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Backup job is set to 2 restore point and it has backup job (.vib) file created everyday. There is shortage of space and need to reduce backup jobs. If I choose the restore point it is picking up restore point for a month. Is there is a way to reduce the number of days of backup?

INTRODUCTION As you know, the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication, that is 12.1.2.172, was released last May 21.Among the various new features and security patches, the aspect I would like to elaborate on is this:Security & Compliance AnalyzerA new backup infrastructure check was added to ensure that the PostgreSQL instance hosting the configuration database has been configured with the recommended settings. These settings can be applied with the Set-VBRPSQLDatabaseServerLimits cmdlet.This new check just verifies that the recommended settings for PosgreSQL are actually applied to our backup server.But what does it mean in detail? INFRASTRUCTURE CHECK DETAILSWe know that since version 12 of VBR, the database that is installed by default is PostgreSQL and no longer t

Luckily I have the opportunity to have access to a VSA OOTBI for my Lab,THIS IS NOT FOR PRODUCTION - JUST LAB / TESTSo I would like to share the deployment and initial steps to get it up and running in my Vsphere lab with y'all.Let`s get started, by login into our Vsphere console, and starting the new VM process, deploying a VM from OVA:     After finishing

I am receiving the following error and backups are failing on an air-gapped system.Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint ‘PK_Backup_Model_GuestDatabaseToOibLinks’. Cannotinsert duplicate key in object ‘Database.table’.  The duplicate key value is ‘long string of numbers’.  The statement has been terminated.  Is the only fix for this to rebuild the DB?  TIA

Hey all, I just finished posting the third of a three-part series on deploying the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO.  I’ve been waiting a long time for the ISO to be released and have been occasionally bugged Rick about it, but this thing has been solid for me for over a week.  I’ve had a server waiting for it for over a year and it was worth the wait as it was super easy to deploy aside from working around the slightly buggy GUI for Rocky Linux.  I will note that Hannes specified 64GB of RAM for the VHR ISO, but my PowerEdge R550 that we ordered for the task previously has 32GB and seems to be keeping up just fine, though time will tell. Since it’s broken up into multiple parts, I’ll just share links to my blog rather than copying it into this post, though I will share a few screenshots as a teaser.

Hi all,I have recently deployed Veeam Backup & Replication and have started to copy backup sets into Azure blob storage for archive purposes. I've been keeping an eye on the Azure costs which seem to be a bit higher than first anticipated. So far in the past 7 days I have pushed around 4TB into the storage account. I see total ingress for the past 7 days as 4.12TB and total egress as 83.24GB. The egress seems high for what should be just pushing data in and forgetting about it. Does anyone have any pointers on how to fine tune the copy job and storage repository? Does that amount of egress seem normal?My repository is configured to use cool blob storage and has vPower NFS enabled.The copy jobs are configured for Immediate copy, include tlogs, GFS retention, not to read the entire restore point from source backup instead of synthesising it, no backup files health check, and auto compression level.Any assistance on tuning this is greatly apprecia

On September 26, 2024, Pure Storage and Rubrik announced a partnership “to arm global customers with a proven reference architecture to ensure uptime and a path forward in the face of growing cyber threats”.  And while the press releases, blogs, data sheets and even the white paper (see Resources) have all the right Cyber Resilience key buzz words, there is nothing new, or that interesting, from a product integration and solution perspective.What was announced?“a three-layered defense strategy” which includes:Layer 1 - Rapid Recovery – recovery from Pure Storage FlashArray storage snapshots, using Pure’s recovery tools Layer 2 - Data Security – separately, from Rubrik with their Secure Vault appliance and from Pure with FlashArray SafeMode-enabled immutable storage snapshots Layer 3 - Archival Location – long-term retention on Pure Storage FlashBlade object storage

Hi Community, VBR server should not be part of the production domain—Unable to detect whether it should be considered important or not. How can we fix this? Is my VBR already in the production domain, or should I put it back on the workgroup?   

Inherency:Since we bill by actual disk usage for our client utilizing CloudConnect, the existing reports are non-functional for reporting and billing (They report pre-deduplication/reflink data).  It took a while to figure out, but there is a way to calculate actual disk space used on a per directory on an immutable repository.Solution:Using: https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/check-reflink-and-spared-space-on-xfs-repositories-244 I have extrapolated a script that will give the disk usage of each folder (IE: client) on an immutable repo.  This isn't "Data used"; that is what Veeam reports.  This is "Disk Used".  The actual size on disk after reflinks (duplicated data is only counted once). A note about this script; it appears that the original blog entr

Now I am learning some Backup & Recovery Solutions (from China). I list out the features comparison with Veeam for reference. Please let me know if I missed any core features for Veeam. Vinchin https://www.vinchin.com/Aishu https://www.aishu.cn/

Survive and Thrive Data Protection is facing increasing pressures. Going forward I predict an unprecedented amount of attacks and breakdowns of the security perimeters around us. There will be no safe cozy home for your infrastructure and backed up data. Survivability will depend on an organization’s and people’s ability to adapt. In such an incredible hostile climate and environment one might ask, how can I function? How can I protect my backups and infrastructure when surrounded by adversaries on all sides?Being in Berlin last week for the Veeam 100 Summit reminded me of a different era. While this was a different time and the challenges perhaps were simpler and easier to define, nevertheless there were during that time, environments similar to what we are facing and will be facing in the near future.  THE RANSOMWARE IRON CURTAINEveryone having to work or operate on the other side of the Iron Curtai

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Hi all, Running Veeam Backup and Replication V11 on an Enterprise license - we have been backing up to HPE StoreOnce repositories for nearly a year, but due to operational changes with more VM’s, additional encryption and retention requirements we are filling these up faster than anticipated (less de-dupe). We would like to move our older monthly/yearly backups to Azure storage for long term retention in order to free up space on the StoreOnce devices for our nightly/weekly backups and restores. Initial research suggests that creating a Scale-Out repository, adding the existing StoreOnce repository as the performance tier extant and a new Azure object storage container as the capacity tier extant is the way to go. The documentation confirms this will re-point all existing jobs to use the new scale-out repository when they next run and anything older than X days (whatever we set in the capacity tier option) will be automatically offloaded to the capacity tier. 

