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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 

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

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)

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 :)

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 

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!

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

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 ?

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

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

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 

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?

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.  

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?

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!

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

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

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&

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 ?!

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

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) 

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

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?

I'm here to show you a little working proof of concept I put together during the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague last week. It's very much a work in progress, but I'm excited to share it with you.(video and callout at the bottom for feedback) Let's dive into the tech stuff and some notes on what we're using.So, we're making use of the Veeam VBR Rest API, as you will know I am a fan of any API especially when it comes to Veeam. The prototype is put together using Node.js. It's like the middleman between the frontend and my VBR server and OpenAI. (we're rocking the gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 model). Although I'm thinking about going with a locally hosted model in the future, especially for sensitive backup server data. But for now, in this prototype and my lab setup, I'm good with this setup, nothing for me to worry about with the few machines I am protecting.For this prototype, I've focused on Backup Jobs and Backup Sessions, and it chats with four VBR Rest API endpoints to make it happen./api/v1/jo

We have configured our backup copy jobs to execute in a continuous mode and hadn’t any issues until the other day.  Ten (out of 100) of our backup copy jobs failed, with the error of “Unable to copy the backup: some backup files are located on an unavailable scale-out repository extent”.  Checking the restore points on the source and target repositories, we noticed the restore points (for the most recent backup) for the target repositories were in an incomplete state.  We performed the following manual steps to resolve; Disable backup copy job After reviewing the target repository from the backup copy job, the identified servers with the error, have the most recent restore point showing incomplete. Rescan the target repository Then process the incomplete restore points by selecting forget Rescan the target repository Enable backup copy job and executeWe did open a support case and the engineer discovered the issue we experienced stemmed from the backup copy job interfering with the bac