recovery Media.Recently, I needed to restore one of the Windows machines, so using Rufus 4.11 and the most recently created Veeam Recovery Media ISO, I created a recovery USB.This USB booted just fine (although it seemed a little slower than other recoveries), but when it got to the initial menu screen, I had no access to either my keyboard or mouse.  I tried re-creating this on both other machines and both had problems; Windows 10 had not network connectivity and the other Windows 11 machine had the same not keyboard, no mouse problem.As I got a warning from Rufus regarding out of date Windows boot files when creating the Win11 USBs, I went back to Rufus 4.5 which di

Hello, dear community! I am here with another packed newsletter. 🤓 There has been a delay this month as we have been busy planning and executing the Veeam100 Summit at the beginning of the month. In the middle of the month, I was co-organising a local VUG event, so my newsletter have gone slightly out of the standard timing. This one is full of insightful content related to various Veeam products, patches and releases. Take a look for yourself and stay tuned for the November edition, which will be published at the beginning of next month as usual. Veeam Vanguard October Newsletter ​@AndreTheGiant - Veeam beta support for XCP-ng - https://vinfrastructure.it/2025/10/veeam-beta-support-for-xcp-ng/Veeam is acquiring Securiti AI - https://vinfrastructure.it/2025/10/veeam-is-acquiring-securiti-ai/ Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8.2 - https://vinfrastructure.it/2025/10/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-v8-2/​@benharmer  - Automating Deployments with VBR V13 - https://benharmer.blog/2025/10/13/

IntroductionThe Veeam Data Platform V13 is now available, and it brings many new features for working with the REST API. With these improvements, it is easier to automate tasks and integrate Veeam into your workflows. Sometimes, it is necessary to check backup data from NAS systems for viruses or similar threats. This helps ensure that the data is safe before being restored or used. Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1, we can trigger an Instant File Share Recovery using the REST API. And why not use a Python script to scan such backup data? There is a Python script for thatThe Python script initiates an Instant File Share Recovery. The backup data is made available to a Windows system, referred to as the mount server. On the Linux server, where the Python script is running, the shared folder gets mounted from the Windows mount server. After mounting, the script scans the data. It reads a configuration file named scan_engines.json, which lists all supported scanning engi

Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is the best way to protect accounts from password theft or phishing. Therefore it’s recommended to enable such options, when they’re available. Since some time it’s possible to use MFA for Veeam Accounts, which are used to access the my.veeam.com portal or also the Veeam Community 😉Login to your Veeam account at my.veeam.com and click on edit profile in the top right corner.At the bottom of your profile details, you need to click on “Enable MFA”. As a side note, even after enabling MFA this link still states “Enable” instead of “Disable”.On the following page, you need to click on “Set up authenticator application” and follow the instructions. While FreeOTP or Google Authenticator are recommended, you can use any other OTP app; for example I’m using Aegis. Afterwards it’s recommended to create recovery authentication codes, for the case that your MFA app isn't available. Of course you should not store those

I upgraded my vmware (esxi and vcenter) from v7 to v8. What i do is install esxi8 and vcenter8 then i migrate the vm under v7 to v8.After migrated to v8 i run the existing job and get error, i can see the vm size is 0 in the backup job. Then i remove the exising vm in the backup job and select same vm in vcenter8. The backup job is running but vbr make full backup, likely vbr see this is new vm.How i can retain existing backup chain so when vbr backup same vm but in the different vcenter the vbr will continue by doing incremental backup? 

Dear Community,I would like to ask about the potential impact of Palo Alto XDR installed on our Veeam Backup & Replication v12 infrastructure, specifically on: Veeam Backup Server (Windows 11) Veeam Backup Proxy (Ubuntu) Could you please advise on the following: Does Palo Alto XDR require any exclusions to ensure stable Veeam operations? What specific paths, processes, or services should be excluded on both Windows and Linux components? Are there any known impacts or compatibility considerations when Palo Alto XDR is active on VBR v12? Your guidance would be greatly appreciated to help ensure both security and optimal backup performance.Thank you.

After a couple of busy weeks with work I was finally able to complete my blog on the V100 Summit in Prague.  Please see below and a link to my blog post where I highlight many of the V100 members.Veeam 100 Summit Recap - Prague 2025  Veeam 100 Summit Recap – Prague 2025 I’d like to first thank Rick Vanover, Madalina Cristil, Nikola Pejková, Safiya Mohamed, and everyone at Veeam for their efforts and support leading up to my fourth Veeam 100 Summit. It’s a HUGE undertaking that requires extensive coordination. This was my fourth time attending the event in person. It was an honour to attend such a prestigious event for the fourth time and to meet many fellow Vanguards, Legends, and MVPs in person for the first time, as well as from previous Veeam 100 Summit events.  It is amazing how being at an event and speaking with others of the same mindset makes you feel great.  As for the host city, Prague, it was my third time visiting for the summit, and it did not disappoint, as usual.This sum

