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Happy Sys Admin Day! Throughout the month, community members have shared their Sys Admin stories. Thank you all for sharing them! We are happy to announce the winner of the special July Blog of the Month is @Scott with his blog When Veeam Saved the day for me. Congratulations Scott! You have won a $150 gift card! 🎉The top three voted blogs were awarded a unique Sys Admin Hero badge. Congrats @marco_s and @dloseke!

Has anyone community notifications missing starting from August 1st?

Hi, My last 2 cases are not going smooth with the Veeam support.My first case was regarding this topic and I did finally solved it myself. Then I get respons with the question how I did solved it!My new case posted 1st of aug is still in status new. Is it really because of the holidays, or are there under-staffed? I know, the severity is low, as it is not urgent, but normally I get a respons faster.The question I did ask them:My Veeam server is on a seperated VLAN, other than my ESXi servers. My storage is DirectSAN accessible. Only If I use Instant Recovery or SureBackup, the NFS mount to backup repository (local storage on server) is going over the Firewall, and I want to prevent that. So I did create on my ESXi another kernel adapter in the same lan of Veeam and yes, the connectio

Hi guys, I’ve just updated Veeam Service Provider Console from v6 to v7 and I got a communication error during Web UI component upgrade.Web UI is installed on a different server and subnet than VSPC server component.I checked the open ports and they were correct.By opening all the ports between the Web UI and the server the installation went fine.Has this ever happened to you? is it possible that the documentation is wrong and something has changed from v6?Unfortunately, I did not check whether it used any other port than the one in the documentation. (TCP,UDP 1989) Thanks Marco S.

I’m trying to figure out how to get notifications sent via email when a backup has been successfully/unsuccessfully completed.  It is on a Centos server.  I looked around in the Veeam settings by opening up veeamconfig ui, but cannot find anything in the Linux version about setting up email notifications like the Windows version allows you to do.  I have also looked into setting this up in crontab, but do not really know what to put in the script to send an email notification.

Can we do SOBR config  , by selecting only  performance tier repo and AWS Glacier repo . No capacity tier. If SOBR not possible then can we take primary backup on Local disk and backup copy to glacier repo.    

Hi all. I am quite new to Veeam. I was trying to set my laptop up to be backed up daily and at one point I selected VM as an option. I did eventually get it set up as an Agent Backup, but now I get these emails below every day and I can’t find anywhere to delete or remove anything so I quit getting this message. Any help?[Failed] Backup Policy: Agent Backup ….. (1 VMs) 1 failed

I’m using backup and replication v11 backup job of one vm, but I get the errors during this backup job.Error: Failed to call RPC function ‘Fc wRiteFileEx’Related to this issue, everyone help advise on this issue?  

Dear Veeam Team, Please help. Can Veeam Backup and Replication v12 support LTO6 tape library. Regards,VMware.Sorro

hi, could Veeam do backup office 365 and store backup data to GCP object storage, because I can’t find GCP object storage type while adding object storagethank you

I’ll try this as well. I’ll list some hardware, requirements, and see what you guys come up with. RequirementsMultiple site for DRPredictable pricing. (Can’t have azure tell us we have a $40k bill one month for unpredicted restores)Quick restores Environment2 Datacenters, 10 Gb link between, soon to be a second.1Gb up from Main site, soon to be 5Gb/10Gb1Gb up from DR site, won’t be upgraded in the next while. Virtual environmentMultisite VMware environment SRM with storage replication (not unwilling to switch to Veeam for some)20+ hosts Veeam InfrastructureEnterprise license2 SANS - block fiber storage 2 LTO8 Tape libraries (1 per site)2 proxies that are also acting as repos to the SAN’s and Tape proxies. (256GB Memory, 40 Core)2 proxies

Our Azure blob storage was in the hands of another companies subscription. We’ve had that blob moved to our own subscription. Can we reconnect to a blob storage with a new path and still be able to use the backups?  Will it pickup as imported object?

Hey guys,I am getting ready to deploy VEEAM V12 into my environment (finally - took 8+ months)I am needing to delve into RBAC controls and granular access rights via AD  anyone have any advice or a direction they could point me in? thanks in advance 

Hi All,Apologies if I am asking in the wrong place, but using VBR V11 Community edition.I want to simulate a DR event. I have taken a Windows  Agent → Entire computer full backup to a USB Drive.Now i want to restore just some files from this USB Backup to a new server ( where the same edition VBR is installed.From the USB Drive on the new server , double clicking on the .VBK file launches Veeam, but my concern is the following window just shows “Restore”. I Don’t want to overwrite the entire server from this backup?  Does “Restore” actually start overwriting files, or does this proceed to show more options  ( and would be better named “Next”, rather than “Restore” ) ??Many thanks in advance.

Hello and ThanksMy personal laptop runs VAgent(Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 6.0.0.960 - Server Edition)My home server runs VBAR(12.0.0.1420)Both are community editions.Based on https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforwindows/userguide/backup_cmd.html?ver=60I have multiple jobs, so I need the JobID.To Get the ID, I ran"Get-VBRComputerBackupJob -Mode ManagedByAgent" My problem, this command fails, i cannot figure out why?C:\Program Files\Veeam\Endpoint Backup>Veeam.EndPoint.Manager.exe /backup "5c2b2cb9-7092-4a9e-8e4f-b08e0e18e168"Job with id "5c2b2cb9-7092-4a9e-8e4f-b08e0e18e168" was not found Output

dear,please i will install rhel 7 on the physical server and will be as physical repository hardened linux (for compatibilty issue from server and the mounted san storage, i cannot upgrade more). so please what’s the recommended file system ? be aware that i cannot put xfs file system because it’s supported from rhel 8.2 ?

hi team need perfect solution with step wise .  

Hi all,I was checking the HCL list on QNAP QuObject devices and in the past you could find them at: https://www.veeam.com/sys469 but this now throws a 404…So checking the HCL didn’t show any Qnap devices.Aren’t they supported anymore with the QuObjects to provide local S3 compatible storage with optional immutability?   Some months ago we had a list like:  

Hi All,I have VMCE Certification. Recently i changed my job, so i need to transfer my VMCE certification to my new organization. what is the procedure for this. can anyone help me on this? Thanks in advance 

Hi, I have already calculated by using https://rps.dewin.me/rpc, do i have to add some buffer for my backup repository ? if yes, how many percent from the calculation that I have to add as my buffer ? 

In addition to backing up my ESXi virtual machines, I’d like to back the entire host up. How may this be done? Thanks!

I cannot expand a VM disk since the system is blocking this operation as for existing checkpoints.There’s no checkpoint within the chain in HyperV Manager, however some files exist on disk:I wonder if these are only some orphans created by VBR Comm. Ed., and if these can be safely deleted

Hello,A customer is using a "scale-out" repository on a compatible S3 and has Veeam version 11. They want to perform a test to recover the data stored on S3 to a new Veeam server. However, Veeam does not support direct import of data from the S3 repository in a "scale-out" configuration. To work around this limitation, the chosen option is to restore the Veeam configuration to the new server.The question is whether it is possible to restore the configuration on Veeam version 12, and what limitations should be taken into consideration.Thank you.

We’ve been running VBR on a 2012 R2 server for a long time but it’s time to get off of 2012.Is there a reason to keep running Veeam on a server? We’ve grown over the years and I have started putting VBR on Windows 10 workstations for remote offices and that has worked well.Do we need need to keep VBR on a server or is it save to migrate this over to a workstation?Interested in hearing why?Thanks!