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Hello Team,Greetings!The option mentioned in below link:https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/file_share_backup_job_secondary_target.html?ver=110 Is this only applicable for Veeam backed up VMs and we cannot use the secondary target for having a duplicate copy of replicated VMs correct?Thanks in advance!~ Ravi Kumar S

Hello, I’m trying to restore a full backup on a new ESXi host but it says Restore Point(s) is corrupted however the backup file is Full Backup Appreciate your support.

I didn’t see anywhere a discussion about this, so I say to myself: ok, let’s try.I tried a bare-metal recovery on a laptop I use for testing purposes, an HP 250 last gen laptop. On that I installed a Ubuntu 22.04 and then a copy of Veeam Agent (last version, of course).Did a backup (not encrypted) on USB drive and then I created a recovery-USB from a patched ISO linux ver with drivers.After that, I installed Windows 10 21H2 on that notebook, with drivers and Veeam Agent 5.0.3.This time I didn’t create a backup, but just a USB for bare-metal recovery.Lastly, I remove every partition on that laptop. What I wanted to test was the possibility of running a bare-metal recovery using a USB created from a different OS than backups.I expected process to go smoothly, but that’s not the case.What I got was this error.   Ok, two USB recovery media are different, but Veeam backup isn’t compatible between versions?(screens are for example, not taken from my test enviroiment) After that, I tried to o

Hi all, I have a backup that fails with the error Failed to call RPC function 'PluginsHost.StoreOnceReadFile'and RPC function call failed. Function name: [DoRpcWithBinary].I couldn't find anything that talks about that plugin or that function on the internet.Do you know more about this function and why this problem can happen?Thanks

I have a quick question regarding enabling backup file encryption. I would like to start using this option, but not clear on how it is being used once it is enabled.It appears that Veeam B&R continues to use the selected encryption password (in my case loss protection is disabled) during backups and restores.If someone were to gain access to the NAS that I am backing up to and attempted to restore a VM, they would need to have the password to restore the VM or guest files correct?If I do a test file level restore from an encrypted VM, I am not prompted to enter a password during the restore process.Thank you in advanceDon 

Hi to all,I try to understand the behavior of my lab jobs.I have a backup jobs (of one VM) with the following settings:Scheduled: every days at 22:00Retention: 7 daysSynthetic Full: SaturdayGFS: 12M, 5YRepository: Hardened for 7 daysenabled a secondary copy to backup copy job with following settings:Scheduled: every days at 08:00Retention: 7 daysGFS: 12M, 5YRepository: Deduplicate storageOn backup jobs all work fine but on backup copy jobs appears only the first full (example of today) and then all incremental until the end of June and at 30 June has copied (created) a full backup (MY) not deleting any of the previous backups.Restore point Repository 

I used to be able to use the Veeam Agent software to back up a single physical Server 2019 server but when I went to the Veeam website last week it looks like the Veeam Agent software is no longer able to be used to back up physical servers for free. Is there still a version of the Veeam Agent software or another Veeam product that I can be used to back up a single physical Server 2019 server for free? I need to use a free solution until my organization is able to purchase another Veeam license.

Hi All,with latest version of Veeam B&R, i have a Backup Jobs (that make copy on a remote Mac Folder via SSH that ends with this warning: 23/06/2022 04:33:51 :: Failed to transfer operation summary to backup server: Failed to delete file 'C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\vMac_Files\__IP_USERNAME\Report\__IP_USERNAME_2022-6-23T4331.csv'   If i go to that folder i’m able to delete the file.Any suggest?Thanks 

Hey guys, I have faced this error in customer environment where backup SOBR offload to cloud failed because it shows the error “ TLS version is not permitted on this storage account”, the TLS version is 1.2. I referred some articles and they suggests to add a registry value. One article shows the following registry value details:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\Dword: AzureConcurrentTaskLimitvalue: 1 will this registry value work?

I am going to start a PoC for my client. My client using Apache Cloudstack. any have any idea how can i do this using Veeam backup.Thnaks  

Happy Friday everyone! Thats right, this Friday I’m gonna share a fact that will likely make you sigh 😩 Did you know Christmas is only 26 weeks away? We’re halfway there again! Everyone start your Christmas shopping if you celebrate it 😆 If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice took place earlier this week, meaning every day is now slightly less bright, inversely if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, you’re through the darkest day of the year now and things are looking up! The curiosity Mars Rover sang happy birthday to itself one year after landing on Mars, making it officially the loneliest known birthday celebration. At some point your parents picked you up, put you down, and never picked you up again! Now, who’s next 😆

Hi everyone, I have problem with one of my servers who have MSQL and when the backup is finished i have this warning message “ Unable to truncate Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs. Details: Failed to process 'TruncateSQLLog' command. Failed to truncate SQL server transaction logs for instances: . See guest helper log.” I have search in official support and only find that the veeam account for backup must be MSQL administrator on that database, and to be local admin on that machine. I have make him database admin, but still i have this warning, and the hdd on that machine will be full soon. We have V11 Enterprise with support and so on, but because we are Public Enterprise we have bought this product from one Company in our Town. Can somebody give me some solution instruction step by step ?

