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Most of you are following the twitter saga. Politics and other issues aside I wanted to address one leitmotif brought forward by Musk and his horde of sycophants. Numerous times I have seen the argument “time to fight IT entitlement” used as a battle cry before performing massive layoffs. I have worked in IT for 20 years and while I have encountered some bad apples, on the whole the majority of Engineers and IT tech folk have been hard working and diligent people. I was working abroad from North America for 16 years and I was shocked when I returned to see the level of C Level, CEO etc entitlement. The salaries of this class of worker (and remember we are all a team as they love to say in the meetings!) had in my opinion unjustifiably skyrocketed to levels their predecessors could not have dreamed of. Inevitably to justify such a situation one must find a scapegoat and the hard working IT tech folks are an easy target.Or are they?My buddy and fellow Vanguard 

Happy Friday everyone! To those that don’t know, when you create a Scale-Out Backup Repository you can configure it to automatically create a new full backup if a required extent is unavailable. I had a few conversations recently whereby I was the only one endorsing this option. So I ask, who uses it, who doesn’t, in both scenarios, why?  

Hi Folks, I know some of you were planning taking exams from the Linux Foundation (Linux, Kubernetes etc) and they are normally quite pricey! Cyber Monday is one of their biggest sales up to 65% off which for people on a budget is no small deal. I am thinking about attacking the PCA next :)  https://training.linuxfoundation.org/ cheers Geoff

HI Everyone. I seem always to be doing at least 2 IT courses at the same time. The reasons are many but I can enumerate a few: One I enjoy IT :), Two I am worried about getting behind, Three I want to get ahead, Four I am addicted to getting the course completions certificates and certifications because it makes up for my years of goofing off in grade school and all but the last year of High School. Back then teachers were not very politically correct so I was called a moron, a pain in the a, imbecile, lazy, annoying and many other attributes which in today’s world would land the teacher in court :) . This obviously inflicted me with deep impostor syndrome whenever I find myself sitting at a table with smart folks :).So I am always doing courses. Now no one really pays you do do courses so you have to somehow fit them in with the boring stuff. i.e. work. I have a few tricks but wanted to know if you had any as well. For one thing on most courses you can t

I am happy to announce that my new book “Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices” is available to pre-order on the amazon website now. This book contains the different topics, e.g. Veeam. You can pre-order at the link below if you are interested. Thanks to @Rick Vanover, @NikolaPejkova approved me to join the Vanguard program in 2019, then I can learn the knowledge of Veeam products from this great community. And also thanks to @Chris.Childerhose recommendation for this book. This book will publish in Jan 2023.  Table of Contents of this book:Overview of VxRail Appliance 7.x System Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Design of vSAN Storage Policies

Sorry if this appears twice. I thought I had created the question, but cannot find it.Veeam backup&restore has an application config file that is protected by a password.How to I test this password? I do have something written but I want to prove it is correct.I’m hoping to do this without installing a new copy of the applicationMany thanks

I swear I’ve seen some posts about this but can’t find them.  I haven’t dipped into the Linux Hardened repo’s with immutability yet, but one of my engineers recently set one up for a client, but as a copy repository.  I’m putting together a proposal to replace our internal Synology NAS that is our primary repository with a Dell PowerEdge R550 with a fair amount of local space (8x 8TB disks in RAID 5 or 6) connected via 10Gb or 25Gb links. Backup data is currently copied to a SOBR at a remote site that is using a Synology NAS and Wasabi for immutable object storage.  Right now the primary site is keeping 30 days of Forward Incrementals with Active Full’s with no GFS retention, but I plan to ramp up some more retention locally at some point as I ran into space issues a few months back and ended up doing all of my GFS work on the copy repo at the remote site for the time being.Any gotcha’s I should be looking out for this sort of configuration - primarily in regard to using a ha

Email notification is working but I was recivinig somthing like chines letters and i try to fix it with dis article KB2692: Notification emails from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 are sent in an unexpected language , and now test mail is working and whan the backup job is finished Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 in action many said that email notification is sent, but I dont recive any emails.Help ?

