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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
posted in News

What is Innovation to you?

I want to draw your attention to a recent piece of news about the Veeam Innovation Awards (VIA).This is a really important thing to Veeam, and I recommend you read JBuff’s post:  https://www.veeam.com/blog/innovation-awards-2021-nominations.html The important of innovation is rather attractive as it closes the gap between the art of the possible and the stark realities of the criticality of data that Veeam protects. Whether you are a Veeam customer or a Veeam partner you can nominate for the VIA’s and raise the profile of Innovation in your view. I’d really encourage you to think about nominations, this isn’t just a news effort, its a legit review of the offerings and implementations we see. In fact, the Product Strategy team (the team I’m on) gets to vote on the entries! I really enjoy that task.What is also more interesting is the hardware. Odd coming from a software company, but the hardware of the prize. Previous VIA winners have trophies like this! Begin your nomination here!https

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication v10 - Book Giveaway

I had created a topic earlier about my book coming out - Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication v10 - Packt/Amazon Today I will be posting on my blog which will then go to LinkedIn and Twitter.  I am working with Packt on a book giveaway for 5 people that comment on the LinkedIn post and will put up a review of the book as well. My blog is here - https://just-virtualization.tech So be on the lookout if you want your chance to win a free paperback copy of the book.  We are also giving away some of the e-books as well I believe.  Best of luck to all. 

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
C
CPONot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion boards

Migrate VM from hyper-V to VMware using VEEAM 10 Instant recovery

The VMware Converter has failed to convert correctly the virtual disk.- Convert task success.- hd1 size error (vShepere vCenter : 0 / no disk detected (vSphere ESX, General View) / hd1 8 GB (Edit Settings ESX). NB : VMDK= 33 GB, Thick provisionning.As said by “https://hyper-converged.com/2020/03/06/migrate-vm-from-hyper-v-to-vmware-with-veeam-v10/”Veeam 10 can migrate a VM from Hyper-V to VM-ware. Does anyone had this issue and had fixed it with “Instant VM Recovery” of VEEAM 10 ?Is a VEEAM Licence for VMware and for Hyper-V needed ?

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Resume of 1st VUG Brazil of 2021

Hello everyone! So, last week we have our first VUG  of the year. It was a such good webinar that the principal subject was around the best features about data protection. If it weren't good enough, we still had the presence of none other than @Rick Vanover and @Kseniya. To start the event Rick and Kseniya talk about our Veeam Community Resource Hub and after this, they introduced how Veeam Legends works and what is the benefits to become a Legend. It was so nice listen them and I felt myself so counfortable with their words. Rick and Kseniya look like Batman and Robin of Veeam because they are very much involved  one with other about Veeam Community. Seriously both of you are awesome!! After this amazing introduce we start our event completely in portuguese and @CarlosXGomes talked about backup of Office 365. Continuing with VUG Brazil Marcio Freitas made a perfect presentation about NAS Backup and all possible subjects around of this theme.  So, to finish it Leonardo Ferreira talked

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

V11 - New feature - Prioritize primary backup job - why and how it works

While updating our VCSP stack with V11-RTM, I just stumble again onto this small but fine new feature to prioritize your primary backup jobs:More than once I had customers request several jobs to be finished with priority.You could of cause concatenate jobs with the schedule option “After this job:”. But this is not recommended as it does not use the ressources of your backup system accordingly. Valuable proxy/repo slots would linger out-of-work for quite a while.Overlapping jobs would lead to the second job jumping in with the first one still running, so saturating ressources. But this might easily oversteer and thus delay the first job.With the new option this problem can be solved by just the click of a checkbox.Prioritized jobs get a nice little flag in the job list. So how does it work?The Veeam scheduler runs all its tasks according to priorities:800: Restore jobs — restores are obviously the most important jobs 700: Continuous data protection jobs — new CDP ist also considered v

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X
5 days ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #14

Happy Friday!Veeam Community Recap #14 is here!Check out this episode to learn community highlights of the week.@Rick Vanover and I have also prepared some *legendary* news for you...    

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
BertrandFR
BertrandFRVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion boards

Backup strategies for a large VM

Hello everyone,I’m wondering what is your strategies/tricks about backuping a large vm (many TB+)? Duration? Active Full ? Synthetic one day a week? I look forward to reading you  

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
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bigneo7New Here
asked in Discussion boards

Restore files from tape

Hi all, Can I add new backup server in this Tape?  Thanks in advance

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JMeixner
1 year ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion boards

Do you participate of VUG?

Today is the day of the first VUG of 2021! So, I’m ever fell anxious about this kind of event. Specially this one that @Rick Vanover and @Kseniya are gonna participate with us here in Brazil.Just me But now, I'd like to know who of you gets involved with VUG?How is the VUG in your country? Just let me know!I wanna hear you.

