Veeam 13 is not being nice.

​@SCSIraidGURU ...are you saying since upgrading to v13, your Windows devices aren’t backing up? I assume physical devices? (agents) Or, are they VMs?

I am using Veeam 13 in my homelab with Agent backups and did not have to do a CA for certificates.  Now I do have a CA, but that is for other things and never had to do anything with my systems to get backups to work properly.  This is not a hard requirement that I am aware of.

I had to redo the Veeam certificate and fix the Win10x64i7/Admin$ link.  Options - Security - Regenerate the Veeam Cert.    I upgraded the NICs to 2.5G and everything changed.

Here are the numbers for the 2.5G upgrade.  I run the VMs, FamilyPics, and Dropbox at the same time. 

Ah, ok, so more on the VBR side. Interesting changing a nic broke the Veeam Cert. 🤔 

Those are some nice improvements for speed of backups. 😎

Oohh...thank you for sharing how your hardware modification impacted your environment. Good for the Community to know about. 👍🏻

The backup speeds on Dropbox by itself was over 450 MB/s.   I changed my workgroup name to scsiraidguru.   I did this to create the certificate authority on Windows 2022 Standard.   You can’t change the server name once a CA is created.   I had to change the Hyper-V server name in Veeam.   

I enabled the Built-In Administrator to give it rights and privileges to Windows 11 Admin$.  

The $170 2.5G investment was worth it.   I will post more soon.  

I took Veeam 13 to the woodshed.   I beat on it.   It is now behaving.  I am setting up daily backups. 

I did my 4 VMs.   Full Active on Sunday.  Incremental M-S.   I don’t see a incremental area.  Here is the first test with just the 4 VMs backing up over 2.5 Gbps networking.   

How can I tell if incrementals are being done in the job?  
 

I have three tape drives:  
1.) dropbox
2.) Familypics + VMs 
3.) My Windows 11 workstation

I do three sets of jobs
Drive L:  (8TB) : 
Dropbox_1 , Dropbox_2, and Dropbox_3  (I move them to backups.old when I kick up the next job.  (I have 6 sets of backups)

Drive_M:  (4TB) 
HyperV1,_M,  HyperV2_M, HyperV3_M (I move them to backups.old when I kick up the next job.  (I have 6 sets of backups)  These are the VMs listed above.

Windows 11 workstation.  I backup and keep one backup.old.   It is turned off, when not in use.

Drive_N (4TB) HyperV1,_N,  HyperV2_N, HyperV3_N (I move them to backups.old when I kick up the next job.  (I have 6 sets of backups) 

I rotate the 3 tapes sets for 

1.)  Dropbox_1 , Dropbox_2, and Dropbox_3
2.)  HyperV1,_M + HyperV1,_N,  HyperV2_M + HyperV2,_M, HyperV3_M + HyperV3,_M
3.) My workstation

How can I keep 3 weeks of full backups to point them to tape backups?  Do I set the removal at 21 days?  

Hi ​@SCSIraidGURU -

You can look for Increment files in 1 of 2 ways → Go into the Home node of VBR > Backups section > then rt-click a Backup job and go into Properties. In the top left window, select a VM or computer. Then, on the bottom, you can view the file types Veeam created during the subsequent backups. A .vbk file is a FULL backup (initial Job run and whenever you have occasional FULLs run for either an Active or Synthetic Full). A .vib file is an incremental.

The task list in the Backup Job doesn’t say if it creates a Full or Incremental. It’s just understood based off your Job config. 

I can’t help with the Tape cuz...well...it’s Tape & nobody uses it anymore 😂 *kidding
I really don’t use it though..so can’t help you there.

Tapes go in my safe in case of fire, theft or our 8 and 10 year olds play with my home lab.

Family2404 Full Active

 

Dropbox Full Active:  The dropbox /home directory with all the files over 500GB was backing up at 547 MB/s.