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JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
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Data Backup Basics II: Why Replication is not Backup - Understanding the Differences

In the realm of IT infrastructure and data management, the terms "replication" and "backup" are often used interchangeably, leading to misconceptions about their functionalities. While both processes involve duplicating data, they serve distinct purposes in safeguarding data integrity and availability. Understanding the fundamental disparities between data replication and backup is pivotal for designing a robust data protection strategy. The Essence of ReplicationReplication primarily focuses on mirroring data from one location or system to another in real-time or near-real-time. It ensures data consistency across different environments, enabling high availability and disaster recovery. The goal of replication is to maintain synchronized copies of data to facilitate continuous operations and minimize downtime in case of hardware failure or site disasters.The synchronicity of replication is also its biggest weak point – all errors in the data and all compromised data is propagated to th

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victor.rhodenComes here often
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VEEAM 9.5 and VMWARE 8

Good morning, I'm trying to install VEEAM 9.5 on a WINDOWS 10 that is virtualized in VMWARE 8, but at the time of installation it gives me a certificate error with ID 110, according to KB2137, I would have to contact VEEAM support, the guy who helped me couldn't solve it, so I came to the community to see if anyone had experienced this problem. With VEEAM 10 AND VEEAM 12 we were able to install but 9.5 generates this error, but I need Veeam 9.5 because the others do not accept VCENTER 5.1, another detail when I install VEEAM 9.5 on VMWARE 6.7 it works correctly.

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jcolonfzenpr
jcolonfzenprExperienced User
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Retrieving Enterprise Manager information using powershell

Hello, First of all Happy New Year! I have been working on a veeam implementation report using the AsBuiltReport framework created by Tim Carman @tpcarman see report here: Project Report: https://github.com/rebelinux/AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR Sample Report: https://technomyth.zenprsolutions.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Veeam-VBR-As-Built-Report.html Now the important thing, I would like to add to the report if the backup server is configured with an Enterprise Manager. Does anyone know if there is a way in powershell to identify which Enterprise Manager the Backup server is connected to? Thanks in advance!

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Stabz
StabzVeeam Legend
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Veeam 12.1 Network Encryption Security check

Hello guys, I was looking the new Security and Compliance feature. In my lab the following recommendations are marked as passed :For the first one if I look in the configuration of my proxies the NBDSSL is not checked For the second, I don’t have configure encryption for the LAN backup networkSo I don’t know why by default Veeam mention them as passed. Any idea?​​​​​​​

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Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
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VB365 V7a change log

Veeam released V7a of VB365 just recently (Dec 5th, 2023).https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-f47/current-version-is-1-0-0-860-ga-t39185.htmlThe KB for the patches to 7.0 has all the changes of 7.0.x: https://www.veeam.com/kb4425With a new major release (e.g. V7) we get the changes within the “what’s new” document: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_m365_7_0_whats_new_wn.pdfThere does not seem to be a “what’s new” document for 7a (7.1.x). Here I can only find the full release notes which makes it kind of hard to determine changes.Did anyone find the specific changes within 7a already?

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Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
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VB365 V7/7a - There is an error in XML document

Just a heads up for a hotfix to VB365.We recently faced multiple errors within our MSP stack for VB365:Processing mailbox xyz failed with error: There is an error in XML document (1, 5332).. The specified type was not recognized: name='SharingMessage' Turned out to be a problem introduced by some changes Microsoft applied to M365.Veeam published a hotfix just a few days later: https://www.veeam.com/kb4527It’s applicable to the most recent version of 7 (7.0.0.4388) as well as 7a (7.1.0.1301) and I can confirm it to solve the issue.You have to stop all services and replace Veeam.Ews.dll in 4 different locations.Make sure to rename or copy the files to be replaced beforehand and have or create a backup of the VB365 system.  

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Pybarra
PybarraInfluencer
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SureBackup Lite (Scan Backup) coming to VBN AHV 5.1 with VDP 12.1.

