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ejennerComes here often
asked in VUG United Kingdom

How to backup a 200tb Windows Server

What is on the server that you need VSS for? And is this a VMware level backup or Agent level backup you’re trying to achieve?

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1 year ago
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kkyywwNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

GFS by multiple jobs?

Hi, Things like this:one daily full + 29 daily incrementalsIndicate you’re using reverse incremental or incremental without periodic fulls. Otherwise if you’re doing incremental with synthetic or active fulls on say a weekly basis you’d have more fulls. Also, GFS assigns “flags” to full backups to avoid a duplication of fulls. Consider if you’ve got 4 weeks in a month, and you create a monthly full on the first week of the month.On that first week, Veeam won’t create two fulls, one for a monthly and one for a weekly, it creates one full, it assigns it both weekly and monthly “flags” to it. When the weekly backup is no longer needed by retention, the weekly flag gets removed. Once all flags are removed it is purged. This works if you added yearly to the mix as well. This is described here: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/gfs_how_flags_assigned.html?ver=120#algorithm-for-multiple-flag-types We can be more specific on what you should expect if you give us details on which

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1 year ago
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doublespiralNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

change IP address of SMB repository

Hi, are these jobs managed by agent or managed by VBR?

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regnor
1 year ago
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dirkdigsNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

creating new proxy - getting disk access denied

Did you get disk access denied when creating the proxy? Or has it created the proxy? There’s two stages to component deployment, first is registering the server within Veeam’s topology, and then the second is creating the “proxy” itself. This is because a server could contain multiple roles such as proxy + repository. What type of proxy are you deploying & which type of job are you creating? I ask this because it might be you want a VMware backup proxy but you’ve deployed a file proxy

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nickdemsComes here often
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Windows 10 failed to backup to NAS

What error do you get with the BSOD? Might help narrow the search.

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1 year ago
FrankIversen
FrankIversenComes here often
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How to create direct connection from Veeam Agents to Wasabi

It’s good that Veeam has the option based on what you’ve found for such scenarios. Forgive me, I stopped working for a VSPC at the end of 2021 so I’ve not played with v12 with cloud connect myself yet. I don’t deny that if you’re hosting via a public cloud and egressing to another public cloud that the egrees fees would be cost-prohibitive, in which cases the scenario you’re looking at does make sense. I’m thinking more along the lines of the security of the storage, so provided these tokens can be generated to control access sufficiently it should be safe for direct to object. Would be good to see a write up on how you get on with this!

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1 month ago
FrankIversen
FrankIversenComes here often
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How to create direct connection from Veeam Agents to Wasabi

I believe it would make sense that all traffic to a VSPC’s object storage would flow via them so they can appropriately secure the storage. You wouldn’t want a bucket accessible to all because of customers targeting it directly, and then a customer using unencrypted backups would you? And if you want your customers to write directly to wasabi that you don’t target VCC in this case. I’m assuming it’s a VCC-B job with the performance tier using wasabi?

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nickdemsComes here often
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Windows 10 failed to backup to NAS

https://www.veeam.com/download-version.html?tab=previous Is the right link, you just need a Veeam account. I have no licenses on my personal account and I can still get the binaries. Just register for a free account. 🙂 thanks for confirming other details. Definitely test v5. If you find that it’s fine in v5 but not in v6 then the R&D forums will likely accept a case raised even with community support as it’s a regression/bug

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nickdemsComes here often
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Windows 10 failed to backup to NAS

How much space is consumed on the NVMe? And do you have anything else running that could be using VSS? If disk space is low it could be the snapshot is getting removed, likewise if something else is trying to manipulate it. I’d try to browse the VSS snapshot during the backup when it starts to stall. I’ve also seen another thread of someone seeing pipeline stalled error, just in case it’s an application error, can you uninstall the v6 agent and install the v5 agent? VBR v12 can manage v5 and v6 agents

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1 year ago
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nickdemsComes here often
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Windows 10 failed to backup to NAS

VolumeShadowCopy is a VSS snapshot taken, if you’re unsure what that is, here’s a Microsoft link related to how it works: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/volume-shadow-copy-service I’d suspect an unsupported OS (Windows 10 Cumulative Updates all count independently as OS’s due to Microsoft’s love of breaking things between releases). Alternatively I’d look at any antivirus you might have interfering with Veeam’s read/write. As ransomware looks for VSS and tries to disable it, could be an oversensitive AV product especially if you don’t have the AV exclusions in.What version of Veeam Agent are you using? As you’re managing this from VBR, what VBR aversion are you on?RE the NIC being used, if the devices are directly wired to each other, on the same subnet and you’re targeting the IP that is only accessible on that link, then it has to be using that link. You’re not seeing a bottleneck as it didn’t run properly but although the link could do 2.5GbE, d

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1 year ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards

Active Full VM Separately

Have you updated them to v12 per VM backups? Aka you have metadata per VM instead of per job, otherwise you can’t.

