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ShloopComes here often
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Veeam v6 Agent is 15 times SLOWER than v5

After upgrading from V5 to V6 FREE Agent, my backup speeds significantly dropped. From 232 MB/s down to 15 MB/s. V5V6 

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ShloopComes here often
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Consolidate restore points into full for old backup?

I’m using Veeam Agent 6 (free).I had to do a fresh install of my computer and did a file level restore to get my most important files back. Afterwards, I started a new backup chain.I still have the backup from my old computer, which is 1 x .vbk  and 22 x .vib files. I’d like to keep just the latest restore point, synthetically merge it into a full backup (.vbk) and discard the old restore points. This will likely save 40 % of the space that the old chain currently occupies.I know that Veeam Agent can do that with an active backup job and VBR can import old backups and I can manually trigger it. I hope I can do it with Veeam Agent and an old backup, too, somehow. How?

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CantoNot a newbie anymore
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lettura del blocco 30 nel file

Buongiorno, qualcuno può aiutarmi a capire l’errore Veeam indicato qui sotto?Premetto che ho già eliminato il job e rifatto…. ha funzionato per qualche settimana poi si è ripresentato… praticamente sembra che veeam non mi permetta di eliminare i vecchi backup.I dati della VM vengono copiati ma ho questo errore che non capisco.Grazie 

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Veeam ONE - 12.1 Upgrade

The following post can also be found on my blog - Veeam ONE - 12.1 Upgrade Veeam ONE - 12.1 Upgrade Veeam released the 12.1 update back in November 2023, and with it comes upgrades to most components, including Veeam ONE. Today, I will walk through the upgrade process in my homelab to update my current Veeam ONE server from 12.0 to 12.1. Many enhancements came with Veeam ONE 12.1, including some of the following - Veeam Threat Center Unified Analytics-Driven Approach to Data Management Integrated Dashboards Alarm Lifecycle ServiceNow Incident Management Integration Syslog SIEM Integration Elevating Veeam Data Platform Security Backup Security and Compliance: Instant Insights for Robust Data Protection Malware Detection: Pinpoint, Protect, Prevail A full list of the enhancements in Veeam ONE 12.1 can be found here - Veeam ONE 12.1 - What's New.***NOTE - You must download the Veeam ONE 12.1 ISO file to follow the steps.***The following steps are required to up

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kristofpoppe
kristofpoppeVeeam Vanguard
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Extract data from backup in S3 Object storage created by Windows endpoint backup

Hi all,A user formatted his laptop as revenge to his company, but a valid endpoint backup was taken using Endpoint agent backup for workstation to a dedicated S3 object storage bucket.So we’re out of meta-data but should have 7 valid backup points in Object Storage. Now I want to get FLR from this backup with minimum effort, so I was thinking of adding the Repo in an Existing VBR 12.1 and import the backups from there.Attaching the bucket: no problemSyncing the repo: no problemImporting backups from the bucket: problem :-( I get the message: Failed to synchronize Object Storage <Object Name> Folder does not exist.Anybody tried this before ? Another path could be to install the Endpoint agent on a donor machine and try to connect from to the repo and perform restores… 

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dikaComes here often
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tape calculation with WORM

hello everyone,I have already made a sizing of tape consumption using https://calculator.veeam.com/vbr/ & https://rps.dewin.me/rpc/ withTotal Data :109 TB & backup policy daily : 6, weekly : 4, Monthly: 12so i want to know that, how many tape cartridges LTO9 do i need for a month ?is it right if i use formulain the first month :Full (120/18 = 7) + Incremental (30/18=2) + 3 weeks (180/19=10) + 1 month(60/18=3) = 22 Tape Catridges LTO 9in the second month :Full (120/18 = 7) + Incremental (30/18=2) + 3 weeks (180/19=10) + 1 month(60/18=3) = 22 Tape Catridges LTO 9 so for 2 month I need 44 Tape catridges LTO 9 

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jmaticurenaComes here often
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Ask about File to tape on Veeam

Hi team:I have a question about the next:I have a windows server that contains certain files that I want to backup to veeam.I have already done it with the veeam agent and I have no problems. However, I want to copy the same files to tape.I have read the information about File - to - tape option but how do I apply it without in my case I have a single tape drive which is already backing up VMs.Regards, 

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ArinComes here often
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NAS file share backup- max number of restore points

I’ve read agent based backups ae limited to maximum of 999 restore points per job. Does NAS file share backup have a maximum number ?

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MarkBoothman
MarkBoothmanInfluencer
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VCloud Director - Do You Use It?

I’m curious are many of us using vCD in production?We have it but are still quite new into this journey and slowly starting to pick away at the features available. We have self-service enabled for backups and are looking to explore cloud connect DRaaS into vCD in the near future.Do you have plans to deploy vCD to add value to your VMware deployments?Has the acquisition by Broadcom affected any future plans to deploy it?

