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dikaComes here often
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Sizing Nas / file share backup for 5 years

Hi, I have been looking for a calculator or method for sizing backup nas / file share with time growth from 1 year till 5https://cloudoasis.com.au/nas-calculator/ i use this but there is no time growth  Thank you 

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Scott
8 months ago
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it_softwareNot a newbie anymore
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No logon servers

Hi All,I have restored two servers using veeam backup and replication. Both servers restored successfully but to a different host. However, when I login I get “No logon servers avaialble . . . “ error, I am also unable to login using the local administrator account.The Network is pointing to the server network on the new host and I don’t see any errors or anything glaringly obvious. I had Application-aware processing enabled on one of the restored server jobs but not the other. But I am unable to login to any of them.I did restore a server last week without any issues and was able to login to the Domain without any issues. Can someone offer any advice as I need to move servers off this host and the only way to do this is by Veeam backup. I have no option to migrate via vmotion or directly via the Hosts themselves.Thanks in anticipation.  

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TylerJurgens
8 months ago
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kyle.briskiNot a newbie anymore
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Can a non-domain joined VBR server use a gMSA?

Can non-domain joined VBR v12 servers use a gMSA?All of our Veeam servers are off our domain, but can communicate with AD, and I'm exploring if I can use gMSA instead of a service account.I've read the KB on gMSA for Veeam, but it's written in a way that tends me to believe its for domain joined VBRs servers. A few articles online show that non-domain joined containers can run gMSA, but doesn't read as if non-domain joined servers can do that or not.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/using_gmsa.html?ver=120

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coolsport00
2 months ago
wesmrt
wesmrtVeeam MVP
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Characther limit?

Guys,I’m trying to create a new content in the “Blog and Podcast” section, but looks like I reach some limit. I don’t know if it’s a characther limit (around 1650 words) or image (50 images).Anyone know if we have a limit in the platform to create a single post?

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Chris.Childerhose
8 months ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Service Providers - Where to Find Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Licenses Consumed per Organization/Tenant

The Task at Hand, or the problem to solveAs a service provider that is actively growing our BaaS offering, one major source or growth is Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.  While it’s relatively easy to understand rental license consumption when backing up VM’s (number of projected workloads * points per license utilized), figuring out how many licenses consumed in VB365 is much more difficult on the surface because, depending on how you’ve selected your objects to be backed up from Microsoft 365 such as selection via groups, you clearly can protect many more objects than you’ve manually selected and consume more licenses.  And some objects don’t consume licenses.  If you have a dedicated VB365 server for each Organization, perhaps this would be easier.  But in my case, we have a single VB365 server orchestrating backups for multiple organizations/tenants.  But I need to know how many licenses I’m consuming per Org so that I know how much to bill them, or to make sure they’re within the c

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dloseke
9 months ago
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SupportEngineer32Not a newbie anymore
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Veeam for M365 OneNote Backup Fails with 'changed during the backup'

This is in regard to Veeam for Microsoft 365. Starting in June, Veeam for Microsoft 365 can no longer backup OneNote files (extension is .one) on the first attempt, but succeeds on the second. The reason is always "Item has been changed during the backup." I’m not seeing this with any other Microsoft Office type of document. The backup is through iLand/11:11 - I opened a ticket with their support and they're working with Veeam, however no luck so far. I can confirm the OneNote notebooks were open during the time of the backup, however this has never been an issue, where now we see it almost every day. As this is only .one files, I suspect a change was made to OneNote by Microsoft, or perhaps in the underlying database infrastructure of Microsoft 365. I'm willing to say the problem is in our tenant, but I can't imagine what change we made that would only affect .one files.Any help is appreciated. 

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2 months ago
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mike.beirensComes here often
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Behaviour is different on each site with same config

Hi,I have 2 locations with a Veeam server and a vCenter cluster with 2 hosts.The configuration is on both servers identical.One one location, when running a job with application awareness, the inventorying guest system and the other preparing jobs are taking several seconds, but on the other location, it takes minutes.It does not fail, but the time of processing is much longer.The difference I see, on the ‘slow’ location, all communications running via vCenter. On the fast one, all is going direct from B&R server to the VM.Firewall rules are identical and I don’t see any blocks, so the slow one does not try to direct connect to the VM.Any ideas where to look for?The B&R server is in a seperated VLAN with explicit firewall rules between them, conform the manuals. Thank you!

