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Let’s say, for the moment, that you’re an IT storage administrator with several Pure Storage FlashArrays providing production block and file storage in your datacenter.  Every time you open an article with “storage integration” or “backup from storage snapshot” in the title, you come to find that it is referring to virtual or physical machine data.  You wait for, and you hope for, one of these announcements or blogs to be about doing file backup from storage snapshot. Your wait is over!Pure Storage has developed and delivered a GitHub community project that allows you to use Veeam Backup & Replication Unstructured Data Backup to backup both NFS and SMB shares on a FlashArray, or a FlashBlade, from storage snapshot.  This includes when you have Pure SafeMode snapshot immutability turned on.Why does backup from storage snapshot (BfSS) matter for FlashArray or FlashBlade file backup?Two main reasons:Open files Point-in-time consistencyOpen FilesTo successfully protect a file share, al

Hi Everyone, Please sign up to see Karinne Bessette on Object First’s Webinar “Power Up Your Ransomware Protection with Veeam & Ootbi! https://www.linkedin.com/events/powerupyourransomwareprotection7196559316001132544/theater/ 

I am trying to upgrade 11a (11.0.1.1261_22020302) to V12.1 via iso and when it gets to step 3 (Upgrading Veeam Explorers) a popup says that it can't find VeeamExplorerForSQL.msi_explorers.  Error: The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.It is looking for that file in this location (which does not exist):C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Setup\Temp\80ca74a8-4c01-451b-b8df-3d76e7abf376\FixFiles\I can't find it anywhere on the machine.  I did find an old log file that references that file that references version 9.5.  I found that file inside an old 9.5 update.  I extracted it and put it in the location asked for, but it still does not like it. 

Hi there in Virtual World :)Running Veeam 11 - We experienced a complete full “Files to Tape” backup when the daily Tape job ran for the first time after entering Daylight Saving Time (DST) last weekend.ALL files in our backup Disk repository (xx TB) - that means UNCHANGED Veeam backup files from the last 4 months - was all sent to Tape once again - taking several job-runtime days to finish - and filling up a lot of new Tapes, which we needed to supply into the Tape library.Have anybody else experienced similar issues?As far as I have read  - Veeam operates in the UCT format - which should not be sensitive due Server time changes or DST - except changes in the local job time schedule:Daylight savings time - Veeam R&D ForumsDaylight saving switch changes job start time - Veeam R&D Forums We didn`t have any other issues running the usual VM Machine jobs to disk.This issue has been raised to the Veeam Support - and it has been escalated to their RnD engineers.So hopefully they wil

Hello guys,I m trying to used the Secure Restore with Sophos Endpoint Agent.Is not an antivirus implemented by default in the configuration files. So I tried to edit the AntivirusInfos.xml but for the moment I got the following error message :Here the part added:<AntivirusInfo Name='SOPHOS Endpoint Agent' IsPortableSoftware='false' ExecutableFilePath='%ProgramFiles%\Sophos\Endpoint Defense\SophosInterceptXCLI.exe' CommandLineParameters= 'scan %Path%' RegPath='' ServiceName='' ThreatExistsRegEx='' IsParallelScanAvailable='false'>        <ExitCodes>            <ExitCode Type='Success' Description='Command executed successfully'>0</ExitCode>            <ExitCode Type='Error' Description='Error during command handling'>1</ExitCode>            <ExitCode Type='Error' Description='Unexpected error during CLI setup'>2</ExitCode>        </ExitCodes>    </AntivirusInfo>Does anyone have already implement Sophos Endpoint Agent with Veeam

This is probably a relatively complicated one, but also not a critical issue for us as there’s sufficient workarounds. Not something I want to go through the trouble of a support ticket with at this time. Hoping a community member can make the seemingly complicated uncomplicated. Veeam 12.1. We have a number of systems in our environment that we use the Veeam Agent for Windows to back up. We are primarily on Nutanix AHV for our virtualization. The backups seem to work just fine. When doing some recent restore testing, we noticed something. The goal of the restore testing was to test restoring these agent backups to our Nutanix AHV cluster. When using “Restore entire VM to Nutanix AHV...” option, during the wizard when I get to the storage container page, it shows the computer, but with no disks. What I then found was that this “no disk” symptom also occurs if I use the “Instant Recovery to Nutanix AHV”, but it actually gives an error message of “The following machines have no disks, us

With Veeam B&R version 12.1 we have been given the fantastic ability to protect S3 compatible object storage buckets natively. This has quickly become a key request for Pure Storage customers that utilize FlashBlade for unstructured data, given its natural ability to simultaneously host multiple types of parallel streams of various unstructured data use cases. This includes NAS file systems supporting SMB and NFS, which @MarkPolin highlighted in his recent post about my scripts that can be used for backup from storage snapshot. It also of course includes native S3 Object bucket use cases, which is something FlashBlade has been best of breed for since its inception.With Veeam’s object protection, combined with FlashBlade security perimeters around “Accounts”, an interesting scenario arises where the fencing of bucket access to separate users in separate accounts conflicts with the need to protect said buckets with Veeam. How do you go about providing Veeam with the required access a

