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Time for everyone to show their age  what version of Veeam did you first use?Bonus points if you remember the version of the first hypervisor you used it with!

We are facing an issue with VBR where the application is down and cannot connect to the backup server. The error message shown is: “No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1. Make sure the backup server you are connecting with is 12.3.2 version.” Has anyone encountered this issue before? What steps or permanent solution can resolve this? Any guidance would be appreciated.    

Happy SysAdmin Day, community! First of all, come and join us today for the celebration of SysAdmin Appreciation Day with @Rick Vanover, @Geoff Burke and @coolsport00! It’s gonna be fun!  Second, I bet you noticed a new special header banner here in Community Hub!It’s special indeed and has Easter eggs in it with some discrepancies and even practices that you don’t want to repeat! Will you find them all? Let’s give it a try!

V12 Launch Event banner. Launch date of February 14, 2023, is listed, along with the V12 and Veeam logos.Hello Community,Here’s a space for discussions on the V12 Launch Event! We would appreciate your thoughts on the event :)  What V12 capability are you most anticipating? How do you plan upgrades to Veeam Backup & Replication? SNARK - Do you tell your boss you are upgrading? How long do you wait before upgrading? Do you set a test lab for upgrades?  

Is there a way to take VMware snapshots instead of production data?

Hello everyone 🐈🛫 Similar to previous year, I am disclosing the dates for VeeamOn Tours and Forums 2023. Please register in here: https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-regional-2023 Here we go:  EMEA :VeeamON Tour Ireland- 20 June 2023, Dublin  (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-dublin )VeeamON Tour Romania- 22 June 2023, Bucharest (https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-tour-2023-romania )VeeamON Tour Austria - 13 June 2023, Linz (https://go.veeam.com/veeam

I was chatting with a few friends just now and I was reminded of the old internet. You know, the fun internet where things like Facebook and Instagram didn’t exist. Fark was active. Slashdot was where you got all your technical news from, BBSs were still active and you looked forward to the next Strongbad email. My favorite fun internet was ASCII Star Wars.telnet towel.blinkenlights.nlAnyone else have any gems from the old days you can remember and share? Many of the younger generation may not remember, but I do, and I miss it.

Hi Everyone,Just an update. The Study group is coming soon! Don’t be tempted to buy any practice exams 😁! Again the study group won’t provide any answers, it will do much better, it will provide the means to get to the answers. Those same means and methods can then be used in real life production situations to solve problems. At the end of the day that is what we all want apart from the shinny certificate! 

I set up a linux hardened repository for immutable backups. In the Backup Repository I have set the minimu 7 days as immutable.The Backup Job finished sucessfully on this linux repository. But i can still delete the backup. I have also checked in Linux directory, there should all backup files have an extension “i” to say that this file is immutable. But there is also no “i” in the directory. What am I doing wrong? Can someone help me?

VeeamOn 2022 in Las Vegas was a fantastic event, as I am sure you will confirm if you were there! Wonderful people, great content, and terrific engagement!So, with VeeamOn Tours and VeeamOn Forums, let's keep that awesome vibe going all year!For VeeamOn Tours and VeeamOn Forums 2022, I've prepared a list with all of the places and dates. Please keep in mind that this information is subject to change, so double-check the dates before booking your flights and accommodations.Here is a page with all VeeamOn Tours and Forums 2022 taking place in Europe , Latin America and Asia‍-‍Pacific:https://go.veeam.com/veeamon-regional LATAMVeeamON Forum Colombia (NOLA) – 6 September 2022 – BogotáVeeamON Forum México – 8 September 2022- CDMX- Hyatt Regency CDMXCampos Eliseos No.

Happy World Backup Day, Veeam Community! First of all, come and join us today for the celebration of World Backup Day with LinkedIn Live event hosted by @Rick Vanover and Didier Van Hoye, Microsoft MVP and Veeam Vanguard   Secondly, you have probably noticed Alfred the Cat on the new home page header banner? (YES, he’s back!) Well, there are some easter eggs hidden, each based on certain Veeam features and technologies! Will you be able to find them all? Share your answers in the comments and let's see who'll collect them all first! 

I am not sure how many of you use VMware or are part of the vExpert program but the applications went live this week and you can apply here -vExpert Application Portal (vmware.com)I have applied the past two years and been accepted as well as applying this year.  Really great program for those in the VMware space.  So check it out and apply.If you need help just Google vExpert Pro or check Twitter as they can help you with your application.  This is the Pro listing -vExpert Application Portal (vmware.com)

I love this feature but with the thousands of file types I have I get a ton of false positives.Is there anyway to customize this “per server” with each file type? or disable for some servers/folders etc?When I mark a job as clean, it seems to find the files on the next job. I thought that it should assume those files to be ok going forward. 

