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dloseke
dlosekeOn the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
Issues replying to topics in the Community Hub

Curious if anyone else is running into issues when replying in the hub. I tend to get a lot of emails to catch up on topics and open tabs for them and then come back. However, there’s a been a lot lately where I open a tab, come back to it 15-30 minutes later, reply, but when I go to post my reply I get the below error. Usually refreshing the tab and then posting works, but in the meantime, I’ve lost what I typed. Curious if anyone else has been running into this issue as of late. Seems like the past week or so I’ve been having this issue.

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NZ_BenThomas
leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Deploying and using a Yara rule with Veeam

Hi! In the recent Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1, Veeam brings many new features and capabilities related to data security and integrations with cybersec tools. One of them is the capability to scan backup files with Yara rules. This is a great feature due to the native flexibility of Yara rules and its wide use in the community. In this demonstration, we will see how to create a simple Yara rule, associate a malicious file with a VM, and obtain uncompromised recovery points through a scan operation. Everything is effortless and intuitive. I hope it is helpful for the community!

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leduardoserrano
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Nutanix ideas?

Hi Everyone, Looking for advice. I have never really looked at Nutanix, except for at one time setting up Veeam with it but relying entirely on the Veeam docs. For those Nutanix superstars out there, what recommendations/tips/tricks do you have for learning it? Free resources? Community Edition? A lot of this I could google or go to their site but I find asking folks who have walked the path before saves you a lot of time not taking turns onto dead ends!

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leduardoserrano
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dario72Comes here often
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Synthetic Full Backup for 30 Day Jobs yes or no

I have a virtual Backup Server and the Repository is a SMB NAS repository and I keep the backup there for 30 days, does it make sense to activate Synthetic Full Backup in such an environment or is forever incremental better?

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Chris.Childerhose
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Danyang007Comes here often
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Onboarded server on VeeamOne appears greyed out and shows error "Uncaught exception thrown by method called Reflection""

Onboarded server on VeeamOne appears greyed out and shows error "Uncaught exception thrown by method called Reflection""

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dloseke
leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Storage Protocols: under the hood

Sometimes, it is necessary to go back to the basics. After all, we have many protocols and stacks that drive IT solutions. I was rereading my notes from an SNIA training and came across this post from Erik Smith. A good overview of what's under the hood of the various types of implementations and protocols for data storage. This post is a bit old but reflects the many storage classic protocols and integrations. 😀 Reference: https://brasstacksblog.typepad.com/brass-tacks/2016/07/storage-protocol-stacks.html

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leduardoserrano
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Ootbi meets the Veeam Community Hub

Hi Everyone It’s Ootbi! Ootbi is Everywhere and now at the Hub! Today Ootbi showed up at the Veeam Community Hub. Ootbi took one look and loved it. So many brilliant people posting interesting and helpful topics! Ootbi decided to participate as well and hijacked NKGG’s account! Its ok Ootbi is NKGG’s friend so all good. Remember though in real life never let anyone use your account or credentials anywhere for anything! So who and what is Ootbi? Ootbi stands for Out of the box Immutability! Ransomware is getting worse all the time so you really want Ootbi Everywhere! Why don’t we take our first look at Ootbi? Here is the login screen: Login Screen After logging in we get a cool dashboard with information: Dashboard Ootbi is simple and intuitive. There are some performance metrics on the bottom of the dashboard: performance Ootbi runs very smoothly but if you ever need to contact support you won’t have to wander around trying to find logs all over the place, Ootbi servers them up for you

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Scott
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Zero Trust according to Veeam. Make sure to understand and not be led astray

Hi Folks, As always in the world of $$ money people will stretch meanings and at times outright make false statements. There is no point in going after them time and time again. Instead just make sure to read and understand the guidelines provided by the source. Veeam have created a great white paper on Zero Trust in Data Protection. They have spelled things out to make it easy for everyone to understand. You can read it here: https://www.veeam.com/whitepapers/pragmatic-approach-to-implementing-zero-trust_wp.pdf At the end of the day the goal is to defeat ransomware. So approaches that don’t follow what Veeam have stated means that you are taking more risk. Be very careful as I have seen advertising using the terminology of Zero Trust but describing something that is doing the exact opposite of Zero Trust. Again people can sell what they like, just don’t label something chewing gum if it is in fact asphalt.

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spider32Experienced User
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Backup job doing NBD instead of SAN Direct

We just moved a couple of servers to a new volume in NetApp using its new large file/volume feature. Nothing has changed on the backup job except the volume that it is backing up. The smaller server around 3TB was able to be backed up using SAN but the other server that is approximately 43 TB is being backed up using NBD. Prior to the move, both servers are doing SAN direct. I would think that since these are both on the same volume is one has been successfully backed up using SAN the other should as well. Both servers are also in the same compute cluster and both are using the same proxies. What is causing this behavior?

