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Happy Friday! Let’s kick off 2022 with something helpful for everyone! Have you got a tip/secret weapon that you live to use to better protect environments? Maybe it’s something to help the service desk keep tickets down, maybe it’s something that helps improve your accuracy when sizing a deployment, whatever it is share it below! Anyone that reads my blog posts will know I’m a strong believer that backup frequency shouldn’t equal your RPO, you should under promise and over deliver. You can see more on that here:  I preach this to everyone. But my favourite trick to delivery an awesome recovery experience involves storage snapshots and file servers. Commonly I see organisations backing up their file server daily or twice daily. But we all have seen those pesky shared spreadsheets that are used by many people all day amongst other use cases. There’s a huge amount of data change per day on file servers and there’s always an accident or two. So my trick when the customer has a SAN that su

Hey all, A file backup job started failing when it attempted to run on Saturday the 15th. When the job ran on Friday evening, everything was fine, but it decided to start failing on Saturday. On Friday night, the recent Microsoft patch (kb5009557 2022-01 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 (1809)) was installed after the Veeam job ran so I am thinking that the failure might be due to the update? Currently using Veeam Backup and Replication Build 11.0.0.837 installed on a Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V machine. When looking in Event Viewer, I looked under the Applications and Services Logs tree and the failed job is given an Event ID of 190 with this message, “Job details: Error: Agent: Failed to process method {NasMaster.CreateIfNotExistsJobBackup}: You can't access this shared folder because your organization's security policies block unauthenticated guest access. These policies help protect your PC from unsafe or malicious devices on the network.” I have looked at the network and

I was reading an excellent article by Randy Lee, https://www.randylee.com/misc/dr-temperatures, and wanted to see what is your DR temperature? Do the categories align to your business?What is your range for RPO and RTO? “Who” was involved in deciding the values? When was the last time you confirmed the numbers are achievable?

Do you want to receive a weekly summary of the latest KB updates or immediate notices about Veeam security advisories? If yes to either or even both   then head over to https://www.veeam.com/knowledge-base.html and sign up right at the top of the page.In case you prefer RSS don’t forget they are available here:https://www.veeam.com/services/open/kb/security-feed https://www.veeam.com/services/open/kb/rss-feedHere is an example of what the emails look like:Thank you @HannesK for the heads-up on these.

I have a question as we are looking to make sure that our backup environment is as recoverable as possible in the event of the most extreme events.We have our VBR server virtualized in HyperV.  We do a backup job for the configuration database.  We also have a replication task setup to replicate the VBR server to our DR location.What we are looking at is that the location that the config database is backed up to is in the primary data center.  What has anyone done to create a task to copy the config database offsite, like to SharePoint or OneDrive or something like that.

Hi Guys, Need your help to vote for my Blogs. My Blogs are in the final list of Cisco IT Blogs award 2021 !please vote and check the Procedure !https://www.thenetworkdna.com/2022/01/it-blog-awards-2021-hosted-by-cisco-and.htmlCisco Link for voting ! https://www.ciscofeedback.vovici.com/se/705E3ECD767BAEDD

See an excellent tutorial how to use the restore to Amazon EC2 function via AWS PrivateLink.https://www.veeam.com/kb4264

Don’t miss out on this opportunity, be sure to apply before January 28th, 2022. The vExpert awards will be announced on February 18th. Want direct access to 10 VMware Business Units? Apply for vExpert before we close applications. http://vexpert.vmware.com  

If you ever wondered what security updates are in the Veeam Agent updates look no further.  This KB covers each release and the security implications - https://www.veeam.com/kb3108 

Opened The word from @Gostev this morning and he mentioned a new VMware vulnerability. With a score of 7.7 it is definitely up there. If you are on ESXi 7.X there is no patch yet but a workaround here: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87249 which is basically disconnect all virtual CD-ROM drives and they provide a PowerCLI command to do it easily.If you didn’t sign up for the newsletter, I strongly recommend it - always great content for a Monday morning. You can get it by registering af https://forums.veeam.com too.DescriptionThe CD-ROM device emulation in VMware Workstation, Fusion and ESXi has a heap-overflow vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.7.Known Attack VectorsA malicious actor with access to a virtual machine with CD-ROM device emulation may be able to exploit this vulnerability in conjunction with other issues to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine.

Hi Id like to find out what people think the best course of action would be in my circumstances. we have an agent backup job that was running on a WSFC failover cluster file server. this was backup up to a SOBR which was tiered to AWS We have just removed the WSFC cluster in favour of single servers, I have had to create new backup jobs within Veeam (cant use clustered type for non clustered) which was fairly easy my question is what do to with the old jobs, they have backup data attached to them in performance capacity tiers which I don’t want to accidentally remove but I am unsure whether it is best to just disable the job, or remove the protected volumes from the jobs, but I think that if I disable or remove the selections that Veeam wont be able to manage the retention policies thanks!    

