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If anyone is interested in watching the VUG Canada presentation you can find it here - VUG Canada - Recording for Online Event | Veeam Community Resource HubI will be posting another video later of Rasmus’s presentation once he sends it to me.  I missed recording from the start so missed some of his presentation.  We will see the entire thing soon. 

We have been using VCC for two years. We keep a couple of months on performance storage and use GFS to move data to the archive storage.  The provider uses Wasabi for archive storage (news to us). We have never had the need to restore from archive until this week. After trying for two days the provider (a Veeam Platinum provider) has told us they must move the entire archive (app 160 TB , copy jobs from ten office locations) to their local repo, have us restore, and then move it back. Honestly the process is very concerning and we were never told of this.My question is has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal? Is the move of data down and back up to archive reliable (since we can’t test restores once its back there)?Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since I am very concerned about the integrity of our firms cloud backups.Also has anyone moved providers? Is there a migration process or similar? Charlie

Hi, team I have a weird one for you. Have you ever seen a copyjob fail due to a normal backup running at the same time? I have been running into an issue where a copyjob is running and then a scheduled backup starts while the copyjob is running. When this happens, the copyjob will fail and throw the error: ”Source restore point is locked by another job ” My understanding is that this should not happen. I did notice that the last time it happened, there was an incremental to full backup file merge happening. I am not sure if that may be the cause in this case, but I do not believe that is always what’s happening when I see this error. The copyjob is set to Immediate with a 24x7 schedule. This server is running VBR v.11

I have a server I am running VBR 11 on. The option to rescan repositories has just outright disappeared. I have tried closing and re-opening VBR, but this did not resolve the issue. A server reboot has also not resolved the issue.

We wish to run the replica on a different IP periodically to extract data from the VM.  Hence time and again I perform failover to replica using the RE IP options within Veeam and then undo the failover. Just checking if anyone has anyone automated failover and undo failover for a Veeam replica using Powershell. 

Happy Friday! We know snapshots/checkpoints aren’t backups, but sometimes people don’t know this, and other times people forget to tidy up their snapshots. (Even worse when they don’t have Veeam ONE notifying them of this). So the question today is, what’s the longest time you’ve seen a snapshot/checkpoint in use? I’ve seen one customer environment whereby all VMs have multiple snapshots going back as far as 6 years, and counting! They’re engaged with VMware support due to the chain age and depth but they also can’t just take a backup and clear them down due to the lack of performance from the system now as a result!

Hi, is there a smart way to update attached s3 object storages. Not used in sobr(!). I am useing capa offloading to s3 on aws. in our Prodution environment (B&R Local). Thats working fine. I also attached the s3 on another Veeam B&R in VMC on AWS. I can see all backups once I attached the object storage in the repository view. Thats fine. I can do restores direct from s3 in vmc on aws. thats fine too. But ...I only do backup and offloading from B&R Local. Veeam B&R in VMC on AWS is only for restore purposes in our desaster environment. Unforunatly the attached s3 will not be update once B&R Local completet a new backup an offload. I can not rescan the object storage repository. The only way is to detach and do an import again. Thats working, its ok, but a more smart way to do a rescan during attatched s3 would be great. Thank you.

As many know last year I wrote a book on Veeam v10 and you can see the post here -Veeam Book - Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10Also you can check my blog - https://just-virtualization.tech as well I have since been approached and will be updating it to Version 11 this year to hopefully get it out way before v12 hits.  I will be putting in all the new features and updating much of the content to focus around v11.  Also some things will be removed.I wanted to ask those that read my book if there are any improvements or things you might want to see in this version of the book.  It will be nice to see some community feedback. 

Hello community,I have an issue with a file to tape backup in combination with the usage of VSS.I have to copy the files of the RMAN Backups to tape. The backup files of the RMAN and SAP plugins are not recognized as backup Jobs with the tape jobs, so I have to copy them as files and not as jobs.The RMAN backups are running 24/7 - so there are some open files every time the copy job runs. And therefore I have activated the usage of VSS in the file to tape backup job.Every time the job runs an VSS error is given - "Shadow copy provider vetoed the operation"I did not find useful information to this error.Does anyone have some idea why VSS is not working properly? A reboot did not help. On the drive is enough free space (around 62,5 TB free of 105 TB total).

Hello, I understand that there are no a tape backup option directly in VOB, however we can use VBR, so I would like to know what is the “best practice” to archive every year in tapes.Our initial full backup took 7TB, then, because we configured 7 years of retention, we’ll keep all the messages and we’ll have around 7TB more per year, so how we can manage that in tapes if we don’t want to buy more disk? Thanks in advance, Omar De Souza.

I added a Raspberry Pi to my test lab.   I just installed their new Raspberry Pi 64-bit OS released in May 2021.    I love VEEAM Community Backup.   I can’t install the Linux client on the Raspberry Pi OS.   It would be great, if they made a client for them.   Many corporations are developing IoT devices based on the Pi.   Here is a picture of my Pi / Arduino test lab.   My website is https://mc.scsiraidguru.com/ I wished they had a $99 Pro version that home users could buy with no limitations.   I could get many users to buy it.  

Hi,I have problems, restoreing VMs from s3 to vmware cloud on aws. I get a permission denied error.s3 and vCenter is added probably in veeam b&r thats insalled on VMC too. I can see my backups in Veeam B&R in VMware Cloud on AWS. I also can see the virtual machines in VMware Cloud on AWS. But I cannot give crendentials to the vSphere hosts, because it is not allowed in VMC. I guess that is the reason for my problem? What can I do, to use Veeam in VMC to backup and restore my VMs? 

