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IntroductionHi guys,This article is based on a request from one of our customers who asked us to conduct a study on the use of immutability with StoreOnce and related legal aspects. In addition, the request was to delve into the workflow of dual authorization. BUT first of all I would like to thanks @regnor  to permit me to re-use parts or screenshots from his StoreOnce posts - Part1 - Part2 and Part3 Transitioning from technician to architect roles in your career brings new considerations.In operational work, you simply follow instructions, but as an architect, you must be able to design and justify the necessary operations.This use case explains the use of StoreOnce with Veeam and its built-in immutability feature, with a focus on the legal aspects and audits that companies are subject to. What is a cybersecurity audit?An IT Security Audit is a systematic analysis of an organization's security system.Its primary objective is to verify the effectiveness of security controls, policies,

Hi, I am trying to backup the Windows PC’s on my LAN using Agent backup and am having the same issue as the person on this post: https://forums.veeam.com/servers-workstations-f49/creating-new-backup-in-protection-group-issue-t79935.html I have read the issue several times and I don’t think I understand the terminology being used. And I have successfully installed Agent on my Windows machine and executed the command to connect to B&R.  I also see the machine on B&R. Ideally, I would like to schedule backup jobs for this machine and also be able to run adhoc backups using the B&R console.Is this possible? Thank you, Hammer

Hi,Need a little help here with Start-VBRLinuxFileRestore. I have a daily backup of /home and backing up to a linux repo. I need to restore a file and i am at lost with the use of the powershell. Here’s my test per line below PS C:\Scripts> $backup = Get-VBRBackup -Name "RedhatDirectoryJob"PS C:\Scripts> $restorepoint = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup $backupPS C:\Scripts> $server = Get-VBRServer -Name "192.168.1.200"PS C:\Scripts> $session = Get-VBRRestorePoint -Backup $backup | Sort-Object -Property CreationTime -Descending | Select-Object -First 1PS C:\Scripts> $root = Get-VBRLinuxGuestItem -LinuxFlrObject $sessionGet-VBRLinuxGuestItem : Cannot bind parameter 'LinuxFlrObject'. Cannot convert the "Veeam.Backup.Core.COib" value of type"Veeam.Backup.Core.COib" to type "Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Infos.VBRLinuxFlrObject".At line:1 char:47+ $root = Get-VBRLinuxGuestItem -LinuxFlrObject $session+                                               ~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo          : I

hi veeam communityI researched air gap backup and came across a company called stonefly that I found interesting.I wanted to know if anyone has experience using this solutionhttps://stonefly.com/backup/dr365-for-veeam/Automated Air-Gapping: Enable/Disable physical or logical air-gapping directly from the Veeam data platform through seamless integration with StoneFly. In your opinion, what is the best solution for having an air gap?What solution do you use?  

Dees Latest Version (Version-12.1) of Veeam Backup and Replication supports backup and recovery of IBM Spectrum Scale GPFS file system. Please guide.

Hi all,i was testing and studying the FileServer Backup. Reading the guide from “Top to bottom” :-) under Requirements and Limitations for File Shares i see"To support the VSS for SMB File Shares feature, make sure that requirements listed in this Veeam KB article 3099 are met."Link at the kb https://www.veeam.com/kb3099Under Requirements of that Kb it says "The Veeam Backup Server and the Windows File Server hosting the SMB Share must be joined to the same Active Directory domain."? Is this real? I cannot use vss on fileserver that are not in the domain of the VBR Server?The guide is for the V12Thanks for helps.

Backup Job Chains… If I keep seven (7) restore points and run an Active Full on Saturday (point #7) what happens to the six (6) files in the prior backup chain? Are they useless but don’t get deleted because we’re keeping seven (7) restore points?  Backup Copy Jobs are different if not mistaken. If you keep seven (7) restore points and the seventh is a periodic full, the six prior restore points are deleted all at once?

