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safiya
safiyaCommunity Analyst
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Veeam 100 Show - Harvesting Protection: Sweet Insights from VeeamONE's Hexagon Dashboard
Veeam 100 Show - Harvesting Protection: Sweet Insights from VeeamONE's Hexagon DashboardVeeam 100 Show #18

ICYMI Today, we had our September episode of the Veeam 100 Show. This episode is the final special edition highlighting projects from the 2024 Veeam Community Hackathon.I was joined by my co-host ​@mkevenaar  and team members, ​@coolsport00  ​@jorge.delacruz and Mykhailo Kolenko.We discussed their 2024 hackathon project, the Hexagon Protection Dashboard - a honeycomb-style view that polls the VeeamONE API in real time and instantly tells you which workloads are safely backed up, which are protected but require review, and which need attention now as are unprotected.If you missed the episode, catch the replay here! 🐝 Don’t forget to sign up for 2025’s Veeam Community Hackathon! Sign up here: https://veeamhackathon.com/ Stay tuned for the next show!

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safiya
safiyaCommunity Analyst
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Blog of the Month August 2025 Nominations
Blog of the Month August 2025 NominationsBlog of the Month August 2025

Happy Monday Community! As Madi is on vacation, I am taking over Blog of the Month duties for August. :) You have 6 great blogs to select from this month. 2 were shared on July 29, missing the July nomination period, so I felt to add them here. Congrats to the nominees ​@coolsport00 ​@matheusgiovanini ​@PeteSteven ​@Scott ​@DaveR_NZ ​@marcofabbri! Take a read and select your favorite. The winner will be announced next Tuesday, September 2 (Monday is a US Holiday)August Blog of the Month Nominations:Select your favorite blog. Voting closes on September 1! 

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Veeam 100 Show -Episode 18-Veeam Service Provider Console in Your Pocket- Hackathon 2024 Special Edition
Veeam 100 Show -Veeam Service Provider Console in Your Pocket- Hackathon 2024 Special Edition

If you missed our latest Veeam 100 Show — a special edition all about the Veeam Community Hackathon 2024 — don’t worry, you can still watch the replay! Jonah joined me as co-host, and together we chatted with the winning team - ​@Ian_RSA , ​@lukas.k and ​@CMF - about their incredible project '’Veeam Service Provider Console in Your Pocket '’To enhance the accessibility and usability of the VCSP Console (VSPC), the team developed a mobile app for Android and iOS designed specifically with customers in mind. The app provides on-demand access to critical cloud service data, anytime and anywhere, putting essential information right at your fingertips. By leveraging AI and the VCSP APIs, they successfully launched the first version of the app during the 2024 Hackathon. Hear all about the project in this session! 

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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Blog of the Month Winner July 2025
Blog of the Month Winner July 2025Blog of the Month

 We have a winner for our Blog of the Month July 2025! Congratulations ​@JMeixner ! 😻 You won with your article Data Backup Basics XVIII - Backup Environment Architecture Considerations III: Security and Resilience  

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Kseniya
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! 

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safiya
safiyaCommunity Analyst
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Blog of the Month August 2025 Winner
Blog of the Month August 2025 WinnerBlog of the Month August 2025

Hello Community!Thank you all for the votes you placed to select August’s Blog of the Month winner. It was a very close race between two blogs this month, but with 12 votes, the winner is…​@PeteSteven with his blog, Virtual Lab/Sure Backup with small subnets! Congrats Peter 🎉Read his blog below:   Congrats to the other nominees as well! Find their great work here here - Blog of the Month Nominations 

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MugwanyaNew Here
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Upgrade from Veeam 11 B&R Community Edition to Veeam 12

I’m backing up about 30TB of data in my homelab to LTO tape using Veeam 11 CE. Looking at the licensing if I upgrade to Veeam 12 CE then I will be restricted to 5TB of backup, and my jobs will fail. Am I understanding this correctly?ThanksDerek

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Worker failed for Proxmox VE

Hello Team,I just finished setting up Veeam backup community edition 12.2 and added Proxmox VE server into Veeam backup.  Now, I tried to configure “worker”, but it was failed.  I used DHCP and set static IP address.  The error I got was “Failed to obtain an IP address: The operation timeout exceeded” and “Worker xxxx(hostname) test failed.  I am not sure if worker name should be registered in DNS record, or it should be any hostname which doesn’t exist in DNS?  I tried to both of them, but I still have no luck.Also, the worker host seemed to be created on Proxmox VE server.  I can see this and I can ping this from Veeam backup host (Windows 11 PC).   I appreciate for you help!!

