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The Veeam Linux Hardened Repository processes

Hi! I highlight in this post the processes involved in protecting a Veeam Linux Hardened Backup Repository. To correctly handle files and objects associated with different backup chains, Veeam processes must have control over immutability at the file and object level. This is why the immutability implemented only at the directory or bucket level is unsuitable for flexible and granular protection of backup chains. I hope this information is helpful to you.How does Veeam Hardened / Immutable Repository work? – Cloud and Roll (cloudnroll.com)

6 months ago

JoeweNew Here

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[Feature Request] More Scheduling Options for Periodic Backup Copy Jobs

Running Veeam B&R 11.0.1.1261 (11a? and fairly current)I was advised by our veeam rep to use a backup copy job to accomplish what I was trying to do. Basically:we have a daily backup job to disk with 60 days of restore points, and weekly full backups on Saturdays. I want to move a copy of ONLY the weekly full from this job to a different datastore that’s part of a scale-out repository, most specifically to use the backup copy job’s ability to apply GFS retention to what it’s copying Unfortunately the scheduling options for the periodic backup copy job leave a lot to be desired.The only option you have is “run this job every X days at Y time” - that’s it.Considering that normal backup jobs get a wide variety of scheduling options (most importantly in this case “run on specific day of the week” or “run after specific backup job”) it seems odd that none of these extremely useful options are available within backup copy jobs.Instead the only option is “run every 7 days” which means I

1 year ago

FrankIversenComes here often

asked in Discussion Boards

Service Provider Console - Cloud connect neessary?

A few years ago we were a Service Provider with a Cloud Connect setup and offered our customers Cloud Connect Repositories. We then saw tjen object storage really started to take off it would be costly to maintain a datacenter with this service compared to the prices object storage was offered by the hyperscalators! We then started a partnership who ran Veeam Cloud Connect environemnt with service provider console. so we could still track and monitor our customers backupjob etc. but the backup now went to the object storages. I am just wondering, is it necessary to deploy a cloud connect environment at all to just use the service provider console for monitoring jobs, update the agents etc.? I can see in the marketplace (Azure) there is a dedicate appliance with the service provider console. Would that be enough to maintain our clients? We are now using Wasabi for repositories. I guess I am having a hard time to see what we would gain from the cloud connect environment these days? (Perh

1 year ago

StabzVeeam Legend

asked in Discussion Boards

Restore a VBO backup from a Veeam Agent job

Hello guys,To implement the 3-2-1-1-0 golden rule with Veeam Backup for Office 365 I have the following configuration:On an onpremise repository I backup my Organization on a specific partition with VBO for MS365I created a specific Veeam Agent job in my VBR to backup this specific partition on a SOBR with an immutable bucket.I thought that it would be possible to restore directly from this backup to Exchange Online , etc like mentionned here :https://forums.veeam.com/post414246.html#p414246But I dont have the same options... If I try to used the Application Items, i selection my restore point but nothing show up in the broswerAny idea?Regards

1 year ago

haslundMr. VMCE

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Presentation: How to pass your (VMCE) exam

Hi everyone!I recently had the honor of presenting at the Veeam User Group for CZ/SK and think the topic will be of interest to the general Veeam community.The presentation does cover some VMCE related topics, but will provide great advice for anyone studying for any IT certification exam.Hope you enjoy the presentation and any feedback would be very welcome

3 years ago

coolsport00Veeam Legend

asked in Discussion Boards

Linux Server Management Options

Good day Community -With Linux being more prevalant in environments, including Veeam supporting Linux within its deployment components, it is a bit cumbersome to manage all these devices individually. So my question for the Community today is → what centralized management tool(s) do you use to manage your Linux server footprint?..to update, push scripts, monitor, etc? I’m needing to update & even push a script (change) out to our Linux servers and don’t want to touch all of them individually. Any info you can provide is greatly appreciated.I did a little bit of searching before posting and saw a tool called Landscape which looks promising, but don’t know anything about it & open to hear anyone’s experience with it...or again..any tool. Thanks in advance!

5 months ago

ScottVeeam Legend

posted in YARA and Script Library

Time based groups for Active Directory

If you have Veeam on your domain, or Enterprise Manager and want to give a user access for a specific amount of time, you can achieve this with a simple PowerShell command. Add-ADGroupMember -Identity ‘Group_NAME’ -Members ‘Username’ -MemberTimeToLive (New-TimeSpan -Minutes *****) The issue with this is trying to calculate minutes to days, weeks, months, or having some sort of searchable way to do this task. Onboarding users with this method was proving difficult so I thought of easier ways to achieve this. What started off with an overly complex excel spreadsheet to extract minutes from dates and generate a command has now become an PowerShell based GUI. In the below script. anything with “*****” should be replaced with items from your own AD infrastructure. This allows to search 1 or many users and add them to 1 or many groups. If you select the TTL checkbox, you can select the end date when the users will be removed from the groups. The user and group names can be searched start