HiWe have Fortinet Fortimanager and Fortianalyzer running as VMs. Up until last week, these got backup up absolutely fine. We upgraded these from 7.2.11 to v.7.4.8. Since then, the backups have been marked as suspicous with potential malware activity detected.I’m wondering what is going on. It may just be a coincidence but I don’t believe there is any malware.If I mark the backups as clean, the next backup just gets flagged as suspicious. This only happens on these 2 VMs. All other backups are running fine.  Has anyone come across this sort of issue before? Or am I missing something somewhere?ThanksRoy   

While browsing through Veeam 13 I came across something that truly stuck out: Send me a Daily AI-powered summary of all backup activities!AI-powered summaryNow that is a wish come true! I set the time and impatiently waited in my home lab to see! Sure enough voila!Daily Summary Sometimes it is the little things that make one even more appreciative! 

ChallengeWith Hyper-V as well as other hypervisors getting more resonance in the last months for unspoken reasons, we faced several infrastructures running the Azure Local implementation of it.These can easily be backed up by Veeam Backup and Replication. Just like regular Hyper-V clusters. Though, some peculiarities might arise.One of those for us was, that some auto-generated VMs might appear with names like:In one environment, we found >10 of those VMs in the stack. Roles of These VMsAPI Server - Handles all Kubernetes API requests - Acts as the main entry point for cluster management etcd Database - Stores the cluster state and configuration - Highly available across multiple control-plane nodes Controller Manager - Ensures desired state (e.g., deployments, replicas) matches actual state  Scheduler - Decides which node runs which pod based on resource availabilityWhy So Many VMs?High Availability: Control plane is usually spread across multiple VMs for redundancy.Arc/Local Deplo

Hope everyone managed to view the Global Launch last week, if not and you missed it, here is the on-demand replay: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon-global-launch In addition here is a 40min video with the highlights of the v13 launch last week from product marketing. Demos include High Availability, SAML integration, Data Resiliency Daily Summary report and more.   The latest update from RICKATRON with regards to v13 upgrade is available here:Thanks again 😀

Has anyone set up an HA Cluster with Veeam 13 and figured out how to update the SSL for the FQDN that is used when managing a cluster?  When I go to my FQDN the SSL being is used is the Primary Node SSL so the browser shows unsecure.I would have thought this would have been done automagically when setting up the cluster.  Any ideas or thoughts from those that have done this?

 It's already 3 weeks after my first journey to this summit in Prague. I was on several summits, but this is completely different. Everybody knows each other very close after an year or who was first time, they knew few months virtually from community. like me. And now was the time, when we met together and everybody was happy to met me personally like we have been seen previously. It was was nice talk with everybody from community. Of course, was really great to meet Veeam management and to talk with them about my design and requirements and what could be improved and how. For me was like Christmas time, like a family meeting during Christmas.If we look on box, on swag pack, it was like Xmas gift :) Lot of nice merches. The meetings were very fruitful for me, what we can use for resilience data now and what is coming up.This helps me out to plan properly automation and backup service for customers with new release version Veeam 13.So i would recommend to everybody, who is not sure, th

Virtualization technology has become an integral part of modern IT infrastructures. It provides incredible flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency to businesses of all sizes.Since several hypervisor platforms have gained significant traction in recent years, including Proxmox VE, XCP-ng, and Nutanix AHV etc. As business needs continue to evolve, the choice of virtualization platform must remain equally adaptive. Thereby, aligning performance, scalability, and management capabilities with changing organizational and technological demandsMigrating from one hypervisor to another is a complex process that requires careful planning and evaluation. Organizations must consider factors such as application dependencies, migration timelines, workload criticality, and the potential business impact of application downtime. PrerequisiteIf you fail to install the VirtIO drivers as recommended, you may also encounter issues such as missing or unstable network connectivity etc as shown below. Be

The Veeam Software Appliance v13 brings a new level of simplicity, security, and efficiency to modern data-protection workflows. Built on a hardened Linux foundation and designed for fast, consistent deployments, the VSA is an excellent option for organizations seeking a streamlined, appliance-based approach to Veeam Backup & Replication.In this guide, I provide a practical overview of how to configure the Veeam Software Appliance v13 and highlight the main features that make this version stand out. Why VSA v13 Is a Major Step ForwardSecurity by DesignVSA v13 was built with a strong security focus from the very first boot. It includes: A minimal Linux operating system, drastically reducing the attack surface SELinux in strict mode, providing advanced policy enforcement SSH disabled by default, preventing unnecessary access paths With these measures, the appliance starts in a hardened state aligned with modern backup-security best practices.  Straightforward Deployment & Int