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MikeLeoneComes here often
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Querying for a list of tapes in a library that are FULL

Hello We used to use EMC Networker as a backup program, and I used to be able to run a command line script that would query for a list of tapes currently in the library, and report on any that were marked as “FULL”. I would send this an email to our tape operators, and they would eject any FULL tapes so they could be sent for offsite storage.Is there a way I could duplicate this functionality for Veeam? Perhaps run a Powershell script that queries the library and reports on the usage status of the tapes currently in the library? (and if so, has anyone got an example they could point me at? Or a different way of getting the same info for my tape operators?)Thanks

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9 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Anybody tried Proxmox?

Hi Everyone, There are times that I think that my head has been stuck in the sand when it comes to technology. Maybe I just don’t read enough 😅. While forcing myself to consider black Friday/cyber Monday upgrades for my beleaguered home lab I stumbled upon Proxmox. Debian based KVM level 1 Hypervisor. Since I may go the route of purchasing an old powerful desktop I need something (free) that can help be getting vms’ running. Esx free won’t let me use API’s for Veeam backups anyways and I don’t know of any ways of getting a full working license other than time trial or attempting to become a vexpert (please correct me if I am wrong) I wanted to go with something else. I could just build KVM on top of a linux distribution myself but it would be nice to have something ready to go that has a community forum available.Have any of you used Proxmox? and if so what are your thoughts about it?https://www.proxmox.com/en/cheers

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Geoff Burke
9 months ago
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Srt93Comes here often
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copy job to s3

HiI am configuring a backup copy to S3 (immutable)   The type of copy is periodic so that it only stores a weekly backup in the cloud (one month retention)    My questions are: how does the S3 backup chain work? Same as locally?      First week will be a full, second backup copy will be incremental but... what happens when the first backup meets the retention? Veeam converts the oldest incremental to a full? I'm right?  Thanks 

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dloseke
9 months ago
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Adrian_cNew Here
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Perform full restoration test from Object storage (assume total loss)

Hi Team,I have a site that uses Wasabi object storage for both archiving and have “copy backups to object storage as soon as they are created” checked in the SOBR. This has been ticking away for some months now doing what I’d expect it to be doing. Now I need to test a full scale recovery from this environment, assuming we have a total loss of all on premises infrastructure, including the VBR server. I have spun up a new VM in our DR environment and installed VBR. My next step was to connect to the object storage bucket and attempt to recover VMs from this. But when I attempt to connect I get a warning “Selected object storage repository is already managed by another backup server. If you continue, all jobs currently using this repository will fail. Proceed?” I don't want the current jobs to fail, as this is only a test. Can I still connect to this repository and only read the objects without modifying it? Or can it be mounted in read only? Or is there another way I should be doing thi

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dloseke
9 months ago
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DaniVNew Here
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Doubs about certifications (VMSP/VMTSP)

HelloI want to get VMSP and VMTSP general certificate but it only appears the individual one (like cloud service provider) how can I get the general one, like the ones before (VMTSP and VMSP 2020/2021)

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dloseke
9 months ago
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damien commengeVeeam Legend
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veeamone ressources

Hello,I would like to use veeamone with more than just install it and connect backup and virtualisation infrastructure.Do you have some good ressources to link or share the use case you have on your customer or internally ?I already find some good report and solve the alert the product give by default but I think this product could be more usefull with more knowledge.I don t find a lot of ressource with google about it and the main feature I could implement Thanks for your help :)

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9 months ago
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Srt93Comes here often
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scale out vs direct S3 Storage

Hello,In terms of cost (price): there is some difference between Direct storage and scale out repo ? (Amazon S3)Is it possible that the writes will be smaller  with scale out? Brcause the backup is already created ? Thanks 

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dloseke
9 months ago
TylerJurgens
TylerJurgensVeeam Legend
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Happy Friday All

As we all begin to embark on our weekends, I wanted to leave you with a highlight from the Veeam 100 Summit.  Enjoy your weekend everyone!

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dloseke
9 months ago
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HurleyNew Here
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Veeam and NAS Repository?

I have a Synology NAS.  Besides Direct Attached Storage, are the other choices usable for a NAS in anyway?  

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dloseke
9 months ago
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dikaComes here often
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immutable wasabi with VBO 365

Adding Wasabi Immutable BucketI was trying to add wasabi bucket with immutable as backup repository, but it showed an error, any suggestion to solve this error ?