I started to relax yesterday, after all made it through airports, covid testing and LAX jammed with people. Just when I was going to relax I saw this, Ah and now Tsunamis!!!!!  Always have a DR plan for any situation :) and down let your guard down! 

Anyone using Linux in Veeam might want to check this KB for specific permissions.KB2676: Veeam Agent Management Linux user account requirements

Hi, We are utilizing the RestAPI in VBR11 to manage most of our jobs (reporting, start, stop, etc).It seems that SureBackup jobs are not included in the API, when communication with /api/v1/jobs Is there an roadmap for the API, where we can follow the progress? Or is this already included? :)    

Hey guys, can anyone tell the difference in features between the veeam v11 and v11a?can we initiate replication and cdp in site that has veeam v11a to another site that has veeam v11 with patch P20210525 ?

When VMs on Citrix Hypervisor (formerly known as XenServer), orchestrated by Cloudstack Apache or Azure Stack Hub, using Veeam Agent (for Microsoft Windows or for Linux) are managed by Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC), reporting, licensing, and management functionality may have unpredictable results.See this KB for solution:https://www.veeam.com/kb4269

Hello everyone! I’m looking for the first time how to backup a physical windows machine and I notice that is missing something here:  I didn't find where I can choose what proxy will be process this job. I’m still reading help center session, but if anyone have some tip or advice for this kind of workload, please, just let me know.   

Hi everyone, ACG (A Cloud Guru) are providing a free training course this month on securing AWS S3 storage. Anton Gostev provided insights recently into public cloud utilisation and with AWS being used by such a big portion of the Veeam customer base, it makes sense to share information on how to secure the S3 storage. Link to course:https://acloudguru.com/course/how-to-properly-secure-an-s3-bucket Hope this helps someone!

I am not sure how many of you are familiar with the Veeam Talks series; however, I came across this session that I am super excited about myself: Technical Support Advanced Log Diving!You can register right here: https://pages.beamery.eu/veeamsoftware/page/tcs_advancedlogPrevious video on VMware Integration Troubleshooting can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNBWoJYpU38

Hey Veeam Community,I am having a problem backing up my personal workstation to an external hard drive.I am using the free version of Veeam Agent for Windows.When I backup, my main (C:) Internal SSD shows:Local SSD (C:) (476.1 GB) 262.5 GB read at 142 MB/sHowever, my other Internal SSD ‘terabyte’ (X:)Terabyte (X:) (953.9 GB) 3.8 GB read at 4 MB/s.I benchmarked both of my drives with CrystalDiskMark and they both got good similar results being Sata SSD’s, so the X: drive should not be this slow.I’ve tried swapping sata ports, changing cables, disable throttling when system is in use, etc. Nothing seems to help.Can anyone help me diagnose what is causing one drive to backup so much faster? Thanks, Mike 

Let’s face it, we live in a world where security vulnerabilities and threats are top of mind.  There’s some new exploits in the news daily...and often software patches are required to protect our assets.I’ve talked to many out there and the consensus is similar: patches are a must but, the need to be tested first, and testing is terrible.So I ask you all - what makes patch testing so terrible?  

Anyone that uses Azure backups check this KB to apply a fix for the Updater.KB4261: Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure - Updater Component Vulnerability

If anyone uses Oracle RMAN plugin there is a patch from Veeam - KB4263: Veeam Plug-In for Oracle RMAN Cumulative Patch P20211211

If you use Replication and convert a VM to template your job may fail.  See the following KB - KB1970: Replication job task fails with "Cannot process VM, template processing is disabled" (veeam.com)

[Sorry for this OT, but that’s a severe worldwide bug]A major bug has hit the Microsoft Exchanges on premise since January 1st 2022, because of using a int32 variable that long exceeds the maximum value of 2,147,483,647 causing the service goes error and blocking the queue mail.A first solution released by the community was to disable the malware filtering service with the following powershell lines:Set-MalwareFilteringServer -Identity <nameserver> -BypassFiltering $trueRestart-Service MSExchangeTransportMicrosoft yesterday released a powershell .ps1 that tricks the service by “unlocking the month of December 2021 to infinite days”, so today would be 34 December 2021.https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/email-stuck-in-exchange-on-premises-transport-queues/ba-p/3049447Honestly, I don’t know if this can be considered a good solution. For more updates, there’s a dedicated subreddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/rt91z6/exchange_2019_antimalware_bad_u