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K22Not a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Best practice back up RAID 5 Server

Hi We have a Dell T130 RAID 5 - 4 X 1TB  Drives No hot spare - DELL PERC H330 Adp SCSI Disk.What is best practice to back this up with Veeam ?Regards

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K
1 year ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

LabWarz VeeamOnUpdate 2022

LabWarz is backup on VeeamOnUdate 2022! Have you ever tried this challenge?https://labwarz.veeam.com/event/veeamon-update  

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regnor
1 year ago
dips
dipsVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

Ending the week on a Veeam High

Thought I’d quickly post this to end the week. Our current backup strategy utilises a virtual tape library with GFS with tapes periodically expiring after a set retention period. When tapes are archived to the vault, even though they will expire, the data is still recoverable when the tape is retrieved. Anyway, we needed to recover a folder that our user remembers working on quite a long time ago but was no longer able to find it. A quick look on the Veeam B&R Tape Infrastructure tab to determine which tapes were required, perform retrieval, import the tape, retrieve the data and folder recovered. Could not be simpler. Have a good weekend!

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dips
1 year ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

VDRO - vCenter Location or HA Configuration

Hey all, getting ready to setup VDRO in the lab and production, but I have questions on the location of the vCenter server.  Currently, my vCenter is located in the primary site, but wondering if it should be instead setup at the recovery site, or if I should have HA or ELM configured so that there is a second vCenter setup at the recovery site.  ELM doesn’t sound as useful for this situation, but HA may work and there is low enough latency between the primary and recovery sites to support HA.  That said, I was hoping to the put the witness at our third site, but latency is higher to that location so that may not work.  Anyhow, I know I need to get my VBR backup server moved to the recovery site (was already on my list) but what’s considered the best practice here?

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dloseke
1 year ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Free Certifications Pick your Field

Hi Folks, I came across this great cloud community list of free IT certifications on github(Kasten is in there too). Seems to be kept up to date. https://github.com/cloudcommunity/Free-Certifications

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vAdmin
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards

Fun Friday #54: Marketing Data Loss

Happy Friday everyone! I was having a chat with @regnor yesterday and we were getting a bit sarcastic about the gap between new products and how long it takes for them to have a proper data protection option available (Teams Chat API is a great example of this!). So I thought this might be a bit of Friday Fun.I want you to market data loss, like it’s a good thing! Whoever’s gets the most likes is the funniest and wins being the “answer” to the question (for those sweet sweet community points!) Scenario: You’ve just lost all your company data and you’re about to tell the board, what do you say? Example: “You know last month I was complaining about our tech debt? Well… it’s gone now!” Now your turn! And be as silly as you like, it’s fun Friday after all!!! 😁

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dloseke
1 year ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

M365 Backup: Why is it imperative to protect Microsoft Office 365?

Microsoft 365 formerly referred to as Office 365 is a SaaS application that provides productivity and collaboration through a diverse set of micro-services and applications such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online Protection, Office in a browser, and many others. Microsoft recently made a distinction between M365 and O365. Therefore, M365 is a bundle of services that includes O365, and many other services as mentioned previously. I will be discussing these details in a subsequent guide. Here are some related guides that might interest you: How to Cancel Office 365 Family Subscription, how to complete Microsoft Office 365 Family Subscription, how to install Microsoft Teams on a Mac PC, and how to install and activate Office 2019 on your Mac PC.As of today, data is the most critical resources and one of the most valuable currency in the world. In Cyber Security, we refer to data as the New Oil. This Forbes link will highlight

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Link State
2 days ago
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JohnnyBComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

get maximum restore performance from azure blob storage to azure vm

I’m testing restore process from azure blob storage to azure vm. Here is my current configuration: VBR11 installed from market place : Standard_F4s_v2Azure proxy VM :Standard_F4s_v2Azure blob storage where backup of vm sits: PremiumI restore vm to another Standard_F4s_v2 and maximum speed what I get is… 150MB/s Am I missing some configuration or is it an azure limitation?

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J
1 year ago
benyoung
benyoungVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam100 Summit - VLOG - What do you want to see?