Hello everyone,VSPC allows us to be alerted when a computer has not been backed up for a specific number of days.However, when a device has multiple jobs configured, what if one of those jobs has not been running for some time but other jobs completed? An example scenario is this:Job 1: when a backup target is connectedJob 2: daily at midnight What if job 1 never gets executed as the target is never connected but job 2 does?Is there a way I could be alerted? Thank you in advance.Daniele Capuano

Hi Community,i would like to give a suggestion for maybe a future release.When moving a backup to another repository, the job occupies all free task asap. Other jobs on that server will be delayed until the Move-Jop is finished.I suggest a dialog where one can limit the tasks the Move-Job is using, so the normal backup routine is not on full hold.What are your thoughts on this?

I’m not sure if this is an existing issue or new, however, when doing a Quick Migration in VBR 12.1, I see no processing rate of the job when completed.  In VBR 11, we would get a XYZ MB/s or GB/s in that “area”. Any ideas? Can this be found in logs? Some DB table (how to connect to DB if so)?

Hello, Running free community edition Veaam backup agent for Linux on RHEL9.3. For the past few days I am getting an error when checking for the update from Veaam repository. This is the same repo I initially used to install the agent. Is there another Veeam repo that I can use for RHEL9? [root@bnrhlx:~ ]$ yum check-updateUpdating Subscription Management repositories.Veeam Backup for GNU/Linux - x86_64                                                                     2.1 kB/s | 986  B     00:00Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'veeam':  - Status code: 403 for https://repository.veeam.com/backup/linux/agent/rpm/el/9/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 108.138.26.22)Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'veeam': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried[root@bnrhlx:~ ]$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [root@bnrhlx:/etc/yum.repos.d ]$ cat veeam.repo[veeam]name=Veeam Backup for GNU/Linux - $basearchbaseurl=https://repository.veeam.com/

hi Veeam community I want to buy new storage for the repository and I got acquainted with the option “Backup direct from Primary Storage Snapshot”My question is where is the best way to use this option?For what server and services it is better to use?It also has disadvantages?And finally, if you have the experience of using this feature, I would appreciate it if you could share and what kind of storage you used.thanks

dears, please we have configured the backup job to be encrypted from advanced menu and we create and pass for encryption, but when try to restore individual file the file restored normally and visible without asking for key, so please i need to know how to fix it  

After a successfully instant restoration of hyper-v vm to another hyper-v host, not able to open AD users and computers, it is throwing error of not supported OS version. 

we have backed up a Redhat Linux Oracle VM using normal vm backup and enabled application aware processing by providing required credentials. later backup was successfully completed. but when we start Oracle application based restore, it launches Veeam explorer for Oracle and directly asks for target server connection details for Huesrisitc analysis . As per documentation, after Veeam explorer is launched, we should be able to see and select our backup restore points. in our case it directly asks target server connection details. when i checked in Veeam documentation link given below, this target server details are asked for Hueristic analysis for non-application enabled backups.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/explorers/nonvss_restore_wizard.html?ver=120 below is the error we get in huerisitc analysis stage after we provide target server credentials, please help to resolve this issue.    

Hello, I’m actually testing surebackup with a sql server always on cluster.Setting to test default SqlChecker script.Unfurtunatelly, it seems not to be working well.All the databases (exepts system db) are in RECOVERY_PENDING state in the mounted vm lab.Is surebakup working for always on clusters ?Am I missing something ? thanks for your help.Fred

HelloI have installed Veeam backup 12.1.1.56 on a vsphere vm.  The backup service is running, but I cannot open the console.I am getting in the screen:  String was not recognized as a valid BooleanI have no issue with enterprise manager, it can be logged into.Will be glad for adviceThank you Keren 

Can you use and test with SureBackup if you are only using a Linux Hardened Repository?