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Happy Friday everyone! Today I want to talk about unique/awesome applications of technology, it doesn’t have to be useful, but just interesting! I saw this video the other day and was amazed at:How much care & detail went into this project. How unnecessary it really is, but yet I found myself in awe all the same!What was this video?A basketball hoop that you CAN’T miss with. Watch this and tell me you don’t want to give it a go?Also, as @wolff.mateus is just an NBA fan, I had to tag him in this! So, what have you seen?

Hi Veeam,Currently one of our customer using RMAN to backup there oracle database to the tape. They want to use Veeam RMAN plugin backup to the Veeam repository but the problem is they don’t want to completely stop the backup to tape.They are requesting there is any possible way to simultaneously backup their  Oracle database  to tape and also to RMAN plugin backup.They are having huge concern on RMAN plugin configuration. Because below RMAN configuration parameters will get updated automatically after plugin installation .CONFIGURE DATAFILE BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE TO 1; # defaultCONFIGURE ARCHIVELOG BACKUP COPIES FOR DEVICE TYPE SBT_TAPE TO 1; # defaultCONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' PARMS 'ENV=(OB_DEVICE=tape1)';which will lead them interupt in current Tape backup. Regards,Rithesh Kanchan

Hey guys, can anyone tell me while creating a backup why file level backup is mentioned slower?

Hello Everyone,I am using the Veeam Service Provider Console v6 product. Because of a security audit, I must collect all activity logs from the VSPC portal. Now the VSPC portal only can show Event logs in the web UI portal and VSPC does not support pushing event logs to a log system like ELK or vRealize Log Insight. Please help me to solve this problem.Best regards,

Hey Guys, I have a scenario.So my customer environment was taking oracle backups to tape without using Veeam. Now they want to initiate RMAN backup using Veeam. After installing plug-in the configuration settings gets updated in oracle but they also want existing backup jobs to the tape to continue after veeam plug-in install. Is there a solution to this?  

Does anyone have a good strategy to bring versioned file based backups from multi vendors into veeam or any other solution? 

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Following this document https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/restore_files_from_tape_objects.html?ver=110but I did not get the same screen shot as described in the document. 

Hi Folks, While not a technical subject, nevertheless since we are working with Veeam and that implies Disaster Recovery I am pretty certain many of you have been in the high pressure trenches of Severity One situations.Unless you have nerves of steel inevitably this will start to take a toll on your health and well being. People here are veterans of this profession so you have obviously found ways to survive and handle this. I thought it would be good to share what we all do to keep our sanity. Mind you I have been told I was never sane to begin with so you can’t lose what you don’t have but . For me humor is the saving grace.Laughing is like a reset button and it wipes the slate clean of all the built up pressure and anxieties and not just with IT related issues. In every situation I try to find a funny side of things. For example two weeks ago when I went to have my eyes checked again. I knew that they were going to tell me that I needed new glasses. Sure enough they did and started

Happy Friday all! Today, lets talk tools, the right tool in the wrong hands can be catastrophic. What tool have you seen so the most damage to an environment? Whether it’s a built in tool/feature or 3rd party, I wanna hear! For me, it’s Remote PowerShell. I witnessed this being used by a malicious script to deploy ransomware to every device in the domain and the rest of the network. The script was harvesting credentials from users working on the infected endpoint and the moment a domain admin signed in, BANG, remote PowerShell to all!

Hi Folks, I don’t know if any of you saw this but interesting stuff. A best practice guide for SP’s. I could have used this in a previous life :)  https://bp.veeam.com/sp

Happy Friday everyone! Today, lets talk pet peeves. If you’re not familiar with the term, it means something of frequent/continual annoyance to someone. Mine is when backup repositories are used for ANYTHING other than backups/data restoration. I see it a lot with people’s personal backups and in smaller businesses. It’s often a scenario such as: I find a file share on a backup repository, and I ask, what’s that doing there? Then I’ll be told that there were some files that were far too big to sit on their expensive storage such as marketing media shares full of videos and photos. I was always taught to assume positive intent so I’ll ask something like “oh okay, have they copied what they need so it can be deleted?” More often than not I’ll be told, nope they need the data still as XYZ department needs it. I’ll then ask the key question, “okay, where’s be being backed up to? And what frequency?” At this point I always get the same response “we have nowhere big enough to back this up to