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You can deploy new versions of agents with VBR itself. If you don’t have a license for VBR itself, use temporary a trial license (30 days) of VBR.
If you choose an agent in VBR running in workstation mode, this is managed by the agen itself.Then you will have a backup policy, not a backup job. The notifications are different. Read the remark at this link : Notification Settings for Backup Policy - Veeam Agent Management GuideYou have to enable the global email notification settings, only in the jobs is not sufficient.Email reports with backup policy statistics will be sent if you configure global email notification settings in Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information, see the Configuring Global Email Notification Settings section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.After you enable notification settings for the backup policy, Veeam Backup & Replicationwill send reports with the backup policy statistics to email addresses specified in global email notification settings and email addresses specified in the backup policy settings.
A small guess, but worth to doublecheck. Is Veeam running on a service account and if so has this user backup admin permissions in Veeam? If the service account is member of the Windows local administrators group it shouldn’t be a problem.KB2197: Notification emails are not sent for backup jobs (veeam.com)
Are you using Veeam agent managed by the VBR server and using jobs managed by VBR or just standalone agents and writing only to a VBR repository?
We use a lot of HPE StoreEasy devices for smaller environments including Windows Storage Server : perfect cost-performance balance. For larger environments is a HPE Apollo perfect : more storage available, more performant CPUs availabe, more customizable, more flexible (choose your preferred OS)
I agree with Geoff regarding Veeam Cloud Connect. By default I still use periodic copy jobs for our tenants. Also especially because immediate copy jobs has to be linked to an existing backup job. For Veeam Cloud Connect most of the times those VMs taken to the service provider are only the most critical VMs. Normally those are fixed. Mostly a tenant pays to a service provider for used storage and number of VMs taking to VCC. You always have to think twice if you want to copy this VM also to the VCC, that’s the logic we are using. Bu as Regnor says, the immediate copies are a lot easier to explain to customers and even colleague-engineers. A lot of them are not fully aware of how periodic copy jobs are working...
I always use Application Aware backups for Windows machines. Only exceptions is without application aware backups, so copy-only (crash-consistent backup). For Linux machines I don’t use yet application aware backups but vmware tools quescence or just crash-consistent backups. I also did not know that vmware tools quiescence is a trigger to a VSS snaphost, as you can see, we learn every day :-)
Hi Geoff,Indeed. The VEEAM exams like VMCE and VMCA are a perfect example how it should be done!I use Veeam almost every day, but even then it’s unlikely to pass the exams without studying. When you study very well but have less practice experience in using Veeam the chance is also very small to pass. A combination of practice experience and studying very well will give you the chance to pass the exams. For the VMCA exams, the level of exams is even higher than VMCE.I passed a while ago VMCE 9.5 and VMCA 1.0 and not long ago VMCE 2020 and a lot of studying is absolutely necessary!The videos of Haslund are splendid !!! This gives you a very good idea of how the exam could be. If you struggle with those, don’t bother taking the exam and keep studying and practicing the best backup product!@ Haslund : keep on making those videos, they are great! regardsNico
Thx all for the feedback!
Very handy for the presales guys !
Hi Kseniya and Rick, thanks a lot for the recognition! It was a pleasure to post this topic. More to come . Regards, Nico
In the meantime I installed the upgrade 5B for all our tenants, so they can’t be comprimised with the potential data loss issue mentioned in this link : KB4103: Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 retention policy miscalculation causing data loss
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