We are around 2 weeks out from me starting the long journey to Prague for my first #veeam100summit.Covid spoiled the last couple of chances, so I am super excited my flights are booked!Trying to be brave and will likely regret the amount of work this is going to be but I thought for those not going or who aspire to apply for the vanguards or push to become a legend then this might give you an idea of what it is all about.So. what do you want to see?I would love your ideas for things you may want to see, people you may want to hear from, places or landmarks in Prague, food etcPing them below, ill try get as many covered as possible.See you for episode #1 in a wee while 

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I
1 year ago
crp0499
crp0499Comes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

What am I missing here?

I have scheduled a year end backup and it’s not working as expected.  What I have done is grabbed all of my VMs and set them to backup at 10PM on the last Friday of the month of December.  See screen grab.What is happening is that it’s running on odd and random days.  For example, the year end backup started on Sept 4 at 4:51AM.  It’s not chained to any other job.  It’s not scheduled to run at any time other than what is shown in the screen grab, but that’s three months in a row that’s the job has fired off at random times during the month.Anyone seen this before or have any thoughts?PS:  Let me add that both jobs show scheduled to run again on Oct 10 of this year! 

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crp0499
1 year ago
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Nour KadamaniNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

replication enhancements request

- 1 to many destination replication job- ability to resizing the replication job menu/console- when I edit replication job and go to virtual machines tab, I wish to have more info of the source VMs presented like (cluster, vcenter, etc). it is helpful when you have the same VM name in multiple vcenters. 

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Scott
1 year ago
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SinoptikComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Restore VM to aws EC2

Does anyone have a network diagram of how to restore through a proxy and without, with ports and protocols?

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

VMUG Advantage

Hi everyone,I assume some of you already know about this, but I think is interesting and also a good resource, being in the same path Veeam and VMware.VMware user group has a yearly subscription, for less than 200 dollars a year, you have access to a lot of 1 year licenses for many products, for lab and study proposes.It also offers discounts on official courses, certification exams and so on,so please, if you run a home lab, you want to grow it, and don’t have licenses to do so, check it out! VMUG ADVANTAGE Now includes also ESXi 8 and VCENTER 8!cheers!Luis F.

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Scott
1 year ago
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mczVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

continue veeam agent chain

Hi everybody, I’ve got a private instance (without support) of a veeam agent backup. Now the thing is that the latest VIB in the chain got deleted and now the backup starts with a VBK… I’ve tried to delete the backup job, created a new one and mapped the backup but still no difference. Also I’ve tried to remove the vbm file, but it still starts with a vbk. Has anyone got an idea how to continue with that chain?

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Scott
1 year ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

A data integrity checksum error occurred. Data in the file stream is corrupt. - Synology NAS, REFS, RDM

Had a client contact me this morning that is getting corruption errors on their backup copy jobs to the performance tier for their SOBR, but data appears to be making it out to their capacity tier, Wasabi, as far as they know (I didn’t check available restore points on that tier, but for sure the data is not sitting on the performance tier when I look at that filesystem).Background configuration is that they are using in both their primary and secondary datacenters a Synology NAS that is connected to their Windows Repo server as an RDM disk presented via ISCSI to their ESXI hosts, volume is formatted REFS, 64k blocks, the usual.  I realize that NAS’s are less than desirable, and my standard procedure is now to no longer use REFS when using a NAS as the backing array, but this is where we’re at.  I will point out that another copy job, not going to a SOBR but to the same NAS is copying data successfully.  I can’t say for sure off the top of my head if it’s the same volume or if this is

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dloseke
1 year ago
StefanZi
StefanZiComes here often
posted in YARA and Script Library

Get last SQL transaction log session

How to get the start and end time of the last SQL log backup session?I just got this question from one of my customers and it’s not soo easy to get there, so I thought it might be useful to share a basic example. You’ll have to get the working task session and read & parse the logs for more details. $sql_base_job = "My SQL Server Job"$j = Get-VBRJob -Name $sql_base_job$SQLJob = $j.FindChildSqlLogBackupJob()$session = $SQLJob.FindLastSession()# Tasksessions will be per machine, I only have one$taskSession = Get-VBRTaskSession -Session $session$logBackupLogs = $taskSession.Logger.GetLog().UpdatedRecords$lastSessionStartLog = $logBackupLogs | ? { $_.Title.Contains("New transaction log backup interval started") } | Select -Last 1$lastSessionEndLog = $logBackupLogs | ? { $_.Title.Contains("Transaction log backup completed") } | Select -Last 1# Sanity check (Endtime > Starttime) might be good if a session was started but not yet finishedWrite-Output "Last log session start: " $lastSes

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mkevenaar
1 year ago
K
kkennyNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

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!

