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Hi all,I recently published another blog posted based on my recent attendance at Edge Field Day 3. In this one I looked at VMware’s Edge Cloud Orchestrator, what they are doing and a potential use case that many of us who care about managed services and small business may be interested in. The post can be found at https://www.koolaid.info/vmware-edge-cloud-orchestrator-vmware-for-the-very-small-masses/ if you are interested.

Hi all,I’ve been using Veeam backup for 365 for a while now and every now and again I get the error ‘the specified database cannot be opened on this OS version when I try to open the adb backup in the Sharepoint explorer tool.  I seem to remember I did the backup on Windows 10, and have tried to restore on Windows 10 and also Windows 11 but I still get the same error. The error is not particularly helpful and doesn’t actually specify what the issue is.  Does anyone know what this issue is or how I can possibly resolve it? As it stands I’m not able to open the backups which is causing a big headache.  Thanks Dan

I hope someone can help me. I manage my B&R server by installing the console on my Win 10 workstation. That’s all fine, it takes the B&R Console some seconds to come up, but it does. But on the desktop of the actual B&R server itself, if I try and bring the console app up, it will take forever  - at the moment, I’ve been waiting 20 minutes. The console application came up on my workstation in a few seconds, but still hasn’t come up on the desktop of the server.And I’m not sure why. It can’t be a firewall issue, it will eventually come up (or used to - it’s been a long time since I actually tried to use the console app directly on the server). I see no error messages, just the warning that it’s taking longer than expected to happen. The server itself is running fine - all jobs are executing as expected. It’s just the console app not coming up on the desktop of the server. I have no problems using the console my my workstation, I can create jobs, run jobs, do backups, do rest

Hello, Thanks, cannot install VBR 12.1The server was running VBR 11.x, ran great for years, thanks Veeam! When I tried to upgrade to latest VBR, as downloaded from website The upgrade failed, complained about Veeam Agent for Linux. I tried to install again, and now there was no option to upgrade, just to install. So I clicked install and got error message I did a manual uninstall as perhttps://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/how-to-uninstall-v12-community-edition-completely-t89675.htmlhttps://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/trouble-installing-uninstalling-veeam-backup-replication-t49674.html But still, get the same error message as shown above.Here is the complete install log fromC:\ProgramData\Veeam\Setup\Temp\VbrSuite_26_05_2024_11_10_54.log[26.05.2024 10:32:34][INFO] Configuration file: G:\Setup\VBRSettings.xml[26.05.2024 10:32:34][INFO] Engine is starting...[26.05.2024 10:32:34][INFO] Creating wizard instance...[26.05.2024 10:32:34][INFO] Initializing engi

We have enabled malware scanning,  and We got a warning that some of the servers has some potential malware detection.Specifically "Onion Links". I enabled inline entropyI took a look a the full logs of the scan on mount server C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\Malware_Detection_Logs , and only the logs for windows machine appear here,  however, as confirmed by Veaam's support, scanning backups for Linux machines are not supported at this time. So Linux VM logs are missing. When you click the malware detection event, there's nothing nor paths in the details.I equally checked c:\VBRCatalog\Index\Machines\Affected-Linux-VM\ransonwareidx , but i still cannot identify what files or path-to-Files.How can i scan our Linux machines to determine the paths to the files of the Onion links malware detected? I would like to identify what files are being flagged as malware so i can "mark clean" if need be.Any help regarding this please and thank you

Hi, There may be a doc out there but I have not found it.I am looking to deploy a new hardened repository. It seems the ISO is not available. I am not so concerned about the deployment steps as much as getting the disk partitioning setup correctly. I see Ubuntu version 20, but also people moving to 22 and version 24 is now available.  What version are people using running Veeam version 12.2? I have a base deployment on 24 right now. I see some that go with the wizard and let the setup make the disk partition decisions.  I have a server with 24 SSD disks and looking to create a raid 10 with 2 disks for the boot and OS etc. and the a raid 6 with the 22 disks. One doc has numerous volumes based on this comment. “If you want to align with security best practices (e.g. CIS Benchmarks), then partitioning is a bit more complex.”That article is here: https://www.veeam.com/blog/installing-ubuntu-linux-veeam-hardened-repository.htmlI created disks based on the article but not confident I have th

