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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Tape Servers - Limits & Expansion - Service Providers when do you expand?

I wanted to ask any Service Providers out there that may use tape with Veeam - do you have sizing set up so that when you have X number of Tenants you add tape drives or another tape server?I am working on our design for our Veeam VCC to Tape offering and I am trying to put together some rough estimations of when you have X number of tenants on VCC you add either - X number of tape drives more or add a second/third tape server to the mix.We have currently 47 tenants with one tape server which had 3 tape drives connected (now it is up to 6 as we added 3 more yesterday) but it still seems to be a bit of a headache due to the number of jobs running plus when a Restore request comes in.Hopefully someone has experience around this as I have also asked our SA at Veeam as well to see if there is any documentation, they have similar to the limit's spreadsheet for VBM365 which is great.Thank for looking and chiming in. 😁

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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‘SSD Speed’ HDDs from Seagate

Morning, Saw an interesting news story today relating to some new HDDs from Seagate, boasting a maximum capacity of 18TB, these 7.2k RPM SATA/SAS hard drive, capable of a maximum sustained transfer rate of up to 554MBps. For those interested it is the Seagate Exos Mach.2. So how does it reach these alleged high speeds? Let’s dive in 👇 Firstly, these hard drives have two actuators, with the disk capacity divided neatly in half between them. As always, the random IOPS falls through the floor with these disks, achieving 304 random read and 560 random write IOPS, tested at 4K Q16.For the cache, it’s a 256MB multisegmented cache helping boost some of these numbers which isn’t that surprising. These hard drives are designed for the datacenter, so pricing isn’t publicly shared and I don’t believe we’ll see these drives on shelves any time soon, and with power consumption of up to 13.5w under load, these will certainly be contributing some heat when used in bulky RAID Arrays. Whilst this cert

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dips
1 year ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
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What do you miss from your Veeam B&R ?

Hi Folks,It came to my mind long time ago this question, and my answer, but last night after chatting with a friend of mine, the topic came out to the table, so here it comes...What do you miss from your Veeam B&R?And my first answer would be, a Linux Based Appliance, getting rid of the Windows Based Installation at all.I've been "struggling" with this many times, usually people that doesn't want to have a Windows Machine (most of the time, they are full Linux / Unix Infra), or can’t afford a Windows Server License.What do you think? Best regards.Luis.

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coolsport00
1 year ago
JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Vanguard
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Tape Media Set Naming – Configuring Variables

Hello,we want to change the naming of the media sets in our tape media pools and encountered a situation with the available variables.Our goal is to include date and time in the media set name in format ”yyyymmdd_hh:mm”The variable %date% gives date and time in the format “dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm” (ok, the date format is based on the system locale). But we cannot change the system locale for this…. 🙁With the variables %year%, %month%, %day% and %time% it should be possible to build a date_time string in the desired format. But unfortunately, the value of the %month% variable is the name of the month, not the numberDoes someone have an idea or a trick how to get the number of the month? Are the variables configurable? Just asking all the experts here before opening a support ticket. 😎 Documentation mentions nothing about this…https://helpcenter.veeam.com/archive/backup/90/vsphere/add_media_pool_set.html Please forget my question 😂😂😂You should look at the documentation for the correct vers

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JMeixner
1 year ago
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mczVeeam Legend
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object storage integration in the coming agents (6.0)

So in B&R v12 it is possible to directly backup to an object storage - same is valid for the agents if I’m not mistaken. Testing the current beta hasn’t given me that option to choose an object storage as target repository, so I guess it can only be achieved in combination with B&R? Or does it still have to be developed? Thanks!

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Stabz
1 year ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Mastodon for Data Protection folks

Hi Everyone, Veeam Vanguard @mkevenaar has started a mastodon server masto.nu This should be a great place for Data Protection folks and It in general. I plan to push this also through my Kubernetes networks.Please feel free to join. 

