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PepTownNot a newbie anymore
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Testing encryption key of a backup

I’m missing something simple here I thnk…all of my backups are unencrypted and I want to encrypt them, I set one to do that, stored the key in VEEAM and of course offsite too, but how do I know it’s working? I tried a guest file restore from that backup, picked a file, it restored fine, but nowhere did VEEAM asked me to provide the password..  I assume this is because it knows it, but that doesn’t make me feel comfortable with the process. I suppose the test could be to install backup & replication on another computer and try the restore from there? a bit of work though so I’m thinking there’s an easier way or am I worrying about nothing? 

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marymcg2Not a newbie anymore
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Veeam Backup and Replication v12.1 release date

Is there any indication of when the release date for Veeam Backup and Replication - v12.1 will be?

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Chris.Childerhose
CarySun
CarySunVeeam Vanguard
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v12.1 What's new? What's your favorite?

WOW, there are lots of amazing features in v12.1. This is one of my favourites. What yours?  

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NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Difference in performance BCJ

Hello,I would like to know why are there so many differences in performance of BCJ?This is all in one BCJ.Result of already finished one: Results of currently running one:  

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Michael Melter
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Blog of the Month October +November 2023 Winner
Blog of the Month October +November 2023 WinnerBlog of the Month

Dear all,Today, we are pleased to announce the winner of the October+ November 2023 Blog of the Month special edition,  @JMeixner  ,with his blog Data Backup Basics I: Why Snapshots Are Not Backups - Understanding the Differences . Congratulations, Jochen! 👏💚😻 Best, Madi

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MikeLeoneComes here often
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Utilizing all tape drives in a library

I am confused (not an unusual occurrence ...). I have a LTO-7 tape library, with 3 tape drives. Right now, I have 9 tape jobs listed as running (we ran out of tapes this weekend, so I just loaded more). But only 2 tape drives have tapes loaded and are writing, the 3rd is idle. And I’m not sure why … there are empty tapes in the pool for the jobs (all jobs use the same pool), as well as FREE tapes in the FREE pool.So why is my drive idle? I don’t see any option that seems to say “Use only 2 of the 3 drives in the library at any one time”. I must be missing something here, but I can’t figure out what. It’s not an option for the individual tape jobs, right? I have those set to use at most 2 drives. I assumed that meant just for that one tape job, not for all jobs that are executing. So why isn’t Veeam loading a tape in that 3rd drive, and starting to clear my backlog? What have I done wrong? Thanks.

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HammerComes here often
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Backup Hyper-V disk vs. vm

Hi, sorry for the noob question, but when backing up VM’s on Hyper-V, what is the difference between backing up the VM’s via Virtual Infrastructure vs. backing up the disk the VM files are stored on via Physical Infrastructure?  Is it just on recovery, it’s easier to restore the VM’s directly vs. having to restore each of the VM files such as the vhdx files?Thanks!

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Moustafa_Hindawi
Moustafa_HindawiInfluencer
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Backup AHV VMs on NC2

Hello everyone, Is there an integrated way to backup AHV VMs on NC2, or we should you agent backup?

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HammerComes here often
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Veeam Backup & Replication very slow to start backup

Hi, I am testing Backup and Replication Community Edition and have a very simple test environment consisting of a single Windows Server 2022 with one boot SSD, two HDD’s and a third HDD which is my dedicated Backup Repository.  When I start the job, it take over an hour before it will begin to process/transfer data.  Is this normal or is stuck waiting for something before it can start the backup?  The server really has no load on it as it is a test machine (physical, not virtual).  Below is a screenshot: Any thoughts would be much appreciated.  Thank you!  

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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VUG Canada - November 29th - Architecture Design & Best Practices

For those that could not attend and are not members of the VUG Canada group you can watch the webinar on the VUG Canada YouTube channel below -Also, the slides are attached as well from the presentation.Great job again @Tyler Jurgens and @HangTen416 

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Moustafa_Hindawi
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
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Moving your blog, alternatives, methods?

Hi Everyone, I am planning on moving my blog. What seemed like a great deal at the time has turned into an expensive auto-renewal at the worst possible time. Luckily I changed my CC so .. 😁 no auto delete $$ this year. What are the alternatives? What do people pay? What is the best method to download my present blog content? Any help would be appreciated.

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dloseke
NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Backup Copy Job - Backup Jobs selected

Hello,I would need some general advices in creating Backup Copy Jobs.Is it okay to choose every Backup Job and insert it in the Backup Copy Job, as I can see there is no option to create in which order they will perform etc.  

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dloseke
NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Error with Backup Copy Jobs

Hello Forum,I’m getting this weird error now: What could be a cause for this, two Backup Jobs finished successfully and now I get this error and its stuck.

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coolsport00
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
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Home Lab Special Section?

Hi Everyone,I have moved forward on my home lab. Proxmox is installed and I am finding it very intuitive. I now have to see about what I can do about a Veeam setup (can I nest a Veeam supported Hypervizor in there etc). I have also added one of those ethernet over power lines connections to my basement. That also seems to be working perfectly, hooray no need to rip out walls for cabling. I got to thinking though, so many of us need to test and play with Veeam outside of work confines and the info about home labs is scattered all over the site in different posts. Do  people think it would be helpful to have a separate Home Lab section. This is a place where newbies or people re-thinking their setup could come with the ultimate goal of getting more lab exposure to Veeam. Or should we just leave as be and use the search function? What does everyone think? Again I don’t know how feasible this would be and it would not be a new group per-se. Just an idea.

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Veebr
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Installing second Veeam B&R server behind a firewall and dividing current VUL

Hello, We are looking into moving a set of our VMs that are currently being backed up by Veeam behind a firewall for extra security. We are running the latest version of Veeam and have VUL. Will the VUL policy allow us to install a separate instance of Veeam B&R server behind this new firewall to backup the servers there? And will I need to divide the current license count according to my needs and apply to the new instance of Veeam B&R server? Thank you for your comments and ideas in advance.  

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Kevin516Not a newbie anymore
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Is anybody out there using a VBR with a Postgres Configuration DB to backup & restore TDE encrypted SQL Server DB(s)?

All our TDE encrypted DB(s) are in 'Simple Recovery' mode. Hence there's no 'Point-In-Time' recovery needed.We simply restore a DB from daily backups. Our VBR server is configured as our Veeam gateway server.We'd like to switch to Postgres to save $ on licensing.If you are currently doing this successfully then please let me know your VBR version & Postgres version.Thank You!Kevin

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NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicInfluencer
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Retention Policy - Backup Copy Job with GFS

Hello everybody,I would like to know scenario with retention policy in this way. I don’t want to have Forever Forward Incremental backup method because as I saw it’s not recommended by Veeam also, if we do it without GFS.I would like to create Full backups (synthetic) every week.So I’m just a little bit confused how restore points will be available.If I have configured 7 restore points but in GFS I have option to store Full Backups for 2 weeks, how it will end up looking?I’m more curios how increments are going to be removed. 

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syedmahdialiNot a newbie anymore
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File to Tape Job Issues

Case # 06398904 Hi Guys, We are facing an issue with one of our end-user environment with VBR v11This job is configured from a Physical Windows Servers with agents on them.  

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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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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam 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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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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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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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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damien commenge
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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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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