Hello team, I am trying to take backup for RHEL9 physical machine.  This machine is running on laptop PC.Do I need to install Veeam agent for Linux before creating protection group?Actually, I tried to create protection group, but it was failed. Regards,

Hi all, having studying both CDP and VDRO a bit, I know the former is focusing on data protection with continuous restore points; while the latter focus on DR automation likes Re-IP and VM bootup priority setting.- can I conclude both CDP and VDRO are required for a complete DR solution?- any use case only CDP is required or just VDRO is required?- if our customer ask about CDP restore point keeping 24hrs is long enough, could I say those VMs are still being protected by backup?

Hi, We have several backup copy jobs. Some do copy to tapes, some to NAS and some to object repository. All of them are in a continuous running state; if a backup file is available, it will be copied. The issue we're facing is that the backup job using the object repository works well during incremental backups, but it waits for two days before starting the copy when it's a full backup. This is a significant delay that we need to address. Let’s say the full backup is finished on Saturday at 3 am, and I can see the .vbk file exists. All other backup copy jobs finish copying that file before Sunday noon, but the one with the object storage repository doesn’t even start before Monday afternoon. Does anyone have any idea why it could be happening? Thank you

Hello everyone,Veeam Inline Entrophy analysis feature checks if any encryption has started on VMs. Does this feature additionally perform text analysis with onion links and AI/ML? In other words, is it enough to scan the backup it received to perform these analyses or should the guest index file be open in the relevant backup job and the credentials of the machine should be entered?

We currently have our S3 retention set to 60 days. When I look at restoring from S3, it consists of all incrementals, with a full backup sitting at 61 days.Question 1: If we set our immutability to 30 days, wouldn’t we be at risk of our full backup being corrupted since it’s outside the 30-day window?Question 2: The formula for S3 storage is retention + immutability + block generation (30 days). So if we set retention to 60 days, immutability to 30 days, and S3 block generation to 30 days, would that give us 120 days of retention? Could we restore from 120 days back?Essentially, we are looking to ensure 30 days of immutability and need guidance on configuring that correctly.

I recently had to cover off a very unique use case, making capacity tier data available for restore after being disconnected. After doing I thought I’d share so here’s a little post I wrote:https://www.koolaid.info/maintaining-recoverability-in-veeam-capacity-tier-migrations/

 10. There is a scenario builder9. Tape is now included8. Select from Data Center, SaaS, Public Cloud and Monitoring7. Immutability is included6. Capacity Tier calculations5. Direct to Object storage option4. The UI is fantastic3. Average write rate when doing CDP calculation can be factored in2. This is an official Veeam Calculator1. The restore simulator is back!Anyone who works in the backup space knows the importance of a good backup calculator. Not only will it save you time it could also save money. To take it a step further a Veeam sizing calculator can also help you understand how to size the Veeam environment, that’s way I am excited when I got the news from @Chas letting everyone know that the new Veeam hosted calculators are available.Before I provide an overview of some of the enhancements, I would like to extend a huge thank you to the Veeam team that worked on creating these tools Adam Congdon, David Tosoff and Olivier Rossi as well as Marty Williams provide input around

 Want to use VEEAM for my Proxmox Backup but got some Problem to get the Worker up and running. When i want to set up the Worker manually there is not Network to Add.The Network Access goes over Linux Bridge and the Veeam License is Enterprise.Has Anyone a clue where i can search or fix it.

customer on veeam v12.2. They have storeonce at both sites and S3 at site2.With backup copy at storage level (catalyst), Veeam controls the copy via the storeonce appliances performing the replication.If I choose image-level backup copy, this gives options for VMs and repos to copy. We also have “data transfer” for Direct. When it says direct is this storeonce to storeonce like storage level copy or does data go via another route?I need to know if there are considerable differences. thanks

Hi all, just wanted to get this out there in case you hadn’t seen it, my friend, fellow Vanguard and all around good dude Brad Jervis will be presenting with @Rin and @safiya this Thursday at 10 AM EST on archiving M365 data with Veeam Backup for Microsoft365. If you are concerned about compliance and cost management you should definitely tune in!https://www.linkedin.com/events/7243244346731290624