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D
1 year ago
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LucaDMComes here often
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Backup VM replicated with vsphere replication

For an our customer I will have to integrate the backup of VM replicated by vSphere replication software, some one have tried to do this ? There are known issue or limitation ?Thanks  Luca

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
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Mubaraq KolawoleNew Here
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Backup proxy offline

Hello, Team So, i was trying to restore data and my restore keep saying my proxy is offline. THe communication is good and the services are running. Community on the actual port is good. I need help and it is important that this is sorted on time. See screenshots below:   

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
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vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 Initial Availability

VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 are GA now, anyone will try to test in Veeam v11?😁 https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2022/10/11/announcing-initial-availability-of-vsan-8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=announcing-initial-availability-of-vsan-8 https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2022/10/vsphere-8-now-available.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vsphere-8-now-available

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Scott
1 year ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
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MFA with Veeam B&R

Hello everybody! I’d like to know if is possible to have a Multi-Factor Authentication to access Veeam Backup & Replication console?Do we have something native on Veeam about it?  

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BertrandFR
1 year ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
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Veeam Backup & Replication 11a P20220302 Compatibility With vSphere 8.0

Veeam now supports VMware vSphere 8.0 with some limitations.Link:https://www.veeam.com/kb4378

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Nico Losschaert
1 year ago
K
K22Not a newbie anymore
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Best practice back up RAID 5 Server

Hi We have a Dell T130 RAID 5 - 4 X 1TB  Drives No hot spare - DELL PERC H330 Adp SCSI Disk.What is best practice to back this up with Veeam ?Regards

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K
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Fun Friday #54: Marketing Data Loss

Happy Friday everyone! I was having a chat with @regnor yesterday and we were getting a bit sarcastic about the gap between new products and how long it takes for them to have a proper data protection option available (Teams Chat API is a great example of this!). So I thought this might be a bit of Friday Fun.I want you to market data loss, like it’s a good thing! Whoever’s gets the most likes is the funniest and wins being the “answer” to the question (for those sweet sweet community points!) Scenario: You’ve just lost all your company data and you’re about to tell the board, what do you say? Example: “You know last month I was complaining about our tech debt? Well… it’s gone now!” Now your turn! And be as silly as you like, it’s fun Friday after all!!! 😁

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dloseke
1 year ago
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SuryaNot a newbie anymore
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VBR powershell command to fetch agent based backup

Hi All, I need a Veeam powershell command to fetch agent based backup. I am using below command to fetch last night backup status but it doesn’t include agent based backup. Get-VBRBackupSession | Where-Object {$_.JobType -eq "Backup" -and $_.EndTime -ge (Get-Date).addhours(-24)} Do you know single command to fetch all types of backup or different command for agent based backup? Thanks in advance

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S
1 year ago
fspadaro
fspadaroComes here often
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Backup Repository Concurrent Tasks

Hello everyone, it’s correct that concurrent tasks limit on the following repositories depend on the hardware (CPU/RAM) of the gateway server (transport server):DataDomain connected in FC to gateway servers with 16 cores and 32GB RAM Immutable on Linux servers with 16 cores and 32GB RAMConcurrent tasks are 32 or 16VMs as reported in the following documentation:Limitation of Concurrent Tasks - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com) NOTE Task limits set for backup infrastructure components influence the job performance. For example, you add a VM with 4 disks to a job and assign a backup proxy that can process maximum 2 tasks concurrently for the job. In this case, Veeam Backup & Replication will create 4 tasks (1 task per each VM disk) and start processing 2 tasks in parallel. The other 2 tasks will be pending.  ThanksFederico 

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fspadaro
1 year ago
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abdshifaNew Here
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Veeam Agent for Linux - Linux systems data backups of larger than 2TB volume

What are the best practices for agent base Linux systems data backups of larger than 2TB volume without any failure? As well as backup of NFS volume?