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Scott
9 months ago
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FrankD28New Here
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Very Large VM Size

Hello,I’m backing up a single physical server that uses about 128GB of storage.  However, the “VM Size” as reported by the restore wizard is 834GB.  Why so large?Thanks for any insight,FrankV drive is external USB  USB drives are excluded 

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7 months ago
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

An overview of VeeamON Miami 2023 by Julia F Morgado

 I had to share this - I really enjoyed watching it, @Julia F Morgado ! It got me back to that moment! And many of the V100 members are included in the story! Great job! 👏

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jos.maliepaard
10 months ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Unable to Create Azure Active Directory Application when setting up Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Restore Portal

Found a perplexing issue when I was setting up VB365 the other day.  I was attempting to set up the Restore Portal in my multitenant environment using Jorge’s guide (for v6 mind you, but close enough) but when I was attempting to create the Azure AD application, I was receiving a pretty non-descript error.Veeam Error:  “Failed to create Azure Active Directory application.” A bit of googling didn’t turn up much.  After a lot of troubleshooting, I did manage to get an error when attempting to use an existing Application ID that I had renamed/repurposed about an invalid name but wrote it off because it was a strange possible workaround.  I thought that perhaps it was a certificate issue, something wrong with the port I was using, REST API settings, etc.So, like any reasonable person, I created a support ticket and gathered logs.  Props to support for isolating the issue on first try quickly with the logs provided.  And indeed, Azure AD was blocking the application due to an invalid name. 

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coolsport00
8 months ago
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benjaminligaComes here often
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Backup Microsoft Failover cluster

I’m trying to create a backup for Microsoft failover cluster. In protection group process i add cluster object from active directory and received the following error when testing credential which has to be connected to nodes of the cluster. Error message:Failed Unable to install backup agent: failed to connect to NSI-SQL-WIN-CL: Failed to connect to failover cluster or Failed to connect to NSI-APP-WIN-CL Details: Failed to resolve host name or IP address  

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dloseke
8 months ago
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marko.eNew Here
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Failed to create backup metadata in every tape job

did anyone encountered this after upgrading to veeam 12.0 it hapend on every tape job:04/06/2023 17:11:47 :: Failed to create backup metadata info: Veeam.Tape.Core.TapeMetaGenerationException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   at Veeam.Tape.Core.TapeMetaStorage..ctor(CStorage storage, ITapeBackupObjectsCache cache)   at Veeam.Tape.Core.TapeBackupMetaGenerator.GenerateBackupMeta(CBackup tapeBackup, TapeBackup tapeBackupSpecific)   at Veeam.Tape.Core.TapeBackupMetaGenerator.Generate(CBackup tapeBackup, TapeBackup tapeBackupSpecific)   at Veeam.Tape.Core.CTapeVmTaskMetaGeneratorRoot.GetBackupMeta()   at Veeam.Tape.Core.CTapeVmTaskMetaGeneratorRoot.GetSessionMeta(BackupSet backupSet, ITapeDeviceLockManager lockManager, ITapeMediaSetLockManager mediaSetLockManager, TapeExpirationDate expirationDate, ISessionLogger taskLogger, CTapeBackupSetPoint backupSetPoint, ITapeMetaBackup&

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5 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Testing Veeam Tape Stuff, anyone tried Opensource mhVTL?

Hi Folks, I am being jettisoned back into the tape world, “tape is dead, long live tape”. I was wondering if anyone had tried in their lab mhVTL? https://www.mhvtl.com/ I normally use Quadstor but wanted to know if you anyone had experience with the one above. Thanks  

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10 months ago
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Ian CNot a newbie anymore
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Agent is managed by another veeam server

Ok, I had a test server which I used to test out Windows Agent backups.I’ve now built a more robust server to handle veeam (community edition as we only have a few servers), when I try to backup the same server, I get:I’ve removed the backup jobs, and uninstalled the agent both using the old server and manually going into Add/Remove programs, yet the same problem exists. I’ve also added the registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication AgentDiscoveryIgnoreOwnership DWORD=1Still no joy.  When I go into the registry editor on the machine in question, I can see why Veeam is having a problem.  The values in BackupServerIPAddress, JobSettings, and VBRServerName are all pointing to the wrong server. I’m loathed to start deleting this key.  What do I do to ensure this server I wish to backup now has the correct agent installed?RegardsIan