Hi all,Our setup is currently as follow: Veeam server in seperated VLAN, guest processing is now running with VIX with the domain\administrator account.Regarding the KB we must use the administrator account as it has the -500 at the end of the SID.For safety purpose we want to disable the global domain\administrator account and use another domain admin. Since I change the account, the backup jobs failing because of failing guest processing.When I test the guest processing, the difference is that administrator successfully can make connection with Guest OS via VIX (after failing over to backup server for guest interaction). Another account fails at this step as well.I could open 445 between the VLANS’, but I’m not sure that I break security if I do so.Are there best practise available for this kind of setup? Disabling UAC would not be the best op

hi there, the last couple weeks i face a weird issue which i will describe below.i have Veeam B&R installed on a physical domain joined server 2012 r2. up to now i was able to add all other servers in the infrastructure (one more physical server 2012 r2, some VM servers 2012 r2 and a Azure file server 2019) without any issue.even a remote non domain joined server over a VPN connection.my issue is that i cannot add a non domain joined physical 2022 server located on a remote site which we have VPN connectivity, as a standalone server. need to add it as we are going to have a VN running there.please see attached, thank you in advance for your assistance.ps: i can ping the server and credentials are tested and working just fine since i can connect to that server using RDM

Happy Friday everyone, Interested to see people’s opinions on this subject. RAID for backup storage, most (I really hope all) organisations will use RAID for the storage underlying their backups. But, what type of RAID do you typically use, and why? Vote in the poll and then share any particulars below. For example, if you use RAID 60, but choose to have 4x stripes vs 2. I want to add, there are no right or wrong answers (even you RAID 0/ No RAID brave people!), but there’s always a reason behind the decision, were you after maximum density, improved write vs read, maximum durability, reduced durability due to multiple copies etc.

I am currently using Veeam EssentialsOur HCI is Nutanix and we have roughly about 28 VM’s on itWe are currently evaluating Proxmox VEHow can i restore full Backups of my critical VM’s to the Proxmox VE? 

This weekend happens an Issue on a Copy Job on immutable repository:XX/XX/XXXX 01:02:07 :: Agent: Failed to process method {Transform.CompileFIB}: Input/output errorPOSIX: Seek operation has failed. File: [/XXXX/backups/BACKUP_COPY_JOB_XXXX/BACKUP_JOB_XXXX/BACKUP_JOB_XXXX.vbk]. Distance to move: [504738922496]. Move method: [SEEK_SET]. XX/XX/XXXX 01:09:00 :: Unable to apply retention policy: failed to delete backup files Error: Input/output errorFailed to get file system object info: '/XXXX/backups/BACKUP_COPY_JOB_XXXX/BACKUP_JOB_XXXX/'Agent failed to process method {FileSystem.Exists}. Now I see the repository as Unavailable and if I try to rescan it and I receive the following warnings:Failed to synchronize REPOXXXX Details: Input/output error Failed to get file system object info: 'XXXX/backups'. Agent failed to process method [FileSystem.Exists].

We have a location in the US where our VBR server in DE seem to have some connection issues sometimes. Latency and packet loss I see in smokeping is not that high, even better than for most of our other remote locations. Still we see errors like below in out backup and offload jobs for 2-3 VMs out of 35 on a daily base. The IP is the local proxy there. Processing xxxx Error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 172.31.132.113:2508   First job retry is successful most of the time. Anyhow, I’d like to get rid of those errors. Support suggested to change following regkeys to adjust.ConnectByIPsTimeoutSecAgentStartTimeoutSec But this did not change anything. I think we need settings for retries not timeouts. Any other ideas? Network team already checked everything and did not

Hi,I have a problem with add an organization on veeam Back EM with API.I certainly enter correct “HostUid” that belong to vcloud, but get below error:"FirstChanceExceptionMessage": null,    "StackTrace": null,    "Message": "Unable to find target vCloud host on VBR [25fc543e-0622-4dce-82ff-ee6296bb397c]",

Hello, We’re trying to make a backup on a server using Agent but we’re facing this error message. 

