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Luiz Eduardo Serrano
Luiz Eduardo SerranoComes here often
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Client-side Ransomware Attacks and a Defensive Framework for Organizations

Hi! I wrote a post describing the main stages of a ransomware attack, from exploiting a user's endpoint (client-side attack) to the three possible extortion demands: ransom for decryption keys, ransom for recovering exfiltrated data, and ransom to avoid DDoS attacks. I also present a complete list of countermeasures based on the NIST Ransomware Framework Profile, derived from the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. I hope this can be helpful!https://cloudnroll.com/2023/07/10/client-side-ransomware-attacks-and-a-defensive-framework-for-your-organization/

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wesmrt
10 months ago
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stiggrNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

long term archive backups

I think I’ve missed something, but we have a requirement to retain backups certain machine for 7 years even after the machines have been decommissioned…How are you supposed to do that with Veeam?I can see that you can export certain backups, but so does that mean that I need to export a backup from each year to other storage? 

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10 months ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #127Veeam Community Recap #127

This week El Rickatron and @Madi.Cristil are back at it with three pieces of content with Special Department news as well as the Who’s New runup for the week. Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @Nico Losschaert via @patricio.rcm via @olivier.rossi Special Department Newsvia @Madi.Cristil → We have a winner for the Blog of the Month competion!Congratulations @MicoolPaul also via @Madi.Cristil → Be sure to see the updated VeeamON Tour information: via @Rick Vanover → Updated installable .ISO for the Veeam Hardened RepositoryWho’s NewWe are happy to welcome 62 members to the Veeam Community!The coolest usernames this week are @produto, @sweetchris, @TALITO and @Aeternus Alfred’s pick this week is @LemonFridge! Congratulations everyone and welcome to the Veeam Community. 

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HunterLAFR
10 months ago
regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

VBR: Immutable object storage with Wasabi

Inspired by @Geoff Burke‘s post about immutability for Kasten with Wasabi, I decided to post the same for Veeam Backup & Replication. If you want to check out Geoff’s post, then follow this link:What/who is Wasabi?Probably Wasabi doesn’t need to be introduced. But if you can only think about the paste you get with Sushi, then you should check out their cloud object storage. Besides AWS and Microsoft, Wasabi is one of the Vendors, who often gets recommended for usage with Veeam Backup. The reason for that is their really competitive pricing, combined with great functionality/quality and low complexity.How to create an immutable bucketAfter registering an account with Wasabi, the creation of an immutable bucket isn’t complicated at all.Just make sure that you select the right region for your location, and also enable bucket versioning and object locking.Afterwards you need to create an access key. For testing purposes you can use the root account key, but for production you should cr

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regnor
10 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
10 months ago
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KWCorkComes here often
asked in YARA and Script Library

Remove-VBOEntityData takes ages

I’m trying to delete some user to data to free up licences and it seems to be taking forever to complete. I’m testing with a user who only has a few 100 emails but the command seems to have hung up. Here is the relevant part of the script:$RepositoryName = 'My_M365Repository'$UsersToRemove = @( 'Joe.Bloggs@MyDomain.com')$Repository = Get-VBORepository -Name $RepositoryNameforeach($UserToRemove in $UsersToRemove){ $UserToRemove $UserData = Get-VBOEntityData -Type 'User' -Repository $Repository -Name $UserToRemove if(-not($UserData)) { 'No user data found' } Else { # Use $UserData to see which backup types exist, and then only remove those. if($UserData.IsMailboxBackedUp) { Write-Host 'Removing Mailbox data' Remove-VBOEntityData -Repository $Repository -User $UserData -Mailbox -Confirm:$false } }}Any idea if I’m doing something wrong, or that cmdlet really does just take ages? Thanks.

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K
10 months ago
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
published in Discussion Boards

Blog of the Month May + June WinnerBlog of the Month

Dear all,Today, we are pleased to announce the winner of the May+ June Blog of the Month, as we promised. This month we have a clear winner Sir @MicoolPaul   , with his blog ''Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365: Immutability & Backup Copies’'  Congratulations! 👏💚😻Note: Please keep in mind that July is a month dedicated to SysAdmin Day, so go ahead and write your content about a situation when you saved the day! I will come back with a post to explain this better!  Best, Madi

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cymon
10 months ago
ekubla
ekublaNew Here
posted in Discussion Boards

CDP

Tell me how CDP has helped you.  Looking for some good discussions on this.