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5 months ago
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Adrian_cNew Here
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Best method to move a performance tier (part of SOBR) to ReFS

Hi All,I have a client that is running a 2012R2 Veeam server, that I’m replacing with a 2022 server. The plan is to have the data drive on this new server formatted with ReFS to take advantage of the space saving. I’ve came across the Veeamover feature in V12, but I’m not sure if I can use this to move just the performance tier of a SOBR. I still require the SOBR to function and retain history of the VMs in the cloud. Is this even possible? Or is there another way that I can achieve this? Thanks in advance  

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Link State
7 months ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

Copy Job to Object vs SOBR

I’m going to be likely setting up a new client on a VBR VM with a local NAS as their primary repository (I know...I’d rather do a purpose-built physical server but cost is an issue) and Wasabi object storage for an off-site copy (and likely replication to 11:11 Systems VCC for DR).  I’m curious now that we have backup to object and copy to object capabilities, what you folks are doing for that second copy?  Traditionally I obviously have used a SOBR using Wasabi as the capacity tier in Copy mode (move mode disabled *usually*, but I just noted that I’m performing copy and move for my internal server) so that I had the data in both locations. However, now that we can backup and copy direct to object, curious if anyone has abandoned the SOBR and are instead using a copy job to send data to the object storage and are keeping the data there with the traditional copy job managing things.  @Nico Losschaert posted a debate about the pro’s and con’s of this a couple years ago at the below link,

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coolsport00
6 months ago
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dikaComes here often
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calculation of backup proxy need

hello everyone,i’m a beginner for using veeam software, so I would like to know about the calculation of backup proxy needs. according to this article https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/2_Design_Structures/D_Veeam_Components/D_backup_proxies/vmware_proxies.html if I have 236 VMs with used data around 192 TB and for physical server is 17 with used data 50 TB,VMs proxy calculationD = 192 TB*1024*1024 = 201326592W = 8H*3600 seconds = 28,800 seconds (backup Windows in seconds)T = 52428800/28800 =6991MB/sCore Full = 1821/100 = 70, Core Incremental = (T*CR)/25 = 14 core, proxy requirement : 70core & 140 GB RAMwell, if I want to achieve backup windows in 8 hour the proxy that I need is9 virtual proxy8vCpu and 18 RAM for each virtual proxy server Physical ServerD = 50TB *1024*1024 = 52428800 W = 8H*3600 seconds = 28,800 seconds (backup Windows in seconds)T = 52428800/28800 =1,821 MB/sCore Full = 1821/100 = 19 core, Core Incremental = (T*CR)/25 = 4 core, proxy requirement : 19 core & 38 GB RAM2 p

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Chris.Childerhose
10 months ago
Shaokat
ShaokatInfluencer
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam LAN Free Backup

Hi i need to configure lan free backup using Veeam v12. can you one help me on this?

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Moustafa_Hindawi
10 months ago
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TKAComes here often
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how to move virtual veeam to physical server

Hi Guys, lot of my customer has Veeam as virtual machine in VMware and using the virutal disk as repostitory (.vdmk), in my opinion - its old concept. One of my customer has new Storage Array and Physical backup server. The storage is direct connected to backup server via 10 GbE iSCSI.  Is there some steps how to migrate virtual veeam (also with backup repository) to brand new physical HW ?  Thx.Tomas

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dloseke
8 months ago
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superfraktalNew Here
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"Failed to pre-process the job" // backup fails after data deletion from ReFS storage

Hello everyone,some backup files were manually deleted from D:\ storage (ReFS) andnow backup jobs don’t work.Failed to pre-process the job Error: A data integrity checksum error occurred. Data in the file stream is corrupt.Failed to read data from the file [D:\[...].8D2023-07-26T204743_9167.vbk].--tr:Error code: 0x00000143--tr:Failed to parse metadata stored in slot [528384]--tr:Unable to load metadata snapshot. Slot: [528384].--tr:Failed to load metastore--tr:Failed to load metadata partition. Delayed loading: [0]Failed to open storage for read/write access.We tried to create new repository (on the same storage) - didn’t help.ReFS partition was formatted (yes, backup data are lost) - didn’t help.The LUN on QNAP was re-created and we are getting the same error.Yesterday I tired to uninstall Veeam and I made a fresh install on VM.I didn’t help as well (note: I’ve removed %programdata% files, etc.).It seems there are still some old parts of backup chains, surprising...I didn’t find any s

