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Happy Friday everyone! So, next month it will have been two years since the Veeam Community Hub was first revealed during VeeamON Update 2020. During this time, there are now over 13.6k users, nearly 20k comments, and over 2.6k topics. Lets take a moment and reflect on those numbers, it’s VEEAMAZING. What’s also amazing is the visibility this platform gives to amazing content, even content that isn’t directly related to Veeam can get hundreds or thousands of viewsExhibit A: Exhibit B:Exhibit C:Now I turn to the community and ask, was there any particular topic or content that you were especially impressed with? Maybe it didn’t get the visibility you thought it deserved at the time and want to re-share it? Whatever the reason, please share your favourite topics below and why you like them! For me, it’s actually this awesome recovery post from @falkob that I wish had got more attention:It’s a scenario we never want, but will inevitably face due to one reason or another, having someone ex

Hello, I attempted to upgrade a v4 Veeam Agent (free version -- this is at home) to the latest v5.0.3.4708 and it failed, saying I needed to install Sql Server 2012 Express localdb, which was already there. (FWIW I successfully did this upgrade on two other similar PCs before trying this one.) I tried uninstalling the old version of Veeam and it still failed. I then uninstalled Sql Server Management Objects and CLR Types, trying to get a clean slate. The installer said it was installing the prerequisites, then died again. The logs say that Sql Server installed successfully, but either Veeam just doesn’t think so, or it can’t see it. The “endpoint<timestamp>.log” is showing an exception that just doesn’t say much of anything.[16.09.2022 14:28:53][INFO] Checking presence of Microsoft Universal C Runtime redist.[16.09.2022 14:28:53][INFO] 'ucrtbase.dll' module is found, redistributable is already installed.[16.09.2022 14:28:53][INFO] Checking presence of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Sy

This looks pretty cool, anyone attending it: https://www.veeam.com/dreamforce-2022.html?utm_campaign=Country:+Global,Creative:+Animated+Banner,Format:+3rd+party+event,Program:+Salesforce,Title:+Dreamforce&utm_source=GlobalNewsletter&utm_medium=socialteam&utm_content=1661998872  ?  

Hi TeamWe have a challenge with one of our customers .They have requested for a monthly full backup to be stored for 12 month retention.They had requested for the same to be stored on cloud for the same considering onpremise storage space .We have added an blob object storage from Azure and created a SOBR with the same as capacity tier and onpremise performance tier. We have configured the data to move after every 5 days from performance to capacity. Configured a monthly full backup with 12 restore points to be run on the last day of the month.Movement of backups donot happen and currently 2 full backups have happened and have stored on the local onpremise repository.Support initially stated that we would need to wait for 2 backups for the previous backup to move but this has not happened.Now they have stated the configuration should be part of a GFS configuration.Nothing substantial interms of configuration has been provided clearly .Need some help or recommendations for the same .Not

Can’t find anything specific about this, but have to assume when using the COPY mode, Veeam uses some work space to extract/hold the data blocks before copying to the Capacity tier? 

For those who play with REST APIs, very cool website for visualising JSON data, help you convert the JSON into easier to read graphs https://jsoncrack.com/  

I would very much like to have ANY storage target be allowed to be targeted/used for a SOBR capacity or archive tier. As a for instance…  the primary performance tier for the SOBR lands on a RAID 10 of either HDD or SSD and then rather than being forced to use object storage for the Capacity and Archive tiers it would be possible to simply offload to another repo that sits on a much slower but more capacity efficient RAID 60 array of disks. That would be much appreciated. That’s just one example of course, but the point is that I would like to have the system admin ultimately determine what they want to qualify as “performance”, “capacity”, and “archive” worthy storage. If they determine that based on their needs that the “performance” tier is a RAID 10 of SSD and their “capacity” tier is a RAID 10 of HDDs, and their “archive” is a RAID 60 of HDDs… let them be the judge of that. Don’t force their hand into using object storage.For all anyone knows, what the backup/storage admin want as

Frequently we need troubleshoot Veeam Backup Server through the network.However, if Windows Firewall is enabled on SO it doesn’t reply ping and echo requests. At this moment so many people act disabling Windows Firewall and mostly times don’t remember to enable it again.So, if you want to allow ping without disabling Windows Firewall you can just run this simple command on cmd:netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request" protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow 

I’ve just been informed by support that Veeam does not allow restoring more than one file per restore job from a NAS archive repository. They suggested I create a feature request, so here goes.  Can I suggest adding a “feature” that allows for multiple files and whole folders to be restored from archives? Restoring one file at a time is a ludicrous proposition if you need to restore 1000’s or even 10 files.  We’ll need to find an alternative solution as we are already concerned about user requests for future data restoration from our already archived repos.  