A much awaited feature request is coming to Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5.1. This will require Veeam Backup and Replication 12.1. It is the ability to scan backups with SureBackup. This will not be the full blown version like the vSphere edition with Data Labs capabilities but it is a good start. The need to protect your restore points from malware and ransomware attacks it a must. Customers can no longer wait for an infection to happen. As you see in the headlines when attacks happen, these could have already been dormant in the company for some time. I heard this time and time again. It just takes one time for a bad actor to be successful but you have to be correct one hundred percent of the time. SureBackup allows for scanning backups utilizing your antivirus software or Yara rules. If you search google this is what you will find as a definition for Yara - Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym. Veeam Data Platform 12.1 will bring radical resilience to assist in a time of need. If you are

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TylerJurgens
TylerJurgensInfluencer
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Favourite 12.1 Features

Just a short post today - I cherry picked a couple of my favourite features of 12.1. There were so many to choose from, but the features I love best in new releases are often the big heroes that hide in the shadows.  Maintenance mode enhancements — running Cloud Connect Replication jobs and Cloud Connect CDP policies will now be stopped gracefully and prevented from starting automatically for the duration of the maintenance mode. This one has long been a thorn for us Service Providers. You put the environment into maintenance mode, but replicas continue to come through. I’m excited to see this new feature being implemented! Now maintenance on CC environments are going to be much less troublesome! PostgreSQL database support — following multiple optimizations and QA testing, starting from v12.1 we’re removing the previous recommendation not to use PostgreSQL as a configuration database for  Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructures.Huge feature here! No longer will we be chained to expensive

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kmcdermottNot a newbie anymore
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Upgraded 12.1 with previously installed ISO for Veeam Hardened Repository?

I built a Hardened Repository using the ISO provided here many months ago.  Very happy with it, until I decided to upgrade Veeam to 12.1.  Now it wants to update components on the Hardened Repository end or it will no longer be usable, which it can’t.  Is there a workflow to deal with this or do I have to start all over again on the Hardened Repository side?

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Veeam Data Platform Takeover!
Veeam Data Platform Takeover!Veeam Community Recap #145

What a release! This week, the Veeam Data Platform 23H2 release, which includes version 12.1 of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE, has gone generally available! This episode is mostly about that :) You can watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @Tyler Jurgens via @Pybarra and be sure to see KB4521:  KB4521: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5 Cumulative Patchesvia @Andanet via @BertrandFR Check out this Cyber-Resilient Data Recovery Strategy whitepaper: Building a Cyber-Resilient Data Recovery Strategy (veeam.com)Congratulations @JMeixner on winning the Blog of the Month!Coming soon in Arizona, a Veeam User Group via @ertelle1 and @allynz Coming soon in Belgium, a Veeam User Group via via @Nico Losschaert and @kristofpoppe Who’s NewWe are happy to welcome +133 new members this week! Thank you @safiya for preparing! The coolest usernames this week are @Notverybright96 (you are here, you are smart!), @euclids_bellybutton, @A bit of a byte and @Neopolis!

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keironbellNot a newbie anymore
posted in YARA and Script Library
Automate Veeam Agent Upgrades via VSPC

One of the things I have been looking at recently is automating the process of upgrading Veeam Agents. The great thing with Veeam Service Provider Console is how easy we can bulk update agents from one place. However, I wanted to take it a step further and have this totally automated - mainly because I am lazy. To do so, I have used the VSPC API to do this for me. I am not the most proficient with PowerShell, someone can probably make this run more efficiently. However the below script works just fine for me, so thought I would share it with the community. I use this via an Azure Function that runs every morning and kicks off an upgrade of any agents that require it, however you could schedule this from a RMM product etc, whatever works best for yourself. At the moment there is no property in the VSPC API to show if an agent requires an upgrade, so it starts by adding this property by comparing the installed version to the current released version (this part you manually have to update

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Best Practices, Orchestration, Upgrades... and a Glitch!
Best Practices, Orchestration, Upgrades... and a Glitch!Veeam Community Recap #146

What a wild episode! Mid-recording we had a facility power outage (but don’t worry, Rickatron has a backup, and had fun with some royalty-free clips)! We powered through and are happy to bring you this week’s recap:The Linksvia @JMeixner via @James.Janney (WELCOME!)via @kmcdermott (related to this ISO: All-Demo Session & Installable ISO for Veeam Hardened Repository | Veeam Community Resource Hub)Special Department Newsvia @mkevenaar @jos.maliepaard  @Scott and @Chris.Arceneaux Be sure to check out the latest Veeam 100 Show episode via @ertelle1 @allynz and @falkob via @NikolaPejkova → 2024 Veeam Vanguard Program Opens Nominations and RenewalsWho’s NewThank you to @safiya (and enjoy PTO!) for preparing the +96 New Users! The coolest usernames are @Deezed, @gallbee, @Alper and @sigma !Alfred’s pick this week is @GarryPotter  (EPIC!) and there is a badge coming your way! Have a great weekend everyone, we have a special episode planned for next week. 