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion boards

Google Cloud backup and recovery

Hi I read through Gostev newsletter of this new integration also with GCloud.I'm impressed how the Veeam suite progresses technologically and keeps up with the new technologies.Secure Google Native Backup & Recovery (veeam.com)  Has anyone tried this feature yet?Opinions?Discuss: D

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1 year ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion boards

V11: new method for GFS point creation in backup copy jobs

As some of you might already know, with V11 the creation process of GFS points within backup copy jobs will be completely renewed.As I understood it, the new method will be exactily the same then, as it is already for primary backups.So instead of forever forward merging and meanwhile somehow dropping a GFS point, we will see a forward chain with synthetic fulls. The latter will then be flagged with the GFS flags.This will in my opinion be remarkable for two reasons:We’ve seen problems with GFS backup copy jobs not adhering to the SOBR placement policy. During one support case I was driving we narrowed it down to the legacy way GFS points are generated in these jobs. SOBR placement policy disregarded for GFS - Veeam R&D Forums. So this might be solved then, which is great news. On the other hand this is also good news for the usage of dedupe appliances. Especially the ones with a landing zone like ExaGrid. Those currently suffer from the merging processes occuring in backup copies

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[Quicktip] Licensing error during backup

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.

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HunterLAFR
3 months ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

Veeam v11 Teaser Trailer

Hey guys,With two weeks to go the hype is getting real for Veeam now.I saw one of Rick’s bloopers on Twitter and got an idea for this little mash up Avengers Infinity War / Veeam teaser. It fits a little too well IMO! I’d like to thank @Rick Vanover / Thanos / Ricknos? for being a good sport about this abuse.

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion boards

Veeam Backup for Office 365: Update 5b released

Update 5b for Veeam Backup for Office 365 was released yesterday, which I’ve discovered from @AnthonySpiteri’s blog:https://anthonyspiteri.net/patch-backup-microsoft-office-365-v11/https://www.veeam.com/kb4092Besides the preparation for the upcoming v11 VBR release I would like to highlight this resolved issue:Under certain conditions retention policy mistakenly cleans actual Exchange backup data from Jet-based repositories set with snapshot-based retention of less than 2 years. This issue applies to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office versions 3.0 – 4c. I’m not sure at what conditions this could happen but it sounds rather serious.

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regnor
1 year ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

SureBackup Troubleshooting mode

When creating SureBackup jobs there are often VMs which need additional care before their first successful run/test; like tweaking startup times of OS/applications or changing firewall rules. Also if you’re adding custom test scripts & roles then it might require multiple tries before they work like expected.On the other hand there could be a VM where the SureBackup job discovered an existing problem and you need to debug the system to find the root cause.This is where SureBackup troubleshooting mode (KB1216) comes into play. Instead of restarting the whole SureBackup job with all included VMs, you can just select a single VM and start it via right-click.After clicking start the SureBackup job will only run the selected VM and keeps it running regardless of its state (as opposed to the normal mode where an error will stop/abort the job).So with troubleshooting mode you can save some time when configuring or debugging SureBackup because you don’t need to wait for all VMs inside your

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[What (else) is new in v11 - VI] Performance

For this post I planed to share some time and bandwidth comparison for backups in my lab. But it is some kind of difficult to get representative data in a fully virtualized demo environment.So I am very happy @Gostev pointed out this topic in his last Words from Gostev (Veeam R&D Forums Digest) from 8.2.2021. If you are not subscribed to this newsletter: do so! https://forums.veeam.com/I want to summarize important facts here:Backup performance per appliance (all-in-one box) doubles in v11. Revise and optimize basics: How are backup files written to disk. Shared memory transport engine, when source- and target-datamover on same box. Implemented full NUMA awareness Enhance the data movers placement logic to ensure they never end up on different CPUs. All this, and I assume much more, leads to an incredible performance. Veeam tested with an HPE Apollo 4510 Gen 10 Server – which is really a perfect backup target – as a all-in-one appliance. Veeam was able to peak at 11.4 GB/s (!) b

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Inder
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

View Microsoft + Veeam solutions at Microsoft Ignite 2021 🔥

I think it will be very good to hear Veeam at this event and above all to win to win prizes hahaha Register Now: https://www.veeam.com/microsoft-ignite-2021.html  

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
falkob
falkobVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

SAP DB2 databases backup with Veeam hosted on VMware

In this post I’m going to show you how to do SAP DB2 databases backup on Linux with Veeam. I came across a SAP DB2 installation during one of my last projects and wanted to share with you how to backup these databases. Introduction on pre-freeze and post-thaw scriptsSince there is no native integration of SAP DB2 in Veeam, we need to use pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts within the guest processing options.Pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts are being used, when an application does not support VSS for example. The pre-freeze script is used to quiesce the VM file system or the application prior Veeam triggers a VMware snapshot. After the VMware snapshot is created, the post-thaw script triggers and brings the VM and the corresponding application back to the initial state. How do the scripts work ?Pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts are used on backup jobs, replication jobs and VM copy jobs.Furthermore, you need to create the scripts beforehand. When the specific job starts, Veeam uploads the s

