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MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Fun Friday: Backup Designs That Sounded Better in Theory

I’m pretty constantly revising my own plans for backup architecture. Moving away from Synology NAS’s has been helpful but I was unfortunately down that track for about 3 or 4 years because that was always how we did it, but we finally convinced people to start using purpose-built Dell servers with local storage. That said, getting folks to put the VBR Backup server at the recovery site instead of the primary site has been an issue in some cases, but that’s getting easier. Using REFS was usually not an issue, but I have a coworker that has had issues with REFS in the past and is very afraid of it, and I’ve run into it as well with Microsoft’s various patches that cause REFS volumes to show as RAW, etc.Now I’m starting down the road of the correct architecture for Linux Native Immutable backups. My plan that was down for a client was that at the primary site there is a purpose-build Dell server with local storage. Great. The NAS that they are currently using for primary storage (wi

Gopal SinghComes here often

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want to remove my machine with enterpise manager .

You can still update the license key though if you need…..I just ran into this internally. We no longer have an Enterprise Manager but the key we had was managed by the EM. There was a button I could select to still supply the license key as I was changing over to VUL’s from perpetual licensing. I still need to open a ticket with support to get the query to remove the EM entry from our deployment. But that’s the answer…..

Gopal SinghComes here often

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how manys VMCE certifed in the world

Ok… I thought much more. I’m sure it probably is by now….I have no idea how accurate those numbers were then, and since that data’s probably 2 years old, I’m betting it’s MANY more to say the least. I’d be curious to see current numbers as well.

kirststoner12Product Strategy

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New Veeam user or haven't attended a User Group in awhile?

Id like to learn more about the Linux side of the house since I’m mostly in the Windows world….native immutable/hardened repositories, linux proxy’s, etc.

StabzVeeam Legend

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Immutability Configuration in SOBR for backups with GFS

For my customers, they are using 30 or 90 days immutability. GFS retention is keeping much more in most cases up to 1 or 3 years for some depending on how much they are willing to pay, but that’s more of archival of data rather than data recovery. Cost is the primary reason a lot are using object storage over VCC in most cases….they can keep more data for cheaper with object, and they want immutability now. The immutability period is more from a recovery standpoint - assuming they are immutable for 90 days, then that data can’t be touched for 90 days. If I had clients looking for more of an archival function, then we’d be talking about Glacier with immutability or possibly tapes, etc. I have one client that recently started to discern between archiving and recovering data. They have archival VM’s that keep 7 years of data, and those VM’s are backed up to tape and rotated yearly, so at any given time, they can go back nearly 8 years if needed. They were going to try and keep the VM’

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Fun Friday: Milestones & Goals

Professionally one of my goals is to finish my VMCE certification….still not there yet but I need to do it very soon….should have it done by the end of September. I’m also going to be vetting out some product offerings such as deploying Veeam Backup for Office 365 as a service provider but using Wasabi for the storage, as well as learning more about and probably deploying Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator. As for things I’ve actually completed, I had to do some major infrastructure refreshes at two of our locations and with that I finally have CDP replication running, and it seems to be running pretty well with a 15 second RPO. Quite pleased about that, vs the 4 hour snapshot replication we had in place for the same machines. And we have our backups now copied to Wasabi immutable object storage. I do a lot of the immutable backups for clients, but it seems like our internal stuff always gets neglected so I’m happy to be able to put some focus on that amongst our mass of client

karun.keeriotComes here often

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Veeam Backup for M365 - Archival Options

I feel like it should be noted that it is this way for every M365 backup product I’ve seen. It does, more or less, incremental backups to grab each file that has been added or changed. M365 backups don’t run in the same fashion of traditional backups like you would use for instance, if you were backing up an Exchange server as a VM, or with an agent even. It’s only looking inside of the mailboxes/OneDrive/SharePoint accounts/repositories for the data that has changed, etc.

StabzVeeam Legend

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Immutability Configuration in SOBR for backups with GFS

Also I was going through some V12 content and noticed it specifically mentioned that GFS will be protected with immutability for its entire retention period 🙂 bring on v12!!! I was not aware of this, but this is excellent news.

JMeixnerVeeam Legend

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New Community Baddges

Is there a list of all the badges and how to get them somewhere? Asking for a friend….

