Replies posted by dloseke

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barellag
barellagComes here often
posted in Cloud City

Restoring EC2 to Microsoft Azure using VB for AWS backups and Veeam Backup and Replication

Nicely done...this is helpful since I’ve done very little with Azure VM’s and nothing in AWS.

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Julia F Morgado
1 month ago
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superfraktalNew Here
asked in Discussion boards

"Failed to pre-process the job" // backup fails after data deletion from ReFS storage

(repository went to RAW once again, formatted it one more time...)  Are you on a virtual machine, and using ESXI as your hypervisor?  There are a few windows updates that can cause this top happen, but uninstalling the patch just gets you back from RAW to REFS temporarily until the patch is reinstalled down the road.  The solid solution is to disable hot-add/hot-plug on that VM.https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1012225 

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1 month ago
SteveHeart
SteveHeartVeeam MVP
posted in Script library

Backup Scanning Tools Menu

I hear you 😀 Actual GUI? Well, did you know I started my IT career on IBM Mainframe?! Have a look what’s ready:     VERY cool! I’ll test it when I get time.   Ex IBMer here. What did you do with Mainframes? I worked on Z-Series boxes for several years doing service.  Crazy they are up to the Z16 now.   I never messed with Z-series other than helping to make sure the mainframe guys were able to get their VTL’s to connect to the Data Domains.  I had I-series guys next to me as well.  I’ll tell you now, if you ever wanted a lucrative career, go into Z or I because there aren’t a lot of folks around anymore that know that stuff, and IBM snaps up those folks right away for what I’m told are the two colleges that still teach it.  I did have to marvel every time we opened the Z-series cabinets though….IBM builds some really nice looking, well thought out gear with some nicely structured cabinets.

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

VMware Odyssey | Online Challenge by Hands-on Labs (only today)

Well, I tried at least 1 HoL Challenge & didn’t do so well. The Lab UI is a bit clunky to get the full view; otherwise I would’ve done well’ish 🤷🏻‍♂️😊 I knew what to do..pretty easy. Manipulating through the UI gave me fits is all. It is kind clunky but you get used to it.  The other issue is that some windows don’t fit so I had to zoom Chrome out a bit to see buttons and the like.

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Scott
22 days ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

VMware Odyssey | Online Challenge by Hands-on Labs (only today)

Well, I tried at least 1 HoL Challenge & didn’t do so well. The Lab UI is a bit clunky to get the full view; otherwise I would’ve done well’ish 🤷🏻‍♂️😊 I knew what to do..pretty easy. Manipulating through the UI gave me fits is all.  If you never did a HOL, then it doesn’t hurt to do the practise lab or something different. Just to get used to the small details. On the other hand I’ve missed the US keyboard layout and got confused in the first task 🤣 Hmm...labs won’t open for me...just got to a loading screen and then back to the main page.  But I had an issue logging on initially so maybe I just need to try an incognito window…. I had the same issue but after reloading the page it started to work again. Yeah, maybe just reloading would have helped, but worked great in a new incognito window.

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Scott
22 days ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

VMware Odyssey | Online Challenge by Hands-on Labs (only today)

Wow...hard to beat Max.  I’m just happy I remember how to do anything with virtual distributed switches since I haven’t touched them in over 6 years, and I’m pretty sure that was on 6.5 or 6.7.  

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Scott
22 days ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

VMware Odyssey | Online Challenge by Hands-on Labs (only today)

Hmm...labs won’t open for me...just got to a loading screen and then back to the main page.  But I had an issue logging on initially so maybe I just need to try an incognito window….

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Scott
22 days ago
SteveHeart
SteveHeartVeeam MVP
posted in Script library

Backup Scanning Tools Menu

Looks very cool...I’ll need to check this out!  Appreciate the GUI.

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
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TKAComes here often
asked in Discussion boards

how to move virtual veeam to physical server

I suspect there is also a way to do it with VeeaMover.  Have both the old and new repository on whichever server makes sense, and the move it.  But honestly, I’d just migrate the configuration (with the jobs stopped), copy the backup data to the new repo, rescan/scan the repo, and then map the backup job to the newly found data.  This should keep the existing backup chains, vs having to start new.

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dloseke
1 month ago
marco_s
marco_sVeeam Legend
published in Blogs and podcasts

Microsoft 365 modern authentication for VBR and VBO365 server

Hi Derek, I’ve noticed that after you enable the modern auth and you return on the menu it asks for the auth again but it still work even if you don’t authorize a second time..I don’t know if it is a bug.. 🤔 I think in my case, I wasn’t able to send an email until I re-authed it again.  Not sure…it’s been a couple weeks so maybe I should go back and check again, but I think the emails have still been flowing this time.

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1 month ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

SysAdmin Story : a Veeam feature saved a school

Great story...I love creative thinking like this and somehow seem to be subjected to such requirements on a regular basis.  I do love that they broke the disk and had to repeat again.  Imagine that.  Hopefully the got that all worked out before failing a third time.

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Scott
1 month ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Cyber Security Space

The inevitable dark side of AI: WormGPT is now available

There was already malware that used dynamic naming of variable in the code to evade signature detection.  I came across one a few month back that used different varieties of flowers or something like that as I recall.  Adding some AI to the mix make it all the worse…..

