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coolsport00
coolsport00Veeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan - Top Items to Consider When Creating Your Own

Recently, I had to create a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan for my organization. It’s actually quite surprising none had ever been created. Part of that is on me since I’ve been here long enough to have done so, and am responsible for most of the systems we would need to recover in the event of a disaster. But let’s be honest, creating DR Plans isn’t one of those “exotic” tasks a Systems Architect likes to do. Working with and playing with the tech we manage is what we get excited about! Regardless, it still *needs* to be done. One may ask why does creating a DR Plan need to be done? It may seem obvious to most, but some it may not. I thought I’d answer that question here, as well as provide a “skeleton” list of items to consider when building out your own DR Plan.First, having a DR Plan brings a sense of “calm” for the IT staff. In the event of a disaster of any sort - site outage; mal-intent via ransomware, disgruntled employee, or major hardware outage; etc - chaos can surely take over.

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coolsport00
2 years ago
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araczekComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Could not establish a trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel

Hello, relatively new user to Veeam BU here. I am trying to find the cause of the error below:The login is to the vCenter Server. So is Veeam complaining about the certificate for the vCenter Server? Where do I start looking at this point, thanks. ..ar

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Iams3le
2 years ago
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AnanduComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

backup proxy for agent

Is there a need to deploy backup proxy for veeam agent backup? 

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ger.itpro
2 years ago
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AnanduComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

failover cluster query

Hey guys,for creating agent backup, there is a job mode called failover cluster. Is it for always on failover cluster instances in SQL server?

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JMeixner
2 years ago
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adam-intNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Backup stopped working

Hello, I have a Veeam server that backs up a Win server 2016 server located at another location.  Veeam connects to this VM over a SDWAN connection (Zerotier)  This has worked perfectly for years.  All of a sudden, a few days ago, it started failing.  I uninstalled all components (Veeam Agent) from the server, then redeployed the agent.  I can ping the remote server, install the veeam agent, etc on it.  But when I run the job, I get an error:  “Error: Failed to connect to remote backup service.”   Any ideas what could cause this?

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2 years ago
coolsport00
coolsport00Veeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam Vanguards Announced!

Today, @NikolaPejkova sent announcements out for the 2022 Class of the Veeam Vanguard program. So happy to share I was approved for renewal. Hoping everyone else who applied was approved. Along with the Legends program, this is an amazing vCommunity program to be a part of. So thankful to be included for a 5th year.Cheers all & hope everyone has a great week!

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Mildur
2 years ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #67

Hi everyone,@Rick Vanover and I recap the week's activities!Shout outs to @MicoolPaul, @Pasqual Döhring, @Michael Melter and @victorwu for making it into this episode     Check it out now! 

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wesmrt
2 years ago
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AnanduComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

MySQL restore

Hey Guys,Is it possible to initiate an application item level restore for MySQL backup?

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regnor
2 years ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Error 1064 - An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request : No connection can be made because the active machine rejected it

For some reason and to come to speed with all the Veeam components, I decided to revive my Veeam Lab and during the process, I encountered the following error “Error 1064 - An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request : No connection can be made because the active machine rejected it “. Before I proceed to fix this issue, I would love to discuss the capabilities of Veeam for anyone that may stumble on this article. Veeam Backup & Replication is comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solution that provides a centralized console for administering backup, restore, replication operations in all supported platforms (virtual, physical, cloud). Regardless of what your needs are ranging from flexible hybrid cloud capabilities from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, or the most robust ransomware protection and recovery options. Veeam brings hardened immutable storage options, dependable cloud-native backup options, Continuous Data Protection, and much more

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Iams3le
2 years ago
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sgt21ctNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Customize SureBackup Column in Report

Hello, I achieve a functional configuration for SureBackup custom scripts, already created some of them. But I saw that the only result of the scripts that is presented is a true/false output, that is translated to passed/failed on the report of SureBackup. I like to customize this result, write some custom words on the result instead of only passes/failed. Is there some way to do it? On the .xml configured for the Role I did not found any TAG related to it. Thank you in advance.