JMeixnerVeeam Legend

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New Community Baddges

P.S: I am answering so late because I just got this. It seems like (agaaain) I don't receive notifications!!! I think twice in the past two weeks I’ve clicked the Unsubscribe from Notifications link in the notifications email instead of the link to open up a topic…...and then I have to go find the notifications setting again to resubscribe.

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam - Physical or Virtual that is the question?

I think this is a classic case of “it depends”. I have SEVERAL clients with virtual backup servers. The thing I don’t like about using virtual backup servers is that more often than not, it’s going to mean that I’m using a prosumer NAS for the backup repository, such as a QNAP or Synology. No battery backed RAID controller, no controller redundancy, possible software tweaks to the software RAID that can introduce corruption, etc.For my clients with physical servers, that means I have a Dell server in place with a battery-backed RAID card, enterprise-grade local drives with enterprise support agreements when a drive fails rather than having to figure out what the current model drive most closely matches the failed drive or figuring out if there is still a warranty from the drive manufacturer, and then finding a replacement while being down a drive for a week or more. For those physical servers, there is the caveat of having some sort of on-host proxy server for VM access, or, my pref

dlosekeVeeam Legend

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VBR: Immutable object storage with Wasabi - for Service Providers/MSPs

Hello! Thanks for the share, I was planned to test that today :D ! You beat me to it. That could be usefull for organization with multiple sites and to delegate the access. I really appreciate Wasabi because you can find a lot of documentation with details! Another link: https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059234472-How-to-separate-access-at-a-Bucket-level I will test this out. I haven't seen this article but looking at the policy I'm not sure if it will list all buckets or list all buckets that the user has access to. If the former, it wont work for me but if the latter.....that'd eliminate the step of having to manually type in the bucket name and would allow the older builds of 11 and also 10 to add the bucket without upgrading. Thanks for sending this link!

dlosekeVeeam Legend

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VBR: Immutable object storage with Wasabi - for Service Providers/MSPs

Hello! Thanks for the share, I was planned to test that today :D ! You beat me to it. That could be usefull for organization with multiple sites and to delegate the access. I really appreciate Wasabi because you can find a lot of documentation with details! Another link: https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059234472-How-to-separate-access-at-a-Bucket-level I will test this out. I haven't seen this article but looking at the policy I'm not sure if it will list all buckets or list all buckets that the user has access to. If the former, it wont work for me but if the latter.....that'd eliminate the step of having to manually type in the bucket name and would allow the older builds of 11 and also 10 to add the bucket without upgrading. Thanks for sending this link! No problem :D ! I have to find some time to play with this policies too Okay, I tested this and it functions exactly as I had expected...while it doesn’t error ou

vmJoeVeeam MVP

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Veeam events in the Windows Event Log. No way!

I’m not sure I ever really looked, and I’m not sure that I’d want them in there, but is there a capability to push the logs to a Syslog server so that they can feed into our SIEM solution? I guess I do see in VBR some general settings for SNMP, but I’ve never played with those at all.

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6a Released

Oh yuck….I hadn’t heard anything about this (on the MS side). I have a ton of clients backing up Teams with a different product, but I imagine their access is the same, and I’m in the process of vetting VBO. thanks for posting this!

YasarAltafNot a newbie anymore

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Physical to Virtual

Was just going to way, Converter is no longer supported. But it is out there and works great. StarWind makes a VM Converter as well but it’s not all that great. And of course Veeam does a good job as well. I still personally prefer the VMware Converter in most instances.

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam - Physical or Virtual that is the question?

Going by my experience, in smaller organisations, there seems to be a preference for a dedicated physical backup server with a Synology or a QNAP for storage. In larger places, especially with those that have the Veeam Enterprise Plus License and storage integration, the backup server is a Virtual machine with a large number of proxies. Yeah, I’ve noticed that as well except I usually see a virtual backup server if a QNAP or Synology NAS (or similar, I’ve seen NetGear ReadyNAS and AsuSTOR as well) is in use for the backing storage. Physical backup servers with local storage can vary in size for sure and in smaller environments as a smaller repo can easily be put on a physical server, up to nearly 250TB depending on disk sizing and RAID type. For instance, on my larger physical boxes, I will use a PowerEdge T640 (in a rack configuration if a rack is available) where I can cram 18 3.5” drives….and with drives reaching 12/14/16TB, in a RAID 6, that nets around 230-260TB. That’s not

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam - Physical or Virtual that is the question?

