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Hello,Refer below setting:- backup job vm_to_disk with full and incremental keep 14 days- backup job file_share_to_disk keep 14 days, it should be full and incremental for file share backup- backup job vm_to_tape- backup job file_share_to_tape- two jobs vm_to_tape and file_share_to_tape backup to one tape setup with "Do not create, always continue using current media set", manual execute end of every monthrefer two jobs backup to one tape and it will require use "Do not create, always continue using current media set", t will append backup content to the content that was written to tape with a previous backup session. If, however, a backup set is started with a new tape, Veeam Backup & Replication will create a new media set for it.Does it mean jobs vm_to_tape and file_share_to_tape execute full backup when insert new tape? Best regards, 

Servers & Drive Numbers - Cause Chaos So, I thought for the blog of the month special edition I would go back to when I first started out in the IT world early in my career.  I found a job as a Systems Administrator at a small law office in downtown Toronto.  I was so excited to get my IT career going and this was my first job in the Sysadmin space.  The firm also had an external IT company as well under contract, but they felt the need to have someone onsite to provide easier assistance to users, manage servers, etc.So, I was working there for a few months when I happened to one day do my daily routine check in the server room and noticed an amber light on one of the drives in the server.  Now keep in mind I was new to IT and did not understand the concept of the hard drives starting at Zero not One (you can see where I am going with this 😂).So, to be diligent and ensure things were done right I contacted the person at the IT consulting company, and he told me that server drives

Cue Superman standing on a hill with hands on his hips, wind blowing through his hair, and cape flapping in the wind 🦸🏻😂  Ok, not really...hahaThe truth is, “sysadmin superhero-like” tactics would not have been needed if I had been a bit more meticulous in my storage configuration tasks.Veeam FlexibilityOne of the many benefits of using Veeam Backup & Replication is its flexibiltiy in how you deploy it. Personally, I use the “Advanced” deployment method, creating separate servers for Veeam and my ancillary components, Proxy and Repository. But, to save on hardware and software (OS) costs, Veeam allows you to combine the Proxy and Repository roles. I use physical hardware for these components. As such, I wanted to push my physical compute (CPU/Memory) and network (10Gb nics) resources to the limit on my hardware, so I combined them on 1 server. At the time, I also chose to use the fastest backup method → DirectSAN. One drawback of using the DirectSAN transport mode with Windows (

I’m using B&R 12.1.1 and having the following error with a single Server 2016 VM backup.Failed to index guest file system. VSSControl: Index failedI’ve checked that all discs have plenty space but not sure where to look for more information.Any suggestions welcomed. 

When it comes to SureBackup, at least a ping test is desirable. In some situations no network connection can be established to the VM under test because of the internal Windows Firewall. Now it is possible to have SureBackup disable this to reduce these kind of false positives.For more information to this feature read the documentation:https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/surebackup_job_tests_vm.html?ver=120See the list of all new features in v12: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_12_0_whats_new_wn.pdf 

Hello team,Today, I replaced an HPE Gen 10 server. After adding it to the cluster, I encountered an issue with remediating it to install the IO. I observed that VMware has removed the HPE Gen 10 Proliant from their Cycle Center, making it challenging to apply the CDP IO. Has anyone else noticed this issue?   

We are beginning implementation of the DB2 plugin in v12.1. Looking at the documentation online, we see commands and examples for backing up and restoring backups, but you have to know the date/timestamp for the file to restore. There is no command to list available backup files using the plugin that is documented online (that I can find, anyway). However, a helpful engineer that we consulted with during pre-buy provided us with a command to list the available backups using the agent (db2 list history backup all for <db name>).Now I’m wondering why that isn’t documented online, and if there is a document somewhere that lists all of the commands or methods possible with the DB2 plugin.Does anyone know where we can get that documentation?

