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Why Veeam doesn’t have such an option to delete Existing Snapshots from Veeam Console?  vCenter is connected with Veeam Console.

Hi All,Recently we take our backup in external HDD and Copy the backup data to the S3 Object storage,after adding the S3 Object Repo we try to import the data from S3, but no backup data is found. we also try manually copy the data to s3 object folder but it not working,anyone face this issue or any solutions for this? 

I have to set up a structure like 7 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly and 5 yearly backups for my workplace, but am somewhat restricted in budget and storage space per device, so I have two NAS as backup repository, but each one allone is to small to save all the backups.Now I am looking for a way to spread the backups over both NAS, e.g. save daily and monthly to NAS A, weekly and yearly to the NAS B. My initial idea would be:A regular Backup Job for daily Backups, targeting NAS A, set up asSchedule: Run everyday at 9 pm; full backup every saturday Storage Retention Policy: 7 restore points Keep certain fulls longer: unchecked Configure secondary destinations: checked Secondary Target: Weekly Backup Copy Job Monthly Backup Copy Job Yearly Backup Copy Job My next step is to set up the Copy Jobs, they all share the following settings:Immedia

I had to learn very early in my professional career that a backup can save your life. During my studies, I was in the first or second practical phase in the company and was supposed to clean up some directories of an application on an OS/2 server. It was the administration of access rights to the branches throughout the region…. So I opened the command line and started browsing the folder structure. Finally, I found the files I wanted to delete and started typing the delete command. And sent it off...Unfortunately, I hadn't checked again which directory I was currently in - unfortunately it was the root directory... And so a whole lot of important directories and files were irretrievably deleted. 😱😱😱 So, now I was a poor student in the first or second semester and had to confess to my supervisors that I had just killed the access management of the entire region (around 15 branches spread across western Germany with several thousand em

hi veeam CommunityFor more security I need to setup 2FA or MFA for enterprise manager.Does anyone have experience or ideas? What is the right tool for this?There is a tutorial for this ?BR & EM servers are installed on the same server

I’ve been testing syslog with v12.1 and I cant seem to see messages related to an unsuccessful login to the VBR console. We see messages for logins and logouts but not unsuccessful.I’ve also configured Veeam ONE syslog and this seems to show all logins but not VBR.I have even tested this with the Veeam lab “test drive 12.1” at https://propartner.veeam.com/hands-on-labs/ has anyone else tested this at all or had experience of it? We need to get unsuccessful logins somehow…. thanks

This is a very interesting warning. I migrated lots of VBR servers, and it’s the first time I've run into this warning.The detailed warning message is below:Warning Failed to connect to Red Hat Virtualization plug-in: Failed to login to platform service: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.It happened after I migrated from the VBR server with SQL Express to the new VBR server with PostgreSQL.All Hosts and repositories are pure Hyper-V environments. There are no Linux servers or repositories.It’s easy to fix this issue. I rebooted the VBR server and ran the backup configuration again. The warning message is gone. Does anyone have the

Yesterday I came across an interesting bug using version 12.1.1.56 I have been creating plenty of jobs and test jobs to Wasabi without issue for quite a while. For some reason, one of the jobs I created gave me an error.  I thought this was odd as I had not enabled rollbacks, and there isn’t even a setting to adjust the setting for transform previous chains into rollbacks on Object Storage jobs.  Following KB4390 https://www.veeam.com/kb4390 There are 2 easy PowerShell commands to fix this issue.  The first command will find all jobs using the

Hello everyone!After reading some of your experiences and submissions, specially @Madi.Cristil s one, I’ve found some time to tell you mine,this is a personal story, here we go: Back on 2000 - 2001 , I was an exchange student flying from Spain to the US, without knowing any English at all, just few words, the worst pronunciation ever, scared and to the unknown.At the beginning, it was fine to take pictures with “single use cameras” (I’m felling very old right now)but after a while, I saw on Walmart a Digital camera, a Sony Cybershot!! OMG! 😱 1.3mpx of super high quality pictures, jpeg, TIFF and GIF! a monster!!I bought it, and quickly I started fulling the 64MB memory Stick!! tons of pictures, fortunately, the Computer I’ve got in the house had a

