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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in VMCA Study Hall

QUESTION April 18th From MP

Will give everyone till next week to discuss, and then I’ll share what the actual outcome is :)

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coolsport00
7 hours ago
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gabbasNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure appliance errors after applying updates

We have already raised a support case with Veeam on this issue. @wesmrt yes, when we deployed this appliance last year, it came with v5. ALmost sure the problem is this that I said. It’s not really a problem, but if you want to protect the VB Azure with Azure Site Recovery, then I believe the only solution is creating a new appliance and perform the configuraiton restore. It’s actually pretty simple and everything will be imported and ready to use. Didn’t know this, thanks for sharing @wesmrt 🙂

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MicoolPaul
13 hours ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in VMCA Study Hall

QUESTION April 18th From MP

Looking forward to seeing the comments on this one!

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coolsport00
7 hours ago
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Keshav SawantComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

can we use one license file to another veeam backup server ?

Hi, to share a single license file between multiple installations you need to deploy Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager to govern the licensing centrally and ensure compliance 🙂

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Chris.Childerhose
1 day ago
Cragdoo
CragdooVeeam Vanguard
posted in VUG United Kingdom

**PLACE HOLDER** - UK VUG - 17th April 2024 - Session When Direct to Object Storage isn’t so direct! - Michael Paul

Because of the Veeam data platform, the portability question mainly is answered by Veeam’s ability to lift and shift the data. I’ve raised some feature requests to improve this, but I’m glad that Veeam can do this so that we can see data migration between incompatible object storage types such as from Azure to S3.

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MicoolPaul
1 day ago
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TheLinuxAgentNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Backup job to SMB fails on Kernel version 5.15.0-102

Hello! As you’ve shared from the launchpad site, it’s a confirmed bug in the kernel. You either need to downgrade or shift to 5.15.0-104-generic on the proposed repository in the interim.

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Chris.Childerhose
1 day ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in VMCA Study Hall

Question April 17 Design Problem

As the others have said, mixing AWS archive with non-AWS object storage! If I was committed to using wasabi and AWS I’d look at a backup copy job to AWS S3 that hits glacier ASAP

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MicoolPaul
2 days ago
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jaceg23Comes here often
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam Backup and Backup Copy Jobs - Compression and Deduplication

Hi @jaceg23  Just some comments to add around this: We will create an iSCSI LUN on said FS, XYZ TB in size, mounted to a Linux VM formatted XFS for both immutability and fast block cloning for synthetic fulls.Are you utilising an independent hypervisor to run this Linux VM? I’d be concerned that in the event of a cyber incident, your VM could be backdoored via the console and/or deleted. It’s trivial to reboot the VM into single user mode access and delete the backups. I only mention this because I’d hate for you to have a false sense of security. This is why a lot of people choose to make the server attached to immutable storage as a physical device.  If not doing “per-vm” repos, more blocks will be deduped in this scenario than in a “per-vm” repo. This is so we get the best “usage” from our storage and lasts us for some time.Correct that not using “per-vm” backup chains will increase the deduplication of data, have a read of this link. You’ll see that Veeam only deduplicates within a

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J
20 hours ago
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tedsadlerNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

"Cannot find EFI boot manager entry for EFI System Partition"

Hi @tedsadler! First on the topic of support for clarification: R&D forums you’re right isn’t a support forum but if you raise a ticket and wanted to discuss it on there, then subject to some criteria you can do so. The R&D forum is more of a customer:vendor relationship forum IMO and if you were wanting to discuss a bug or feature request then it makes sense there. Support is of course the route to official Veeam support, you’re right as your distro is not supported I doubt Veeam could offer you much support as they’d be wanting to avoid liability if their advice adversely impacted your system. The Community forum here is mainly user to user discussions and of course that includes people supporting each other with advice etc, but there is always going to be a limit to what the community can do. On this last point I think this is where in all honesty you’ll struggle, not only is Manjaro Linux not an official supported distribution, it’s not even a derivative of a supported dist

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MicoolPaul
5 days ago
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ACO79New Here
asked in Discussion Boards

JetError -1022, JET_errDiskIO, Disk IO error

Hi! JET databases arent supported on external drives I believe, and I know Veeam certainly don’t recommend this. It’s a very different structure and IO pattern to a Veeam backup, you’d be better off backing up directly to object storage or a certified compatible block system for JET

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6 days ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in VMCA Study Hall

Question 3 What could be the issue.

