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Blog of the Month October + November 2023Blog of the Month

The last week of November is here! As promised, we're gearing up for an exciting blog showdown to crown the top post of the month, set to shine on our homepage in early December.In this special edition, we're combining the best blogs from both October and November. With October taking a back seat due to the Veeam 100 Summit and other thrilling events, we want to make sure every outstanding blog gets its shot at the spotlight.This month, we've curated a collection of eight top-notch blogs. Make your voice heard by voting for the absolute best before December 3rd.Wishing all our participants the best of luck! 😊 @MicoolPaul , @JMeixner , @damien commenge , @vAdmin , @marcofabbri , @JMousqueton , @HunterLAFR , @Andanet Please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to vote for you!Best, Madi

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3 days ago

Kseniya✨

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How to be notified about new content at Community Hub?

Hey Community, I received a few messages from community members asking how to get notifications when there is a new content published (in this case we talked about “Blogs and Podcasts” category). I thought I would do a quick post about it. First, there is a possibility to subscribe to every category at Community Hub Let’s say, you would like to subscribe to “Blogs and Podcasts” category. To do so, you have to push ‘SUBSCRIBE’ button at the right side as shown at the screenshot below: Once it’s done - you will start receiving notifications about new topics created!Again, you can get subscribed to any category: whether it’s Discussion boards or News. You can also manage notification settings at your profile.If you experience any issues with notifications - please let me know!

2 months ago

Madi.CristilCommunity Manager

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VeeamOn Tours and Forums 2023

5 months ago

Madi.CristilCommunity Manager

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Blog of the Month Initiative

Hello Community! 😊 Happy Monday! We would like to announce that starting March 1st , the Community Hub will launch an exciting new initiative to recognize exceptional content and support the hard work and creativity of its members.The initiative involves featuring the best blog of the month, selected based on a set of established criteria, including the quality of writing, originality and creativity of the content, relevance to current events or trending topics, engagement with readers, and overall impact.The winning blog will be displayed on the homepage in the "Featured" section for the first week of the following month, as well as on Veeam's social media channels. In recognition of their achievement, the winner will also be awarded the "Blog of the Month" badge.Participation in the initiative is limited to external members only; Veeam employees are not eligible to participate.The community team will select six blogs for the contest, three of which will be chosen from the recap, and

8 months ago

marcofabbriVeeam Legend

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What is the Cyber Security Space and what should it become?

Hello world.Hello friend.Welcome to Cyber Security Space. There will never be truly secure backups and backup storage if we don't learn the fundamentals of cybersecurity.Veeam offers awesome solutions to protect you from ransomware or data corruption or backup consistency or much much more. Think about 3-2-1-1-0 rule. Secure Restore. Immutable backup. S3 buckets. Harden Repository. And you'll see what's next in ver12!Amazing solutions, but all of them need our expertise to make them operational, safe and functional. This space was born for this: to help us to understand the vast world of cybersecurity so you can build up your knowledge and be a better IT girl/guy/sysadmin/sysops/ethical hacker/programmer/devops/cat-on-rex/unicorn.What can you do at the Cyber Security Space?1. Create posts and share news2. Check for FREE certification and course (link below)3. Ask any question about ANYTHING cybersec related4. Do you have an interesting solution for a real world IT problem? You rocks!5.

9 months ago

mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard, Veeam Legend

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What is the Automation Desk and what should it become?

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. - Bill Gates Do you have to do that (tedious) task every day? Do you have to deploy Veeam environments quite often? Don't want to do clickety click every time you need to create a new job? Want to reduce the possibility of "Human error"? Step in to the Automation Desk! These are just examples of topics that you could find or ask for at our Desk. Within the Automation Desk, you can ask and share anything Automation. As long as it is Veeam Related. Not sure? Ask one of the leaders. You can find them on the right side of the groupWhat can you add / do in the Automation Desk?Ask any Automation question Create (blog) posts related to automation or share news Join special events Share your thoughts, ideas, struggles etc. Automate!

11 months ago

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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What is the Kubernetes Korner and what should it become?

