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Guys, I don’t know if everyone is aware, but VMware has this course for free until 06/15/2023: https://learning.customerconnect.vmware.com/site/program.do?dispatch=showProgramSession&id=18657ec2-4eb2-11ed-b5a6-0cc47a352292You also win 1.500 points in VMware Reward and a chance to win a VCP Exam voucher.More information here: https://blogs.vmware.com/learning/2023/04/27/invest-in-your-cloud-skills-and-earn-1500-rewards-points/

In this post, I will show how to create the Orchestrator Plan in VDRO v6 and execute the Datalab Test.EnvironmentVMware vCenter Server Appliance 8.0 VMware vSphere 8.0 Veeam Backup and Replication v12 Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator v6 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Protected VM)Remark: This architecture is NOT used for production environment, it can be used for home lab only.  For architecture, please refer to this link https://

Hi, is it possible to use the same VUL license on two different standalone VBR servers ?the VBR in the main site doing the backup to disk and then backup copy and replicate only one VMto the VBR server in the DR site to his local repository. the license is for 5 VM bundle and in practice only one VM is backup and then copy and replicate to DR.Thanks

Forever Forward Incremental Backup + Backup Copy job Tape Out.With one Forever Forward Incremental Backup job can we configure multiple tape out Backup Copy job with Virtual full option for each day targeting to different media tape group.Primary Job will be one (forever forward incremental backup job) and a separate Backup copy jobs for each day Monday to Sunday.Will it work. And  if we restore tape backup from any one day (Monday group to Sunday group) i hope will it restore the full backup.

Outlook PST incremental backups ( Block level )  is possible in Windows Agent based backups.

Hey guys,  i run a small server in a NGO, our Veeam is still in version 9.0 without support since 2019. I’ve recently run into a backup problem, and our support IT company, told me that i should get a newer version of Veeam, and install in a new  VM(5th).I asked if it was possible to upgrade, which they said, no, and now Veeam only does subscriptions, and proceeded to give me a budget for 3 year. From what i read perpetual is still available, just more expensive than subscriptions, but what about upgrading? Could i not install 9.5 on a new VM, renew and upgrade up to 12? What do you think?

When I Backup Job compleate Then Backup Copy Job Is next run .Can Setting Backup Job Copy Run Completed is Call  Backup Job is Runremark : because i can’t setting Backup Job Schedule Time because I don’t know Backup Job Copy Long time to backup .  best regards

Hello, does anybody know if Hyper-V backup needs enabled checkpoint creation in Hyper-V console ?Regardszleffa

Fresh default install of B&R 12 on Windows Server 2022."Veeam GCP Service" and "Veeam Kubernetes Service" refuse to start. Produce the following error in de System Log:“The Veeam Kubernetes Service service terminated with the following error: An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request.”

Hi guys,We have to take backup from large number of virtual machines in our environments and sometimes backup jobs are still running during working hours. It has impact on virtual machines performance. Is there any way to define backup window for jobs and backup/replication jobs pause temporarily? Thanks

Hi, I’m running a backup job of fairly big VM (HDD1 = 1 TB and HDD2 = 3.9 TB) using VEEAM 11.0.1.1261.After Deduplication and compression, the backup size ends up around 2.4 TB.The backup storage is a NAS mounted using an NFS connection. In the console, I can check that it still has 3.2 TB left.It has been working fine until last week. Error message : 28/04/2023 16:12:33 :: Processing ubuntu Error: No space left on device.NFS status code: 28Cannot get count from WRITE3res.Failed to download disk 'EvaBuntu_2 - Copy.vhdx'.Shared memory connection was closed.Failed to upload disk. Skipped arguments: [shadowSpec>];Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}.

Hello guys!I’m considering to rebalance a large sobr with v12, any feedback from the field?How many times it tooks? What kind of performances we can expect? Limitations from tasks handle by the repo?I’m trying to estimate the duration in order to anticipate and communicate the current action in production :)Have a great monday!