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clabrownComes here often
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Trying to do bare metal restore of Windows server from one ESXi host to another.

I have a basic question. I am using VMWare ESXi Free license and the Free Veeam Backup. Was using just the Windows Agent for a long time but am now using the Backup and Recovery 12. I have an OLD ESXi host running a Windows 2012 Essentials server, and a new ESXi host I am transferring it to for legacy purposes. For Testing I originally just copied the Virtual Machine files to the new box, registered the VM and that worked. When I finally decided to actually move the machine I tested by restoring a backup from Veeam windows agent to the VM as a bare metal recovery. This worked the first time, and the second time. I was testing on the weekends after hours so there was a week between. The next week I decided to actually do it following the procedure that had been successful previously. The restore said it completed successfully, but the server would not boot normally and went to the Recovery Console. It apparently had problems with the active directory database.I tried this several more t

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m.salehComes here often
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Failed to connect Hyper-V standalone (2012 R2)

Hello,I have a Hyper-V host with 2012 R2 on it and already added to Veeam as a host and it was working fine.One day I found a VM backup job fail.I tried to rescan the host and found the error Access Denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))I tried to edit the host and check the credentials and found I removed the job and removed the host and tried to add it again but the same error in image above appears.I don’t know where the issue comes from. The credentials are the same didn’t change  Regards,Muhammad

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victor.rhodenComes here often
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I can't recover files with Veeam agent

We ended up losing our file server disk, we make a backup with the Veeam agent because it is a physical machine, but several files are corrupted, and I can't get them out of Veeam, I saw that there is a Veeam tool that can help to recover these files but I couldn't find them.

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Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertOn the path to Greatness
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Issue with NAS backup to object storage at iDRIVE

Hi guysI’m having a problem that I can’t seem to resolve.Perhaps someone already have had the same error or experience.Environment :It’s not on a production environment, but on my personal lab I’m using NAS backup of a big file-share to an on-premise repository without any issues I’m using a secondary copy of this backup to another repository without any issues I want to have next to that also a secondary copy of this backup to object storage in the cloudSince version 12 of VBR that is possible, before it was only possible to use object storage for the archive backup of a NAS-backup.I’m having an account at iDRIVE for E2 Immutable object storage.With that latest copy I’m having an issue that I can’t seem to resolve.Because it’s on my lab with my NFR license, I can’t create a support case for this 🤣 Issue : The job start, but after a while I’m getting the following error :  HTTP exception: WinHttpReceiveResponse_callback_timeout: 12152: The server returned an invalid or unrecognized re

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NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Backup chain for Backup Copy Job

Hello,How would my Backup copy Job chain look?Backup Jobs are 7 restore points (Incrementals + Synthetic Fulls)Backup Copy Jobs will also have 7 Restore points.As I’m going trough some old discussions I can see that with Forward incrementals and first Full Backup with backup copy jobs everything has stay above 7 restore points.Also one more question, do I need to seed backup copy jobs if I’m going to use WAN Acceleration in High Bandwidth Mode 

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NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Initial Seed for Backup Copy Jobs over WAN Accelerator

Hello all,What would be your recommendations on Initial Seed for Backup copy Jobs over WAN Accelerator to Secondary site?Do I need to manually copy full backup of each VM that will go over WAN to secondary site or is there some Veeam functionalities that are build for this?What would be your approach 

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam 12.1 My Standout 9 points!

