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According to @Rick Vanover , the Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR) is a logical entity that groups several backup repositories called extents. This is a software way to pool storage for backup data management. I have written a detailed guide on my blog “how to Achieve 3-2-1 rule with SOBR on Synology or OOTBI and Wasabi”.We can implement the 3-2-1 backup rule via the SOBR. The 3-2-1 backup rule recommends having three copies of your data, stored on two different types of media, with one copy kept off-site. Here is a great post by Rick below as well.https://www.veeam.com/blog/321-backup-rule.htmlA scale-out backup repository is an architecture th

Recently, I’ve been creating videos to help others get started with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. While I was working on the videos, things got meta because I realized I needed to update my own environment. That evening, I sat down to play Sims and needed to run game and mod updates. As I ran those updates, I thought about how I had just gone through a similar process earlier that day at work. So today I want to talk about software updates and share how to update Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, part of the Veeam Data Platform. Why Update?Even though I know they’re important, unmanaged software updates can be inconvenient, especially if you’re in the middle of something. As a general piece of advice, schedule software updates when they’re convenient to you rather than letting the software decide for you. Just remember that the longer you push off a software update, the more risks you run. In addition to missing features, outdated software is

 I recently helped a partner integrate their Veeam solution with Sophos so I thought I would provide some details and information around these processes.Sophos is a global cybersecurity company that provides a range of solutions to protect organizations from various digital threats. Their offerings include:Endpoint Protection: Safeguards individual devices such as computers and smartphones from malware, ransomware, and other threats. Network Security: Includes firewalls and intrusion prevention systems to protect network traffic and prevent unauthorized access. Cloud Security: Protects data and applications in cloud environments from security breaches and data loss.

Hi! anyone can advise me to fix this issue? I got an error while creating a VM worker node in the following message: Failed to get HypervisorNetwork[]. Method 'GET /nodes/pve1/sdn/zones' not implementedMethod 'GET /nodes/pve1/sdn/zones' not implemented  

AppLocker, on the other hand, relies on static rules that may not adapt well to changing circumstances. You could also leverage the recent introduction in VBR 12.2 to ensue RBAC as shown below.Microsoft AppLocker itself is not a Zero Trust principle, it can be part of a broader security strategy that aligns and achieve Zero Trust principles. AppLocker helps control which applications are allowed to run on Windows devices by defining rules based on file paths, digital signatures, and other criteria.You may want to utilize 3rd oartt tools like TheatLocker and PolicyPak as they come with intuitive dashboards and advanced logging/monitoring capabilities that make it easier to track policy enforcement and application behavior. AppLocker’s monitoring is less robust and may require third-party tools to get comprehensive visibility into policy violations

Hi everyone who can help me to adviseI tried to connect my Veeam server, but it could not start; it errors the following message.No connection could be made be because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1. Make sure the backup server you are connecting with is 12.2 version

I have found pervious items saying that (with Veeam) I should be able to backup a centos machine from vmware, and do an ‘instant recovery’ to hyper V.   I have tried a few times, and i must be missing something.First….Veeam 12 Backup and Replication Community EditionWith my testing, I have backed up a couple of Windows SQL machines and Centos machines (not many due to Community Edition)So as part of my last test, I am trying To backup from esxi and restore to Hyper-v.    The centos version is 7, and has 2 hard drives.Backs up just fine….I try teh instant restore to Hyper-v…..   at first it works great.  With the counsol on hyper v, I can log into the machine, and all looks good…...but when the restore finishes, i get either garbage on teh display, or it boots into emergency mode and I can’ do anything other than power cycle it.    Any idea?

Hello everyone, First of all, I would like to ask my community because I am not fully familiar with Yara rules. When scanning for Malware Detection with Yara rules, can you see which files have Malware in which locations with Yara Rules? When I do a direct Malware scan, if there is malware, it shows the machine under the malware tab but does not give details. What can I do for more details here Hello everyone,

While it’s on my work blog site I’ve written up a primer on AWS S3 storage classes and how they can be used. Please forget the marketing speak but I think there is good, general purpose information here. https://1111systems.com/blog/introduction-to-object-storage-and-aws-s3-storage-classes/