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dloseke
10 months ago
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CFRComes here often
posted in YARA and Script Library

Usefull reports

Hi everyone,I wrote some reports that helps me to manage Veeam backups. I put them online to share it to community. Feel free to use them and personnalize them 👍 BR-MorningReport : shows backup results of the night BR-DurationReport : shows duration and layout of backup jobs 

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Chris.Childerhose
10 months ago
olivier.rossi
olivier.rossiVeeam MVP
posted in YARA and Script Library

Is this share already protected?

IntroductionOver the past few months, I have had customers report over-consumption of VUL, when leveraging Veeam NAS backups.Veeam NAS backup is licensed by the amount of protected source data. The protected data amount is rounded down to the nearest 500GB and consumes one VUL per 500GB (see the user guide for details).The important licensing caveat is that if, for instance, a same share is protected by two different backup jobs, even though it is the same source data, its protected amount doubles (in this particular instance).It easy to see how your VUL consumption can very quickly get out of control. The purpose of that short post is to share a very small script that helps identify if a given share has been backed up multiple times.Note: The script only analyzes the defined shares path and cannot detect any “share alias” set on the NAS device. ScriptThe script lists all NAS backup jobs and combs through its protected shares, sort the data and generates an HTML and CSV report. See the

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dloseke
10 months ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

VMCA exam personal experience

Hi allFinally previous week I took the time to perform the new VMCA 2022 exam, this to extend my Veeam Architect certificate (VMCA-1) to an up-to-date status. This just before the summer holidays 😎.Previously (7 months ago) I wrote another post regarding my personal experience for the VMCE 2021 exam (VMCE exam personal experience | Veeam Community Resource Hub).I know that @Michael Melter already wrote a great post about his VMCA 2022 exam review, but next to that nice post, I want to add my own personal experience and recommendations 😉. I will use the same content as I used before in my VMCE post 🤗. Requirement : Taking an official 2-days VMCA course is a requirement before taking the VMCA exam.Before (in Version 1 of VMCA) you had to be VMCE-certified before you could take the exam of VMCA.That requirement is no longer valid.BUT, I strongly recommend being VMCE of the same version first before taking the VMCA exam.In my opinion, the requirement of being a VMCE should still exist.I

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dloseke
10 months ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Discussion Boards

Database consistency checks?

Inspired by the post by @MicoolPaul:I wanted to ask the community, how many of you are running MS SQL corruption checks using DBCC? How often do you do it? Can you share some examples of issues that was discovered using DBCC?

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MicoolPaul
10 months ago
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TunglhNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Data Flow in Veeam B&R

Hi all, I'm using Veeam B&R v11 and I have 1 Repository (HPE StoreOne) and 1 Tape (HPE MSL 3040). When data is transferred to StoreOne, the process is as follows: Source data -> Backup Proxy Server -> Backup Gateway -> HPE StoreOne.I am confused about how the data is transferred to Tape. From source or from StoreOne? Thanks/Tunglh

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T
10 months ago
wesmrt
wesmrtVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

How to configure EC2 Instaces to create Application-Aware backups usin Veeam Backup for AWS

In this article I will explain how to configure the AWS SSM on EC2 Instances to Veeam Backup for AWS be able to create VSS Snapshots for those instances.Veeam Backup for AWS depends on AWS SSM to create the VSS Snapshots, so before enable the Application-Aware option in the policy we need to configure the instances correctly with all the necessary components. Let’s start creating a IAM policy with all permissiona that we need: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "VisualEditor0", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "ec2:DescribeInstances", "ec2:CreateTags", "ec2:CreateSnapshot", "ec2messages:AcknowledgeMessage", "ec2messages:DeleteMessage", "ec2messages:FailMessage", "ec2messages:GetEndpoint", "ec2messages:GetMessages", "ec2messages:SendReply", "ssm:DescribeAssociation",

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wesmrt
10 months ago
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jgaleaNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Can a hardened Linux repository be used by more than on VEEAM server?