Hi Everyone,My most liked new features in Veeam 12.1  

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News
Linux, Compression and Malware Detection Demo
Linux, Compression and Malware Detection DemoVeeam Community Recap #144

We are back from the holiday week and have a proper list of content and special department news to share! Rickatron and @Madi.Cristil are happy to bring you this week’s Veeam Community Recap with a 12.1 demo as well of Malware Detection being marked clean. Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia ​​​​@coolsport00 via @leduardoserrano via @MicoolPaul Special Department NewsWe have launched a new special group, the Women and Allies in Tech group, check it out!https://community.veeam.com/groups/women-and-allies-in-tech-115via ​​​​@wolff.mateus @BethSouza and @Jean.peres via @Eric Machabert and @Julien Mousqueton via @Madi.Cristil via @JBuff On the Veeam blog: Veeam Innovation Awards Nominations Are Open!Who’s New!Thank you @safiya for processing a huge list of who’s new! We are happy to welcome +165 new users this week. The coolest usernames are @infrastructure, @Yokefellow, @GhostOfAtticus and @flyingcheetah2000!This week’s Alfred’s Pick is @backupissilverrestoreisgold → LOVE THIS! Yo

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NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Backup Copy Jobs Configuration

Hello everybody,I have the following question regarding Backup Copy Jobs:I will create Backup Copy Jobs with Immediate Copying Backup Jobs are configured with incremental + Synthetic Full Backups going to Windows Repo (ReFS 64KB) connected via iSCSI to our NAS storage, Utilizing FastClone option.Now I would like to know is this going to be the same for backup copy jobs?I have 2 Wan Accelerators (Source and Target), Windows Repo on Target Location also connected via iSCSI to NAS Storage that is formatted as ReFs.Are they going to do the same configuration as primary backup chain, incrementals + syntethical (Fast Clone)What are the general best practices for Backup Copy JobsI would like to have identical setup as Backup Jobs on Primary Site

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DrObject
DrObjectNot a newbie anymore
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Transferring data from Linux Repo to OnPrem S3 created enormus excess space usage

Data copies from the Linux hardened repo to S3 On Prem lblows up spacew up space consumption on object storage without a clue why.In this case, the disk consumption on the Linux Repo is about 900TB (after compression & dedup) on XFS. Copying the same data to Object storage scale-out-repo (using 4MB block size as recommend in best-practices guide), object storage size is currently 1.66PB of data and the cluster is almost full (86%)As the disk space was calculated using the VEEAM sizing tool, we calculated with about 1.1PB on object storage with additional space to grow.And the second thing is, that the S3 object deletions object storage receives from VEEAM are much less than they should be, but the immutability time (+ 3 week) has already reached, so there must be much more objects deleted than what is actually happening.

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HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Telegram Notifications from Ubuntu Server - all SSH Logins

Recently I added to my home lab, an Ubuntu Server with a Hardened Repository for Veeam Backup, you can find more info here (Spanish).Now, the thing is, I want to be able to get notified if some user logs into the server via ssh, as a extra control, since I disable the SSH service when I dont use it.Also the idea came, to be able to get notified from other applications via telegram, so wasn't a crazy idea at the end.You can easily find how to create a Bot, and how to get your ID, so Im not going to dive into that, from previous entries, or the internet.So first, once we have created and activated our bot and user ID, lets go a create our Telegram messaging program, in our home, lets create a file like this:nano send-over-telegram.sh#!/bin/bashGROUP_ID=BOT_TOKEN=# this 3 checks (if) are not necessary but should be convenientif [ "$1" == "-h" ]; then echo "Usage: `basename $0` \"text message\"" exit 0fiif [ -z "$1" ] then echo "Add message text as second arguments" exit 0fiif [ "

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MarkBoothman
MarkBoothmanInfluencer
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
12.1 Favourite Small Thing

We all have seen the raft of big-ticket new features but there are a lot of ‘small’ things in this release as well. One of my favourite features is the Disk Space check when doing an upgrade. This should make performing upgrades a smoother process, especially for those managing multiple VBR deployments. The private hotfix check is another welcome addition.What’s your favourite ‘small’ feature in this release? 

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Gili SelaComes here often
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Dell R550 with Intel Silver CPU for Ubuntu Immutable

Hi, according to Dell R550 is compatible with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS but when checking in Ubuntu web site. it’s look like it’s support only with Intel Gold CPUIs it OK to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for Immutable on Intel Silver CPU? Thanks 

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