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ArinComes here often
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NAS File Share backup VS Windows Agent backup

I have a 5 TB file share on Windows. Should I back this up using agent backup or File Share backup? I  have a backup copy job to send backups offsite. Currently doing file share backup with retention time set to 4 years. I think the agent based backup would take up more repo disk space (multiple vbk files)?

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ArinComes here often
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Agent based backup of specific folders on shared cluster drive

I am trying to do agent based backup of a Windows file share cluster. However when the job is set as "Failover cluster" job mode I can only select the entire volume to backup.I want to select particular folders on the shared drive to backup. Is this possible ? 

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ArinComes here often
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How to release a license instance count?

I did an agent based backup of a windows computer and the “servers” license count increased by 1 instance. I deleted the backup data but it the server still shows up in the license report.How do I release it ?

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danfoxleyNot a newbie anymore
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Add Hyper-V to Virtual Infrastructure Failing

Please help with adding a Hyper-V host. Veeam 11. New Hyper-V Server > Credentials: Added Domain User to Administrators Group on Hyper-V Host. Veeam B&R and Hyper-V Host on same domain. Window Firewall Off:Windows Firewall On: RANT:Hours in, this is frustrating that Veeam doesn’t nip this in the bud and does not rely on MS technology (Ports, WMI...etc) to install, and shifts responsibility onto the customer and offers unhelpful dialog boxes and similar push back in forums. 

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MarcM
MarcMNew Here
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Powershell - VBR - YARA Rules updater

 Hi Community,YARA Scans, one of the exciting new features in V12.1 that I really wanted to start using.YARA is a great tool to help you search and detect malware like ransomware and alert you before it can do any damage.In Veeam Backup and Replication V12.1 you can only select one .yar/.yara file to use for scanning from the "C:\Program Files\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup\YaraRules" directory on the Backup Server.After uploading some YARA Rules to my Backup Server, I created an index.yar to include all the individual files/rules so I can run scans using all my YARA rules instead of a single YARA rule.A Yara rule looks like this:Where a Yara index file looks like this:If you select a file with an actual YARA rule the scan works fine, but since the file I selected was my index.yar file, the scan failed!After taking a close look at the YARA-Volume0.log file in (my case in) "C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\FLRSessions\Windows\FLR__vb365.veeam.lab_\Antivirus" on the Mount Server I found

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flipflipComes here often
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Error Unexpected meta file size with nfs datastore

Hello,With Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition 11, On one of the backup jobs, when it starts, I encounter the following error:Failed to perform health check Error: Agent: Failed to process method {NasMaster.TransformMeta}: Unexpected meta file size 348160. Expected size: 356352. The source is an NFS share stored on a NetApp storage, and the destination is a Synology NAS. I have other jobs that use the same sources and the same destination, and they do not encounter this error.The job is responsible for backing up user files such as Office documents, PDFs, etc. When it runs, no files are open or currently being modified.I tried performing a job check as instructed on this page https://helpcenter.veeam.com/archive/backup/110/vsphere/health_check_nas_backup.html, but I encounter the same error. Thank's for advance.Philippe

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Moose
MooseComes here often
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Unable to connect to guest OS for guest processing. Cannot find Linux guest credentials

Has anyone experienced this issue after performing the Veeam v12.1 upgrade? Unable to connect to guest OS for guest processing. Cannot find Linux guest credentials.  Our Veeam environment is configured to utilize vSphere backup tags (which includes both Windows and Linux VMs).After the upgrade to v12.1 our backup jobs that included Linux VMs didn’t backup.We have opened up a support call, and in the meantime have a work around.  If we would specify each Linux VM along with the backup tags within the backup job, the Linux VM does backup.

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dfosbennerNew Here
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Veeam Agent for Windows - not seeing all restore points

I have 6 months of daily restore points, a monthly VBK and daily VIBs for each month. I have the backup job configured to keep 180 days of backups. However, when I do an FLR, it only displays from 11/1/23 forward, just 60 restore points. I feel like the repository needs to be rescanned but I can't see how to do that. (I use Veeam B&R for our corporate backup system, so I am familiar with this, but I don't see how to do it in the free version). I also tried right-clicking the actual VBK or VIB I want to use and then "Open", but it just opens the FLR window, showing only the last 60 restore points.This behavior exists on multiple PCs where I use Veeam Agent for Windows.  This product isn’t much use if I can’t restore my data.I opened a case (#07068715) over a week ago and it was auto-closed because no one was available to look at it.Does anyone know how I can access my restore points? Thanks.

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MichaSchuNot a newbie anymore
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Backup problem with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows with VPN enabled

Good day,I have been enthusiastically using "Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows" for some time.Now I have the problem that when I have activated my new Premium VPN from https://hide.me "Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE" unfortunately aborts with an error message when creating a backup!What exactly do I have to set or allow in the VPN app so that the backup still work with VPN enabled?My system data & backup-media:-Windows 11 Pro 23H2-Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 6.1.0.349 - Free Edition-Backup-medium: External 2.5-inch hard disk Many thanks for any helpful answers! 