Looking to migrate hundreds of VMware VMs from one vcenter to another.  Different vcenter versions that don’t allow online vmotion.I’ve tried Veeam Quick Migration.  Works well but with one major hassle: you can’t select the port group mapping so after each VM is migrated you have to manually map each NIC of each VM, connect it, and power it on.I’ve tried Veeam CDP permanent failover.  Works great but with one major hassle:  All the backups are still referencing the old VMs rather than the ones you failed over to.  So now the backup chain is broken and must re-add all the VMs to the jobs.CDP is so close to being perfect but for that one flaw.  Anyway to avoid it? 

Hi Everyone,I am wondering if there is a license for Veeam ONE only (not VUL for Data Platform Advanced) as this license can be used to monitor the Virtual Infrastructure workloads that are not protected by VBR as the VUL is for 10 instances which is covered the backup instances and VONE monitoring for them but what I want to achieve is monitoring the others in the virtual environment, is that possible ? as I read in Veeam Licenses documents but still confused.Appreciate your cooperation

We have configured tape server and rescan, and inventory completed. but insert new tape in tape library and rescan and inventory done but doesn’t show of capacity or media in media pool?while creating media pool, does not appear anyone media? is there any requirement or any process? please guide. already go through following link but not work.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_to_tape_hiw.html?ver=120 help us

I posted the below on Reddit, let me know your thoughts...We're in talks at work to make a new GFS repo where we keep X daily Y weekly Z monthly and maybe a single yearly on the Veeam repository and also take a copy monthly/yearly from said repo to tape and then off to the safe deposit box at the bank. What if I lose my repo and all that data. Yeah, I might have a few monthly/yearly at the bank, but I'm hosed on the daily/weekly side. All that history, lost. Is anyone have a redundancy approach they're using? We're thinking about using a couple Synology boxes in in HA mode basically where they basically stay in sync with each other. Let me know what you think. I also think we could use a second Synology box do do backup copy jobs and keep the same GFS retention points there...

I am trying to backup a physical server with a 81.7TB volume using B&R version 12.1.1.56 and Veeam VSS Hardware Provider version 6.1.0.349.  I have deployed the Veeam agent in managed mode and created a Backup Proxy of the physical server which installed the Veeam Backup VSS Integration and Veeam VSS Hardware Provider.  According to Veeam a volume greater than 64TB can be backed up using the Veeam VSS Hardware Provider.  I don’t know how to reconfigure the managed physical server and/or backup job of the server in the Veeam Backup and Replication Console to use the Veeam VSS Hardware Provider.  I do not have any option to Manage Volumes on my ribbon under this managed server as the Veeam instructions dictate.  I have run a Rescan on my managed server which successfully completes finding all disks and volumes but still no option to Manage Volumes on my ribbon.  How can I ensure my managed server and backup job are properly using the Veeam VSS Hardware Provider?  Everything else is w

Hello,With some people help me, I have this "script" to get all differents malwares detections based on date + VM name + Path.This is usefull to avoid read several files. $Path = "C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\Malware_Detection_Logs\"$Files = (Get-ChildItem -Path $Path).FullNameSelect-String -Path $Files -Pattern '^\[(?<Date>[^\]]+).+\s(?<VM>[^:]+):.+?:(?<File>.+)' -AllMatches | ForEach-Object { $match = $_.Matches[0] [PSCustomObject]@{ Date = $match.Groups['Date'].Value VM = $match.Groups['VM'].Value File = $match.Groups['File'].Value } } | Sort-Object VM, File -Unique 

Exciting news from VeeamON 2024! After three long years, legendary Anton Gostev, our Chief Product Officer at Veeam, returns to the stage on June 4th for the Day 2 Keynote. Get ready for demo after demo as Anton dives deep into the latest and greatest Veeam innovations.Don't keep this awesome news to yourself—share it with your network! 😊 What groundbreaking updates are you hoping to hear?  

Hi, everyone!   I have a PowerShell script that I use to retrieve some information about the daily backup sessions.  It works well, but I was trying to transition it from the Get-VBR-Job command to the Get-VBRBackup command.  Everything works but the newer script is very slow;  it went from a few seconds with the old script to 5-10 minutes with the new.  I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers on a more efficient way to get the session information or otherwise speed it up. Thanks in advance!!RobbOriginal script#backup JobsForeach ($JobObject in Get-VBRJob){ #write-host "loop number ${$jobobject.indexof()}" $session=$jobobject.FindLastSession() if (!($JobObject.JobType -eq "BackupSync")) { $JobOutput = New-Object -TypeName PSObject if (((get-date).AddDays(-1) -lt $session.Progress.StopTimeLocal) -or ($session.Result -in "Failed","None")) { $JobOutput | Add-Member -Name "Job Name" -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $JobObject.Name $JobOutput | Add-Membe