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vmJoe
1 year ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Free Certifications Pick your Field

Hi Folks, I came across this great cloud community list of free IT certifications on github(Kasten is in there too). Seems to be kept up to date. https://github.com/cloudcommunity/Free-Certifications

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vAdmin
1 year ago
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AnanduComes here often
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DC-DR attack scenario

Hey Guys,I have a scenario. I want to replicate VM from DC to DR site. At some point if the VM gets malware attack and the same is replicated to DR site. The DR site also gets malware infected. How to mitigate this kind of a scenario

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vmJoe
1 year ago
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

2023 Dell Technologies Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing Competition

All Dell Technologies Proven Professionals are invited to participate in the 2023 Knowledge Sharing Competition! To learn more and to submit your abstract, go here >> https://dell.submittable.com/submit/239107/2023-dell-technologies-proven-professional-knowledge-sharing-competition 

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victorwu
1 year ago
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StevenMSTechNew Here
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Cannot create SOBR - "Failed to save scale-out backup repository" when saving

I am trying to make a second scale out repository (not overlapping with the first) and I keep getting the following message when trying to save it… “Summary: Failed to save scale-out backup repository: F:\Backup Copy” I got this message another time but pointing to a different directory, which linked to some orphaned backups. I deleted those in hopes this would fix it, but it just keeps throwing a different backup path each time. This specific one doesn’t even exist on my server under backup repos or disk backups (copies or orphaned), so I have no clue how to get past this. When I check the logs, all I see is this… [13.10.2022 17:08:05] <01> Error        Failed to save scale-out backup repository.[13.10.2022 17:08:05] <01> Error        Failed to save scale-out backup repository:[13.10.2022 17:08:05] <01> Error        F:\Backup Copy (System.Exception)[13.10.2022 17:08:05] <01> Error           at Veeam.Backup.UI.Sobr.CSobrWizardCtx.SaveRepository(String& warni

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C
1 year ago
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MikadenNot a newbie anymore
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lost restore point

We had a firm that upgraded our veeam to v 11.In the same time, we replace the SAN.The original SAN that was used for backup was replaced by the new unit.The original SAN was then used for the copy, and the copy SAN not use anymore.It appear that we lost all 95% of restore point that we had before cause of a disk space problem that corrupt the file for most jobs in the server. Now we only have one month of restore point cause. we lost everything else. We think that it was cause of a bad way to upgrade, but the consulting firm continue to claim that it was the disk space problem that caused the loss of six-month  backup.is it possible that the disk space corrupt all the restore point and there is no way to recover the old backup or maybe from our old copy SAN that is still unused since the migration?Thanks for your help. 

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M
1 year ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
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VDRO - vCenter Location or HA Configuration

Hey all, getting ready to setup VDRO in the lab and production, but I have questions on the location of the vCenter server.  Currently, my vCenter is located in the primary site, but wondering if it should be instead setup at the recovery site, or if I should have HA or ELM configured so that there is a second vCenter setup at the recovery site.  ELM doesn’t sound as useful for this situation, but HA may work and there is low enough latency between the primary and recovery sites to support HA.  That said, I was hoping to the put the witness at our third site, but latency is higher to that location so that may not work.  Anyhow, I know I need to get my VBR backup server moved to the recovery site (was already on my list) but what’s considered the best practice here?

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dloseke
1 year ago
Monir-H-Prodhan
Monir-H-ProdhanNew Here
posted in Discussion Boards

Excellent Features and Improvement in Veeam 11

Excellent Features and Improvement in Veeam 11

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
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How do you bond/team NICs in Linux?

This topic is not directly related to Veeam. But because of the Veeam Hardened repositories running on Linux, this is also an topic for Veeam.Do you prefer bonding or teaming?https://ngelinux.com/difference-between-bonding-and-teaming-in-linux/https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/networking_guide/sec-comparison_of_network_teaming_to_bondingWith bonding, which mode do you prefer?https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/networking_guide/overview-of-bonding-modes-and-the-required-settings-on-the-switchI personally preferred bonding with ALB. But lately I have heard more and more about problems with this mode.What are your experiences with this topic?

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Ralf
1 year ago
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BrianNgcobo17Comes here often
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Error: Bad allocation

 Job finished with error at 2022/10/27 5:42 AMError: bad allocation Agent failed to process method {FileBackup.SyncDirs}. Exception from server: bad allocation The backup are failing with above error, please advise. Thanks

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C
1 year ago

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