11 months ago

JustinePComes here often

asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam Replication use case

Can someone enlighten me on my queries? If I have to replicate the backup from Prod to DR, what will be the best approach?I believed you can install veeam in the VMware Prod only then Replicate the VM directly to the DR VMware environment, it means no Veeam Mgmt in the DR installed, but on the failback what will the approach for that? I handled other backup before, on Arcserve I must have arcserve on both sites to do the replication, is that approach is feasible to veeam? must have both veeam mgmt for prod and dr If customer have exisiting vsphere replication for critical apps. Do I need to maximize the CDP feature instead of veeam replication?Thanks :)

2 years ago

Arun DasComes here often

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Oracle plugin backup is stuck in stopping state.

Hi All, Anyone faced this issue or any fixes to resolve this. Am using Oracle plugin for Backup on windows VM, these are stuck is stopping state from yesterday.I tried looking for the Veeam exe agent on VBR as well as agent VM, no process is running, is there a way we can forcibly cancel only these backup’s We could locate the PID’s of these process, however process does not appear under VBR or the oracle VM Task Manager, Process: [64 bit], PID: [19652], SessionId: [0], UID: [fc911f7e-ed08-4bb7-be1f-4a3461f23dda] for the SRV03248Process: [64 bit], PID: [61356], SessionId: [0], UID: [3b69526c-e334-4305-bd33-bcced8fc2944] for the SRV03576Process: [64 bit], PID: [19724], SessionId: [0], UID: [a941f009-e8b7-475a-8fd2-1388653256b6] for the SRV03709Process: [64 bit], PID: [61356], SessionId: [0], UID: [3b69526c-e334-4305-bd33-bcced8fc2944] for the SRV03821

8 days ago

victor.rhodenComes here often

asked in Discussion Boards

VEEAM 9.5 and VMWARE 8

Good morning, I'm trying to install VEEAM 9.5 on a WINDOWS 10 that is virtualized in VMWARE 8, but at the time of installation it gives me a certificate error with ID 110, according to KB2137, I would have to contact VEEAM support, the guy who helped me couldn't solve it, so I came to the community to see if anyone had experienced this problem. With VEEAM 10 AND VEEAM 12 we were able to install but 9.5 generates this error, but I need Veeam 9.5 because the others do not accept VCENTER 5.1, another detail when I install VEEAM 9.5 on VMWARE 6.7 it works correctly.

3 months ago

kkennyNew Here

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Veeam SQL restore issue to Hyper-V guest

I’m using VBR Enterprise and I’ve an issue with a SQL Server database restore to a Hyper-V VM. I am currently backing up the VM using guest application processing which is working fine. It uses PowerShell Direct because the SQL VM is on a private VLAN, which cannot be accessed from the VBR server which is hosted in a different data centre. It can however access the hypervisors and all backups have been successful. Frustratingly, I’m unable to restore using the same methodology in reverse. Surely if I can backup successfully using PSDirect, I should be able to restore using the same method? I asked Veeam Support and they sent me here. 😐When I try a restore, I get an error saying VBR cannot access SQL… I can confirm that Named Pipes is enabled. Has anyone else ever run into this issue and found a fix? I really don’t think it’s acceptable that I’ve to ask for help on a community forum regarding an enterprise product that should work out-of-the-box, but here I am!

1 year ago

HamBurgerComes here often

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Tape drives and library

Hi everyone,I am thinking of a design like that A tape library with x3 FC drives (say XYZ), connected to SAN switches Then the SAN switches connecting to 4 servers (say ABCD)Normally, the tape drives are backup up servers ABCWhich mean drive X-A, drive Y-B, driveZ-CWhen one of the servers down, (say B), server D will take up the role become X-A, Y-D, Z-Cwill it work and if Veeam support setting like that?

5 months ago

BaurelNew Here

posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Plus

I am baurel I work in Cameroon as an engineer of systems and computer networks, in a company of the place and we integrate solutions with our customers! I received an email from a client of mine who does not need us to renew his license. but the condition is that we must master the solution in order to perform well. on this subject I am a little blocked because its solution is Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Plus. So I would like to know how it goes generally, and what are the steps to follow for this kind of case in order to satisfy our client.

2 years ago

Kseniya✨

published in News

Veeam Community Recap #33

Hey Veeam Community,It’s week #33! Time flies, doesn't it?Catch up on highlights of the week - check out the new episode of Veeam Community Recap now!

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2 years ago

GeorgeNot a newbie anymore

asked in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam backup for office365

Hi, How can I add backup repository (Linux hardened) to Veeam office 365 backup?

6 months ago

ScottVeeam Legend

posted in Discussion Boards

What is the most challenging thing you have done with Veeam?