I won’t say much more than my post title. For details, check out Veeam’s official announcement page. I love how Veeam keeps innovating and accommodating customers and adjusting to the ever-changing technical (hypervisor) landscape.Well done Veeam!https://www.veeam.com/news/veeam-extends-data-freedom-for-customers-with-support-for-proxmox-ve.html

Hello Guys,So i had a Hyper V server that was joined to the domain, and it was succesfully onboarded to veeam.Now it was removed from the domain and built-in local admin was renamed from "Administrator to new_username"Now we cannot onboard the sever to Veeam using the local admin with the new renamed name.I have updated the serverI have added the admin account to other admin groups on the serverUpdated WindowsStill no successAny suggestions would be helpful.

Hello, I have made upgrade from Licences 9.5b to 11a Community Edition without any Problem, but by upgrading to Version 12 Community Edition it gives me this: “[Error] Private fixes detected. Please contact our Customer Support to remove the following private fixes that are not supported by the new product version: TFS000100”There is no thread about TFS000100. In Registry there are no “Private fixes” found. Any idea?

I love this feature but with the thousands of file types I have I get a ton of false positives.Is there anyway to customize this “per server” with each file type? or disable for some servers/folders etc?When I mark a job as clean, it seems to find the files on the next job. I thought that it should assume those files to be ok going forward. 

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Hi Veeam Community, I'm excited to unveil something special we've been working on — the VeeamON Space at the Community Hub! Whether you're joining us in person or tuning in virtually, we've designed the VeeamON Space for you to engage with each other on everything VeeamON has to offer.What's Inside the VeeamON Space?Veeam Pulse: Catch all the latest updates and highlights to keep your finger on the pulse of VeeamON. Subscribe to updates >>  Content Connect: Dive into agenda discussions and help each other discover sessions. If you're presenting, it's the perfect place to promote your session and engage with your audience. Share your VeeamON agenda >> Content Creators: Calling all bloggers, vloggers, and content creators! This is your arena to share your work, receive feedback, and expand your influence. Learn more >> Why Engage? VeeamON is a chance to amplify your knowledge and connect with like-minded professionals. Engaging here means transforming your experience fr

Hello VeeamON In-Person attendees!Let’s just skip to the chase, shall we? 🙂 You’re attending VeeamON this year, and yes you’re interested in all the great content going to be shared and maybe even meeting some new people/networking, but your main focus will be on taking and hopefully passing the VMCE Exam. Are you prepared? What can you do to increase your odds of passing? What’s the exam experience like?Who am I? I’m Shane Williford, Veeam Legend and Community Hub VMCE Study Hall page leader. And, I also took & passed my first VMCE exam at the 2019 VeeamON Conference in Miami, so I have an idea of what the exam experience at a Conference is like.In her VeeamON In-Person Welcome Post (see below):... @Daria_K provides a link to the Community Hub VMCE Study Hall page you should check out for VMCE pointers and insights. In this group/page, you’ll find study tips, and right from the time you land on the page, you’ll also see the multitude of Practice VMCE Questions I’ve posted, as wel

It would appear I cannot start my first backup.  I installed VEEAM Backup & Replication 11 community edition on my home setup to learn how to manage our work paid edition.Using a 3-2-1 rule I wanted to Backup to QNAS NAS/Chris-Garage D drive/external drive air gapped when other two backups are functioningStep one:       I want to backup my laptop Chris LaptopStep two:     I installed the software on C:\ of a windows 11 computer called Chris-Garage with cache on D:\Step three:   Built a backup for Chris Laptop (windows 10) to backup to Chris-Garage in which failed (see picture below) xx.12 is the laptop and xx.71 is the garage computerStep four:  Build logs but can’t find which log would be the error  

Dear allCurrently, I have purchased Subscription license for 20 workloads, next month, I need to increase number of workloads. (may be from 20 to 30 workloads)So how to Veeam Server increase number of workloads after purchased new 10 workloads ?Do I need to insert new license or my Veeam backup system auto check from Veeam ? Thanks for your support.

Since we are Veeam Service Providers in the Cloud companies I work with, I have seen that people do not analyze with Bottleneck on Veeam while providing Cloud Connect service. They didn't even know it was happening. Here I briefly explained Veeam Bottleneck to you.Veeam Bottleneck is a tool included in Veeam Backup & Replication software. This tool helps optimize backup and recovery across virtual and physical environments. Bottleneck helps you complete backups faster and more efficiently by identifying bottlenecks in your backup infrastructure.What is a bottleneck?A bottleneck is when a component or process in a system reaches a point where it limits the performance of the entire system. This can cause slow backups, delays, or even failures when it comes to backup operations.How does Veeam Bottleneck work?Bottleneck monitors the usage of various resources such as CPU, RAM, network, and storage during backup operations. By analyzing this data, Bottleneck can determine which resourc