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2 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

[Quicktip] Agent Backup Error

Just had to troubleshoot a not-working Agent backup job. Up to now, everything worked fine. Since last night, job fails. Error shown: [Task failed. Error: Failed to connect to servername:11731]Even in logs this error is shown: The problem seems to be communication with port 11731. This port is used for agent-deployment. No changes were made to the firewalls in this particular environment. So this could not be the cause of the problem.After a short phone call it turned out that the account used to communicate with the agent had been added to the Protected Users Security Group. But this group is not intended for adding service accounts. After removing the user, backup worked fine again.I hope this post saves some time in troubleshooting 

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K
6 months ago
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Nez PottageNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

NFS datastore remapped, VM re-imported - question on Veeam backup

So I had fun the other night.  I had an older Synology NAS that was on NFS4.1 that i upgraded to the latest v7 OS.  However, 4.1 has been removed and reduced to 4.0 for that architecture (i’ve since seen you can bodge it in cmd line but not going there yet).So I had to remove the NFS datastore from vcenter and remap with NFS3 and re-import the VM’s that were solely running on that storage.So now Veeam see’s the VM’s as new ones but one is a large archive server. Before I try to back that up, and find that it needs to backup the entire 20Tb offsite!! is there a way I can convince Veeam that this VM is the same as the one on it’s database.Or do I not need to as it’s clever enough to realise?

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dloseke
2 years ago
SteveHeart
SteveHeartVeeam MVP
posted in YARA and Script Library

Powershell - Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Worker "Tagger"

You want to tag your Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Workers? Here's a script that will help you:https://github.com/yetanothermightytool/powershell/tree/master/vbazure/vbazure-workertag

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JMeixner
2 years ago
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AnanduComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

veeam with powerscale

Hey guys,Can veeam integrate and store backups with Dell EMC Powerscale ?

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Mildur
2 years ago
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Customer Success Story - Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator

Today I will share a customer success story of Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator. This customer is looking for a disaster recovery solution to protect production virtual machines. VMware SRM and Veeam are common Disaster Recovery solution in my region. Existing EnvironmentPlatform: VMware vSphere 6.7 and vCenter 6.7 Storage Array: NetApp ONTAP Storage Backup Solution: Veeam Backup and Replication v9.5 RequirementsAutomatic data recovery and failover No impact on production environment during data recovery and failover Data recovery in an isolated network environment for internal testing Application-aware processing Test DR plans with zero impact to the production environmentAfter the discussion with their system team, I listed out the comparison table of VMware SRM and Veeam (refer to below table) for reference. Finally the customer chose Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (VDRO) for DR solution because VMware SRM does not fulfill some requirements.  Proposed DR Solution SummaryTh

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victorwu
1 year ago
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shawnlNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Export and Import backup job

Greetings, I have been searching for a bit now and have not come across an answer to this.  I was wondering if there was a way to export the actual backup job settings and import into another server that already has existing backups.I have multiple Veeam servers I would like to consolidate into one server. I have moved the backup files and rescanned the storage, that part all looks good. What I am unable to figure out is a way to just get the backup jobs onto the new server, and repoint to the storage I have moved the files to.Is there a way to do this without recreating all the jobs?

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A
2 years ago
JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

USB Disk as Veeam Repository in a private Environment

I had some – in review stupid – error with an backup of a single private computer with the free version of the Veeam Agent for Windows.I had told the owner of this machine to use the Veeam Agent for backup, because it is free and reliable. That I am using the products of this company professionally and didn’t have much problems with them and that they are very easy to use.So this poor little owner downloaded the agent, installed it and configured a backup job according to the procedure and recommendations I have given to him.The he tried to run the backup and after a short time – BANG Error.He called me and told me that there is a problem. I asked him to send the error message to me and I will have a look at it.19.02.2022 14:29:59 :: Error: Shared memory connection was closed. Failed to upload disk. Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}. Exception from server: There is not enough storage space available on the data medium. Failed to write data to the file [S:\VeeamBack

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Iams3le
2 years ago
patricio.rcm
patricio.rcmVeeam MVP
posted in Discussion Boards

New Veeam Cookbook for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure

Veeam Cookbook reloaded!!! Now it includes a whole new section dedicated to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure!!Check it out at https://veeamcookbook.com 

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regnor
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Using an Asustor NAS? Shut it down immediately!