The Korner is a place where you can start your Kubernetes Journey.Veeam understood correctly that a huge group of IT specialists will need to get familiar with Kubernetes at an accelerate time frame because the demand for specialists will grow exponentially. However, this is much easier said than done given the fact that many people are working a full-time job and perhaps still believe that they have not yet achieved enough expertise in existing technologies that they are working with.The Kubernetes Korner will help everyone overcome these difficulties and learn together. What can you do at the Kubernetes Korner? Do the daily Kube Task, a brief Kubernetes task in an environment that we help you setup Ask any question you may have Create posts. Watch out for special events and meetings that are Cloud Native related Think of any ideas for the Kube Korner, this is your Korner too! We are all on this learning path together and our joint efforts will result in everyone’s common success!!

1 year ago

PybarraExperienced User

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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

41 minutes ago

HammerNew Here

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Start Backup when USB drive is inserted

Hi, I vaguely recall seeing an option where a backup job is automatically started when a USB drive containing a backup repository is plugged into the server. I can’t seem to find it again…was I dreaming?Thanks, Hammer

44 minutes ago

clownyboots178Comes here often

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Tape issues V12

Hey everyone,I posted a while ago that my V12 install is only reading 107gb of my 12tb tapes, I have 29 tapes loaded and 2 drives I have worked with support on both my Tape drive manufacturer side (Spectra Logic) and I have worked with VEEAM support on this for nearly 3 months and it seems that we have all come to the conclusion fo microsoft not seeing the correct driver. I use the IBM driver as VEEAM specified and it fails to see the tapes fully, I use the “Microsoft Medium Changer” driver Spectra told me to use and it still fails to see everything - we have done all sorts of troubleshooting (removed the ISCSI checkbox, installed and uninstalled drivers, disabled the device, uninstalled the device, updated VEEAM, updated Windows) and so so much more. Looking for any other advice on what else to try or where to turn from here? Windows 2022 (latest updates applied)VEEAM V12 (Frist update applied, not 12.1)IBM drivers installedWindows medium changer driver installedLTO8 Tapes Thanks gu

44 minutes ago

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Moving your blog, alternatives, methods?

Hi Everyone, I am planning on moving my blog. What seemed like a great deal at the time has turned into an expensive auto-renewal at the worst possible time. Luckily I changed my CC so .. 😁 no auto delete $$ this year. What are the alternatives? What do people pay? What is the best method to download my present blog content? Any help would be appreciated.

53 minutes ago

NemanjaJanicicInfluencer

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Backup Copy Job - Backup Jobs selected

Hello,I would need some general advices in creating Backup Copy Jobs.Is it okay to choose every Backup Job and insert it in the Backup Copy Job, as I can see there is no option to create in which order they will perform etc.

55 minutes ago

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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VUG Canada - November 29th - Architecture Design & Best Practices

For those that could not attend and are not members of the VUG Canada group you can watch the webinar on the VUG Canada YouTube channel below -Also, the slides are attached as well from the presentation.Great job again @Tyler Jurgens and @HangTen416

2 hours ago

NemanjaJanicicInfluencer

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Difference in performance BCJ

Hello,I would like to know why are there so many differences in performance of BCJ?This is all in one BCJ.Result of already finished one: Results of currently running one:

2 hours ago

fjlNew Here

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Error Unable to perform Tape erase for library IBM 3573-TL E.70: cannot lock tape drive

Customer's tape needs to be erased, prompt Error Unable to perform Tape erase for library IBM 3573-TL E.70: cannot lock tape drive。I don't know how to operate it

2 hours ago

NemanjaJanicicInfluencer

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Error with Backup Copy Jobs

Hello Forum,I’m getting this weird error now: What could be a cause for this, two Backup Jobs finished successfully and now I get this error and its stuck.

3 hours ago

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Home Lab Special Section?

Hi Everyone,I have moved forward on my home lab. Proxmox is installed and I am finding it very intuitive. I now have to see about what I can do about a Veeam setup (can I nest a Veeam supported Hypervizor in there etc). I have also added one of those ethernet over power lines connections to my basement. That also seems to be working perfectly, hooray no need to rip out walls for cabling. I got to thinking though, so many of us need to test and play with Veeam outside of work confines and the info about home labs is scattered all over the site in different posts. Do people think it would be helpful to have a separate Home Lab section. This is a place where newbies or people re-thinking their setup could come with the ultimate goal of getting more lab exposure to Veeam. Or should we just leave as be and use the search function? What does everyone think? Again I don’t know how feasible this would be and it would not be a new group per-se. Just an idea.