My console stopped opening yesterday, crashing and complaining about clr.dll. There’s a R&D post about removing the user.config file (Here), but that didn’t work. Anyone else recently seeing this? Log Name: ApplicationSource: Application ErrorDate: 12/7/2023 6:27:37 AMEvent ID: 1000Task Category: (100)Level: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: MANBK-CARM-VEMDescription:Faulting application name: veeam.backup.shell.exe, version: 12.1.0.2131, time stamp: 0xf82aa70aFaulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.8.4645.0, time stamp: 0x648f6f63Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x0000000000018551Faulting process id:

Patched VBO to the latest version; installed windows updates recently; tested console restore and backups and both were fine. however, notcied the next day that portal is not functional.  The portal appears, you input credentials, it takes you to azure portal; you input credentials again and url chanegs to the portal again and it just stays thereLogs show14.03.2024 09:30:11.727]   55 (19664) Authorization started (grant type: OperatorAccessTokenResponse)[14.03.2024 09:30:12.260]   55 (19664)  Authorization succeeded 14.03.2024 09:30:12.261]   55 (19664) Error: IDX10634: Unable to create the SignatureProvider.Algorithm: 'RS256', SecurityKey: 55 (19664) Type: System.NotSupportedException this algo is supported in Windows already checked  We are using the same self-signed certificate when restorng using the VBO console which works fine and the backups have been runnig as well; 

Hi guys,I need some help to export my incremental files on tape.Policies: Archiving Full backups once a week on new tapes and used tapes are exported, archiving Incremental backups on new tapes and used tapes are exported. Entity Configuration settings Media pool Full and incremental backups use different media pools. Media pool (retention) Protect data for <desired period>  Media set (retention) Create new media set for every backup session Source (backup job) Forward incremental backup that runs daily with synthetic  Tape job Export current media set..

Lets say a periodic legacy backup copy job “LEGACY” was configured to copy 3 source jobs: JOB-A, JOB-B, JOB-CDuring the creation of the new-format backup copy job named “NEW”, only source job JOB-A was initially included.  On the storage tab, target mapping was used to point to the “LEGACY” job.   This triggered a format upgrade for all items inside the LEGACY job, creating a new target named “NEW”.Now I want to edit the “NEW” job to add “JOB-B” as an additonal souce.Do I need to return to the storage-tab of the job and choose target mapping and select “LEGACY” again?What happens if I do?Will it recognise that this chain has already been converted and correctly target “NEW” instead?

Hi Everyone,I need some guidance on deploying a new hardened backup repository as a SOBR extent. Current we have a customer which uses a regular windows repository as extent doing copy to an Azure blob. We need to move all the content (backup chains) from this Windows repository to the hardened one (using imutability). I´m trying to find out the appropriate way to do that. There is only one performance extent (with data locality policy) and we are not able to add the hardened repo because all extents need to have same imutability settings. Cannot evacuate because there is no other extent to evacuate.How can I accomplish this without having to download metadata or resync data with Azure blobs? Our goal here is to only offload old repo content to the hardened repo and set them as extent copying data to Azure, if possible, doing little to no change on Azure tiers/blobs to avoid costs. 

Hello,I have 2 Hyper-V hosts:Host no.1: several VMs, VM replicas from Host no.2 and a VM with Veeam B&R server (v12) Host no.2: several VMs, VM replicas from Host no.1 including a VM replica with Veeam B&R server (v12)The repository for backups and replicas is an additional NAS server.I need to completely reinstall Host 1, so I need to temporarily move everything to Host 2 - including the Veeam B&R server.These are production servers, so the whole operation must be stable and fast. What is the best way to do this?

hi Veeam communityI want to run a sclae out repository and I need your help and experience.I want to buy suitable storage for all three tiers (performance, capacity, archive) and I want to have immutable capability in all three levels.Your experience and guidance can help me make the right choices.What features should be taken into consideration when choosing storage, what storages have you had experience working with and were they good experiences.Thank you in advance for all your comments   

According to Veeam documentation, migrating a legacy VBR (v11) to a new one (v12.1) requires disabling the services on the current server. This legacy server retains the ownership of all the Azure blobs used as scale-out repositories. All blobs are used to long-term backups. Regular short-term backup jobs are configured to local disk repositories.  My question lies in the moment after the restore process ends (with the option to migrate flaged). Do I just need to request ownership of the blob or is some additional procedure required to re-enable this scale-out repositories. Is there any chance to lose the chain inside this blobs after the restore? If restore fails somehow, can I just jump back to the legacy server? I cannot risk losing the backup chain held there, cause we are talking of dozens of TBs.  If there is some guide to migrate VBR with Azure blobs or anyone has ever had this need somehow, can please share the steps taken?