I wanted to ask any Service Providers out there that may use tape with Veeam - do you have sizing set up so that when you have X number of Tenants you add tape drives or another tape server?I am working on our design for our Veeam VCC to Tape offering and I am trying to put together some rough estimations of when you have X number of tenants on VCC you add either - X number of tape drives more or add a second/third tape server to the mix.We have currently 47 tenants with one tape server which had 3 tape drives connected (now it is up to 6 as we added 3 more yesterday) but it still seems to be a bit of a headache due to the number of jobs running plus when a Restore request comes in.Hopefully someone has experience around this as I have also asked our SA at Veeam as well to see if there is any documentation, they have similar to the limit's spreadsheet for VBM365 which is great.Thank for looking and chiming in. 😁

Morning, Saw an interesting news story today relating to some new HDDs from Seagate, boasting a maximum capacity of 18TB, these 7.2k RPM SATA/SAS hard drive, capable of a maximum sustained transfer rate of up to 554MBps. For those interested it is the Seagate Exos Mach.2. So how does it reach these alleged high speeds? Let’s dive in 👇 Firstly, these hard drives have two actuators, with the disk capacity divided neatly in half between them. As always, the random IOPS falls through the floor with these disks, achieving 304 random read and 560 random write IOPS, tested at 4K Q16.For the cache, it’s a 256MB multisegmented cache helping boost some of these numbers which isn’t that surprising. These hard drives are designed for the datacenter, so pricing isn’t publicly shared and I don’t believe we’ll see these drives on shelves any time soon, and with power consumption of up to 13.5w under load, these wil

Hi Folks,It came to my mind long time ago this question, and my answer, but last night after chatting with a friend of mine, the topic came out to the table, so here it comes...What do you miss from your Veeam B&R?And my first answer would be, a Linux Based Appliance, getting rid of the Windows Based Installation at all.I've been "struggling" with this many times, usually people that doesn't want to have a Windows Machine (most of the time, they are full Linux / Unix Infra), or can’t afford a Windows Server License.What do you think? Best regards.Luis.

Hello,we want to change the naming of the media sets in our tape media pools and encountered a situation with the available variables.Our goal is to include date and time in the media set name in format ”yyyymmdd_hh:mm”The variable %date% gives date and time in the format “dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm” (ok, the date format is based on the system locale). But we cannot change the system locale for this…. 🙁With the variables %year%, %month%, %day% and %time% it should be possible to build a date_time string in the desired format. But unfortunately, the value of the %month% variable is the name of the month, not the number

So in B&R v12 it is possible to directly backup to an object storage - same is valid for the agents if I’m not mistaken. Testing the current beta hasn’t given me that option to choose an object storage as target repository, so I guess it can only be achieved in combination with B&R? Or does it still have to be developed? Thanks!

Hi Everyone, Veeam Vanguard @mkevenaar has started a mastodon server masto.nu This should be a great place for Data Protection folks and It in general. I plan to push this also through my Kubernetes networks.Please feel free to join. 

For an our customer I will have to integrate the backup of VM replicated by vSphere replication software, some one have tried to do this ? There are known issue or limitation ?Thanks  Luca

Hello, Team So, i was trying to restore data and my restore keep saying my proxy is offline. THe communication is good and the services are running. Community on the actual port is good. I need help and it is important that this is sorted on time. See screenshots below:   

VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 are GA now, anyone will try to test in Veeam v11?😁 https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2022/10/11/announcing-initial-availability-of-vsan-8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=announcing-initial-availability-of-vsan-8 https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2022/10/vsphere-8-now-available.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vsphere-8-now-available