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matt111New Here
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Veeam Backup for Salesforce Community edition update error

Was previously working as intended, just tried to login.On the login screen there is a popup “Application update error. Try cleaning the browser cache“ Cleaned browser cache but did not change.When logged in there is no organization showing, and as such no backup/restore jobs are showing. Under Settings>Companies I get a popup error: could not prepare statement; SQL [with t as (SELECT c.id as id, cast(c.external_id as text) as externalId, c.name as name, SUM(CASE WHEN s.org_name='production' THEN s.sf_sfdc_used_licenses ELSE 0 END) as users, SUM(CASE WHEN s.org_name='production' THEN (cast(jsonb_extract_path(s.sf_storage, 'data', 'max') as float) - cast(jsonb_extract_path(s.sf_storage, 'data', 'remaining') as float)) ELSE 0 END) as dataSize, SUM(coalesce(s.storage_used, 0)) as storageSize, SUM(coalesce(d.db_size_bytes, 0)) as dbSizeBytes, COUNT(s) as sfOrg FROM vsf_configuration.company c LEFT JOIN vsf_configuration.sf_instance as s on c.id = s.company_id LEFT JOIN vsf_configuration

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Ulrich WurstNew Here
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backup to tape reads MUCH more data that there is on disk

Hello, I recently installed B&R 12 Community Edition to backup a large file server to tape (about 36TB in one server).The disk backup is done to a QNAP NAS connected via iSCSI to the HyperV Server that hosts the VM (needed to use iSCSI as the QNAP NAS does not support files larger than 16TB).The backup to disk results in a 32TB VBK file. The tape drive is connected to another server running the Veeam Installation.Running a Backup to Tape job on the (VSS snapshotted) backup folder however behaves weirdly: right now after 48 hours the job progress is 99% with 88,9 TB of 88,9 TB transferred to tape but that number keeps on growing to 89 TB of 89 TB and so on. Yesterday it was at 99% with 50 TB of 50 TB transferred.The iSCSI target hosting the backup only has 50 TB in total disk space so reading 88 TB from that drive is rather unlikely.The job states "Continuing task for <VBK-File>" and the task.<Hostname>.performer_1.log gives me the line after the last tape swap on the au

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nzjcowanNew Here
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Adding an additional Volume to the Veeam Hardened Repository

I’m playing with the VHR ISO and wonder how we can add a second LVM volume to the VHR.We do this for RHEL and Ubuntu builds so I’m interested if we can do this with VHR.The sort of scenario would be where you add another bunch of disks or disk shelf into a physical server (and possibly controller) so we can have a physically separate second set of storage rather than buy a new server.Some use cases:You also might want to separate remote site backups onto separate Repo’s for specific regulatory or governance requirements Getting the most value from the physical hardware

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santiNew Here
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rman and veeam

I’m new using veeam, and our company just decided to use veeam as our backup solution. The 3rd party that setup the backup, is using application oracle agent, so it’s a managed mode as agent was deployed from the VBR.Backup job is running fine, and I saw that it’s using RMAN to backup the database. However, I don’t see a way to modify the RMAN script veeam is using. I have couple of questions:If I want to use recovery catalog, how can I put it in the backup script for the job with veeam managed mode.  How to enable GFS, if I have to retain data for longer term (our requirement is for ex 7 years to retain data)  Is it actually possible to restore from the specific veeam backup files (.vab,.vsm) from RMAN command? I tried to test this to restore specific control file not from the autobackup, as backup information has been deleted from the current control file, but it doesnot able to find it. thank you.

