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Enhancing Your Veeam Security: Key Features to ActivateVeeam Software’s R&D department has been busy the past year. It has introduced three minor feature releases (V12.1, 12.2, and 12.3), including crucial new security features and updates. If you have just installed V12 or are still on V11 and are planning an upgrade to the latest V12 release (V12.3), you may be overwhelmed by figuring out an “order of importance” for activating features.I suggest to customers moving to V12.3, or are using V12.3 but haven’t implemented any security features yet to turn on the new features in this order: Veeam Hardened repository, MFA, 4-Eyes authorization, Entropy and Indicators of Compromise scanning, and Veeam Threat Hunter. First: Veeam Hardened repositoryThe security of your backup infrastructure should start with and cente

Hello everyone,A customer of mine wants to restore the SQL backup taken on the VBR Server on a different server. There is no problem so far, but it wants to make the TCP - 1433, 1434 ports 1435 ports required in SQL Restore. Can he do this? If so, does anyone have information on how to do it?

I did a Volume restore a few minutes ago, rolling back to last night’s backup. This is a windows server 2019 environment; NTFS; prior to the restore, I had a couple dozen volume shadow copy restore points. The last one was 5pm yesterday; the nightly backup runs at 11PM. My office manger was working past 5pm, so I was forced to use the volume restore.When the restore was complete, there are no VSC restore points available. Not a big deal in this instance, but they are supposed to be there, correct? Did I do something wrong? Any ideas? 

Hello everyone, I need to change the user account that Veeam Enterprise Manager uses to connect to vSphere. The initial credentials were entered, but the plug-in hasn’t been installed yet, and I don’t see any option to modify the account after the first setup. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to switch the vSphere user for Enterprise Manager? Thanks in advance for your help!

Hello,does anyone have experience with Infortrend EONStore GS storage systems as backup storage for Veeam?Especially as S3 storage?The systems are certified by Veeam.https://www.veeam.com/sys645https://www.veeam.com/sys1343https://www.infortrend.com/event2023/202308-gs-g3/202308-backup-solution-edm.html?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20230817backupWe are thinking about buying a GS 3060 G3 with many large disks and use it as S3 tier for M365 and capacity tier in B&R SORB.

Veeam ONE, a part of Veeam Data Platform Advanced and Premium editions, monitors your virtual and data protection environment and alerts you of issues occurring in the data center. Veeam ONE contains around 300 alarms that allow you to monitor events happening in your environment, but even with its out-of-the-box features, you may decide you want to build your own alarms for specific use cases. To do this, first, you will need to decide what ‘type’ of alarm you want to create. Multiple options are available when creating an alarm, it can be based on a backup infrastructure component such as backup servers, backup repositories, backup proxy, or a different component. You also have the added capability of basing the alarm on an object in your virtual environment.   When creating an alarm, you should know what you want the alarm to monitor. This can be based on a task or event, performance, or even in-guest processes or service. To create an alarm, navigate to the Alarm M

Hi,Let me explain the configuration and questions.Please see below.Questions:What does IP use when configuring a gateway? For the backup copy job, we have to add the target repo from Storeonce B as COE because of the replicate over IP. How do we force replication between StoreOnce A and B on replicate IP ?DC site :Veeam backup server (KVM) Mgmt IP Proxy & GW server A (Windows server 2022) Mgmt IP backup IP  Fiber Channel StoreOnce A Mgmt IP  backup IP Replicate IP Fiber Channel DR site :Proxy & GW server B (Windows server 2022) Mgmt IP backup IP Fiber Channel StoreOnce B Mgmt IP backup IP Replicate IP Fiber Channel

I am confused (not an unusual occurrence). I had to do a restore of a VM to a different backup repository from tape, so I could search for some files for a user. Now, I don’t need that restored image. (this repository is a Windows disk drive, and the restored image is 4TB in size). So I’d like that 4TB disk space back, please. :-)Is there a special procedure for cleaning that off the repository? Or do I just delete it from Windows, like any other set of files?  

Hi everyone,recenly i’m doing some test on the veeam backup&replication community edition on my Dell R710 which is running server 2019 standard. And at the first time, i can add a hyper-v server which is running server2019 (standalone) to the backup job, but once i deleted the job, i cannot add any hyper-v again.It always shows :Failed to connect to host 10.178.3.41Access denied or timeout expired. (sometimes is invalid namespace)Check if you have local administrator privileges on computer '10.178.3.41'.Possible reasons:1. Invalid credentials.2. Specified host is not a Hyper-V server.================what i did for this issue:https://www.veeam.com/kb1914

I have a vCenter at a remote datacenter which is serviced by its own storage array and physical proxies for direct san backups. The repository is located in the main campus datacenter and i need to encrypt those backups. I have been using job encryption, but those dont compress/dedupe. Can I use Networo k Traffic encryption for this? The documentation says I can encrypt between “backup infrastructure components”. If I specify the proxy servers at the remote datacenter in the job does that mean I could encrypt from “proxy at remote campus” to “sobr at main campus”?  In the Source IP address range section, specify a range of IP addresses for backup infrastructure components on the source site. In the Target IP address range section, specify a range of IP addresses for backup infrastructure components on the target site.