I’m very interested in seeing what Object First is doing…...the main issue I tend to have is that I want to have VBR running on a different environment than the performance workload, but want the data to reside on a separate server as well, and want to use Hardened Linux Immutability, which means if I’m using the same server, I’m looking at VM’s, so I need to either store the data in a VMDK which is not advised, or I need to use some sort of RDM which tends to be unsupported on local storage but can be cobbled together. I’m trying to figure out how Object First would fit into that picture and while it doesn’t fix all of my concerns, it sure helps!

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam - Physical or Virtual that is the question?

I watched their demo on the VeeamON 2022 broadcast when they were coming out of stealth mode and was pretty impressed. I mean, a lot of us have been pretty much rolling our own, but I do like the idea of a turn-key solution as well.Edit: The Broadcast I watched is the video linked above.

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam - Physical or Virtual that is the question?

When I first started looking at the idea of a dedicated appliance, I was pretty surprised to see that there wasn’t something out there already. I may have even had the thought to start a company doing this, but the entrepreneur drive isn’t really huge within me most of the time. This is closer for sure to a solution I was looking for. It just occurred to me that one could also use a Dell PowerStore X array where you can run VM’s directly on the array (somewhat similar to the VRTX boxes) but PowerStore can be somewhat pricey and they get a lot of their capacity from running their Data Reduction through dedupe and compression, and I’m not sure how they’d handle Veeam data and would be worth the cost.

ShaokatInfluencer

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Veeam License

Could not have said it better myself. Or….as I can get a bit wordy...so concisely. 😉

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 - Blog Series - Part 1

One thing I’ll add Chris is a lot of people sometimes wonder if they need a backup. It’s interesting because I can’t say that my clients know or don’t know if their M365 needs backups before I talk about it. Each and every migration/deployment of M365 I automatically add backups of their data to, and they simply agree with it. Either they never thought of it and just agree with it or they already knew because it’s never really been a question. Same goes for if we onboard a client already in M365. It just paired up with spam filtering and both services are genearally just assumed to be required, but of a client set themselves up, I can certainly see that being overlooked until it’s talked about. My concern is always for other products/tools that reside in the cloud for my clients on how it’s backed up. Obviously Veeam can do SalesForce, but for me it’s more about the EMR/EHR’s, Quickbooks online, etc.

Rick VanoverRICKATRON

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Veeam Community Recap #85

@Rick Vanover I was wondering how long until Oktoberfest the other day as well, but I think we have to get a bit closer to September. Glad I was able to lead into your Object Storage information as well!

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam - Physical or Virtual that is the question?

When I first started looking at the idea of a dedicated appliance, I was pretty surprised to see that there wasn’t something out there already. I may have even had the thought to start a company doing this, but the entrepreneur drive isn’t really huge within me most of the time. This is closer for sure to a solution I was looking for. It just occurred to me that one could also use a Dell PowerStore X array where you can run VM’s directly on the array (somewhat similar to the VRTX boxes) but PowerStore can be somewhat pricey and they get a lot of their capacity from running their Data Reduction through dedupe and compression, and I’m not sure how they’d handle Veeam data and would be worth the cost. Having spec’d up PowerStores, the IOPS they spout, certainly doesn’t exist anywhere near the base models 😆 but considering how many people are out here rocking a RAID 5 with slow spinny disks or less, it certainly could be good if you had the budge

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam - Physical or Virtual that is the question?

When I first started looking at the idea of a dedicated appliance, I was pretty surprised to see that there wasn’t something out there already. I may have even had the thought to start a company doing this, but the entrepreneur drive isn’t really huge within me most of the time. This is closer for sure to a solution I was looking for. It just occurred to me that one could also use a Dell PowerStore X array where you can run VM’s directly on the array (somewhat similar to the VRTX boxes) but PowerStore can be somewhat pricey and they get a lot of their capacity from running their Data Reduction through dedupe and compression, and I’m not sure how they’d handle Veeam data and would be worth the cost. Having spec’d up PowerStores, the IOPS they spout, certainly doesn’t exist anywhere near the base models 😆 but considering how many people are out here rocking a RAID 5 with slow spinny disks or less, it certainly could be good if you had the budget. I’d say look at either a Del

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