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dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Vanguard
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Failed to save Veeam CDP proxy: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

I’ve been googling and am about to open a support case, but I’m checking here first.  I have just built my first linux proxy servers using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.  Super easy, works great.  Except I have two more that I’m trying to build as CDP proxy’s.  I can setup as regular VMware Proxy’s, but when I attempt to install the CDP Proxy, I get the below errors.Error    Failed to save Veeam CDP proxy: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it <IP Address>:6182Error    Infrastructure item save failed Error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it <IP Address>:6182 This is my first time using Linux CDP proxy’s.  I did have Windows Proxy’s in place but was having an issue with starting the CDP service on those machines after upgrading to 12.1 and decided to just remove those VM’s because they were 2012 R2 and are being replaced/retired anyway.  Unfortunately, I’m not super well-versed in Linux so I’m learning here.  T

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abdelali.elkouriNot a newbie anymore
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Which best practice to apply: 30 d in Cool + 180 d in Archive with immutability

Hi all,  i’d like to clarify a best practice scenario for SOBR with Azure Blob storage.Environment (short) Veeam B&R v12.x — SOBR: Perf = Data Domain, Capacity = Azure Blob Cool (immutability 25 d + 10 d block generation), Archive = Azure Archive. GFS: Weekly 5 weeks, Monthly 7 months (~210 d). Goal: 30 d in Cool, then ≥ 180 d in Archive (Azure minimum). Candidate options (please advise which is best practice) Option A (simple & compliant, slight extra Cool cost): Keep Monthly = 7 months and Archive-after = 30 d. Keep immutability 25 + 10 = 35 d (Capacity cleanup deferred until D+35; ~5 extra Cool days). Option B (cost-optimized, if security allows): Set immutability = 20 + 10 = 30 d to align with Archive-after = 30 d, keep Monthly = 7 months. Option C (if keeping immutability 35 d and/or Archive-after 35 d): Increase Monthly = 8 months (~240 d) to stay ≥ 180 d in Archive in all cases. Question: Which option would you recommend as best practice (co

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Marcel.K
Marcel.KVeeam Legend
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Different retention of each database of MSSQL via plugin

Hello,i would like to ask, if its possible to set retention period of each database different.Based on Veeam helpcenter  there is an option to set - “delete backups older than”, which will delete all backups of all databases due not native SQL backup supported.Is there any option how to achieve that? thank you 

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Hartmut
HartmutComes here often
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Veeam Backup Open Telekom Cloud Elastic Cloud Server

Hi,does anybody have experience in backup vms from elastic cloud server (ECS) in the open telekom cloud? My idea would be, installing veeam backup server inside the cloud. Backup the ECS with agents to an external storage provider AWS S3 oder WASABI for example.Greetings Hartmut

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alikhazemComes here often
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Veeam agent backup slow backup speed

I am facing performance speed issues with the agent backup. The server capacity is 8TB, and it takes a very long time to complete the backup. Could you please advise if there are any solutions or recommendations to increase thebackup speed?

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nd39475_cNew Here
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Hyper-V iSCSI LUNs: modern ReFS vs NTFS?

We are a vmware shop, being priced out.  Many factors pushing us toward Hyper-V.I understand that in the early days ReFS was bug-ridden in multiple aspects.Going forward with Windows 2025 CORE Hyper-V, with VM’s of Windows2022, RHEL 9, and a few linux-based OVA deployments, what is the community recommendation for the format of the iSCSI LUNs that the VM’s run from?  there will be sizes from a couple hundred GB to all the way to 6TB, and in a special case 20TB.Our Veeam Repos are XFS, so not a factor here.Thank you kindly

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safiya
safiyaCommunity Analyst
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Veeam 100 Show - How to migrate your VMs from VMware to Hyper-V using Veeam
Veeam 100 Show - How to migrate your VMs from VMware to Hyper-V using VeeamVeeam 100 Show #14