Hi wondering if anyone can help with an error I am getting on a backup I have a few hyper v VMs backing up and a couple of Windows 10 machines.1 machine is causing a bit of hassle and was wondering if anyone has seen this before.I see this warning message in the GUI:26/03/2024 13:55:22 :: Collecting recovery media files Details: Access is denied   I see this in the logs:[26.03.2024 13:57:35] <01> Error    Failed to add recovery media files to the backup[26.03.2024 13:57:35] <01> Error    Failed to build WIM file at C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\oovnnf03.5ok\sources\boot.wim (System.Exception)[26.03.2024 13:57:35] <01> Error       at Veeam.Core.Common.CWimBuilder.Build(String wimPath, Int32 imageIndex, ITaskLog taskLog, ICancelFlag cancelFlag, IWimBuilderAction bootFilesExtractionAction, IWimBuilderAction adkFilesExtractionAction)[26.03.2024 13:57:35] <01> Error       at Veeam.Core.Common.CWinREFilesCollector.CollectFiles(CWimBuilderOptions options, ICancelFlag cancelFlag)[26.

Hi Folks,I was wondering if people would be interested in creating a VMCE study group. I will be honest this time around I am a bit terrified of this exam. For one thing the last number of years my study focus has been on something else (I wonder what that is), I am naturally not great at these things just work double in order to try and be included in with the real smart folks 😃, plus the amount of changes in V12 will prevent me from winging it on previously acquired knowledge in older VMCEs and work experience.Obviously this would not be a “dump” zone or “point you to the answer from the test” cheating location, but instead a group creating questions, helping to understand fuzzy issues and most importantly giving support to people like me who have been petrified of exams/tests ever since kindergarten🤣. I led a CKA group study over on Kodekloud for a few Months and it was a lot of fun. We had bi-weekly calls (could have been Monthly to be honest) and some of the study techniques I l

 I was researching about “Immutable Storage” it and found out that it has these limitations: Linux hardened repository:“The immutability feature is supported for image-level backups only. You can use a hardened repository to store NAS backups, transaction backups, RMAN, SAP HANA, SAP on Oracle backups, but you cannot use the immutability feature to protect these backups.” Object Storage repository:The immutability feature is applicable to the Capacity Tier and Archive Tier backups. It does not support the NAS backups  I am looking for the best solution for immutable storage for performance tier. Is there a solution to have immutable for sql transaction logs also? 

Hello everyone, This morning during my VMware VM backup job, I encountered the following error:Error: Cannot proceed with the job: existing backup meta file 'Prio 0.vbm' on repository 'ds_veeam_sanctl03' is not synchronized with the DB. To resolve this, run repository rescan As explained in the message, I initiated a rescan of the datastore on my NAS. The scan failed with this error:11/01/2024 09:10:58 Warning    Failed to import backup path nfs3://xxxxx:/|volume1|ds_veeam|Prio 0|Prio 0.vbm Details: '.', valeur hexadécimale 0x00, est un caractère non valide. Ligne 1, position 1.  I did not find any information about this error in the knowledge base or other forum messages. I am using Veeam Backup & Replication 11.0.1.1261 P20220302. Thank’s for advance.Philippe.

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It's time to vote! As you're aware, this is a special edition dedicated to World Backup Day, and we've received numerous fantastic stories from our community members and we decided that all of them should be part of this competition! Thank you all for sharing these stories with us! Now, let's see which blog gets best blog of the month and wins the $100 voucher!Please vote until March 31st ! Wishing all our participants the best of luck! 😊@mkevenaar , @Chris.Childerhose , @coolsport00 , @JMeixner , @MarkBoothman , @leduardoserrano , @MarcoLuvisi , @marco_s , @mhmdadl , @Iams3le , @Moustafa_Hindawi , @Scott , @Geoff Burke , @HunterLAFR Let’s share it on our socials and get more votes!Best, Madi 

Hello, Thanks, I am not able to perform an instant restore of a linux VM.I am stuck that the helper appliance dialog box.I select a server from the list, but the OK button is disabled?Using VBR 12.1.0.2131I searched around the forum and internet, could not find the answerPlease advice, thanks, David