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Hey guys,With two weeks to go the hype is getting real for Veeam now.I saw one of Rick’s bloopers on Twitter and got an idea for this little mash up Avengers Infinity War / Veeam teaser. It fits a little too well IMO! I’d like to thank @Rick Vanover / Thanos / Ricknos? for being a good sport about this abuse.

Hi all, Can I add new backup server in this Tape?  Thanks in advance

One of the things that I will be doing, starting with the v11 release, is preparing a “How to upgrade” Blog and Video situation that I will post here in the Veeam Community site.  This will be an exclusive resource you will only get here!Now just to be clear, this post will be straight blocking and tackling, it’s not going to cover what’s new, it’s for the person who has a previous version and is ready to upgrade. Here’s my loose agenda of what I plan on covering:Pre-Steps Key documentation to review Licensing and Product How to get license updated, steps to secure license admin/access How and where to download the product(s) Must-See Information Noting key changes/dropped platforms Known issues Key advice from Veeam Tech Support Common Case Summary thru RTM Note scenarios where “If you are using _X_ existing capability, it will be new this way

You were supposed to post the Holiday Giveaway contest winners on veeam.com/holiday- giveaway.com by 2/2/21. Please post.rogeranson@yahoo.com

Bring even more joy to your holidaysIn the spirit of giving this holiday season, Veeam® wants to give you a chance to win some awesome tech gadgets. https://www.veeam.com/holiday-giveaway-2020.htmlHow do you enter to win? It’s as easy as following these steps:Fill out the form by Dec. 31, 2020 including your business email address. Check this page after Feb. 2, 2021 to see if you’ve won one of the prizes. 20 winners will be chosen. 

This issue I’ve seen with larger SOBRs having many ReFS extents. Having a backup-copy job (pruning) with GFS there were sudden unintended switches of backup chains to other extents. Thus loosing all space efficiency for the GFS points. We used scripts here to detect chains spanning more than a single extent. It turned out to be a bug solved in V10 paired with a very conservative process in VBR to detect extents near space exhaustion. There is some estimation here due not being able to estimate the space savings due to block recloning. This could be tweaked with two regkeys:Pfad: HKLM\Software\Veeam\Veeam Backup and ReplicationName: SOBRSyntheticFullCompressRate Value: 35, DWORDDescription: override the estimated space VM would take on SOBR in a full backup. % of previous full backup size.  

Dear all, is it possible to create backups (full, incremantal etc.) for MaxDB 7.9 with veeam and backint? The OS is SLES 12 SP5.  Kind regardsSmiddy  

I am curious what languages are used by the community for reporting, monitoring and/or automation. I personally do a lot of scripting with PowerShell. What language is worth learning it?I wish, Veeam will replace their PowerShell Plug-In by a PowerShell module in www.powershellgallery.com.@Kseniya Just a little thing: when embedding code here in the community, PowerShell is no language-option. Maybe this can be added in the future? 

Here is the text from the e-mail received from the server:Failed to preprocess target Error: Failed to call RPC function 'FcWriteFileEx': Incorrect function. Failed to open fileDoes this look familiar to anyone? If so.. how did you resolve it??Thank you for any Help, 

Just a question really simple… What do you like most about Veeam Backup & Replication?What is the main feature on Veeam that completely drive you crazy?  

In 2018 i’ve passed VMCE-ADO which is now renamed to VMCA. Will there be a new exam release this year?

Hey community! I was wondering what’s everyone thinking about vTrailMap page, which we designed earlier this year? Would be nice to hear from you whether you liked it or not.https://www.veeam.com/vmware-vtrail-map-2020.html

I work pretty heavily with backups in my current role, and we use your product and another product with some of our clients. The other product has a feature that is incredibly helpful and I think would be an amazing feature to add to Veeam. How feasible would it be to add a “Force Retention” feature? I really believe we need this for situations when we run into low disk space. In Veeam’s current state, if I run into an issue where I need to reclaim disk space, I am forced to break my backup chain and delete data. If I could lower retention on my backup and then force retention, that would effectively eliminate the need for me to have to lose data and break a backup chain. For example: if I am in a situation where I am getting failures due to low disk space, and I have retention on said backup job set to 30 days, if I could cut retention down to, say, 20 days, and force retention, I could maintain my current backup chain and then address the disk space issue accordingly