Agent For MAC Deployment always via catch-all protection groups•.pkg file for installation•Install with double-click or 3rd party software management solution*•Full Disk Access (FDA) must be allowed in both cases   Full Disk Access:  Manual ConfigurationGo to “Settings –Security & Privacy –Full Disk Access”  Check Profile On MacOS 

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. How often do you use the VeeamZIP feature? What are your use cases? Has UAC causes you issues when enabling application-aware processing in backup jobs? 

In case you missed it, a while back @tsightler presented an amazing webinar Building SecureLinux Repositories.The main topics covered in the presentation are:Securing the host system Isolating Veeam processes Levaraging snapshots Automated deploymentBONUS! Tom also does a side-by-side comparison of Veeam fastcloning on XFS vs ReFS!While Tom presents top content, I think one of my favorite parts was coverage of the fail2ban tool (at 41:47 timestamp).

Hello everybody!I would like to test performance on Linux repositories.The idea is to test read/write performance on disk, IOPS or something like that. I found the KB2014, but I would like to know if some of you have already do this before or if you have some tip or indication for this.  

Dear All,                I have recenty deployed VBR Azure appliance throught the veeam wizard, and after i powered off the azure vm and i changed the size from B2ms to b1ls, and after powered back on and i open the console at Veeam, and it seems doesn’t find the azure anymore, just wonder it is not ok to change the size of the vm ? any help would be appreicated Keith

Hi,We currently do a full backup weekly that is then updated with incramental backups daily that are retained for 7 days.I am concerned about malware going undetected (we have AV, I’m just paranoid). Is a 7 day retention policy for restore points good or should I expand this? What archival rules would help would be recommended?Many thanks in advance,Tobi

Hi, my first experience backing up a volume on my Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS Linux machine is resulting in a Snapshot overflow error.  I use Veeam B&R Community Edition Build 12.1.2.172.  Here are some details:Veaam R&D machine: Dell PowerEdge R7515 OS: Windows Server 2022 Standard. CPU: AMD EPYC 7232P 8-Core Processr 3.09GHz RAM: 32 GB Backup Disk E: has 65.5 TB capacity with 9 TB free (This disk is the default backup repository) Protected computer: Dell PowerEdge R550 OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 5317 12-Core Processor 3GHz RAM: 64 GB Backup Mode: Volume level backup Objects: /mnt/data as the only mount point (ext4 with about 7.7 TB of content with total capacity of 65 TB, which means it is 87% free)Multiple backup attempts were made and they all failed with the same Snapshot overflow error. Furthermore, I have studied the protected computer requirem

These days I saw a strange error that makes every backup failed. I thought this would be interesting to share. SituationThere were a few jobs running each day. From a point in time all jobs failed. Error that was shown in console was: [Error Unhandled exception was thrown during licensing process] I checked licensing of course. All hosts were licensed using perpetual licensing. No instances were licensed separately.SolutionIt turned out to be no license problem at all. What happened was, password of the user that was used for connecting to VMware vCenter was changed. After updating the new password in Veeam Manage Credentials too, everything works fine again.

The Veeam Ready team has published two articles on in the Veeam hardened appliance category for Lenovo servers. With the threat of ransomware and destruction of backup data by hackers. Data protection and prevention is key to keep your data safe. Keeping security top of mind. Please see the article links below. Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V3 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V3Thanks,Pete

Good morning,Looking for advice on managing storage within an integrated vCenter/Veeam configuration where my backups at backing onto an external storage device. I’m not going to lie I am still timid working in these environments because I have never been to play around in a non production environment so I think it best to get some advice form those of you who are well versed in these products. So the situation is over the years we have created various jobs when issues occurred during backups and now I am wanting to understand the proper way to delete old backups in order to give the NAS some breathing room.  I didn't want to just login to the NAS and literally delete files as I’m pretty certain the VMWare/Veeam setup is aware of all files and folders and don’t want to break the linking.What is the proper way to clean up old backups and have the system correctly identify space and removed items etc. Thank you.

Dear Veeam team, Does anyone have information about an upcoming roadmap regarding Copilot and / or ChatGPT content backup? I have a first customer who is interested in such a solution. To go into detail: The customer wants to backup both “outputs” and “inputs” from and to both tools.The entered command / prompt / question as well as the AI output is to be backed up to provide easy retention and restore management. Can someone provide information? Thanks in advance! BestLukas

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​​​​​​​

HI,I’m using the VSPC API to extra the backupped data, used licenses (points), etc.. But how can i list the backupped mailboxes from our MS365 customers? I would like to know the quantity for the invoicing.Via ht old api it was possible, but these ones doesn’t exist anymore? RIchard