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.  

I am trying to figure out how to use Veeam Community edition from the DOS commandline. The application mentioned in https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforlinux/userguide/backup_job_start_cmd.html?ver=60, so veeamconfig job start --name <job_name>, is however absent on my system.Is this a Community edition limitation?

Higood daythis is my first post on Veeam communitiesplease I need help with adding HyperV hosts to my Veeam infrastructure  I did an upgrade to Veeam 12 about a month ago. I realized that my HyperV hosts were offline. Of four, two are running Windows Server 2022. i saw some things about DCOM Hardening which I don’t want to accept (yet)can anyone help me with measures to resolve this problem? 

Do you use the VEEAM RMAN Pluin in your environments?What are your experiences with it?Do you have one or more than one Oracle database instances on a system?

Hey guys,I have the same random problem with my Proxies (Windows), VMDK are still attached to my proxies randomly once the job finish. The proxies are not backuped during the different backup jobs. The Vms that Veeam processed is found to require consolidation.On the vmware side I found a log " Unable to access file since it is locked An error occurred while consolidating disks: Failed to lock the file. Consolidation failed for disk node 'scsi0:0': Failed to lock the file." at the end of the backup job.But I don’t find the root cause. Have any of you ever encountered this problem?

Hello, I have version 12 installed on a Server in our domain.  I have checked the users and roles area and am unable to determine how this is happening, but anytime I enter correct active directory credentials for a user, I am able to authenticate in the console and it works fine?  What can I do to resolve this? 

So I have an issue. We backup to disk (a Data Domain, in our case), and from there, copy to tape. So I have 2 jobs - a backup job that writes to the DD, and a tape job (set as secondary target). Backup job is set to make an active full once a week (usually on a Friday), and the other days are incrementals. Pretty standard so far.My issue: on the weekend, we ran out of blank tapes in the library. I had to cancel the running tape job (which was trying to write out the Friday FULL backup). I got some new blanks, and loaded them. But the Monday tape job went to write out the (missed) Friday FULL backup, instead of just doing the Monday incremental. The FULL job is like 4 TB, no way it will finish in time before the next night’s incremental backup will start up. I had to change the scheduled start to “Not scheduled”, just so it would have enough time to finish (else it would have been interrupted by that evening’s incremental job). I don’t want to hold the source backup job

Following this document https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/restore_files_from_tape_objects.html?ver=110but I did not get the same screen shot as described in the document. 

Hi,backup server is running 2x10Gbps NICs and it is in VLAN with Netapp iSCSI AFF device. I have also 1Gbps network card for management purpose.  Also these two network cards are in trunk so they are doing 20Gbps now (at least I think they are doing it :-) )Integration between Netapp and Veeam is configured using management ports of the Netapp which is in different VLAN reachable by this 1Gb NIC from backup server. So, I can see snapshots on Netapp but backup is being done slow (probably using 1Gb NIC). How to force Veeam to use these 10Gbps NICs instead of 1Gbps NIC? Is there a KB for this integration to read how to setup this?Thank you.

I am happy to pass this exam today! And I am great to be the part of VeeamVanguard program for 5 years and learnt the different technical skills about Veeam products from each VeeamVanguard in this community, special thanks to @Rick Vanover, @NikolaPejkova and @Madi.Cristil. For exam preparation, I am using the following materials.VMCA Study Guide – Veeam Certified Architecthttps://rasmushaslund.com/vmca-study-guide/Rasmus Haslund - YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@RasmusHaslund/videosVMCA v11 official training

Happy Friday all! Today, lets talk tools, the right tool in the wrong hands can be catastrophic. What tool have you seen so the most damage to an environment? Whether it’s a built in tool/feature or 3rd party, I wanna hear! For me, it’s Remote PowerShell. I witnessed this being used by a malicious script to deploy ransomware to every device in the domain and the rest of the network. The script was harvesting credentials from users working on the infected endpoint and the moment a domain admin signed in, BANG, remote PowerShell to all!

Do you guys treat Veeam like the rest of your servers do do things differently?I know a good portion of us have our Veeam servers Non Domain joined, which will require treating it a bit different.  I also have extremely long jobs run to tape sometimes so a manual process to reboot and patch is needed for myself. For most of my servers I use  a WSUS deployment I have scripted all of my servers to check in weekly and to download the updates at a specified time. I use flags so they won’t download the updates if a reboot is currently pending incase a previous month is missed. I then use VMware to scheduled reboot the hosts as It’s much more consistent this way and easy to disable. I can also generate reports for people to know when their apps will be down. I was thinking about creating a script to preform the staged download of updates for my Veeam infrastructure, but we will see how time permitting my next while is.