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8 months ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #124Veeam Community Recap #124

El Rickatron and @Madi.Cristil are covering a solid block of content this week, plus some extra effort in the Special Department section. Watch this week’s episode below:The Linksvia @KWCork via @Geoff Burke via @Scott Special Department Newsvia ​​​​@Madi.Cristil via @Rick Vanover Veeam KB 4452 (Veeam Agent for Windows: KB4452: Support Statement regarding Microsoft CVE-2023-24932 (veeam.com)Veeam KB 4458 (Text Banner for Veeam Backup & Replication)  KB4458: How to Configure a Custom Text Banner for the Veeam Backup & Replication Consolevia @regnor with hat tip to @MicoolPaul’s blog site: VeeamON 2023 Recap – Miami – Michael Paul | Who’s NewWe are +100 this week! A big welcome to all of the new members! The coolest usernames this week are @Dragon @peppeforzanapoli @blank @ShyFOX @jungle and @qualitysocks!This week, Alfred’s Pick is @VeeamQueen! 

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Scott
10 months ago
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supertramp4Not a newbie anymore
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Newbie, Basic restore from .vbk file

Hi All,Apologies if I am asking in the wrong place, but using VBR V11 Community edition.I want to simulate a DR event. I have taken a Windows  Agent → Entire computer full backup to a USB Drive.Now i want to restore just some files from this USB Backup to a new server ( where the same edition VBR is installed.From the USB Drive on the new server , double clicking on the .VBK file launches Veeam, but my concern is the following window just shows “Restore”. I Don’t want to overwrite the entire server from this backup?  Does “Restore” actually start overwriting files, or does this proceed to show more options  ( and would be better named “Next”, rather than “Restore” ) ??Many thanks in advance.

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coolsport00
8 months ago
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SergeyTikNot a newbie anymore
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any referrals for a good Veeam Health Assessment Consultants?

Good morning, I’m new to veeam and my company would like to perform a health assessment on our existing veeam infrastructure. Unfortunately I’m learning veeam on production :) since our veeam engineer left the company.Do you have any consultants\companies that you can refer me to?  Again, our goal is to get an idea of our current backup infrastructure health\risks and get a recommendations of what needs to be reconfigured\improved\fixed.  thank you againSergey

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Scott
8 months ago
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edisoninfoNew Here
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Veeam Agent for Windows local copy and cloud

For a hardware server (no vmware) I use the Agent for Windows and backup to a local NAS. I added a cloud backup job to Wasabi which works but I noticed it disabled the schedule to the local NAS. I turned it back on and made sure the times do not overlap. Is that the only way to have a local and cloud copy with the Agent, two separate jobs? I like local for speed when restoring, cloud is only in case of disaster...

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coolsport00
9 months ago
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Ahmed ShakranNot a newbie anymore
posted in YARA and Script Library

Create VM Backup jobs by script

Creating many backup jobs for new environment or new project which has many VMs, it’s boring in addition you may make a mistake because of repeating.To avoid that you can use scripts to create them simultaneously and only change the value for some variables.Below script is for creating VMware VM backup job with almost all required options (VM selection, repo, proxy, retention , GFS, schedule , retries ….etc) moreover the recommended Advanced settings for Dell Data Domain repository.You can also use part of script to edit or modify existing backup jobs simultaneously.{{#Specify the name you want to assign to the backup job$JobName = "backup job name" #Specify the array of VMware VMs you want to add to the job.#If you want to search by part of VM name use *$VMsNames = Find-VBRViEntity -Name "VM1", "VM2", "VM3" #Specify the backup repository where the created backup will be stored. Default: default backup repository#If you want to search by part of repo name use *$BackupRepo = Get-VBRBack

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Moustafa_Hindawi
8 months ago

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