In the realm of data protection, encryption stands as a crucial line of defense against unauthorized access and breaches. This article delves into the significance of encryption within backup solutions, emphasizing its role in safeguarding sensitive data during transit and storage. We explore encryption standards, key management strategies, and the compliance implications that organizations must consider when implementing encryption in their backup infrastructure. IntroductionIn today's digital landscape, the significance of encryption in safeguarding sensitive data cannot be overstated. Encryption stands as a powerful mechanism, rendering data unreadable to unauthorized parties, whether it's in transit or at rest. Particularly within the realm of backup solutions, encryption assumes paramount importance in fortifying data security throughout its lifecycle. By encrypting data during both transit and storage, organizations can effectively mitigate the risk of exposure to a myriad of thr

Greetings all – the fantastic Veeam Community Dream Team (@Madi.Cristil, @NikolaPejkova, @safiya, and @Rick Vanover) don’t let me on the Community Hub very often (just kidding), but I wanted to remind folks that nominations are still open for the Veeam Innovation Awards through February 15. The VIA’s are a way to celebrate:Veeam Customers who might have recovered from Cyber events ... or increased their BC/DR readiness … or improved their backup operational efficiency … or gotten rid of a legacy technology that stopped being reliable years ago, etc.  Tell us about how Veeam made your world better! Veeam Partners who have delivered great solutions or developed as-a-service offerings that help Veeam customers gain those benefits listed above. Veeam Platforms who have built on top of hardware, clouds, or other architectures in cool ways, thereby enabling solutions for Veeam partners or great outcomes for Veeam customers.Partners – nominate yourselves and also your customers.  Platforms –

what is the correct permission to give backup repository:Ubuntu document its mention chmod 700 and in the redhat its 2775, which one is correct permission, kindly suggest. Appreciate if i get preparation process steps for redhat linux 8.x version for veeam 12.1  

Taking SMF file share backup on Linux hardened immutable repo 7d retention,  want to retain same data for 10 years with immutable on AWS  glacier storage . (minimum storage cost ). Is that possible. Any alternate option..

Hi, got a warning email from backup profile. Detail as below:Source is storage server HPE MSL3040 3250 Destination is workstation with OS Win Server 2019 Profile backup is File to Tape Details warning is: Failed to create a VSS snapshot for E: Details: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))I’m tried to follow this but doesn’t work: https://www.veeam.com/kb3099Please anyone if you have clue or suggestion for this issue. Thank you.

Ok gang, I have a weird situation.I have a job where I removed a server and added another one that replaced it.  Different server names, IP’s….Everything was running fine for a long time but all of a sudden, when the job runs, it completes without issue. Then a second job runs with the same job name but showing the previous server and job settings (which of course fails due to the server no longer being there).  It’s even doing the typical 3 tries before it gives up.Any ideas on how to get rid of the second run?Thanks in advanceJD

Hello everyone A long time ago, I was employed as a programmer at a small hosting company. About eight weeks in, I had just returned after two weeks of absence from the office due to family matters. Out of the 3 Linux sysadmins we had, we only had one left. The only one left got tasked to replace a RAID controller on a faulty server overnight. When I came in the next morning, I got a call from the customer asking why their server was still down. Being the programmer in the company, I contacted the owner and the Windows sysadmin to see if they knew why. They gave me the cellphone number of the engineer and I reached out. All I got was a snarl from him with “I am still working on it!”Together with the Windows sysadmin, we decided to go to the data center and see if we could help him somehow. When we entered the suite, the only thing he could say was “Everything is gone, I can no longer find the partition tables”. He gave some details on what he did and we decided to send him home to get

hi Veeam CommunityI have a backup server that uses the drives in the backup server as a repository, and the backup server works as a workgroup. I want the permissions on these drives to be only for the veeam service.I want to do this for more security.My question is whether such an idea is good?If it is good, what permissions should I give to these drives?

Hello, I need to install the product for new customer and I don’t find anything on internet about how to manage job for organisations “medium size”.My customer has 8 Active directory forest and all are sync inside the same Azure tenant.I need to backup all of them.Is it “better” to have only 1 Exchange job (same for sharepoin, ...) for all or better to create 1job / domain name (each forest has a different public domain).I mean : Exchange job - Target organization and select only mail + archive and add exclusion for what I don’t want.ORExchange domain1 job - Target AAD group with domain1 users and repeat it for all other domain. What is the solution to be sure I backup actual object AND futures one. If I select organization → It’s ok. If I select group, I need to be sure user is inside the group (Dynamic group is ok). What about sharepoint site ? When I select a group and check sites, it will backup personnal sharepoint site right ? but for the other one how do you manage it ?  I don’t

Are SharePoint permissions backed up using Veeam for Microsoft 365? Scenario:  A group with inherited permissions is removed from a SharePoint folder but later found to be required.If we restore the folder, will it restore the security groups/permissions associated with that folder at the time of backup?