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dloseke
9 months ago
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abiwotComes here often
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RabbitMQ Operator - Quiesce Cluster Blueprint

So had a situation that I needed to quiesce the entire RabbitMQ cluster (controlled by the Rabbitmq-Operator) before a namespace was to be backed up.  So came up with this as a solution.  Might be useful to someone else.If you want to follow the background info. TL;DRStop all Rabbit messagesBackup clusterStart Rabbit messages Prerequisites:Custom image that has JQ, kubectl, & Kanister tools (see Docker file) K8s service account in rabbitmq-cluster-namespace (see RBAC file) ImagePullSecret - as the custom image will more than likely be on a private repo Solution:Pre-hook - quiesceRabbitCluster Use to stop the Rabbit cluster target the statefulset Post-hook - activateRabbitCluster Use to start Rabbit cluster target the statefulset Error-hook - revertRabbitCluster Use to make the Rabbit cluster operational target the statefulset Pre-hook-Restore - destroyRabbitCluster (READ CAUTION BEFORE USING) DELETE rabbit cluster before restoring target the statefulset  Docker: (had

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Chris.Childerhose
9 months ago
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MikeLeoneComes here often
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Confused about "Secondary Target" for backup jobs

I apologize if this is a silly question.  Here’s what I want to do - schedule backup jobs of VMs to disk repository, and then “clone” those backups to tape. So I‘ve set up backup jobs to my disk repository, and specified an  ACTIVE FULL backup on Friday and Incremental backups (which is what I want), and scheduled it for every night. Additionally, I have create a Tape job, pointing to this backup job, and scheduled it to start the next morning.My question - the backup option for “Secondary Target” .. what exactly does that do? :-) Does that mean that the backup will go to my disk repository AND my tape library, all as part of one execution (i.e., does the tape part start as soon as the backup to disk finishes)? I already have the tape part executing on it’s own schedule, does this mean that the data will be sent to the tape *twice*, once by the scheduled tape job, and once as part of the “secondary target” option of the backup job? (which I don’t want).The documentation states “Backup

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Scott
9 months ago
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Blog of the Month October + November 2023Blog of the Month

The last week of November is here! As promised, we're gearing up for an exciting blog showdown to crown the top post of the month, set to shine on our homepage in early December.In this special edition, we're combining the best blogs from both October and November. With October taking a back seat due to the Veeam 100 Summit and other thrilling events, we want to make sure every outstanding blog gets its shot at the spotlight.This month, we've curated a collection of eight top-notch blogs. Make your voice heard by voting for the absolute best before December 3rd.Wishing all our participants the best of luck! 😊 @MicoolPaul , @JMeixner , @damien commenge , @vAdmin , @marcofabbri , @JMousqueton , @HunterLAFR , @Andanet Please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to vote for you!Best, Madi 

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wolff.mateus
9 months ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
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Veeam Enterprise Manager failed to connect VBR

Hello there! Recently I installed a new VEM server and when I tried to establish connection with my VBR servers i get this message below:I had ever test communication on 9392 and 9405 TCP ports and it works fine.Any idea about this?

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9 months ago
NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Backup Job - Statistics

Hello, I wanted to be sure that fast clone is enabled but I can’t see it anywhere.As I remember on v11 it was written in the “Action” description.I’m using Synology NAS connected directly via iSCSI to the Windows Server 2022.It’s formatted as ReFS (64KB).You can see that it was a Synthetic Full but FastClone nowhere to be seen.  

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Moustafa_Hindawi
9 months ago
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Ibrahim.KhalilNew Here
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How to replicate VMware VM from On-prem to Azure with Veeam BR

We need to take backup of Vmware VM to On-prem and Replicate to Azure. Also Need failover from on-prem to azure and then failback from azure to on-prem.How can we configure?

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Geoff Burke
9 months ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
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VMCE 2021/VMCA 2022 Expiration

Hi, Possibly a question for @Federica or @haslund. As the VMCE & VMCA are yet to have their new exam & certification released, willl there be an extension to the expiry of the current VMCE & VMCAs?For example:I sat my VMCE 2021 in June 2021, my VMCE states it expires the 9th June 2023. Likewise I sat my VMCA in September 2021, and my VMCA states it expires the 1st September 2023. I’m conscious that this looks like it’s just an automation, but as we’re a VASP, and our ProPartner portal is showing this imminent expiry, that it could reflect badly on my organisation if my certifications have ‘expired’ even if there isn’t a replacement certification available. A second question on this, after the 2023 grade exams are available, how long will we have to upgrade before the certifications are counted as ‘expired’ within ProPartner? Thanks!

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Geoff Burke
9 months ago
NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Backup Cop Job - Timing - WAN Accelerators Sizing

Hello Forum,Since I’m reconstructing everything I would like to seek some advices for WAN accelerators.We have Primary Site (Austria, Vienna) and Secondary Site (Serbia, Novi Sad).Backup to Primary:Backup Jobs going to Synology LUN that is connected via iSCSI to Windows Server (ReFS 64KB block size) + FastClone From Monday to Friday - Incrementals On Friday - Full Synthetic Backup 21:00 - 22:00 starting of the Backup Jobs Backup to Secondary:I would like to try and implement WAN Accelerators for this so that potentially we have better performance. 2 Source WAN Accelerators. 1 for large VMs and 2 for small VMs 1 Target WAN Accelerator.Question regarding Backup Copy Job:As I’ve read some documentation about WAN Accelerators I checked that Source WAN Acc should have better CPU performance so it doesnt need to be some high I/O performance device and for Target WAN Acc is opposite, is thsi true? Plan is then to use physical Windows Machine with SSD on Target WAN Accelerator How would I appr

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Link State
9 months ago
Pybarra
PybarraExperienced User
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Protect Veeam AUdit Logs with NetApp ONTAP Snaplock WORM Technology