I’ve looked for an answer and can’t seem to find one … Can a hardened Linux repository be used by more than on VEEAM server? I’ve tried it an it is working I wondered if there are any limitations or concerns to be worried about? For example both servers running backups at the same time? I can see based on directory naming I will need to be careful with job names that they are unique. Thanks for your time … 

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Scott
10 months ago
Dynamic
DynamicComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Hardened Repository - two mounts for different tiers?

Hi there, is it possible to have two mounts on the same hardware for a hardened repository?For example, mount-1 on an SSD-Raid for the latest 14 days of backups and mount-2 with an HDD-Raid for 3 months or something like this?Maybe both of them are presented by a Scale-out-backup-repo? Is this a good and solid option?Our customer want to have very fast restore or instant restore performace within the latest backups (SSDs) but also want an option to have several months immutable (HDDs) - but as mentioned on the same hardware. He has already some other repositories, also on different site, so this should only be an extension for immutablity.Thanks and best regardsMarkus 

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Dynamic
10 months ago
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TunglhNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam Backup & Replication V11

Hi all,I have 2 Backup Servers (Veeam B&R v11) running independently from each other with 2 licenses (16 Sockets CPU and 24 Sockets CPU). My goal is that both Backup Servers can backup from disk -> disk(HPE StorgeOne 5200) -> Tape (HPE MSL 3040). I have some questions as follows:- Is it possible to add 1 Window Server (Use it as Tape Server) to 2 Veeam Backup Server?- Can use 2 Window Server (Use it as Tape Server) to manage 1 Tape Library (HPE MSL 3040)? If so, what needs to be done?- Is it possible to add 2 licenses to 1 Backup Server to increase the number of CPU Sockets to 40?Thanks

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10 months ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #126Veeam Community Recap #126

This week, El Rickatron and @Madi.Cristil are sharing some solid content, Special Department News and the Who’s New section. Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @kristofpoppe via @SteveHeart via @cameronmcshane Special Department NewsBig milestone of work from @Madi.Cristil @NikolaPejkova and @safiya → The Veeam 100 Directory is now live and ready to go on the top page of the Community Hub, or you can go to https://vee.am/Veeam100 via @Madi.Cristil → Be sure to vote for Blog of the Month!Veeam KB 1745 has been updated, Deduplication Appliances best practices. If you are using one of these, please check this KB: https://www.veeam.com/kb1745The Ransomware Trends 2023 report is live, it was part of our news book for VeeamON - you can download the report now for free, it has some truly fascinating statistics! http://vee.am/RW23 Who’s NewWe are happy to welcome +71 new members this week! The coolest usernames are @MarcMizz @Blixa @a.bonadonna @uh-dk @AWu and @Ulli  And Alfred’s pick

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SteveHeart
10 months ago
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simone79viNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Virtual infrastructure: Failed to connect to host..

Hi to all,I have a news installation.. but I don’t be able to add a hyperv server because I receive this error.. If I try to digit \\192.168.0.225\admin$ I am able to view the share..I don’t understand what is wrong..Can you help me?I use community edition 12thankssimone​​​​​​​

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Iams3le
10 months ago
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StingerAlexNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Problem with Hyper-V restore: Failed to restore vm. Name: [Server] ChannelError: ConnectionReset (Veeam.Backup.Common.CAppException)

Hello!I am trying to play with restoring one Hyper-V VM onto another Hyper-V server just to know what to expect in the future.So I created the Backup job which backed up this VM to the Backup repository which in turn resides in the shared folder of the second Hyper-V physical machine, i.e. is the part of the second server.After back up is done (very fast!)  I started Restore job of the Entire VM, and it fails. I tried all possible scenarios : restore entire VM, immediate restore with the following migration, I tried even importing this backup and restoring VM from imported file - ALL FAILED with the same symptoms: restoration starts very optimistically and energetically, going to the point of 45-46 GB of vhdx restoration, stops, nothing seems to be happening, only process timer shows it is still alive and ticking, and this frozen state continues for 5 to 8 hours just to get this ChannelError: ConnectionReset. Thank you!