Hi everyone, Quick one here due to time sensitivity. Deadbolt, the ransomware that has previously been utilised to attack QNAP NAS devices, has been used to attack Asustor NAS devices. Looks like there’s an exploit in the EZ Connect system, so advice is currently to disconnect the NAS from the internet and disable this service on the NAS. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/if-you-own-an-asustor-nas-shut-it-down-now The official Reddit mega thread has been pouring through the services that could’ve exploited the NAS whilst Asustor are looking into this. Even Asustor’s live demo page got impacted! (Won’t post a link due to potentially malicious content, it’s in the Reddit thread if anyone is feeling brave/stupid) I’ve been affected, what do I do? Shut down the NAS immediately, this will prevent further ransomware damage.Do not initialise the NAS or you’ll lose your data on your disks.Await further updates from Asustor for the OS remediation steps. At this point you’ll likely need to utili

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MicoolPaul
2 years ago
wesmrt
wesmrtVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Restoring Backups to AWS

Hey guys! Recently I write a blog post about restoring backups to AWS. I normally write in brazilian portuguese but I thought will be a good content to translate and send here too. Like a say, I will detail all the pre-requisites and scenarios to restore backups to AWS using Veeam.This can be useful in three scenarios:Restore your on-premises environment directly to EC2 machines on Amazon. Migrate your on-premises environment to AWS. Create a test environment of your on-premises infrastructure on AWS to validate patching, for example. Pre-requisites As always it is important that we understand the prerequisites of the solution. And in this case we are still involving a solution external to Veeam, which is AWS. Supported backup types  First, we have the supported Veeam backup types for restoring to AWS. Are they: Backups of vSphere or vCoud Director VMs created by Veeam Backup & Replication. Hyper-V VM backups created by Veeam Backup & Replication. Backup VMs and physical machin

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D
6 months ago
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omar.desouzaComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

VO365 Cannot upgrade from 5.0.2.22 to 5.0.3.33

Hello, I cannot upgrade from 5.0.2.22 to 5.0.3.33 from the VO365 console, I receive an error message: “certificate verification failed certificate is not valid”, do you have any ideas? Thanks in advance, Omar De Souza.

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Mildur
1 year ago
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AnanduComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam-data domain

Hey guys,If I am using data domain as a storage repository for veeam backups, does the retention lock feature in data domain good enough to provide immutability?

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ger.itpro
2 years ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam Storage Plugin for DataCore - Define a role to access DataCore with least privilege

A Veeam storage plugin needs to control your storage device in a way. Therefore you need a user account inside your storage system. The same of course is true for the DataCore plugin.From a security standpoint one always wants to have only the least amount of permissions to be allowed to the user. Avoid using a global admin here to minimize your attack surface!Here I will describe how to achieve that with the Veeam storage plugin for DataCore:First create a new role inside your DataCore console. In the screenshot the permissions to attach to the role are shown:Veeam storage plugin for DataCore - Role permissionsOnce the role is setup, you can create the user inside DataCore and select the role to assign it to:Veeam storage plugin for DataCore - Create the user for Veeam accessFinally you will have to create a local user of the exact same name inside all Windows servers involved in your DataCore cluster. Usually one has two nodes in a mirrored cluster. As the nodes are not supposed to b

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Michael Melter
2 years ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

VBR DataCore Plugin V1.2.0 explained

I just updated my deep dive series on the plugin.The most important new feature is the support for DataCore's CDP. This allows to lower your RPO for your full stack to a few seconds with just a few clicks.Find more details here: https://www.elasticsky.de/en/2022/02/veeam-storage-plugin-for-datacore-v1-2-0-improvements/   

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Michael Melter
2 years ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #66

Happy Friday, Veeam Community! @Rick Vanover and I break the rule in epic fashion, againWe also talk about VeeamON and Rick’s secret trip to Las Vegas.Check it out now   

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2 years ago

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