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2221 Comments

T
TheMunkEENew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Help getting Linux agent working

Hi, the most obvious thing to me would be checking DNS as you’ve built a new server, is the host resolving okay? If you can supply the logs from the protection group rescan please that would be useful to understand what VBR is failing on

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tarik.yenisey
1 hour ago
M
modem_19New Here
asked in Discussion Boards

VM Backup to Rotating RDX Drives Not Deleting Old Backups

Have a look at the job statistics please and before the error in the list is where it will output any VMs no longer processed by this job

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MicoolPaul
11 hours ago
C
cdmoore1972Not a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Error: Failed to call RPC function 'FclsExists': The user name or password is incorrect, Hyper-V

Hi, What server is being used as the gateway for the SMB share? Is it set to automatic or is it defined as a server? Wondering if another server is unable to access the QNAP. Does the QNAP have any logs that indicate why it isn’t connecting successfully, such as an network ACL list for who can connect from an IP Address standpoint. Can you supply some logs from the gateway server for the backup failure please

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tarik.yenisey
1 hour ago
M
mschreiberjrNew Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam Community- Localhost allowing anyone to login

Check out your user & role mapping within VBR: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/configuring_users.html?ver=120And then enumerate the users & groups that have permissions relative to this. That’ll be the reason why

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Chris.Childerhose
13 hours ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Database Considerations: Veeam Backup & Replication / Veeam ONE on Windows Server 2022 - Part One

Try 12.1 instead of 12 first please 🙂

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MicoolPaul
16 hours ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Database Considerations: Veeam Backup & Replication / Veeam ONE on Windows Server 2022 - Part One

@mdean if youre going from 11a to 12 but you’re on 03/2024 patch, you can’t go to 12 currently, see the note in  the KB article here: https://www.veeam.com/kb4245 Intended Audience for this UpdateAs of March 1st 2024, version 11a is no longer supported. This update (P20240304) is provided as a courtesy to customers who, for whatever reason, wish to continue using Veeam Backup & Replication 11a for an extended time.IMPORTANT: If you choose to install this 11a update, you will not be able to upgrade to version 12.1 until the next minor update is available (12.1.2 scheduled to be released in Q2 2024).

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MicoolPaul
16 hours ago
M
modem_19New Here
asked in Discussion Boards

VM Backup to Rotating RDX Drives Not Deleting Old Backups

Does your job state anything such as “VM XXX is no longer processed by this job”, if so this is your problem. When a VM is no longer processed by this job, Veeam retains its backup data indefinitely (because you’ve asked it to keep retention points and it can’t violate this). You can overrule this behaviour by setting the “Remove deleted items after XXX days” here https://helpcenter.veeam.com/archive/backup/110/vsphere/backup_job_advanced_maintenance_vm.html This protects from a scenario where a VM was accidentally removed from a job’s scope, Veeam will ensure you still have the latest backups of this server available until you say otherwise. This isn’t too bad when you’ve got per-VM backup files but when using per backup job chains, it gets noticeable quickly!

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MicoolPaul
11 hours ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Database Considerations: Veeam Backup & Replication / Veeam ONE on Windows Server 2022 - Part One

Hi mdean, thanks for the comment. Those patches are related to Veeam’s database version tracking, they’re not related to the SQL instance itself, so I don’t believe it’s related to my article here, but thanks for sharing should it help someone.

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

QUESTION April 18th From MP

Hi everyone, as promised: So, everything will work, but not as planned. Even “Direct” expected data flows will traverse the gateway due to the access permissions. However, because we selected direct instead of gateway, we didn’t (and can’t) define a gateway. So what is the gateway in this scenario? The answer is: the mount server! Every backup to the object storage backup repository will traverse the mount server, and if the firewall rules prevent this, it will fail!

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MicoolPaul
1 day ago
Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Create iSCSI Target and Storage LUN on Synology DS923+ as Backup Target for VBR

Nice detailed article @Iams3le! If I may also add something here to increase performance further:Install and configure Multipath IO and you can get even greater throughput to your iSCSI target by utilising multiple network links in parallel:https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_to_Use_iSCSI_Targets_on_Windows_Computers_with_Multipath_I_O

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Iams3le
3 days ago
C
clabrownComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Never ending backup chain

Hi, do you have any mentions in the job run about VMs no longer being processed by the job? Veeam doesn’t automatically purge backups that are the latest backups of a VM, unless you have the automatic delete option set in the job, try that 🙂

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wesmrt
3 days ago
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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MicoolPaul
1 day ago
G
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
7 days 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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MicoolPaul
1 day 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
7 days 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
8 days ago
T
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
7 days 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
8 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
7 days ago
T
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
12 days ago
A
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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A
12 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
14 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
15 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
15 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
15 days ago

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