Hello Everyone,Seeing the new Cloud City group spin up I wanted to ask if anyone would be interested in seeing a VCC/MSP type group that focuses more on those topics?  Please vote.Regards,Chris Childerhose 

Hello,I am experimenting with VBAR11 in a home lab. The backed-up data itself is not important.Boot into recovery mode via usb key. On the usb key is a .vbk file, no .vbm Use bare metal recovery option, veaam is not able to find the .vbk, if I manually select the .vbk, veeam complains about corrupted .vbm file.So it seems that recovery agent, must have a valid .vbm. but in a disaster recovery situation and the .vbm is corrupt, how do i restore?I do know that VBAR itself, can import .vbk without .vbm, so cannot recovery agent do that same?Second question, using the the recovery boot agent, how do i mount the .vbk?Thanks,Dave

Has anyone ever seen a backup job fail with the error “Full storage not found”? I have no orphaned restore points, repository is good...everything looks perfectly fine. The repository is accessible and I can see the vbms and vbk files in it. I can’t find an answer for this. Full error is below: 1/23/2023 2:50:08 PM :: Failed to pre-process the job Error: One or more errors occurred.  1/23/2023 2:50:10 PM :: Unable to apply retention policy: failed to delete backup files Error: Full storage not found  

Hi ,1. How many WAN accelerators are needed for 4PB of data with 500Mbps bandwidth ? I have gone through the best practices as well.Didnt got a clear understanding.2. Can we use WAN accelerators during backup and recovery 1DC or just for replication purpose ? Thanks.

Folks, I don’t want to sound like an old grumpy grand pa but.. Software is a mass noun so you don’t make a plural form out of it. I just bet and won $20 that there is no such thing as Softwares :) . Now that does not mean that language does not evolve over time, but so far that is still the case. https://www.grammarflex.com/posts/whats-the-plural-of-software

Hello everybody,to backup the 2VM with a File Sevrer Role on Windows 2012 R2, is better agent less or with agent?I have a Job for Backup Hyper-V VM, ca i backup every VM with this? File Sever - Exchange? SQL? Or better save this with agent?Thanks a lot

30 years ago today, CERN made the WWW available to the public free of charge. The beginning of the Web as we know it today. https://www.home.cern/science/computing/birth-webWhat is your earliest experience with or memory of the WWW?How did it influence your life and professional career?

Hi,we have a customer with 15 different vCenters (each one is different environment)how many vCenters can we connect to one Veeam backup server ? didn’t find any KB on that.each one have it’s own proxy server for backup.

Hey Guys,Has anyone performed a patch update? Please tell what can go wrong after that?

Hi Folks, I am back into the wild and wonderful world of Veeam Service Provider Console after a brief sojourn. I wanted to see if there is a quick answer to this and if my old solution perhaps has a better one now.I have a VBR that is connected to the Service Provider and all backup copy jobs are working fine. In VSPC the company is smiling with a happy green Healthy! However, at the VBR level the when pressing the Management Agent icon it complains that is connecting, and can’t connect after rolling through all the gateways. I tried running through the SP properties again but no luck. Is it time to un-install the pesky agent and redeploy? The ClientAgent_error, Communication and ClientAgent logs have things like CloudGate “No such host is known” and “Endpoint Hanshake Failed” and The write operation failed, see inner exception. ---> System.TimeoutException: Could not finish read operation in timely manner.Now could this be that

HelloI’m trying to find a solution to a hypothetic scenario: tl;dr is it possible to change/swap the target repository of a Backup Job by the repository of the BackupCopy Job I have 2 datacenter, 1 VBR server, and 2 repository on each site, one for backup job target, and the other one for BackupCopy job targetevery job have a copy job associated with it, and there are a few dozens of jobs running every dayI want to plan the failure of the repository system and being able to continue to do backups, in the case where the issue is hardware or would need multiple days to repair I have no problem with restoring from the copy jobs, all the data is there as intended, but how to restart the service of “backups” during this failure?so is it possible to tell VBR to use the the existing backup copy chains to use as an existing repository (I can’t seem to be able to remap)or is that impossible and I would need a new repository, and

Hi, ive just setup Veeam - Backup and Replication v12 and im a little stuck on how to setup my backup scenario.What i would like to do is perform a daily weekday backup to NAS with a retention of 10 restore points (Mon to Fri, so 2 weeks) with an active full on saturday plus a full daily backup to Tape.The data is 2tb, and i use LTO6 tapes (2.4tb).The Nas job is setup, and works perfectly, but im struggling with the Tape part. The problem is that the source job, having 10 restore points (and 2 active fulls), becomes too big for the tapes but can easily fit the actual data being backed up. The active full plus the daily incremental should fit, but its the 2nd Active Full that makes it too big.Is there anywhere to set the job to backup only one chain, daily, as a full?I may be looking at this the wrong way round, and there is a probably a better solution to this, but my thinking was that the data should fit on one tape, so why not back