What is the most challenging thing you have done using Veeam, or solved with Veeam? For me it was the Veeam Lab as I have some very odd networking requirements and trying to solve why it would work but I couldn’t get the machines to talk was a challenge. Some others were wrapping my head around retention policies when I first started and Tape. Now it’s all just day to day :) As for something challenging I have solved, it’s mostly internal stuff at my company such as our insane retention requirements and large data. With Object storage I'll be able to archive to the cloud and also to tape (as per policy), delete data from production and retrieve it in 20 years if I am required. This saves having to restore a full VM from Tape to get one file.

1 year ago

AndySmallComes here often

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Moving VSphere hosts with Veeam Replication

One thing that I find really useful if you’re moving a small VM for a small customer that doesn’t have a VCenter to a new Vsphere host is to just simply connect the the two ESXi hosts in Veeam:Add both hosts in the Virtual Infrastructure Create a replication job between the old host and the new host If it runs rather slow let it run for a few days. Determine a small outage window where you’ll have the customer stop accessing data on the old host. Do one more replication job. Shut the old VM down in the old host Power on the new server on the new host.It’s important to not use the replica_ prefix or suffix just for the sake of simplicity. A lot of times focus is on larger customers and how to vmotion this or that but sometimes it’s nice to think about how small customers can be served too. Using Veeam for that is a life saver.

2 years ago

vNote42On the path to Greatness

posted in Blogs and Podcasts

[Quicktip] Errors in Enterprise Manager during Catalog Replication - Restore Point not found

Error message is about a missing restore point for a certain VM. Because of this catalog replication job fails. Cause and solutionOne possible cause is the deactivation of VMs guest indexing in backup job during a period of time when Enterprise Manager did not have access to the VBR server. In a specific case the password of the user that was used by Enterprise Manager to communicate with VBR server was changed.Fortunately, the solution here is also quite simple. At least I found a quite simple way to solve the problem. You need enable guest indexing and run the backup job. After this run make sure catalog replication runs without an issue. Now you can disable indexing again. From now on catalog should be replicated without problems.

2 years ago

andy.sturnioloComes here often

posted in Discussion Boards

VMware vCenter Converter 6.6 - KVM Based Workload Support

Hey Everyone,VMware vCenter Converter 6.6 Beta is out and it brings support for RHEL 8/9 and Ubuntu 22.04. But one of the newest features is the ability to convert powered on Nutanix AHV, Red Hat RHV and native KVM. More information…Sign up for the beta, sign up here.Then you can download it here.

1 month ago

DMOZDFENew Here

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vNote42On the path to Greatness

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How to export job protocol

I spend some time in searching for a way to export job/task log as it is shown in VBR GUI:I found ways to export all logs in detail, but not these are displayed in GUI. Helpful would be PowerShell, API, Rest, or anything else that works.Not to be misunderstood: I do not need the job/task status, I need the logs. Thanks!

3 years ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam Backup for Office 365 V5 Show stopping bug

Morning Guys, So like a lot of you we’ve been playing with Veeam Backup for Office 365 v5 and deploying the updates on our services and for our customers, we’re catching a bug fairly frequently that is having major consequences. The Veeam Repository isn’t able to upgrade, which is a requirement for the subsequent backups to run, causing immediate backup issues. We’ve engaged with Veeam support and been informed that there’s a hotfix, but that hotfix has also caused issues it appears and jobs are still failing to run. Just wanted to advise prior to everyone upgrading their productions, it might be worth waiting for a few more days… Thanks!

3 years ago

gulzarshaikhveeamExperienced User

posted in Discussion Boards

Best Backup Target Repository

Please share, as per your experience the best backup target for the repository.

3 years ago

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The Veeam Linux Hardened Repository processes

[Feature Request] More Scheduling Options for Periodic Backup Copy Jobs

Service Provider Console - Cloud connect neessary?

Restore a VBO backup from a Veeam Agent job

Presentation: How to pass your (VMCE) exam

Linux Server Management Options

Time based groups for Active Directory

Veeam Replication use case

Oracle plugin backup is stuck in stopping state.

VEEAM 9.5 and VMWARE 8

Veeam SQL restore issue to Hyper-V guest

Tape drives and library

Veeam Availability Suite Enterprise Plus

Veeam Community Recap #33

Veeam backup for office365

What is the most challenging thing you have done with Veeam?

Moving VSphere hosts with Veeam Replication

[Quicktip] Errors in Enterprise Manager during Catalog Replication - Restore Point not found

VMware vCenter Converter 6.6 - KVM Based Workload Support

using custom domain name with Azure Blob Storage account

Veeam Community Recap #39

Backup Eamil Notifications

How to export job protocol

Veeam Backup for Office 365 V5 Show stopping bug

Best Backup Target Repository

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