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Iams3le
1 year ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Enabling ping (ICMP) on Windows Server

Frequently we need troubleshoot Veeam Backup Server through the network.However, if Windows Firewall is enabled on SO it doesn’t reply ping and echo requests. At this moment so many people act disabling Windows Firewall and mostly times don’t remember to enable it again.So, if you want to allow ping without disabling Windows Firewall you can just run this simple command on cmd:netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request" protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow 

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Scott
1 year ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

Reset MFA on Service Provider Console Login

Perhaps the Service Provider section of the R&D Forums is a better place to ask, but I figured I’d check here to see if anyone has an easy button for resetting MFA on an AD login specified by AD group for an Admin in the Service Provider Console. I reloaded my phone and the Duo app didn’t import my 3rd party MFA logins.  Fortunately, I have other admin logins I can use.So far what I’ve gotten is that you have to apparently use the REST API (which seems silly to me if that’s the case, feature request coming up…..) because the user only exists in an AD group that was specified for access.  While I’m not great with API’s, the the Swagger UI should make things easier. That said, I haven’t yet figured out how to authenticate with Swagger using an account that has MFA enabled.  I might be able to get it once I get past that hump.  I was hoping that if I disabled the MFA requirements, I could log in and reset MFA from the user access, but it appears to prompt for MFA once enrolled even if

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dloseke
6 days ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

VBR outside domain - possible issues

For well know reasons myself and many here recommend to - if possible - deploy VBR and especially it’s repos outside of the Windows domain.Certain issues come as a downside with doing that:Maintaining multiple local admin logins, remote-UAC (LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy), firewall behavior outside of domain networks etc. being some of those.Recently I stumbled upon a situation were we could not establish a connection from a non-domain-joined VBR server to a newly deployed non-domain-joined Windows 2019 repo server. Other older proxies/repos to the same VBR were available and functioning.From the VBR server the admin$ share of the to-be-connected new repo was not accessible (“invalid login”).VBR also stated “invalid login” during Windows server onboarding. But from another (domain joined) Windows system in the same (direct, non-routed) network, the repo’s admin$ share was well available with the same user/pw.Of course no Windows firewall whatsoever was active.Very strange.Has anyone se

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regnor
1 year ago
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JJDRaaSNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

migrating backups to new object storage bucket

Hello Veeam community!I have been trying to determine best approach for a backup migration from one object storage bucket to another and need some help.  My customer has a large amount of data in the 100’s of TB’s of backups and a bucket copy will take 30 days which is too long.  They also don’t have the space to pull it all back down locally to copy to the new bucket so that option won't work.  I am going to have them setup a new capacity tier in SOBR and start new jobs going to the new bucket.  But the issue is the old backups on the old bucket are left orphaned.  i need to move some but not all of the backups due to retention policy.  I was trying to determine which backup objects are related to which backup jobs but can’t determine backup_id via powershell.  my thinking is this would allow me to “grab” the backups that need to be moved to the new bucket.  Does anyone have a helpful tip on how to get this accomplished?  Thank you!

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J
1 year ago
B
BrianNgcobo17Comes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam Backup for Windows Performance.

Good morning all, Can you please advise what would be the best practices to improve backup performance for Veeam Backup for Windows agent. Regards

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C
1 year ago
RK99
RK99Experienced User
asked in Discussion Boards

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms in Veeam

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms  how Veeam will support and lend the hand for customers

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Iams3le
1 year ago
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MBGNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Preparing backup proxy VMWare backup proxy for hard disk 1 ( nbd)

Hi, I am taking backup of my VMs through Veeam. but when backup is stated then a error is shown that is “Preparing backup proxy VMWare backup proxy for hard disk 1 (nbd)” & Object refference not set to an instance of an object. please help . Thanks Regards:Bilal

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices - will be released on Dec 23, 2022

My new book “Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices” will be released on Dec 23, 2022. This book is for system architects, system administrators, or consultants involved in planning and designing VxRail HCI. The reader is expected to have equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware vSphere 7. x and vCenter Server 7.x. This book includes three sections. I like the section 3, especially chapter 10 because the topic is related to Veeam. ^^https://www.amazon.com/Dell-VxRail-System-Design-Practices-ebook/dp/B0BKSZ7KTR

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victorwu
1 year ago

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