Happy Friday, Everyone! Today I ask. What was your most disappointing piece of tech?We all know tech is supposed to improve our lives, jobs, etc, but what about when it’s over promised, and under delivered? For me, two things stick in my mind. From a gaming angle, the most disappointing tech I ever witnessed was the Steam controller, the prototype looked amazing and revolutionary, a controller with a built in, full colour screen that could be controlled by the games. Then they scaled back their vision the closer it got to release, ending up a generic controller mainly, with a couple of Haptic Touch circles that were supposed to allow for more adaptive control, but then nothing supported it, now it gathers dust on my shelf! From a more high-tech angle, it’s got to be 3D X-Point, but you probably know it as Intel Optane, even though it was a joint venture between Intel & Micron.Again, a vision was sold that this was it, we’d be swiftly bridging the gap between storage and volatile RA

We are using kasten version 5.0.7 and want to implement LDAP as described on https://docs.kasten.io/latest/access/authentication.html#active-directory-authenticationWe also used https://docs.kasten.io/latest/install/advanced.htmlBefore we added the custom-ca-bundle.pem the auth-svc logs the following error:x509: certificate signed by unknown authoritySo adding the custom-ca-bundle.pem to the configmap solved the x509 error.However when I navigate to http://backup.tooling.x.y.nl/kasten-io/#  the pod: auth-svc logs the following error:{"File":"kasten.io/k10/kio/auth/oidc.go","Function":"kasten.io/k10/kio/auth.NewOIDCProvider","Line":67,"clusterName":"https://backup.tooling.x.y.nl","cluster_name":"1b873c7c-b159-4ed9-9e6f-ad3cc4e87757","hostname":"auth-svc-758d48f58c-92962","level":"info","msg":"Initializing OIDC provider","prompt":"select_account","providerURL":"https://backup.tooling.x.y.nl/dex","scopes":"groups profile email","time":"20220912-14:04:53.616Z","version":"5.0.7"}{"File":"ka

Running Veeam free version for Linux on Dell Optiplex 5060, OS is Linux Mint Mate 20.3.  Just setting up this machine and moving from an older Dell pc.  In old pc, ran Veeam free version for years of weekly b/u’s, no issues.  Veeam downloaded and installed via Synaptic and set for full system image, target is ext. HDD, USB connection to computer.In new machine, 5 b/u’s have failed, see s/shot.  Targets were 2 different 1tb ext. disks,  each formatted to FAT32, exFAT, and then EXT4.  One of the disks is the same one used for the backup chain in the old pc, no problems..  All failed attempts show the same bottleneck, “source” after running for 2 to 8 minutes.  Not clear what to do here since no previous snags w/ Veeam.   Any suggestions appreciated! 

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If we migrate the insider protection folder to another storage location, does Veeam still track that data, for the insider protection retention (7days)?

For those that happened to attend the VUG Canada or even those that will watch it later can please drop some feedback over in my other post so I can ensure we have great content for the next one.  Any comments welcome on content, flow, improvements, things you did or did not like, etc.I am working on the next VUG and hopefully we will cover something like Orchestrator in this one. 😎Feedback thread is here - VUG Canada Feedback

Hello, Customer have an existing veeam on prem setup plus tape, they do manually  tape vaulting - they manually transfer the tape from HO to dr site (vaulting site).What is the best and seamless approach so that customer no need to go to Dr site to do vaulting.Can we relocate the Tape from HO to Dr, setup veeam resources (server and storage) and have copy/move from HO to Dr then do the tape backup jobs?  Thanks

Does anyone have a network diagram of how to restore through a proxy and without, with ports and protocols?