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wolff.mateus
1 year ago
Moustafa_Hindawi
Moustafa_HindawiVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

Horizon VDI & RDSH backup best practices

Hi Moustafa, Breaking this down:RDSH - Definitely protect them or at least any gold image you’re using to deploy them fromVDI VMs - Never protect the linked/instant clones, just the gold image in that case. Any persistent VMs you could consider protecting.Additional note: You can use the Horizon Agent on physical too, so you could deploy the Veeam Agent to protect those servers, as Veeam’s P2V will still benefit you greatly in a DR scenario.RE official design document, I don’t believe there is one when I’ve looked, but I did give a write up when someone else asked this question a while ago, if you haven’t seen this:You’ll find considerations for how to protect VMware resources running on a vSAN datastore from a proxy perspective for example, as well as notes around the management layer.

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Moustafa_Hindawi
1 year ago
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salih57New Here
asked in Discussion Boards

veeam 12 mfa error

Are you connected locally to the server or using the console remotely?

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1 year ago
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stevebNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

diy hosted backup

There is a Veeam Cloud Connect for enterprise option that could be used. Just to clarify, does your customer want to target S3 compatible storage in another site, is that all? If so you could run an object storage solution from another site that’s on Veeam’s certified storage list. Either a hardware/software combo such as Object First or Cloudian, or a software specific solution such as MinIO

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dloseke
1 year ago
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NexderNot a newbie anymore
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Full Backups are not deleted after retention time

11 full backups are too much.   Is it possible to changes this? I thought that this is set up by the Retention policy?   The external Drive has a capacity of 1TB and run out of space. As long as you’ve got it set to retention days and not points it’ll process once the backup is more than 10 days old during next job run, but the job also will still mandate a minimum of 3 backups. I’d suggest not creating each backup as an active full and instead making use of the incremental technology to ensure you only have a single full backup file to protect your free space. As it’s a network share just be sure your gateway server is located near the network share for best performance with this.

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1 year ago
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NexderNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Full Backups are not deleted after retention time

Morning, how frequently does the job run? I notice no incremental files does this just run weekly?

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1 year ago
Scott
ScottVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

Weird issue with Exchange restores.

Ahh so you’re using the Veeam console and explorers via the session? I thought it was that the user with the restored emails got the crash.

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
Scott
ScottVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

Weird issue with Exchange restores.

Well, I wasn’t expecting to read that one! You said Horizon Agent, so I take it we’re talking traditional desktop/workstation machines with agent for remote access etc on them instead of a VDI image? What version and edition of OS, Agent and Horizon server are you using? I can’t see anyway that would be related to Veeam, you haven’t specified what exchange etc you’re working with but I’m presuming that you drop an email back into the mailbox of the user and then their endpoint crashes? If that is the case what happens when you import mail directly into exchange without Veeam?

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
dips
dipsVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

Per-VM Backup Chains

For backup copy it’s now the only option I believe, except Veeam Agent for Windows Failover Cluster backups I vaguely remember. The main downside to per-VM backup files is that it’ll consume more space vs a per-job backup file due to the lack of data efficiency techniques being processed across VMs (think how many identical bytes of OS data you’ve probably got in a backup job). But on the plus side, it’s awesome from a performance stand-point. If you’re upgrading from v11, be sure to upgrade your metadata format as <v12 had a per backup job metadata file instead of per VM metadata file. It’s a manual process and you can’t run the backup job whilst it’s migrating the metadata.

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bharathnNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Deletion of old backup copies after removing individual computer/deleting or disabling the backup job - Agent managed

Hi, Can I confirm, you’re using Agent managed backups to a Veeam B&R Repository?

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Moustafa_Hindawi
1 year ago
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
posted in News

Welcome to the first class of Veeam Legends 2023!

Welcome to the community @Cory.MacDonell-HB ! 😊

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regnor
5 months ago
pomidorokhova
pomidorokhovaNot a newbie anymore
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Back to Veeam University!

Hi @safiya, can I get one of these sweet sweet badges please? 🤣

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Geoff Burke
10 months ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Automation Desk

Pretty PowerShell - Formatting PowerShell Scripts for Readability

Thanks Maurice, I tend not to have access to VSCode when I’m writing on customer systems, though it is a great tool. One of the key slip-ups that I consciously have to stop myself from doing with PowerShell ISE is interacting with the terminal directly. For good measure once I’ve written my script, if possible, I’ll test it by reopening it, prevents me having done debugging and realised I’m not working from a fresh PowerShell instance.

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1 year ago
Cragdoo
CragdooVeeam Vanguard
posted in VUG United Kingdom

UK VUG - in person event locations

Appreciate not everyone is in the south west so I’m cool with travelling, Birmingham is do-able in a few hours on the train so that doesn’t bother me! But further north gets tricky if I can’t fly there!

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ratkinsonuk
1 year ago
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Sunny GhaiComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam M365 repository

Hi,Can you use object storage instead?Dell Data Domain doesn’t offer any methods of being accessed by VBM365. Further, in the Veeam documentation it’s specifically spelt out that it’s not supported to use a deduplication backup storage appliance (Link: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo365/guide/vbo_considerations.html?ver=60#backup-repositories)Based on the format of the used Microsoft JET Database, deduplication backup storage appliances are not supported.Other workarounds are also explicitly not supported such as symbolic link configured as a mapped drive:A symbolic link that is configured as a mapped drive is not supported. I know I’m not giving you the answer you’re seeking, but fundamentally, it’s just not supported what you’re trying to do, for good reason. You can by all means try to do this anyway by trying to map an NFS/SMB share that the data domain creates to some storage that the server can read, there’s plenty of tools out there that make such things with varied result

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago

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