Hi all,In this blog series, I’m going to talk about plenty of things around the sizing and architecting for using Object Storage with Veeam Backup & Replication. Each part of this blog series covers different topics and things.The first part of Sizing and Architecting for Object Storage with Veeam covers the following topics:On-premises vs cloud object storage Pro’s and Con’s regarding on-premises and cloub object storage How does Object Lock & Block Generation work with Veeam What is Compliance and Governance Mode ?Feel free to check out the blog post here, as I don’t copy and paste the content here :) https://www.virtualhome.blog/2024/08/27/object-storage-with-veeam-sizing-and-architecting-part-2/

Morning All. We are in the process of adjusting Proxy resources as we go live with our Veeam implementation. What would be really helpful would be to see the number of disks a job processed. I just can’t find the report in Veeam One. Anyone know of such a report or better still where this info is ?ThanksPhil

Hi Guys, here is a good one.We have one job, protecting VMs in 2 different VMWare Virtual Centres. Each VC has its own proxies.VC1 is Netapp NFS datastores and we use Auto selection of transport mode (Direct Storage)VC2 is Dell HCI with iscsi datastores so we can only use Hot Add.The issue is that Veeam doesn’t appear intelligent enough to pick the right proxy for the VM. Its choosing an HCI proxy to protect a 3 tier VM and hence fails to NBD mode.How does the Veeam Proxy selection work ? Surely it can work out the basics and choose a Proxy in the same VC/host as the target VM, and on the same or similar network and not a completely different one.The issue is that if it can’t, we will need to split VMs into different jobs which is far from ideal.ThanksPhil

I know the Veeam M365 licensing is on a per user basis , e.g. every customer user assigned an M365 license = 1 Veeam Backup for M365 license. But for those customers on per device licensing (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-apps/licensing-activation/device-based-licensing) , how is this handled? Can’t find anything relevant.

This is me being a bit lazy, so apologize in advance. Does anyone have a script, or know of a VBR type report which retrieves change rate for VMs in a Backup Job? Obviously I know about VONE, but we don’t use that (maybe I can do a temp 30-day trial install...but would like something a bit quicker and temporary). I’ve run into a situation since last wk where 1 or a few VMs in a job have changed the backup rate significantly since last wk, by almost 10-fold, causing me to run out of space not only on this Job Repo, but my storage array! I’m trying to work through it, but would like to know the culprit(s) to let the app owners know to chill! haha There was a couple app VMs with updates, etc since last wk, so I have an idea a little bit of what’s going on. But, I’d like to pinpoint things a bit better.Thank you Community!

For those of you that either work for service providers or leverage a VSPC enabled Veeam Cloud Connect one of the options is to leverage VSPC to automate the upgrade of one or more Veeam Backup & Replication to the latest version. This is a great use case for a distributed organizations with multiple VBRs.If you are a end customer you will need to work with your service provider to gain access to VSPC for this process.Once you login navigate to Computers and Backup Servers. Once you select your VBR(s) you can choose Manage Updates\Upgrade Server.In the first step of the wizard I recommend that you keep the default of downloading directly from a Veeam server. Do make sure that any and all servers have at least 3x the ISO size free on the system disk to allow for download and working

Something New!I am creating a new series of blog posts with the goal of highlighting a feature or capability that one of our object storage partners has which can benefit the Veeam community.  I will continue to publish new blogs as part of my ongoing Veeam Amazing Object Storage Tips & Techniques, which will focus on non-vendor specific topics. Optimizing OSNEXUS QuantaStor for use with Veeam Storage Class Auto-Tiering Rule:When Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v9.5.4 added the S3 compatible object storage backed Capacity Tier to its Scale-Out Backup Repository (SOBR) back in January of 2019, it was the start of my object storage journey within Veeam.  During this 5 ½ year journey I have had the opportunity to work with many of our object storage partners and I have witnessed the work they have done to enable their object storage to work more efficiently w

Hi all,In this blog series, I’m going to talk about plenty of things around the sizing and architecting for using Object Storage with Veeam Backup & Replication. Each part of this blog series covers different topics and things.The first part of Sizing and Architecting for Object Storage with Veeam covers the following topics:Calculating your real block size on disk, which helps you with sizing object storage for Capacity or Performance Tier in Veeam General Best Practices when using Veeam & Object StorageFeel free to check out the blog post here, as I don’t copy and paste the content here :) https://www.virtualhome.blog/2024/08/21/sizing-and-architecting-for-object-storage-with-veeam-part-1/ Would love any feedback, comments, and th

