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jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
[Scripts] Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 - Audit Email/Audit Users

THERE IS NOW NATIVE FUNCTIONALITY TO DO THIS EASILY Hello, a few years ago I wrote a few articles about this very interesting, and common topic: They were very well received in my opinion, with tons of comments, and lots of views. But since then, many changes have happened, first to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 APIs, secondly Microsoft disabling SMTP and making our life difficult with OAuth for simple stuff like this. Good news are: The first blog post have been updated with the OAuth steps, so if you are struggling with that, please take a look now :) I wrote two very simple PowerShell Scripts to make your life easy. Automating the painful Microsoft/Google Oauth for VB365 Audit Mail Settings If you want to automate this process, because do this manually is the biggest pain I had in this 2023 by far. You will find the script here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VeeamHub/powershell/master/VB365-AuditRestoreOperations/vb365-AuditEmailSettings-OAuth.ps1 Very simple to modify and

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Steve BlairComes here often
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Windows Stand Alone Back Up Failures

I had the Windows Stand Alone version installed on my Windows 10 PC. The external hard drive it was backing up to failed. I purchased a new external hard drive and had to reinstall the Veeam software. Now backups fail indicating an application error. There are no other details and no log files are being created. Any suggestions on getting backups up and running again would be appreciated.

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NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Sure Backup - Best Practices

Hello forum, What are the “Best Practices” for configuring Sure Backup?On which configuration’s I should take care, how often do you recommend to do it etc. I have a dedicated physical server, a Tower server that will be in use for this purpose.12 Core Processor, 128 GB of RAM and around 10TB of free space. Our largest VM is more than 10TB but it will be okay if SureBackup can use instant restore etc Please advise :)

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EddieZimbabweComes here often
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The VMware VM is appearing as 0 Kb when creating a job . How to do fix this in order for the VM to show the correct size.

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AreadnzNew Here
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Two Physical Linux Servers added to inventory will not coexist

I’m trying to add two Physical Computers (Linux 20.04) into inventory to backup. Both are in the same protection group. When adding the servers and clicking “Test Now” the test is successful. After applying the Protection Group changes, I briefly see both servers, then one always disappears. It seems random as to which server remains. I see different fingerprints for each server. I’ve tried using separate protection groups, but the issue is the same. I initially added the computers as part of a backup job creation, but when adding the second server and job, the job always failed. We have uninstalled the agent from both servers, and repeated the process, always with the same result. Veeam Enterprise Plus 11 All the other backed up servers are VM’s. Any suggestions?

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MicoolPaul
MarkBoothman
MarkBoothmanVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards
Windows Server Can It Continue to Evolve and Innovate?

The below are just the thoughts that I've been having over the weekend now that Server 2025 has been announced. This is a long-term view that I believe after seeing how the industry has changed especially over the last 5 - 10 years. For those of us who like myself can remember the joy that DosKey and MemMaker brought to the DOS days, given the ways Windows Server evolved from Windows NT 3.5 days, I have to wonder Can Windows Server still evolve and innovate?With today's drive towards XaaS, serverless & micro-services, the infra landscape is starting to change. The rise of DevOps etc in the past few years shows how the landscape is changing. With this in mind, I wonder just how much can Windows Server continue to innovate. I also think that given the VMware/ Brodcam debacle if Microsoft can't seize a lion's share of the virtualization market to all the up-and-coming contenders then just how long will M/S continue to try and develop more features if the market share isn't there?

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Chris.Childerhose
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Live Optics Report - Veeam

Live Optics allows you, your Dell EMC technologists, or Dell EMC partner consultants to understand vital information about your Veeam environment. Live Optics provides you with a simple process to upload your Veeam database backup and present your data in a clear and understandable way, so that you can make informed decisions to optimize your backup infrastructure. Your Veeam database backup will usually be a file with a .bak extension. Sometimes, due to common community based knowledge, the files have a .dmp extension. Pre-Requisites The following list is are required to follow the instructions below. You are a user with Administrative access to Veeam You have downloaded the latest version of the Live Optics Collector Instructions To create a SQL backup for Veeam, see the following Veeam KB article: https://www.veeam.com/kb1471?destination:https://www.veeam.com/kb1471=?x-clickref=1100ld5oeEIG Note: There is no need to further .zip or compress the file. The Live Optics collector will d

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leduardoserrano
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Vanguard
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
leduardoserranoOn the path to Greatness
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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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
leduardoserranoOn the path to Greatness
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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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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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
asked in Discussion Boards
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
asked in Discussion Boards
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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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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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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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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Iams3le
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CRDPNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards
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
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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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