An advantage of software-defined Veeam products is that they can be installed in many different ways and on any hardware your company owns and uses.  They can be installed on-premises, or in any hyper-scale public cloud, you choose.  To help customers architect, size, and secure the various Veeam products and features, the Veeam Solutions Architect team has created Veeam Security Blueprints (SBP) and they are publicly accessible. Veeam Security Blueprints can be found at https://www.veeam.com/security-blueprints.html Veeam Security Blueprints (SBP) are short (3 – 4 pages) scenario-based reference architectures covering common scenarios seen in the field. Types of scenarios include:

Hello everyone, as per my previous post.How to atomate & schedule Veeam.Backup.Validator.exe | Veeam Community Resource Hub I am proceeding as promised to update the schedulable veeam validator script. enjoiy 😁### Veeam Backup Validator - v.2.0 18-10-2024## USAGE:## > veeam-BackupValidator2.ps1 <jobName> <serverName> <Switch>## Switch:# -noTicket -> does not send mail to your system ticketing\servicedesk after Validate is completed## e.g.# > veeam-BackupValidator2.ps1 ‘Yout-Job-name-01’ ‘Yout-Job-name-02’ -notTicket no mail###PARAM (# [string] $customer = "YOUR CUSTOMER NAME", [string] $jobName = '*', [string] $s

Subjectfailed to sycnchronize DD-BACKUP details: Selected server Veeam-bkup(os username) is unavailable  

Hi all,A customer’s device is complete gone, but has daily full backups stored via CloudConnect in Wasabi. When we try to import the backups, it gives the message ‘No backups found’. Altough, the Cloud Connect server gives usage of the bucket and de job just ran fine. Any ideas how to import the backup in the Cloud Connect server to start the recovery ?  The import of the backup doesn’t seem to find the backup chain….  

Our customer are running Veeam and replication to protect EXSI 10 workload .They would like request the disaster recovery plan .We know the Acronis/Azure have the backup solution just install the agent in workload and destination is to cloud .When the disaster is coming we just turn on the workload in cloud then they start charging all the necessary like EC2.In Veeam have any solution similar like Acronis/Azure ?

Deployment Information:If Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is installed on the same machine as Veeam Backup & Replication:On the Veeam Backup Server, close all open Veeam Backup & Replication Consoles, and ensure no processes named veeam.backup.shell.exe are running. Download the HOT Fix Below URL:https://www.veeam.com/kb4682Unzip the hotfix and run the hotfix installer.(veeam_backup_12.2.0.334_PrivateFix_TF812030.exe) Please plan accordingly reboot may be required after installing the hotfix.

​  under the reporting TAB  You have the following two report templates.  Under the saved reports lets say you created production Reports folder and you have to saved few reports on that folder.For safe side use this option go

Hi, I have a question. I recently added an object storage repository (Cloudian) with an immutable retention period of 7 days. Then, I created a new backup job and pointed it to that repository, and I ran the backup. After the backup job completed, I checked the object files in Cloudian and looked at their retention period, and the result shows more than 7 days. Shouldn't it be exactly 7 days, not longer?Attached is the screenshot:Repository config for immutable days The date when the first backup started The object retention displayed in Cloudian Management

Hi all. The EMEA SAs have recently just added a new tool to https://www.veeambp.com called the ‘Ports Finder’ (aka Ports Directory).  The idea behind the tool was to make it easier to find all the ports you need for a Veeam solution. It doesn’t provide mapping for specific hosts or any of the advanced feature that the Veeam Ports Tool provides.Currently it only has VMware and Hyper-V ports; however, that will be changing soon and will have:VMware Hyper-V AHV Enterprise Manager All Explorers Windows, Linux and Solaris Agents V

In case you missed the annoucement, Microsoft have released more information on their upcoming server version called, Windows Server 2025.More info here:https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-server-insiders/announcing-windows-server-preview-build-26040/m-p/4040858 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-server-news-and-best/introducing-windows-server-2025/ba-p/4026374If you want to give it a try, the Canary version can be downloaded after joining the Insiders Preview:

Working with a customer to install the Veeam Tintri Intelliflash Plugin.   We have installed plugin version 1.0.85.  Per this KB it says it supports  the following Tintri versions:Tintri IntelliFlash 3.9.2 Tintri IntelliFlash 3.10.1 or laterHere is the KB:https://www.veeam.com/kb3226The customer array is running version 4.5.1.  After installing the plugin and trying to discover their Tintri array it errors out saying you need version 3.9.2 or higher on the array.    I assuming 4.5.1 is higher than 3.9.2 so not sure why it won’t discover.Anyone else seen this and have a suggestion?Thanks…Dean

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