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dloseke
1 month ago
marco_s
marco_sVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

A SysAdmin (happy ending) story

In my previous job I had a customer where the sprinklers went off and lets just say they didn’t have a “Datacenter” in mind when the building was built. Every PC in the building had a few inches of water in them and many were sitting on the floor.  We were able to get most of the data recovered, but water and electronics is a bad combo. Corrosion and rust on contacts is inevitable so it’s usually a large insurance claim.    Happy to hear you made it out the hero in this story! Once water has entered the system, even if it’s working, I’d highly recommend replacing it because corrosion will continue.  It’s like buying a car that has been flooded - you may not see all the damage but there’s going to be damage that that will bite you as time goes on.Reminds me of an issue one of our divisions had a few years ago.  We have a low-voltage cabling division in my company that runs network cabling and the like, and they were near completion on rehabbing a building that had thousands of feel of

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dloseke
1 month ago
marco_s
marco_sVeeam Legend
published in Blogs and podcasts

Microsoft 365 modern authentication for VBR and VBO365 server

Has anyone run into a situation where they had to reauthorize modern auth for SMTP alerting?  I had a client that was complaining that they weren’t getting alerts (they weren’t set as a recipient) but when I was in there noticed that testing was failing and I had to reauthorize the SMTP connection.  Seemed strange to me as it had only been setup a couple of months before.

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1 month ago
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DolphinNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion boards

Can we demote a Windows Server DC which sis running VBR Community Edition?

Personally, I’d recommend building a new backup server and migrating the configuration database and removing VBR from the DC prior to the demotion.  I suspect you might be alright, but I see no reason to take the risk as easy as a migration to a new backup server can be completed.

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dloseke
1 month ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Entire VM restore - Veeam hallucinating hard disks - solved

@Michael Melter thc for information 😉 Personally, as a precaution, I never restore by overwriting the original Vm. I always proceed with restor Other location and rename VM _restored.   Valid point in general. But doing that you miss certain very useful points with going on top of the VM: Quick rollback using CBT → much faster, especially for the large VMs with few changes (filers, etc.) Keeping your MoRef ID → you will have to re-add your VMs to your backup jobs You will need twice the disk space for some time as you recover next to the original VM More config efforts/settings to be taken care of during the restore (Datastore etc.) → less process stability My #1 choice is most of the time: Quick-Backup of the “broken” state Recovery on top of the original VM (using quick-rollback) Thus you still have the “broken” state to e.g. recovery data from and still can enjoy the benefits mentioned. Just my 2ct.   I prefer quick rollback if needed although I often would use inst

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Scott
1 month ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Cyber Security Space

Zenbleed: What is it, and why is it dangeous

Yes, this sounds very familiar but with AMD instead.  Thanks for posting this.  I’m fortunate to not have many AMD processors out there.

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dloseke
1 month ago
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BassFisherNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion boards

Looking for a backup job report

RE: Veeam ONE…“I guarantee you Veeam ONE will tell you something about your environment that you did not know but need to address.” Rick Vanover, 2019 and beyond  Truth!  (We’re not using it either….yet).

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dloseke
1 month ago
NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicExperienced User
asked in Discussion boards

How to setup Veeam Backup for multiple locations with Cloud Storage

If there is nothing that needs to be backed up at the Serbia site, then I would setup a backup at the primary site, and setup a SOBR at the secondary site with a copy job to copy the backup data to Serbia and also copy to Wasabi.  If you have data in Serbia that needs to go to Austria, then I’d setup the reverse as well.  Note that you may not want to use the same bucket.  If you’re using the same backup server to coordinate it all, then a single bucket may be fine, but I’d probably use a bucket for Serbia and one for Austria if there is a need for a SOBR in Austria. As Chris mentioned, you could also have direct backup to object or direct copy to object storage, but for me, I would utilize a SOBR so that I could take advantage of immutability within Wasabi. You don’t have to use SOBR to take advantage of Immutability.  😉 Direct to Object going to Wasabi will do that as well in v12. You know….as I was typing that, I was questioning if I was correct but figured somebody would

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NemanjaJanicic
1 month ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in Cyber Security Space

Cyberthreat News: All data is a target with big game hunters

Oh...I seem to have missed this.  Now I have about 6 tabs of reading to do...thanks guys!

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
NemanjaJanicic
NemanjaJanicicExperienced User
asked in Discussion boards

How to setup Veeam Backup for multiple locations with Cloud Storage

If there is nothing that needs to be backed up at the Serbia site, then I would setup a backup at the primary site, and setup a SOBR at the secondary site with a copy job to copy the backup data to Serbia and also copy to Wasabi.  If you have data in Serbia that needs to go to Austria, then I’d setup the reverse as well.  Note that you may not want to use the same bucket.  If you’re using the same backup server to coordinate it all, then a single bucket may be fine, but I’d probably use a bucket for Serbia and one for Austria if there is a need for a SOBR in Austria.As Chris mentioned, you could also have direct backup to object or direct copy to object storage, but for me, I would utilize a SOBR so that I could take advantage of immutability within Wasabi.

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NemanjaJanicic
1 month ago
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
posted in Discussion boards

Blog of the Month July 2023

Thanks and congrats to all contestants!

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Iams3le
1 month ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
asked in Blogs and podcasts

Anyone moved an M365 Repo from one drive to another on block storage?

I just keep on learning…..thanks guys!

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HangTen416
1 month ago
Julia F Morgado
Julia F MorgadoProduct Strategy
posted in Cloud City

A Technical Deep Dive Into Veeam Backup for AWS

Found another blog to add to my RSS feed (that I never have time to read!)

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dloseke
2 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Sys Admin Day Stories!

I tend to love any of your posts that include poetry.  Perhaps you can start setting these to music as well?  😁

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marco_s
2 months ago

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