Veeam 100 show is back!After taking a break in January, we returned this month with a discussion on migrating your VMs from VMware to Hyper-V using Veeam with ​@JailBreak and ​@Julia F Morgado Find Luciano’s blog here - https://www.provirtualzone.com/. And stay tuned for some content from him regarding this topic!  If you want more content, read the following migration guides from Veeam’s Solutions Architect team that were referenced in the show:Veeam Hypervisor Migration to Hyper-V Guide: https://www.veeam.com/whitepapers/veeam-hypervisor-migration-guide_wp.pdf  - Douglas Cheung and ​@olivier.rossi  Veeam Hypervisor Migration to Proxmox Virtual Environment Guide: https://www.veeam.com/whitepapers/veeam-hypervisor-migration-guide-vmware-proxmox-ve_wp.pdf - ​@rbrambley ​@olivier.rossi  Catch the replay below!  

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ngātaonga_ictNew Here
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Backup job using agent is not finding the fibre channel volume

Hello. As part of our Physical Infrastructure in VB&R12, we have a Physical Windows Server that has storage attached by fibre channel. The Veeam agent is installed on this server and the service uses the Local System account. I am attempting a "Managed by agent" backup of this server, but when this runs, I get the error message "Volume G:\ does not exist" for files from the FC-attached storage. Outside of Veeam, I checked that the server's local SYSTEM account has access to G: and it could read the files there just fine. Why can't the backup job see that volume? Thank you.

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Cragdoo
CragdooVeeam Vanguard
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Object lock greater than retention ...what happens??

A customer uses the copy function for capacity tier to instantly copy on-premises Veeam backups (retention of 30 days) to object storage. They’ve configured object lock on the object storage (60 days) that has a duration longer than the local backup policy. As Veeam cannot delete a backup in object storage at 30 days, will it delete it after the object lock expires (60 days) or does the customer need to manually delete the  files on object storage?My thoughts are Veeam will clean up those files once the the 60 day lock has expired, but got me scratching my head for sure

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Veeam B&R does not backup over FC switch

Hello,We have three ESXi servers connected to our Nimble storage using a Brocade Fibre Channel switch, each ESXi server connects to Nimble storage with individual zone as: ESXi1_Nimble, ESXi2_Nimble, ESXi3_Nimbe.A few months after this configuration was done, we added a physical server for Veeam B&R v12 as backup server and repository, which is also a backup proxy server. This is connected to the same FC switch and I created zone between the Veeam B&R server and the Nimble storage as:  VeeamBR_NimbleAnd most recently, we added a HPE tape library to this mix for GFS tape backups. Added the library to the FC switch and created a zone between VeeamBR_HPETapeDrive. Each night, the Veeam B&R server runs backup jobs then stores into its local repository (D: drive). Then it runs backup to tape, which writes from the Veeam B&R backup repository into tape drive. I have already configured "Direct storage access" while configuring Backup proxy's Transport mode. The backup jobs do

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BillyG43Comes here often
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Configuration Backup Job Warning

Fresh install of VBR 12.1.0.2131. New user. Not using Azure. Hyper-V VMs on Server 2016, V.1607, Build 14393.6614. I get: 6/02/2024 10:01:35 AM Warning Failed to connect to AWS plug-in: Failed to login to platform service: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it [2001:0:348b:fb58:34c2:214d:c31d:5c8d]:9402 6/02/2024 10:01:39 AM Warning Failed to connect to Microsoft Azure plug-in: Failed to login to platform service: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it [2001:0:348b:fb58:34c2:214d:c31d:5c8d]:20443 Backup and backup copy to removable media working well. Any ideas?

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clownyboots178Comes here often
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No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

Hey Guys, Sorry for the weekend help, I am just too excited to leave VEEAM aloneI have googled and read other forum discussions to this topic but they all point towards a service not being started and in my case, everything is running, and I have rebooted everything also coming here for some helpI am in no rush this weekend, this can wait until MondayError message: Error: Managed session has failed: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it x.x.x.x:10005   Thanks in advance guys,

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AirlessComes here often
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How to Increase CDP Proxy Cache

Not sure if I am missing something obvious but I have been poking around and I can’t find how to increase a CDP Proxy cache, without removing and re-adding. Thats seems a bit drastic and alot more work. Anyone been across this before ? Thanks Phil

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