Hi everyone! So the conversation point that this question focuses on is that VBEM can only manage VBR’s that utilise the same database type as itself. So if your VBEM & existing VBR fleet was SQL Server and then you went to adopt a new VBR server with Postgres, you won’t be able to manage it in VBEM. Also, a key thing to call out here is that, whilst you have the ability to migrate your VBR server between SQL Server and Postgres, with VBEM this is a one way street! You can migrate to Postgres but you can’t migrate back afterwards! So if you start deploying VBR with Postgres you can migrate the VBR over to SQL Server if you’ve got a VBEM with SQL Server, but if your VBEM is using Postgres, all your VBRs will need Postgres, or you’ll need to deploy a new VBEM with SQL Server.

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MicoolPaul
8 days ago
Cragdoo
CragdooVeeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards

Does Windows Data Deduplication role on the source VM, impact Veeam compression?

Hi Craig, BCJ will have the same storage capacity penalty due to the blocks being changed at the source VM. So the primary backup job sees say 80% block change, and then the BCJ needs to copy the 80% changed blocks. So yes BCJ shouldn’t have extra penalty over the primary backup that still depends on the chain types being used.

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MicoolPaul
9 days ago
Cragdoo
CragdooVeeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards

Does Windows Data Deduplication role on the source VM, impact Veeam compression?

The best suggestion I can give is to get them to set the schedule to weekly for data deduplication. And align that to an active/synthetic full backup with Veeam. This way you’ll only have a massive block generation event weekly and you can calculate it as if it was an active full per week without any synthetic full + fast clone benefits. That’ll get you near enough accurate, yes it will consume more space vs fast clone, but you can make it more like a traditional weekly full vs daily change rate chaos

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MicoolPaul
9 days ago
Cragdoo
CragdooVeeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards

Does Windows Data Deduplication role on the source VM, impact Veeam compression?

You will see very poor data efficiency improvements due to the deduplication that has already taken place, compression will do something but not much. The other headache with windows data deduplication is that whenever the schedule runs you’ll have a HUGE amount of changed blocks, so your backup times will be long. And every changed block needs to be backed up so you’ll see a large increase in storage consumption typically vs if the data was just stored normally as a backup source

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MicoolPaul
9 days ago
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DrThirstyNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 10005

Hi, We confirmed earlier that Veeam isn’t binding to a specific interface, Veeam doesn’t give you the option to do this either. I would test with firewall disabled and if it starts working then I would recreate the 10005 rule, it seems to be working via the other interface which makes me think that there’s a particular setting on the firewall rule that isn’t working right.Alternarively, I did think you might have a deny rule taking precedence here, something specific to your LAN network as it’s not impacting your WAN connection

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coolsport00
9 days ago
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egeibNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

MS SQL DB backup to S3

Hi, If by agent you mean the Veeam Plugin for MS SQL Server, object storage is only supported as a backup target as a capacity tier in a SOBR currently, full details here on supported backup repositories: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/plugins/repos_mssql.html?ver=120

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MicoolPaul
11 days ago
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dabcNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam Backup Essentials License for two locations

hi all,   i have query regarding license.   customer want to backup their environment with two different vlan, one is militarize zone another is dmz. now configured two vbr, how to use the license.   The approved way to use one license with two VBRs is via VBEM, however as you’re talking DMZ & internal network that might fall foul of any security designs, if so you can raise a support case with Veeam to request to split your license into two licenses.