Hello,Is there a dashboard in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 like in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager? if no, Can I connect my VB O365 to my VB Enterprise Manager in order to see the statistics in the dashboard?Thanks,Omar De Souza.

anybody please clear me about Veeam Legends and Veeam Vanguard difference ….what is the process for to be a  Veeam Vanguard? Thanks in advance.  

Hello everyone, I am new on Veeam and I am planning to perform backup tests in my environment (VM’s, Local Storage, etc.). I would like to hear from your experience the best procedures to performs these backup tests and ensure that our systems/infrastructure are prepared for recovery whenever needed.Could you advise on how to proceed correctly?Thank you in advance.

Hey guys, I have two questions For veeam backup for nutanix, after I install a nutanix plugin on VBR will veeam setup a nutanix proxy VM or should we setup the proxy VM in the nutanix cluster? If VBR backups to a repository, later VBR crashes and I deploy another VBR and add the repository which has the backups stored, will this new VBR able to access or see the backups stored?

As many of you know Gostev sends out his weekly newsletter Sunday nights and there is some newly tested storage integrations.  If you use any of the following check it out -From “The Word From Gostev” newsletter:A few storage integration news next. Our QC has completed qualification of the following new storage offerings and firmware versions and we've declared their official support right with the current Veeam Backup & Replication version 11:• HPE Alletra 9000 which is a new storage based on Primera OS is now fully supported for storage snapshot integration functionality. Until the UI has been updated, register it as an HPE 3PAR storage. Note this does not include Alletra 6000 which despite the similar name is based on a different OS. We have some lab time scheduled with HPE at the end of this month, after which we should have a good idea of the work required (if any) and so the target release for Alletra 6000 support.• HPE Primera with Primera OS 4.3 is now supported for storage

Good morning, everyone! Quick question. I have a copyjob that is throwing random “No Cloud Gateways available” errors. The odd thing is, it’s the only server that is having the issue and the our cloud connect server is fine. I am not quite sure what is happening between the cloud connect server and that backup server, but I want to get to the bottom of it! What would be the best Veeam log to check for info on that? I can run through the Windows Event Viewer, but I also want to see if any of the Veeam logs can shed some light. You all rock! Thank you so much for being great!

To quote Gostev: Friends don’t let friends use anything but enterprise grade hardware RAID controllers with Battery Backed Write Cache. Well, now we’ve got another phrase we need to add: Friends don’t let friends use SD/USB for their VMware environments. VMware have just updated their KB regarding SD/USB support. Full details are here however the key takeaways are: VMware strongly advises that you move away completely from using SD card/USB as a boot device option on any future server hardware. Starting from the next major vSphere release, SD cards/USB media as a standalone boot device will not be supported. SD cards cannot be used to store the OSDATA partition, and an additional persistent device will be required. SD cards can continue to be used for the bootbank partition provided that a separate persistent local device to store the OSDATA partition (32GB minimum, 128GB recommended) is available in the host Preferably, the SD cards should be replaced with an M.2 or another local pers

Hello Veeam, I would like to ask regarding on how to size repository needed for Veeam via http://rps.dewin.me/If customer gave the data size that needs to backup which is 28tb and backup policy must have 2YR retention and the sched will be 24months Full, 4 weekly Full and 7 Daily incremental.So technically I will create a "Backup Copy Job GFS” in Dewin, and will enter 24 in Months the total for that one is 219.2TB, will create another one for weekly will enter 4 in Weekly and total of 44.2 TB, and last for Daily incremental will select "Forever Incremental” and retention will be 7 and total of 31.89 TB. For all type of backup i checked the Refs/XFS, 10% conservative for change rate, and 50% on data left after reduction. So it means i will add the total for all and that is equivalent to 295.29 TB of storage. So i need a total of 295.29 TB with 2YR retention? I think is is too much give that Veeam have dedup/compress features, if you will size can you share the details as well. Thanks

Hi Team,I going to deployment a POC for one of my customer.Customer wants to HA cluster Veeam B&R for his DC and DR location. If DC site Veeam B&R goes down then DR site take over the Veeam B&R. in this time need to ensure that no backup job will be fail. As per I know and below link Veeam does not support HA Cluster. Ha for Veeam B&R server and Ha for veeam one - Veeam R&D Forums any one can help me on this issue?if i go with always on SQL cluster is it work ? any one do any R&D on this? Thanks in advance……………   

I am trying to find or build a report that will provide a line chart for each datastore trending over the last 4 - 6 months.I looked at the report - Datastore Space Usage History - the data appears to be there under the individual datastore headings, but it appears that will be a significant amount of data manipulation to make it work.Is it possible to get the data in a .csv format?Does anyone else have a similar need and has addressed it?Thanks in advance. 

Happy Friday, Veeam Community! Since @MicoolPaul is on Majorca enjoying sunshine and beach, I am on a mission to back him up with the regular Fun Friday discussion!  What's the worst reason for an outage you've ever had and how badly did it impact you? Here’s story that @MicoolPaul shared with us:“When I was internal IT, we had a summer where we kept suffering power outages at our main building, with people keep getting stuck in the lift! One day we had a bad outage, but it was only partially an outage, apparently two of our three phases were dead! So we had a few random plugs around the office that still worked. To get things back up and running we managed to ignore all health & safety and ran a massive extension lead from a working socket to power our UPS and our entire rack! (it stunk of hot metal and I wouldn't leave it unattended for even a second!).Eventually we found out that the building management had replaced all of the fuses for the building with ones that were HUNDREDS

For those looking for storage integration you can check out this KB just release from Veeam - https://www.veeam.com/kb4206Great article and chart for listing compatible storage integrations.

Hello, Some way to get from an Oracle redo log job the list of protected databases and state with powershell, Thanks.