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coolsport00
10 months ago
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SatmanNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Uploading backup to storage

Greeting,I'm trying to put together a solution for saving backups to a remote location.I created a batch procedure that installs Wireguard to the remote storage and transfers a complete backup using the Robocopy program. This solution turned out to be the best, regarding reliability and bandwidth utilization.The problem is the following: I expected that the .vbk file changes only once during retention time when a synthetic full backup is created, so that Robocopy sends me only incremental files daily, however it seems that is not the case because every day I also receive a 200GB .vbk which is not acceptable since it is uploaded at a speed of 50 Mbit/sec. Have I misunderstood something or am I doing something wrong?Please comment...

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MicoolPaul
10 months ago
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EdxHComes here often
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Power log Search

Hi all, I’ve been using an app called “ripgrep” for a while now and wanted to share it with the community. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep“ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern.”ripgrep is written in Rust which is “blazingly fast” for this type of operation. I found this article very interesting on the subject of benchmarking https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/Finding the specific file or files where something occurred can be tricky, but ripgrep makes it easy with a simple regex pattern.rg "^.*?\b13.02.2023\b.*?\bError\b.*?$"It provides each instance that matches the expression under the file's name. It also allows you to use flags to alter the output; the most useful I’ve found are the -A, -B and -C flags. -A Provides a number of lines before the match-B Provides a number of lines after the match-C Provide a number of lines before and after the matchMany other flags can be used, including a flag that recursive

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coolsport00
10 months ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Data Protection Considerations: Digesting the SQL ConstantCare Report

For those of you who don’t spend much time or have much experience with SQL Server, Brent Ozar is a well-known and respected Microsoft SQL consultant. In addition to consultancy and training services, Brent Ozar offers tools such as the First Responder Kit, and a SQL Server monitoring service called SQL ConstantCare.SQL ConstantCare is a paid for monitoring service, designed to provide a daily report of what’s going on within your SQL Server platform, collecting data and notifying you if it sees genuine room for improvement, when things are good, it stays quiet.It’s the content of these alerts that I want to discuss today. Brent Ozar did a blog post recently discussing the alerts that most people muted, and I found it really interesting to see the elements of data protection in there. So, let’s take a look: SQL ConstantCare – Sample Size and Quality of Samples Some background information on this data set that Brent Ozar has worked with firstly to provide context. At the time of writing

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marco_s
10 months ago
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Philippe SNew Here
posted in YARA and Script Library

Restore only ACL from windows files without restoring files

hello, Small trick following a bad handling. The objective is to restore on a Windows file server the ACLs of the files without restoring the files.For this we will start by opening the console restore guest files. Once done, click on any file, then explore to find the path to the FLR mount.To get the list of ACLs you can run a single command. This command will save all subfolders and files as a plain text. The text file (acl.txt) will be saved on your current user folder.icacls c:data /save acl.txt /t /cWhere “C:data” is the FLR path, “T” is added to get all subfolders and files on that drive, and “C” allows to ignore all the access errors.If the number of folders and files are too large, then the command will take a long time to complete its execution. At the end of execution, you will get the list of total files which is processed successfully, and the number of files which don’t get success in processing.If you want to restore the lists, execute the following commandIcacls c: /rest

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K
10 months ago
H
HubertChowComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

VAMW - Syncing with dropbox?

Hello,I am having problem syncing my backup files with dropbox. The problem comes from my vbk files which is around 1.9TB now. Dropbox needs 2 days in order to complete syncing that file, and if in the middle PC shuts down or goes into sleeping mode the syncing process will be reset (need 2 days again to sync).Moreover, when syncing Veeam Agent can’t proceed incremental backup because backup files are being used by dropbox. Last but not least, I thought the vbk file would not be changed (so it just needs to be uploaded to dropbox once) but I was wrong. So once there’s a change on the vbk file dropbox will need to upload a whole new vbk file again (needs 2 days syncing again).So, I wonder if anyone here has experience on this situation could give me some advice on it.Many thanks!

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MicoolPaul
10 months ago

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