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Aleksej_Egorov
Aleksej_EgorovNot a newbie anymore
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VBR and Nextcloud folders backup

Hey there. I use Community edition for my home lab and photo archive backup proposals. VBR is installed on my PC, it was added to Veeam as a File Server, some folders were added to the job, and everything was fine until I added these folders to sync with my Nextcloud (real files are always on device).Now I faced this error:08.01.2024 22:43:43 :: Unable to backup \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12\Pict\Filmscan. Incorrect function.Failed to read data from the file [\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12\Pict\Filmscan].There are job logs from C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup.Does anybody knows, how to resolve it? 

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keironbellNot a newbie anymore
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Automate Bulk Upgrade of VBR via VSPC

Last month I created a topic for a script I had created using Veeam Service Provider Console API to automate the upgrade of Veeam Agents (Automate Veeam Agent Upgrades via VSPC | Veeam Community Resource Hub) which also got featured in the last recap of 2023 which was a very nice end to the year for my first post! I was already planning on working on a script to automate the process of bulk updating VBR servers, but after it was mentioned a couple of times, I thought I would share what I have so far. If, like me, you work for an MSP, we have multiple tenant VBR’s kicking around it can be very time consuming when a new upgrade for Veeam comes out, to get this deployed on all of our tenants servers. Luckily, in recent updates, VSPC has improved the process of remotely upgrading VBR via VSPC. However, it is still a manual process that can still be time consuming going through each tenant VBR Server one by one. I wanted to find a way to automate this process.I could of wrote a script that

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Champion2725Not a newbie anymore
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Backup Design Recommendations

Hello Veeam Gods,Newbie here, looking for some advice on system design… I’m hoping I’m in the right place, but let me know if I’m not.Here’s the stack:DC1:3x ESXi Physical Hosts1x VCenter Physical Server1x Win22 100TB StorageNon-Prod Nimble System with 40TB storageAll on 25GB backbone LINK: 100gb fiber connection DC1 --> DC2. Separate buildings, power, generators, WAN etc. DC2:3x ESXi Physical Hosts (same spec as DC1)1x Veeam Physical Server with VBR + Explorers removed1x 600TB Ubuntu hardened Immutable StorageAll on 25GB backbone WAN:2 x 2GB redundant WAN connections (1 into each site but HA across the two, redundant firewalls too)Wasabi Buckets for Offsite S3 storage. The Plan (that I’d like guidance on):Run Production in DC1Use CDP to DC2 for near-real-time failoverBackup Production in DC1 to the 100TB Storage in DC1 (store short term backups - sub hourly)Copy Job to DC2 600TB Ubuntu Immutable (store short and longer term backups - sub hourly, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly)Copy

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JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
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Data Backup Basics VII: Implementing Backup Scheduling

In the realm of IT infrastructure management, establishing a resilient backup schedule is critical for safeguarding data and ensuring business continuity. A robust backup strategy not only involves regular backups but also encompasses a well-thought-out schedule tailored to diverse data types and systems. This article aims to explore key considerations and best practices for implementing an automated backup schedule aligned with business continuity objectives, while emphasizing the need to distribute backups within backup windows to avoid overloading productive and backup resources. Understanding Business ObjectivesBefore diving into crafting a backup schedule, it's imperative to comprehend the business's specific needs and priorities. This involves understanding data criticality, compliance requirements, recovery time objectives (RTO), and recovery point objectives (RPO). These insights will inform the frequency, granularity, and retention policies for your backup schedule.[For a deta

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regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
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Dell PowerStore Plug-In for OS 3.X has been released

As this was a hot topic on many plattforms, I thought it was worth sharing here.Today Dell and Veeam have released the new storage plugin for PowerStore OS 3.x.In general the plugin will only work with Veeam Backup & Replication build P20220302 or later. But what’s important to note, if you’re on P20220302 you need to install a private hotfix before installing the plugin itself; the details can be found in KB4243. The plugin is available for download in the Storage Plugin Section or directly here.If you want to join the discussion in the R&D forums or give feedback, here’s the corresponding topic. 

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TK515Comes here often
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P2V Using Bare Metal

I was thinking of using a bare metal restore into a VM and have actually made it work, but what I wasnt able to do successfully was resize/shrink the disks in the process. The physical server has lots of wasted space which I would like to avoid in the VM. Is it possible to accomplish a “disk shrink” using a bare metal restore?

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MikeLeoneComes here often
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Will using jumbo frames help VBR 12 performance?

In my environment, all of my switches and all of my virtualization hosts support jumbo frames. as well as the Data Domain that is my storage infrastructure.  However, my VBR environment - 3VMs (the VBR server, 1 proxy, and 1 managed server used to mount restores) and the physical server that attaches to the tape library are not currently set to use jumbo frames. I am wondering if setting them to use jumbo frames would help, improve performance, reduce bottlenecks?I can’t imagine that it would hurt, right?Anyone using jumbo frames? What is your experience?

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