Hi everybody!Im writing this question more like as curiosity and to re-think in my home lab, I've been using a HP 360 Gen8 with 128GB Ram and 2TB SSD with vsphere 7 to host my full home lab: 3 hosts Vsphere cluster, TrueNas for NAS & NFS storage, and pfsense for routing and firewalling, and a Windows Server 2016 with Veeam B&R.Now Im thinking in something more “electricity friendly” , but I would love to read some setups and ideas from all of you, and maybe mixing them up a bit we can get with the SUPER HOME LAB!thnx!read you in the comments!

I tried to update veeam 5.0... but it didn't work. I tried to install the patch and it didn't work. I uninstalled version 5 to install version 6 and it didn't work. I tried to install version 6 on two other stations and it still does not work. I get a windows installer popup when I try to install VEEAM and then it crashes. can you help me please.

Here we go, another Friday, another Fun Friday chapter!As an architect solution, we normally develop, deploy and maintain a vast number of data protection scenarios. We often take care many backup environment and occasionally, we have contact with many technologies and professionals.So, what was the stranger thing that you saw in a backup infrastructure?It could be anything:Strange kind of deployment scenarios. Bad behavior during backup executions. People doing strange things during the project.Starting now.... 

Good afternoon Group.It is the first time that I am going to install veeam with a client, I have been reading a lot of the documentation and watching the how to videos, but I can't find anywhere that recommends me how to partition all the installation paths and on which disks to put the installation paths for 100 VMs. From what I've read, it would be something like this: 1.-Installation folder at least 40 GB in path A, in this path the database is installed, wouldn't it be better to install the database in another path? 2.-Write cache folder of at least 10 Gb in SSD in path B:? 3.-Guest Catalog Folder, on SSD in path D:, how much space? Hopefully someone can give me their recommendation.Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone 😊 With so much Veeamazing content being produced daily, it’s great if we can keep this all tidy. Once thing I’ve noticed recently is an increase in content that’s been miscategorised. When creating a topic, such as this one, the very first thing you’re asked is “What kind of topic are you creating?” Alt Text: Image showing the new topic layout, it asks the question ‘What type of topic are you creating?’ with two radio boxes, one labelled ‘Question’, the other labelled ‘Content’ Today I want to discuss, when is a ‘Question’ appropriate? To put simply, a question should be chosen when you are in need of a specific answer for your needs/information. This would be questions that have a specific goal in mind, and can clearly be defined. Examples include:‘How do I create a backup job to tape?’‘Where do I find the latest patch for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365?’‘Why does Veeam keep reporting low disk space on my backup job?’‘When does Veeam plan to release VBR v12’‘What is a bac

Hi, can you help me figure out this scenario.Customer have a license for VBR version 11 with few instances.They want to backup their Azure VM’s and store the backups on their Azure blob or Azure Smb file share. So the plan is  to spin a vm instance on their azure,  install VBR on that new VM instance, add the license, add their VMs as managed server on the VBR, configure target backup repository as Network attached storage (SMB) or configure target backup repository as (Object Storage - Azure Blob).Note: License is for VBR version 11 and not for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.Now the question is, what is the proper approach for this scenario?Can we add each vm instance from their azure as managed servers to be able to backup it up or do we have to connect through Veeam backup Microsoft azure appliance? (Note: Customer does not want to deploy Azure Appliance)Is adding Azure SMB share as backup repository supported? Can I directly point my backup to my target Azure Blob repository? 

Dear concern, I’m looking for a way (if even possible) to migrate a Windows Server 2012 Foundation(!) to an upgradable Windows Server 2012 Essentials or higher. Final goal is to get this system on a 2022 Essentials including all installed applications. The Server 2012 Foundation is not a DC !A direct upgrade of a Windows 2012 R2 Foundation to any other Windows Server version is imho not possible.Previous steps so far:New machine running main lates ESXi7.02 Migrate physical Server 2012 to VMware host. All test have been successful executed. Install Veeam Community main lates to the VM  Backup VMNow my question concerning the restore. Will this be done to an existing VM e.g. running on a Server 2016 Essentials or even higher? What restore method will be applicable?highly appreciate your comments/hintscheers

Dear Veeam I need your help,1-I would like to know, How Veeam names each file. Exam xxx_Backup_2022-08-18T22018I refer to the last numbers. 2- I don't want to change the name of the backup job, I want to be able to edit or change the naming convention of the backup objects in the repository. like YYYY-MM-DD.