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MicoolPaul
11 days ago
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DrThirstyNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 10005

Hey! Fellow Brit here 👋Id expect Sophos/Intercept-X to impact performance more than anything else, KB1999 (https://www.veeam.com/kb1999) has the details of required/recommended exclusions so I would check those. Only way I’d see intercept x getting involved is if you’re using any of the network protection options that restrict client to client communication when a client is unhealthy. Id try the PowerShell command from the KB article others have shared to confirm that the 10005 port is bound to all interfaces not just randomly your WAN/DMZ one. I wouldn’t expect this but again just looking for clear explanations.I’d also suggest checking that your windows firewall rules aren’t scoped too narrow such as explicit remote/local IP addresses only for port 10005, or even bound to the wrong binary, I’d start with your VBR server as you said this is common across multiple endpoints. Also, I completely understand not wanting to install wireshark on all your endpoints and VBR, you can take a PC

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coolsport00
9 days ago
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DrThirstyNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 10005

Thanks for this, I asked about Azure because you could have NSGs in the way but if these are on-prem then that’s not a problem… The KB everyone is sharing is a good run book, I would be tempted to do a quick PCAP on both ends to see if the traffic is getting there or not to rule whether this is a connectivity issue or a software issue.

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coolsport00
9 days ago
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DrThirstyNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 10005

Hi,So this is either routing or firewalls I’d say. You mention azure so is this server a VM running in Azure? Are the devices within the same subnet/vnet? If not then I would explore routing, you mentioned pinging works but ping doesn’t confirm the device is what you think. I’m not saying this is your issue but I’ve had a few times where someone has made an IP conflict that has broken communication. What you need to know is regardless of default gateway or not, in a multi NIC configuration, VBR and the endpoint will attempt to communicate across ALL interfaces, you can enforce a processing order for this with the preferred networks setting, but this would only delay backup tasks not stop them working as it would eventually failover to a working configuration. Your error indicates an inability to communicate or a firewall dropping the traffic silently instead of denying

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coolsport00
9 days ago
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kindzmaNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

"possible ssl heartbleed attempt" reported by Meraki firewall for Veeam port 902 traffic?

Sounds like a plan as your PCAP will contain all supported SSL protocols and ciphers, it could be something as simple as a cipher mismatch that Meraki thinks is trying to be a heart bleed attemp, otherwise you might find that one side is unexpectedly offering older SSL options despite your config. Let’s find out!

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MicoolPaul
13 days ago
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kindzmaNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

"possible ssl heartbleed attempt" reported by Meraki firewall for Veeam port 902 traffic?

Yeah the traffic itself is safe but I’d say just look into the negotiation and see which side is trying to suggest a lower form of TLS, once we know this you can enforce TLS 1.2 only on both sides then this should go away 🙂

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MicoolPaul
13 days ago
safiya
safiyaCommunity Analyst
published in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam 100 Show - PowerShell Power-Up: Advanced Veeam Scanning Techniques using ScriptsVeeam 100 Show #7

Thank you everyone that watched, live or on demand! And a huge round of applause to @SteveHeart for his amazing contributions to the Veeam community! Steve makes my favourite product feature (SureBackup) even better! 🎉

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vAdmin
9 days ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in VRO Heroes Den

Opinions on VRO Platform Support

@EdFromOhio hopefully you’ve seen Veeam’s stance shift on this then: https://forums.veeam.com/ovirt-kvm-f62/feature-request-proxmox-t71691-120.html?hilit=Proxmox#top at least we’ve got written communication it’s being evaluated! 🙂 I haven’t used Proxmox yet but I personally am in the camp of Hyper-V because Xbox and Azure and a chunk of M365 services sit on this so it’s too big for Microsoft to bin, though I agree completely that Hyper-V has been gathering dust until their announced windows server 2025 changes! Keep the feedback coming people I find it interesting to see where people are looking at shifting to and maybe someone at Veeam will even find this useful for decision making!

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wesmrt
14 days ago
johan.h
johan.hNot a newbie anymore
posted in Discussion Boards

Excited about Hyper-V 2025

I’m looking forward to seeing Veeam leveraging hotpatching to reduce the amount of downtime for the backup servers. I’d love to see some of the network configuration backup functionality we’re seeing in VBfMA for example to reach the on-prem equivalents. Protecting virtual switch configurations for host rebuilds etc. It’s not a ‘mission critical’ feature, but it’s just a nice to have to reduce rebuild configuration issues. Naturally I want to see more in the way of CDP support for Hyper-V and the extension of VRO to this hypervisor.

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MicoolPaul
14 days ago

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