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AnanduComes here often
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MySQL backup

Hey guys, I have a question.In a windows system with MySQL database, if I install veeam agent for windows, will I able to backup MySql database?

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Chris.Childerhose
7 months ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
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[Heads up] Do not update to vSphere 7 U3 when running thin-provisioned VMDKs

A bad bug was found in VMware vSphere 7 U3. A ESXi host may crashes with a PSOD when running thin-provisioned VMDKs. Currently there is not solution available. There are a few workarounds but no easy ones:Downgrade to older version, Convert all VMs (VMDKs) to Thick-provisioned, Disable TRIM/UNMAP in Guest OS.For more information see official VMware KB: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/86100@jorge.delacruz  already posed about the issue: https://jorgedelacruz.uk/2021/10/22/vmware-psod-after-updating-to-vsphere-esxi-7-0-update-3-panic-requested-by-another-pcpu-thin-provisioned-vms/Maybe good news: U3a is already announced: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2021/10/vsphere-update-3a.html 

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vNote42
2 years ago
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ShakNot a newbie anymore
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Secondary Storage - DR Site

Hello Techies,We use Veeam Backup as our backup solution, and I am planning to configure Veeam as follows to make sure that our data are safe during a primary site unrecoverable disaster.Regularly backup configuration and keep it external storage source ( One Drive, external HDD ..etc )  At the end of each backup, I will configure a copy job to secondary storage  The secondary storage will be mapped from the DR site using the site-to-site link.So, after each job, a copy will be placed into secondary storage and the secondary store will be on the DR site. In the event of primary site unrecoverable disaster, I will perform as follows 1- Install fresh Veeam software 2- Restore configuration3- Map secondary storage backup LUN / Volume 4- Restore from secondary storage Am I missing something? any suggestion? 

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
RK99
RK99Experienced User
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While creating backups in a Hyper-V environment, what are the permissions are not necessary for on-host backups, if used?

While  creating backups in a Hyper-V environment, you need several permissions to be able to properly snapshot and process a VM. What are the  permissions are not necessary for on-host backups, if used?Full Access permission on the targetfolder and share access given. 

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marcofabbri
2 years ago
stadi13
stadi13Comes here often
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Slow VBO restore

Hi guys One of our customer hosts VBO on a Azure VM with managed disk as backup repository. Not the best practice and most cost efficient, but customer started with VBO v2 :)To the problem: Customer tries to restore a sharepoint site of 50GB with many files. The restore performance is quite bad around 3MB/s with bottleneck shown as source.Are we hitting against Microsoft limitation? CPU and disk on VBO VM is low during the hole restore time. Also tried with SSD as managed disk without any effect. SincerelyDaniel 

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MicoolPaul
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
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Fun Friday: What's the one thing you see in deployments that you just can't stand?

Hey everyone! Happy Friday! Today I’d like to create a safe space for people to vent, and maybe learn! What’s that one thing you see in your Veeam deployments that you just love to hate? As it’s Cyber Security Awareness Month, mine is definitely Cyber Security themed:For me, it has to be passwords that are so weak, it was barely worth using them! I’m talking the typical dictionary attacks, variations on the word “Password” or “Admin” etc. Fun Side Story:I once worked with a company that decided to have their RDS server pointing out to the internet ( ), they had a domain admin leave and instead of disabling the account, they reset the password to check over the account! And what did they set this key account’s password to? “Password1”. They got ransomware’d in under 20 minutes. Thankfully they had Veeam.

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D
2 years ago
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Gopal SinghComes here often
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Bitlooker supporting file system?

as v9 only ntfs is supoorting bitlooker? any update in V11 or not.

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marcofabbri
2 years ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
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17 years of Ubuntu!

So, our kid is becoming a teenager…17 years of Ubuntu! Do you use Ubuntu on your IT/Veeam projects?How often do you use it? 

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
marcofabbri
marcofabbriOn the path to Greatness
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How to Disable Warnings for Veeam Enterprise Plug-Ins

Veeam published a new KB that details how to disable warnings for Veeam Enterprise Plug-Ins.Check it out - How to Disable Warnings for Veeam Enterprise Plug-Ins (KB4227)

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
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Microsoft Ignite: Cloud Skills Challenge

Hey! Just like in March when @regnor posted about the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge, Microsoft are back again with their November 2021 edition! Didn’t see regnor’s post? Check it out here:The exam list is different this time and the options are:MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams MS-720: Microsoft Teams Voice Engineer MD-100: Windows 10 MD-101: Managing Modern Desktops MB-210: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure DP-300: Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure AZ-800: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-801: Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services MB-330: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator SC-400: Microsoft Information Protection AdministratorThe challenge starts on the 2nd November and runs until the 3

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regnor
2 years ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
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Potential crash by log-shipping databases

Log-shipping with VBR involves your SQL or Oracle server (VM or agent), optionally a log-shipping server and of course a repo to store the VLBs.With Hyper-V underneath one might even log-ship through the hypervisor by using PowerShell direct. This is nice, as it allows to isolate your DB workloads from the backup network and still leverage log-shipping.During the process Veeam creates temp files of the logs to be shipped first on the DB server and then the log-shipping server. Finally, after a LZ4 compression, those are driven to the repo and deleted on those temp locations.On the DB server the temp path for logs is defined in the registry and defaults to the largest disk the server has (since 9.5U4a). The path can be changed: https://www.veeam.com/kb2642On the log-shipping server the process is always using the %TEMP% path to store the data.Problem is, VBR does not seem to check both pathes before it copies the raw transaction logs during each cycle. So, a large transaction log to be