Hello, I am facing a connection problem between my VBR and my VEM.I applied a hardening since the connection with the local administrator account (built-in) is impossible I cannot find what could be blocking it, still investigate.MFA was enabled in VBR, so I had to create an entry for my built-in administrator account as a service account with Veeam administrator privilege.Unfortunately the session failed to openThe connection with another service account with admin privilege works..Any idea? The account must be assigned the Veeam Backup Administrator role. In term of security I’m not a big fan cause I have an account with admin right without MFA. How do you configure VEM on your side?

Hi Team, My customer has a setup for StoreOnce (3660 with Firmware 4.3.7) and Veeam (12) configured with Veeam Standard license.Scenario 1:Customer tried to take a VM backup to one of a catalyst store which failed due to licensing issue in the logs. However, I did not get any documentation mentioning Veeam standard edition doesn’t support catalyst stores. As per Catalyst store configuration I double checked and its as per HPE standards.Error: “Backup to HPE StoreOnce Catalyst requires valid enterprise edition of Veeam Backup and replication.” Scenario 2:Customer tried to back up the same test VM on StoreOnce NAS share and that passed successfully. Resolution:Could you share me any documentation which says the Veeam standard edition does not support StoreOnce catalyst store? Are there any changes in Veeam that needs to be done to support the above

Hello,Refer below setting:- backup job vm_to_disk with full and incremental keep 14 days- backup job file_share_to_disk keep 14 days, it should be full and incremental for file share backup- backup job vm_to_tape- backup job file_share_to_tape- two jobs vm_to_tape and file_share_to_tape backup to one tape setup with "Do not create, always continue using current media set", manual execute end of every monthrefer two jobs backup to one tape and it will require use "Do not create, always continue using current media set", t will append backup content to the content that was written to tape with a previous backup session. If, however, a backup set is started with a new tape, Veeam Backup & Replication will create a new media set for it.Does it mean jobs vm_to_tape and file_share_to_tape execute full backup when insert new tape? Best regards, 

Servers & Drive Numbers - Cause Chaos So, I thought for the blog of the month special edition I would go back to when I first started out in the IT world early in my career.  I found a job as a Systems Administrator at a small law office in downtown Toronto.  I was so excited to get my IT career going and this was my first job in the Sysadmin space.  The firm also had an external IT company as well under contract, but they felt the need to have someone onsite to provide easier assistance to users, manage servers, etc.So, I was working there for a few months when I happened to one day do my daily routine check in the server room and noticed an amber light on one of the drives in the server.  Now keep in mind I was new to IT and did not understand the concept of the hard drives starting at Zero not One (you can see where I am going with this 😂).So, to be diligent and ensure things were done right I contacted the person at the IT consulting company, an

I’m using B&R 12.1.1 and having the following error with a single Server 2016 VM backup.Failed to index guest file system. VSSControl: Index failedI’ve checked that all discs have plenty space but not sure where to look for more information.Any suggestions welcomed. 

Hello team,Today, I replaced an HPE Gen 10 server. After adding it to the cluster, I encountered an issue with remediating it to install the IO. I observed that VMware has removed the HPE Gen 10 Proliant from their Cycle Center, making it challenging to apply the CDP IO. Has anyone else noticed this issue?   

We are beginning implementation of the DB2 plugin in v12.1. Looking at the documentation online, we see commands and examples for backing up and restoring backups, but you have to know the date/timestamp for the file to restore. There is no command to list available backup files using the plugin that is documented online (that I can find, anyway). However, a helpful engineer that we consulted with during pre-buy provided us with a command to list the available backups using the agent (db2 list history backup all for <db name>).Now I’m wondering why that isn’t documented online, and if there is a document somewhere that lists all of the commands or methods possible with the DB2 plugin.Does anyone know where we can get that documentation?