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yanni4iwxNot a newbie anymore
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M365 Backup - Backup of OneNote Items fails

Good morning guys, I recently noticed that some of our M365 backup jobs (various tenants and various backup VMs) always complete with warnings. We are having this problem for about a week or so. The messages always look like this: Failed to backup item: /personal/testuser_testdomain_com/Documents/Todo.one, Download request retry timeout exceeded. Has anybody of you noticed similar problems when trying to backup OneNote-Files? Thank you very much best regards yanni4iwx

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Chris.Childerhose
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards
Veeam plugins - check VBR version compatibility BEFORE upgrading - it's not as it seems

Just a heads up for those of you using Veeam plugins. Especially, if they are unmanaged by VBR, which we see quite often for the large line of business applications. Today we have plugins for SAP-HANA, SAP on Oracle (Linux only), Oracle RMAN (Windows and Linux), IBM Db2 and MS-SQL. Having done quite a few upgrades for larger customers recently, I had to learn some non-obvious peculiarities about plugin compatibility: First, you might think (as I did), that VBR always supports the plugin of the major release below the one you’re upgrading to. In fact, it says so in the help center: “Veeam Backup & Replication supports the latest two major versions of Veeam Plug-ins.” (System Requirements - Veeam Plug-ins for Enterprise Applications). The challange is in the term “major version”. To me, that would have meant the number before the decimal point. For example, 12 for 12.x, 11 for 11.x. As it turns out, this is not the case. The next sentence in the help center link above already invalidates

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marco_s
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam Agent (Standalone) on a Secret Mission (humor with swag)

Hi Everyone, So I am being sent on a secret mission and decided to do a video training people how not to look like a Veeam Agent when on secret missions!!

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dips
Stabz
StabzOn the path to Greatness
asked in Discussion Boards
[V12] Migrate MS SQL to PostgreSQL issue

Hello guys, I wanted to create a topic on how migrate from MS SQL to PostgreSQL but I’m facing to an issue. I m following the procedure : https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/vbr_config_migrate_to_postgresql.html?ver=120 At the “Target Database” step I choose “Database: PostgreSQL” Then I click to connect and I obtain the following message : For me I don’t have to create a database first, right? For me Veeam should proprose to create the database like this: Did someone else have try the migration process ?

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CRDPNot a newbie anymore
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After upgrade to V12 and DB migration to Postgresql get error when trying to show job report

Good day Have anyone perhaps had this problem that I am experiencing now post upgrade to V12.1 and migrating DB to PostgreSQL 15.5-1. DB migration showed all tasks successful. When trying to open any job report it gives this error “invalid XML content” Thanks

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coolsport00
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
exFAT Filesystem may corrupt Veeam backup files

Hopefully no one uses exFAT but if you do check out this KB referencing corrupted files that are possible. KB4233: exFAT Filesystem may corrupt Veeam backup files

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Michael Melter
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Jenes hooshangiComes here often
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Document backup jobs

I want to document all jobs.Is there a solution for this?First, how can these data be obtained, and secondly, is there a ready-made Excell template for this? I want to document all the jobs and if there is a solution that also documents the entire veeam backup structure, that would be great. Please provide any suggestions you have.

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Geoff Burke
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HamBurgerComes here often
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Gateway Server deployment

Hi everyone, I am planning to add new SOBR for existing environment (x2 Hyper-V host actually) connecting to the tape library with simple deployment scenario. While we plan to add a new HPE StoreOnce to the infrastructure, is it possible to install the gateway server on the host? Or should it be installed on the backup server?

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Chris.Childerhose
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dario72Comes here often
asked in Discussion Boards
Veeam with vSan How many Proxy

I have a Vsan Cluster with 3 ESXi (25Gb Network) and a vm with Veeam 12 and a physical Windows Repository connected with 20 Gb 20 VMs must be backup , 3TB ca I am planning how much proxy I need, I am not sure if the proxy installed in the VM where B&R is installed is enough or should I install an additional proxy per Esxi?

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coolsport00
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Backup copies, YARA and Pac-ManVeeam Community Recap #150

This week we have a slight switcheroo! @Madi.Cristil is taking some well-deserved time off so Rickatron and @safiya are up with the recap, and this is episode #150! Watch this week’s episode here: The Links via @BelongsinaMuseum via @leduardoserrano ( 2 from Luis this week!) Special Department News Product Update: Veeam KB 4510 is updated with the cumulative patch 1 for V12.1: https://www.veeam.com/kb4510 via @allynz via @MarcoLuvisi Who’s New We are happy to welcome +90 new members into the Veeam Community! The coolest usernames are @Never Give Up, @Bumsy, @bugbunty785 and @sitsilencer! And Alfred’s pick this week is @BelongsinaMuseum! Welcome everyone and have a great weekend.