If you wish to explore the capabilities of Veeam Backup and Replication v11A, then you probably upgrade to this version. Kindly visit the following URL for more of these capabilities/features.Here is a link to the complete guide highlighting on all the needed steps.You may be notified if there is an update of the Veeam Backup and Replication. Upon clicking on this notification, you will be redirected to the following KB (download) link. Note: I will be upgrading from Veeam v11 Build 11.0.0.839 →  11.0.1.1261.I will be downloading the new 11A ISO as shown below. If you are not prompted that an update is available, you can download the latest version of the Veeam Backup and Replication ISO from the following  Veeam Backup & Replication Download page. You will be required to login in order to access the download. Before proceeding to upgrade, ensure all existing jobs are successfully completed. If there are any filed jobs, ensure to re-run them.- Also, ensure there isn't any restore s

Hello!I’m currently running VBR CE v11.0.0 on Windows Server 2012 R2.  We are only backing up a total of 4 VMs.My initial task was to move a couple of the backups to a new backup repository.  But, the ‘move’ functionality apparently isn’t available in v11.  Rather than try to upgrade our current instance of Veeam, I’d like to just install a the newest version of VBR CE on a new instance of Windows Server.My question is: Keeping in mind the difference in versions, should I be able to take a backup of the DB config and import it to the new Veeam install as suggested here?  If the difference in versions is an issue, what’s the best way forward?Once I have a new instance up-and-running, the ability to move the backups to new repositories should be available, I believe.Please let me know if I can provide additional information.Thanks!

Does anyone know when is the new immutable installable ISO release date? I’m currently waiting for it to deploy our new VHR.

Running VBR v12.0. Created a backup job. Ran the job and got an error so went back in and try to edit the job. I got the error below. First time, I encountered this error. The backup log just showed the same information. I have a similar job running in our “staging” VBR but not having any error. The backup job is a storage snapshot and does handle SQL transaction logging. I saw in the Veeam’s Forum the same error message but this was for a backup copy job. What do you think is happening here? 

Every once in a while, someone asks me to protect an Azure workload that does have the most direct approach available for it in a Veeam product. Today I’ll focus on Azure Key Vault, but I’ll see if I can broaden the scope a bit over time with future posts. Why backup Azure Key VaultAzure Key Vault is used as a source to manage anything from encryption scopes on Azure Storage to allowing customer managed keys for services, storing public/private key pairs, custom secrets, and certificates. Losing Azure Key Vault contents could pose a serious problem, but exporting data out for backup purposes could also create quite some risk – thankfully backup jobs allow data encryption. Soft deleteAzure Key Vault comes with soft delete, allowing recovery of deleted vaults and deleted objects (keys, secrets and certificates). Once an object is deleted the default recovery period is 90 days, unless the object is purged entirely. This should be your first line of defense. BackupAzure Key Vault comes wit

With the recent announcement that Hyper-V is strategic to Microsoft, as the main focus of Server 2025 you can imagine I've spent more time on the topic than usual lately. I normally don’t post on here, but I figured I'd share. To get the basic stuff out of the way, yes you can Instantly Recovery ‘any’ workload to Hyper-V, and it can be automated with PowerShell - it will probably make it easier at scale. And for those new to Hyper-V with Veeam, on-host backup processing is the way to go. Did you know we recently updated the user guide to explain how Veeam selects VM generation upon arrival?Veeam supports Azure Stack HCI too, and it has been on a much faster release cadence, so a lot of the features may have been seen before - but I think the key take away is that, there is significant forward motion for Hyper-V, and a continued path to purchasing perpetual licenses for it.I wish that central management of Hyper-V was addressed a bit differently. For Hyper-V you can still choose between

Hello,I have a very old running setup of ESXI 5.0.0 and ESXI 5.1.0 Hosts with 10 VMs (Win Server 2008R2, Suse enterprise 12, Win Server 2016 and windows 7 Pro.). The setup also includes an Equallogic storage.Is it possible to migrate the existing VMs to a new Host server with ESXI 8.0 ?