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1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

When to use Planned Failover 👀

  If you know that your primary VMs are about to go offline, you can proactively switch the workload to their replicas. A planned failover is smooth manual switching from a primary VM to its replica with minimum interrupting in operation. You can use the planned failover, for example, if you plan to perform datacenter migration, maintenance or software upgrade of the primary VMs. You can also perform planned failover if you have an advance notice of a disaster approaching that will require taking the primary servers offline.When you start the planned failover, Veeam Backup & Replication performs the following steps:The failover process triggers the replication job to perform an incremental replication run and copy the un-replicated changes to the replica. The guest OS of the VM is shut down or the VM is powered off.If VMware Tools are installed on the VM, Veeam Backup & Replication tries to shut down the VM guest OS. If nothing happens after 15 minutes, Veeam Backup & Repli

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regnor
1 year ago
R
Rogeranson@yahoo.comNew Here
posted in Discussion boards

Holiday Giveaway

You were supposed to post the Holiday Giveaway contest winners on veeam.com/holiday- giveaway.com by 2/2/21. Please post.rogeranson@yahoo.com

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1 year ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion boards

SOBR placement policy not adhered to - solution included

This issue I’ve seen with larger SOBRs having many ReFS extents. Having a backup-copy job (pruning) with GFS there were sudden unintended switches of backup chains to other extents. Thus loosing all space efficiency for the GFS points. We used scripts here to detect chains spanning more than a single extent. It turned out to be a bug solved in V10 paired with a very conservative process in VBR to detect extents near space exhaustion. There is some estimation here due not being able to estimate the space savings due to block recloning. This could be tweaked with two regkeys:Pfad: HKLM\Software\Veeam\Veeam Backup and ReplicationName: SOBRSyntheticFullCompressRate Value: 35, DWORDDescription: override the estimated space VM would take on SOBR in a full backup. % of previous full backup size.  Name: SobrForceExtentSpaceUpdateValue: 1, DWORDDescription: enables advanced SOBR extents free space update logic. With this set to 1 (enabled) service updates cached extent free space every time tas

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Rick Vanover
1 year ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #13

Happy Friday!In this episode, I and @Rick Vanover discussed community activities, highlights of the week, and also weather in Saint-Petersbourg and Columbus (spoiler - it’s getting colder in both places )Check it out now!   

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eprieto
1 year ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
posted in Discussion boards

What do you want in a "How to upgrade" guide?

One of the things that I will be doing, starting with the v11 release, is preparing a “How to upgrade” Blog and Video situation that I will post here in the Veeam Community site.  This will be an exclusive resource you will only get here!Now just to be clear, this post will be straight blocking and tackling, it’s not going to cover what’s new, it’s for the person who has a previous version and is ready to upgrade. Here’s my loose agenda of what I plan on covering:Pre-Steps Key documentation to review Licensing and Product How to get license updated, steps to secure license admin/access How and where to download the product(s) Must-See Information Noting key changes/dropped platforms Known issues Key advice from Veeam Tech Support Common Case Summary thru RTM Note scenarios where “If you are using _X_ existing capability, it will be new this way: See this” Configuration Backup - Verify it is done, where it is, etc. Upgrade and Beyond Information of doing the upgrade (Possibl

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Link State
1 year ago
D
DatIDMNew Here
asked in Discussion boards

Odd error for all OFFSITE backup jobs

Here is the text from the e-mail received from the server:Failed to preprocess target Error: Failed to call RPC function 'FcWriteFileEx': Incorrect function. Failed to open fileDoes this look familiar to anyone? If so.. how did you resolve it??Thank you for any Help, 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
kirststoner12
kirststoner12Product Strategy
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Getting started with Veeam’s Replica Failover

Disaster’s happen and businesses need to be ready for them. If 2020 taught us anything, it might be to expect the unexpected. Sometimes we can’t plan for the unexpected, but when it comes to data and applications businesses depend on, planning for the unknown is critical. Whether it be a natural disaster, a data outage or a ransomware attack, businesses need to remain online, and by creating a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan now, it can save us later. One technology that is included in this type of plan is failover. Utilizing replica failover can help achieve the best Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) by having a copy of your VM in a ready to start state.  If your new to Veeam, you might be unsure of the different failover capabilities it has to offer. Throughout this post, I will walk through Veeam’s failover capabilities and describe their meanings and benefits of each. Introduction to Failover Failover is a process in which you seamlessly switch operations from the sour

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eprieto
1 year ago

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