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dloseke
dlosekeOn the path to Greatness
asked in Discussion Boards
Immutability flag for copy to S3-compatible (Wasabi) is much longer than what is set in the Repository

I’ve come across this twice now, and I’m curious if any of you have seen it. I have a relatively new client that we setup backups for with a copy job to run to a Wasabi bucket. I have set the repo for 30 days of immutability. I’m having issues with one of the VM’s being backed up and decided to just blow it away. Backups are fine, but the copy job has failed on this VM for a couple of months (the newest restore point is from the end of November) due to an odd error when Application Aware Processing is enabled. Since AAP isn’t really needed for this VM, my plan was to work around this error and move this VM to a separate backup and copy job where AAP is not enabled but moving to the new job failed. So I tried to delete the data, and that also failed. I get the error that the data is immutable until October. What am I missing here?

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coolsport00
dloseke
dlosekeOn the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
Service Provider Console Management Agent Access to VBR with MFA Enabled

I have a newer client that I recently deployed VBR for that is managed by our Service Provider Console. At some point in time I stopped getting reports from VBR in the SPC. The Management Agent was talking to the SPC, but I was getting no information from VBR. After opening a case with support and uploading logs (kudo’s to the Veeam team for making it so easy to create cases and upload logs within the SPC), support noted the below error found in the logs. 2024-01-22 22:00:19.9095 [ERROR ] 5684 [__21] BackupServerDiscovery: Exception thrown in method CollectBackupServerFromWMISafe from BackupServerDiscovery Exception: System.Management.ManagementException: Access denied2024-01-22 22:00:19.9095 [ERROR ] 5684 [__21] BackupServerDiscovery: Exception thrown in method CollectBackupServerFromWMISafe from BackupServerDiscovery Exception: System.Management.ManagementException: Access denied Support listed two possible fixes, the first of which is making sure the Service Provider entry is set to

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Chris.Childerhose
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BelongsinaMuseumNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards
Duplicating a full backup (not a backup copy)

Hi everyone, We’re using Veeam B&R 11 standard edition. We are a small museum with a large repository of information of digitised versions of the collections - essentially a file server with multiple disks. We had an issue whereby our largest server had to be reimported to VSphere and was picked up as a new VM by Veeam. I’m looking for options to minimise WAN usage to seed our offsite backups of the large VM. Can I copy a new full backup of VM to a second site, scan the second site repo and start a parallel backup strategy there? Essentially, the same full backup would be the first backup in two parallel backup trees. The backup source is a single VM of approximately 40TB, so I would rather not run a full backup across our VPN. I’m worried that Veeam will not like two repositories starting with the same data, if they ultimately diverge. Why would I not just run a copy job instead of backing up the same data twice? The two sites have vastly different retention strategies, one being esse

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Rick Vanover
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marcel123456Not a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards
Restore job failed Error: Cannot complete file creation operation.

Hey guys We’re doing some VeeamZIPs and directly restore VMs them to a backup-NAS which is added in Veeam via SMB. Since beginning of the year (or even before. The last restore was made on the 30th November 2023) we’re not able to do this operation anymore. We’re getting the following error message: “Restore job failed Error: Cannot complete file creation operation.” The logs show the following: [05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error Restore job has been failed[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error Make datastore directory failed, datacenter ref = datacenter-2, directory name = "[backupnas] backup20240103-xxx" (System.Exception)[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error bei Veeam.Backup.ViSoap.CSoapConnection.CreateDatastoreDirectory(String datacenterRef, String dirName)[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error bei Veeam.Backup.ViSoap.CSoapDatastore25.CreateDirectory(CSoapDatastoreDirectory parent, String relativePath)[05.01.2024 11:16:02.757] <01> Error bei Veeam.Backup.Core.CNfcFileCommander.Create

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Chris.Childerhose
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ArinComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards
Are Folder exclusions in NAS file share backup jobs case sensitive?

Are Folder exclusions in NAS file share backup jobs case sensitive?

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coolsport00
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ArinComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards
Restore to offsite server

So I am attempting to restore files from offsite backup copy to a ServerB at the offsite.From the VBR console I choose to guest files restore from the backup Copy. Then I entered \\ServerB\x$ as the target location. However the restore is happening over the WAN. Any ideas?

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