 It's alarming to note that over the past few years, the speed at which ransomware attacks are executed has plummeted by a staggering 94%. Criminals now take an average of just 3.85 days to deploy a ransomware attack, a significant decrease that should raise serious concerns. Once triggered, the encryption process is lightning-fast, further underscoring the situation's urgency.According to a real test scenario conducted by Surge/Splunk, it takes about 5:50 minutes to encrypt 98.561 files placed in 100 directories of a Windows Server 2019 host. The LockBit is the fastest variant because it only encrypts 4KB of each file, rendering it unusable.Even more concerning is the potential for triple extortion in these attacks. Suppose the initial ransom for recovering the encrypted and exfiltrated production and backup data is not paid. In that case, criminals can escalate the situation by launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the organization’s services. This adds anot

Is it possible to make the traffic from Veeam Agents go directly to Wasabi instead of going through our VSPC/VCC server? This will create a lot of network traffic and engress cost for us in Azure. In the manuals it says we should create cloud connect repository (with f.ex) wasabi. Was hoping that even this sets the Cloud Connect Repository in Veeam Agents, it would understand it was an object storge and route the backuptraffic directly to Wasabi itself.

Hello,it would be great to be able to limit for physical machines veeam agent backup not only for “disallow VPN” and certain SSIDs, but also by defining an allow list for IP ranges: Some sites have a slow S2S VPN connection, there no agent backups shall happen. Just for the sites with fast S2S VPNS. Examples:Main site = 10.28.0.0/16 (allow)fast satelite site = 192.168.10.0/24 (allow)fast satelite site = 192.168.55.0/24 (allow)slow satelite site = 192.168.99.0/24 (disallow)…. TIA, Rudi Stang

Hi there,I recently created a new email address and I’m in the process of switching all accounts to this new email address. On the Veeam website, it is, unfortunately, not possible to change the email address, but I had to create a new account instead. It wasn’t a big tragedy because it is (was) my private email address anyway.I just wanted to register here on the Veeam Community again with that new email address (because it’s using the same account as on the Veeam website). But registering a new account wasn’t possible because my username was already taken (sure, because I took it back in the days).I also can’t change the username on my “old” Community profile.Can someone assist me in either changing the username on the “old” profile or deleting the “old” profile?Many thanks!Best regards,KarlvExpert, former Veeam VanguardOld email: webmaster@kawi.chNew email: karl@widmers.me 

We have begun our 30-day trial, going very well. Except we have no servers (all in the cloud) and need to assign an IP address to a Windows 11 PC which will serve as our Backup PC.Would like to hear from others who have been through this - how did you make that backup server addressable to create a restore portal? Can we somehow use one of our spare domains from Microsoft 365? We’ve been wracking our brains with little to no technical support and I think the question is best addressed in a group such as this. Any ideas?

I cannot find it. It may be very old or a ghost one.  What is the easy way to figure out the “in using an object” from the VBR Management console or PowerShell? Or is there any way to force delete the credentils? 

Yes, Veeam can! (sorry for this pun)Question arose today and I thought this is could be interesting to share: Is it possible to copy a backup copy job? So can a backup copy job use a backup copy job as source job? Yes and no. It is not possible to select the copy backup job directly. But it is possible to select the repository, the (second) copy job searches for backup data. How to create a copy copy job:Start the New Backup Copy Job wizard and enter a name. Here it is required to use Periodic copy (pruning) Copy mode! Note: Source copy backup job can also use Immediate copy (mirroring) mode. On next step, press Add… → From backups...  and select the job you want to copy second time.It is important to do so, otherwise, selected source repository (next step) will be ignored!Press Source… and select the repository, the first copy job uses as target. This is the repository this copy job will read backups from. The rest of the wizard can be configured as desired. In joblog you see the sour