We all learnt about the recent update to Veeam Backup and Replication 12.2. A lot of Legends have written excellent pieces and I will kindly let you take a look at one of the articles yourself.    Also, @Chris.Childerhose recently also performed an upgrade to the latest version. Kindly take a look at his article as well. Because this topic has been dealt with already, I will proceed with the upgrade steps just to add more colours to Chris’ images :-)  Note: Before proceeding with these steps, I recommend taking a look at the 

customer is transitioning (hopefully) from netbackup to Veeam however netbackup appliances are achieving 10:1, 15:1 and even 20:1.Our new targets with Veeam will be NetApp e-series so I’m therefore looking for use cases around Veeams capability to dedup/compress etc. What ratios could we see? Use cases? real life experiences etc.Yes fully understand its all about the data but I’m thinking about typical VMs, maybe some SQL databases etc.Would appreciate your experiences.thanks

Hey guys a new question for you !Do you implement Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager in your installation ? VEM is usefull to manage jobs across multiple Veeam backups servers, centrally manage licences or delegate restoration operations through backup portal.But in a small infrastructure I have doubts about its usefulness, it will install additional components like IIS which are potentially vulnerable.In Security Analyzer there is a checkbox "Password loss protection must be enabled", which means that VEM must be installed, but to be honest I never used this feature except one time since I use Veeam. 

I’ve posted this already in our VCSP-NA but it’s worth sharing elsewhere, new KB just dropped with very high CVE scores on probably all the software you might be using. Please review and start patching. https://www.veeam.com/kb4649

With the release of the version 8 of VB 365, some additional permissions are needed on the registred app. Nothing to think about when you’re deploying a new app, but when you’re upgrading, you coudl re-use the existing app and extend it with the new requirements. I’m not a programmer, but I’ve tried to setup a small powershell script that based on your Application ID adds the necessary rights and also adds the app to the Global Reader role.Feel free to check and modify it ! Could be a time-saver ! # Ensure that the required modules are installedInstall-Module -Name AzureAD -Force -AllowClobberInstall-Module -Name Microsoft.Graph -Force -AllowClobber# Import modulesImport-Module AzureADImport-Module Microsoft.Graph# Connect to the Microsoft TenantWrite-Host "Connecting to Microsoft Tenant..." -ForegroundColor CyanConnect-AzureAD# Get Application (App Regist

One of my VM is showing  FIB summary.txt issue in backup copy job. I would like to run Active full backup on only this problem VM . But this backup copy job has 20 VMs which i don’t want to run full backup as it will cause issue in wasabi bucket. Copy job goes to wasabi bucket. I know individual full backup can initiated in Backup job, but it is not showing BCJ . Please advise.Ver 12.1.2

I am outgrowing my single Veeam B&R server.  I have about 120Tb of local storage on the server, 256Gb RAM, 2x10c procs and backing up about 100 VMs in Hyper-V.  I am getting a lot of contention now for resources when jobs are being run.  Backing up all VM’s to local storage and also replicating jobs offsite to secondary datacenter that we have direct connectivity to.  It’s confusing to me how I add another server to this mix so I can offload some of these processes to another server(s).  I can spin up a VM or I can install a physical server, but storage, for now, will stay on the local Veeam server.  I would still like to maintain all the jobs on the existing Veeam server, but add proxies maybe to offload the job processing?  This is where I am stuck with how to scale beyond the single Veeam server.

Description:1. SAP Plugin Backup - Data Encryption:Requesting the ability to encrypt data within SAP Plugin backups. This feature is critical to ensuring data security and compliance with industry standards.2. MS SQL Plugin Backup - Data Encryption:Requesting the ability to encrypt data within MS SQL Plugin backups. Like the SAP Plugin, encryption is essential for maintaining data integrity and security.3. Health Check for SAP & MS SQL Plugin Backups:Requesting the ability to enable health checks for both SAP and MS SQL Plugin backups. This feature would enhance the reliability and consistency of backups by ensuring the integrity of the data.4. SQL Plugin Backup Management via VBR:Requesting the creation of a feature that allows SQL Plugin backups to be managed directly from the Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) interface. This integration would