Protecting your Veeam Data Platform Audit Logs is another way keep your security sensitive logs safe. Using NetApp ONTAP SnapLock Write One Read Many (WORM) technology can protect you from bad actors attempting to delete your audit logs. Please make sure the NetApp ONTAP controller has a SnapLock license. The first thing you have to do is create a NetApp FlexVol (volume). I logged into NetApp ONTAP System Manager and from the main menu navigated to “Storage=>Volumes=>+Add” to get to the volume screen below (Figure 1). I filled in the fields and clicked on “More Options”(Figure 2) to display more volume options. If you enable the SnapLock option for the first time, you will be instructed to “Initialize the SnapLock compliance clock” which is required (Figure 3). Click on  “Enable SnapLock” select type “Compliance” and whatever retention period is needed for your companies compliance standards for audit logs. **** Caution if you select 14 years you will not be able to delete conten

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Pybarra
9 months ago
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marko.eNew Here
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Failed to create backup metadata in every tape job

did anyone encountered this after upgrading to veeam 12.0 it hapend on every tape job:04/06/2023 17:11:47 :: Failed to create backup metadata info: Veeam.Tape.Core.TapeMetaGenerationException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   at Veeam.Tape.Core.TapeMetaStorage..ctor(CStorage storage, ITapeBackupObjectsCache cache)   at Veeam.Tape.Core.TapeBackupMetaGenerator.GenerateBackupMeta(CBackup tapeBackup, TapeBackup tapeBackupSpecific)   at Veeam.Tape.Core.TapeBackupMetaGenerator.Generate(CBackup tapeBackup, TapeBackup tapeBackupSpecific)   at Veeam.Tape.Core.CTapeVmTaskMetaGeneratorRoot.GetBackupMeta()   at Veeam.Tape.Core.CTapeVmTaskMetaGeneratorRoot.GetSessionMeta(BackupSet backupSet, ITapeDeviceLockManager lockManager, ITapeMediaSetLockManager mediaSetLockManager, TapeExpirationDate expirationDate, ISessionLogger taskLogger, CTapeBackupSetPoint backupSetPoint, ITapeMetaBackup&

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9 months ago
Stabz
StabzVeeam Legend
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Error : An operation on a socket could not be performed lacked sufficient buffer space

Hello guys,One of my customer has encounter the following error message in a backup job.I never saw this message before. The Veeam version is 11 last patch.It’s a linux repository.I asked to my customer to open a support case, but in parallel maybe one of you has already meet this one ?!

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Stabz
9 months ago
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Ian CNot a newbie anymore
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Agent is managed by another veeam server

Ok, I had a test server which I used to test out Windows Agent backups.I’ve now built a more robust server to handle veeam (community edition as we only have a few servers), when I try to backup the same server, I get:I’ve removed the backup jobs, and uninstalled the agent both using the old server and manually going into Add/Remove programs, yet the same problem exists. I’ve also added the registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication AgentDiscoveryIgnoreOwnership DWORD=1Still no joy.  When I go into the registry editor on the machine in question, I can see why Veeam is having a problem.  The values in BackupServerIPAddress, JobSettings, and VBRServerName are all pointing to the wrong server. I’m loathed to start deleting this key.  What do I do to ensure this server I wish to backup now has the correct agent installed?RegardsIan

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9 months ago
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IT AdminNot a newbie anymore
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Ekco Cloud connect Issue

HI Community, I am currently using Veaam v12 B&R community edition.I have tried to add a service provider for ekco.I have followed steps from https://www.ek.co/publications/using-veeam-cloud-connect/Once I add veeam.cloudhelix.io and the username and password I get the below error.Is the issue down to the fact I am on community edition V12 or is it an issue from ekco’s side?(I have already logged a ticket with ekco support to see what their response will be) 

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Mildur
9 months ago
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Nick StanfillNot a newbie anymore
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SQL Log Backups While Excluding the SQL Volume

My question is, if we are excluding SQL data volumes from the original backup job, can we still do full SQL backups and transaction logs using application-aware processing?For some background, in our current state my team is backing up our Windows SQL VMs using a Backup job, then use a Backup Copy job to get those offsite. Since the team has historically ran SQL Agent jobs to do daily full and hourly log backups for each DB they decided to exclude any volumes storing SQL data from the Veeam Backup job. I see the reasoning and I suppose this works, but I’d like to shift to including Veeam on SQL backups so we can easily get those offsite using the existing backup copy jobs.Finally, a sort of related question, if we can use Veeam and the SQL agent jobs in tandem, which one should truncate those? In my testing I’ve had to set the SQL Agent job to copy only mode for things to work, but I feel like setting Veeam to copy only mode should work as well, but I must be missing something since I

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coolsport00
9 months ago
NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Multiple VMs with same OS

Hello to all,As I configure a testing Job with Multiple VMs with the same OS, I can see that there is no difference in the deduplication rate in Report when I run the VM itself alone or in the Group.One more point to ask:The VMs in the Backup Copy Job are all started at the same time when the job starts.Is this how it should be or they need to be run one at a time?

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NemanjaJanicic
9 months ago

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