Dear Veeam Technical Community, By now, I’m sure you are all aware of the planned launch of the next major release of our flagship solution Veeam Availability Suite v11 on the 24th of February (Click on the link to set up a reminder to join the launch event). In the meantime, I’d like to collect a list of any specific topics that you would like to see any deep-dive technical contents from Veeam for, either in the form of blog posts here on the community hub, or on our  frequent Veeam product webinars etc, in order for you to understand the new Veeam products and  solutions or their key capabilities better? Can you please share your asks via comments?  To get you started, I’m guessing the below V11 specific topics would be of interest? Continuous Data Protection Immutability via secure Linux repository

What do you think is the hottest feature of v11 in terms of cloud capability -Here are mine Google Cloud object storage optionArchive Tier and Amazon Glacier/Deep Archive and Azure Blob Archive 

Hello, I have a question.I have a scenario with a server, it has Veeam Backup Community installed and makes copies locally.I would like to add an external copy on a server that is now deprecated, and I would like to use for copies.I have tried to get Veeam Backup Agent for Windows to be recognized on both servers, but it is only recognized by one, the one doing the installation.Is it possible to make copies of the same server from two Veeam Backup servers?Thank you all.

… for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions suppliers.https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/01/19/gartner-customer-choice-backup-data-recovery/Veeam is placed in “Customers’ Choice” quadrants!  So it is in good company. I personally thought ratings would be higher ... 

Hello everybody! I have a brazilian blog that I started to produce some contents about data protection and Veeam. So, I’m gonna write about Veeam too. The first post I wrote was about 3-2-1 rule and now I’d like to know what kind of subjects y'all think that would be interesting to write about? If you have any tips for me, just let me know! 

Hello friends, Can Veeam perform a file level backup by specific file name prefix? If a file starts with dept1 across all servers, then Backup only those files to repository X.If a file starts with dept2 across all servers, then Backup only those files to repository Y. Our retention policy require us to keep specific files for a short period of time while other files for a longer period of time. There are several file servers with TBs of data to backup this way. Is this even possible? Any feed backup would be appreciated. Thanks, Derek

I know how much everyone is excited about the upcoming Veeam version v11 and its amazing new and/or enhanced features. Whats your favorite?• Veeam Agent for Linux v5• Veeam Agent for Mac NEW• Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows v5• Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN (AIX) NEW• Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN (Linux) v3• Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN (Windows) v3• Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA v3• Veeam Plug-in for SAP on Oracle NEW• Veeam Availability Orchestrator v4• Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v2• Veeam Service Provider Console v5 Mine is Veeam agent for Mac.

I recall from one of the recent Veeam R&D Forums Digest newsletters that Reverse Incremental for Hyper-V is being removed or has been removed in VBR.  This is useful for sending full backups to Tape, otherwise we have to do synthetic full to Tape (heavy use of virtual memory for our TB-sized backups) or create a synthetic .VBK (use more disk space).Which VBR version did Veeam start doing this?  Luckily still on 9.5I feel like Hyper-V is getting short-changed ... 

Hi All,I have 3 destinations for my backup and it’s all in the same network. I would like to secure my last copy of my backup. I have multiple possibility.Second internet connection and qnap sync with ACLQnap backup SSHVLAN and Qnap backup sshWhat do you prefed and for why ?I have 200Mpbs for the second internet connection and my second vlan is on the other building with 100 mbps mpls.I would like to have a backup outside of my first building.Thanks you

Hi, A feature I believe would be extremely useful would be scheduling SureBackup around the completion of a Backup Copy Job. Backup Copy Jobs aren’t scheduled the same as usual jobs so I understand the additional complexity around this however the reason for my request is simple.One of SureBackup’s primary limitations is Disk IO, if we create a SureBackup job to run after a backup job is complete, a Backup Copy Job could then start consuming IO to transmit this backup to an archive tier, Cloud Connect or to some other secondary repository. This creates contention for IO with SureBackup, impacting the ability to validate virtual machines.A key example of this behaviour is when VMware Tools fails to start within the traditional 30 seconds (I’m aware of registry keys that can amend this behaviour, but it’s just one example). If we could chain either BCJ’s to run after a backup is validated (so we know we’re copying good data firstly) or even inversely whereb

As you know, we need a name for this cat There were a lot of suggestions from you across all social media channels, so we put together a shortlist, a poll for community members to choose the best name.  

Although there is a lot of great content out there, sometimes you may just be stuck and not sure what your next steps should be.I’ve been planning some YouTube live Q&A/Study group sessions and wanted to check if there would be any interest in such a format from the good folks here?