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Mildur
2 years ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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How to offload backup files to Capacity and Archive Tiers via AWS PrivateLink

Veeam has just published a new KB that details how to set up AWS PrivateLink for moving data to Capacity/Archive tiers.  Check it out - KB4226: How to offload backup files to Capacity and Archive Tiers via AWS PrivateLink (veeam.com)

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RK99
1 year ago
marcofabbri
marcofabbriOn the path to Greatness
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Let's talk about major updates for Windows and Ubuntu

​In these two weeks, updates have been released for two of the most used operating systems in the world, I’m talking about Windows 11 and Ubuntu 21.10.Windows 11 comes with all-secured new OS (and relative limitations too, es. TMP 2.0 and 3-years CPU), new design and sounds, new start, heavely power-up of multitasking, optimized and reduced uptades, integrated teams and widget, new Xbox funtionality, store and Android app support ( this one will come very soon). And if you have an AMD, tomorrow will get fix for that issue onb L3 cache and performance too.Ubuntu intead comes with new features, but this release’s not a LTS so only around 5% of installations will get new update (long live to LTS), Linux kernel 5.13, Gnome 40 (and not 41), PulseAudio 15 for better bluetooth support, and more integration for desktop app and settings.This is not a topic for which OS is better (please, not OS war), but to talk about which OS you use and for what reasons.I’ll go first. I use both. Windows supp

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
Shaokat
ShaokatInfluencer
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Credentials Store

hi team can any you explain me where the veeam Credentials is store? if it's store in the sql database is the Credentials is encrypted? is it possible to recover Credentials from sql database? 

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vNote42
2 years ago
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Gopal SinghComes here often
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Harware requirements for backup server

Additionally, for users with tape installations (for file to tape jobs processing more than 1,000,000 files):1.5 GB RAM for file to tape backup for each 1,000,000 files 2.6 GB RAM for file restore for each 1,000,000 files 1.3 GB RAM for catalog jobs for each 1,000,000 files Please anyone expation what its means?

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JMeixner
2 years ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
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Veeam VMCE 2021 Fast Track Now Available

As many of you may have seen from your email Veeam has recently released a VMCE 2021 Fast Track package for any v9, 2020 certificate holders or people who have taken the v10 class but not passed the exam. I’ve written a blog on the subject but TL;DR it’s definitely worth checking out. 

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regnor
2 years ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Veeam Support for Azure Stack HCI

Veeam has extended its Azure Stack HCI OS support in v11a.  See the following KB - KB4047: Veeam Support for Azure Stack HCI

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Nico Losschaert
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
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Fun Friday: Pick a Favourite Cloud Object Storage

Hey! Fancied trying a different fun Friday this week, what’s your favourite cloud storage?This could be a public hyperscaler or an object storage specialist vendor. With Veeam having such a list of supported vendors it’d be great to see the ones you’re all most enthusiastic about working with, bonus points for why!

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Nico Losschaert
2 years ago
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
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Backup logic/functionality question

If I were to create a new copyjob to replace an old one, and I want it to only move over the very latest restore point and none of the previous restore points that are currently in the repository; can this be accomplished by taking a new active full on the source jobs and then running a sync now on the new copyjob and telling it copy over the latest? If not, can this only be accomplished by wiping out all current local and cloud and starting from scratch?

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Mildur
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
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Warning: Windows Update Breaking Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 VMs on VMware

Evening all!Seeing reports of Windows Update pushing a bad driver for VMware PVSCSI to Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 VMs, it shows as “VMware, Inc. - SCSI Adapter - 1.3.18.0”. Hopefully Microsoft will pull it, just be careful of any patching windows or you may be fishing for old drivers through your backups… or if you’re using SureBackup/SureReplica, if you’ve got a pending Windows Update reboot and it’s a ticking time bomb, you’ll soon know when those VMs fail to boot! Good luck out there!

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Shaokat
2 years ago
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
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The 11a club

For those of you who have upgraded to 11a, how are you liking it so far? I upgraded all of my servers last week and so far I can 100% see a big difference in performance. I am happy with it so far. I also updated our Service Provider Console to v6.

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Mildur
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulOn the path to Greatness
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VeeamON Update: What was your favourite announcement/tip/trick/thought?

For me my favourite either had to be:@falkob’s Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 sizing guidelines (that trick with using the first two characters of the object ID was awesome!) Or the nine keys to better BC/DR with @vmiss33 & Jason BuffingtonMissed out? Watch now: Select Region - VeeamOn Update  

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Link State
2 years ago
marcofabbri
marcofabbriOn the path to Greatness
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VMware Warns of Ransomware-Friendly Bug in vCenter Server (#security)

In case you missed, there’s an hole on cheese and multiple vuln are used to bang ransomware into vCenter. Actually not updated VMware vCenter servers are vulnerable to arbitrary file upload leading to remote code execution: For more official info:https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.html

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Veeam Verified: Primary Storage for Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with VMware VVOL

Veeam has just released the verified vendors for VVOLs that are compatible with CDP.  Check it out here - KB4225: Veeam Verified: Primary Storage for Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with VMware VVOL 

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marcofabbri
2 years ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform v2 Patch 1

Veeam has just released Patch 1 for GCP v2.  Check it out here and what is new - KB4220: Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform v2 Patch 1 

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marcofabbri
2 years ago

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