7 hours ago

HammerNew Here

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Veeam Backup & Replication very slow to start backup

Hi, I am testing Backup and Replication Community Edition and have a very simple test environment consisting of a single Windows Server 2022 with one boot SSD, two HDD’s and a third HDD which is my dedicated Backup Repository. When I start the job, it take over an hour before it will begin to process/transfer data. Is this normal or is stuck waiting for something before it can start the backup? The server really has no load on it as it is a test machine (physical, not virtual). Below is a screenshot: Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Thank you!

19 hours ago

paulpreiche4Not a newbie anymore

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Veeam One Backup Repository Monitoring

We have recently encountered a scenario in which backup data hosted on a Cloud repository was lost due to technical issue. We were not made aware of the situation until a recovery request. We would like to see additional conditional based monitoring implemented in Veeam One for backup repositories to better detect significant drops in storage utilization. I have submitted a feature request in the R&D forums, but I am wondering what is being done in the community to monitor this kind of behavior for cloud repositories. Thanks,Paul R

19 hours ago

Veebr

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Installing second Veeam B&R server behind a firewall and dividing current VUL

Hello, We are looking into moving a set of our VMs that are currently being backed up by Veeam behind a firewall for extra security. We are running the latest version of Veeam and have VUL. Will the VUL policy allow us to install a separate instance of Veeam B&R server behind this new firewall to backup the servers there? And will I need to divide the current license count according to my needs and apply to the new instance of Veeam B&R server? Thank you for your comments and ideas in advance.

20 hours ago

Kevin516Not a newbie anymore

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Is anybody out there using a VBR with a Postgres Configuration DB to backup & restore TDE encrypted SQL Server DB(s)?

All our TDE encrypted DB(s) are in 'Simple Recovery' mode. Hence there's no 'Point-In-Time' recovery needed.We simply restore a DB from daily backups. Our VBR server is configured as our Veeam gateway server.We'd like to switch to Postgres to save $ on licensing.If you are currently doing this successfully then please let me know your VBR version & Postgres version.Thank You!Kevin

21 hours ago

phil123456789Not a newbie anymore

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PKi Cert has expired on Vcenter Server and Veeam can't connect to backup VMs.

Hi, Our PKI cert has expired on our VCS server, and as a result the backups of the VMs are failing as Veeam can’t connect to the VCS. Its going to take us a few days to get another cert generated and installed on the VCS - but is there any workaround we can do in the meantime to get the Veeam Backup and Replication software to backup our VMs? I’m assuming not really - as that’s the point of certificates!Any suggestions most welcome.Thanks...

21 hours ago

adrigoNot a newbie anymore

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Retention Veeam Plug-in for Rman, version 12 not work

We have a job configured in Veeam Plug-in for Rman, version 12, and retention is not working. With this Plugin, we configure everything from the Veeam console, I attach images. The retention is 7 days, the repository is a disk (not tape), a level 0 backup runs on Tuesdays and differential every day. The jobs finish fine, without alerts, but on the seventh day nothing is deleted. Question: do I have to configure something else in Rman? We did not find any more Rman options when configuring the Plugin from the Veeam console. Thank you

23 hours ago

spider32Comes here often

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How to retain VMs brought up using VDRO longer than 7 days

How to retain VMs brought up using VDRO longer than 7 days?In order for us to retain the VMs past 7 days, we decided to basically stop Veeam services on our VDRO server. Needless to say, our VDRO is inoperable at this state. We’d like to bring it up and not affect the VMs that were created. So I think, this means that we need to modify entries in the VDRO database to “cleanly” remove this from VDRO but un-touch on the vSphere side. We can rename the objects in vSphere but not sure if this would work since VDRO may be using object IDs in its DB instead of object name. The VM involves is a big DB and just running a DB check took about a week and after this a patch needs to be applied necessitating another check that is why we need it longer than 7 days. Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I have also opened a low sev ticket with support and will share what they recommend.

23 hours ago

NemanjaJanicicInfluencer

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Retention Policy - Backup Copy Job with GFS

Hello everybody,I would like to know scenario with retention policy in this way. I don’t want to have Forever Forward Incremental backup method because as I saw it’s not recommended by Veeam also, if we do it without GFS.I would like to create Full backups (synthetic) every week.So I’m just a little bit confused how restore points will be available.If I have configured 7 restore points but in GFS I have option to store Full Backups for 2 weeks, how it will end up looking?I’m more curios how increments are going to be removed.

1 day ago

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