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miriam1989Comes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

GFS best Strategy

These are all great points but remember that zero block clones on both XFS, ReFS and Object Storage are available to you for GFS. I think the term zero block goes a bit too far but expecting 2% for each GFS restore point is a conservative estimator.In regards to strategy that shouldn’t be a IT decision, at least not alone. Get with your application and legal stakeholders and see what levels of risk and compliance you need to cover dictate. More often than not these days cyber insurance is going to be the primary driver.All that being said I tend to consider the minimum having 3 months of weekly RP that are immutable and encrypted to give me a safety net for ransomware.

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tarik.yenisey
1 hour ago
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EdxHComes here often
posted in YARA and Script Library

vcli - a universal Veeam CLI tool

Hi all,  I’ve been toying around with the idea of a cli tool that works with everything and is related to the other post I put up today on the Go-Veeam-Auth that does authentication for all Veeam APIs.  Anyway, I’ve come up with vcli a simple terminal app written in Go, allowing you to switch between APIs with minimal effort quickly. All the authentication is set up, so all you need to do is set some environmental variables, and off you go (no pun intended). The main output is JSON, but you can switch it over to YAML via a --yaml switch. The tool only does GET requests at the moment, as I wanted to gauge the interest before committing any more time to the project.  Where the power really comes in when it is coupled with “nushell” which is a data-centric approach to shells. It makes manipulating json response objects a breeze and also allows conversion to other data formats. It also has a whole module system which I go into a bit on my GitHub.  GitHub page: https://github.com/shapedtho

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k00laidIT
24 days ago
MavMikeVBR
MavMikeVBRComes here often
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Veeam 12.1 syslog and unsuccessful logins

Hi @MavMikeVBR - It appears, as noted in this Forum post , sending logon events to a SIEM isn’t yet feasible. It looks like Veeam is looking to maybe have a feature enhancement in a future release. Hope this helps.   This is correct. As I understand it with 12.1 the goal was to get the same items you’d find in the local Windows Event Viewer from Veeam into syslog with the idea they would use that to build on in future versions.

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regnor
28 days ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
asked in Kubernetes Korner

Which Linux Distribution for Kubernetes/miniKube

awesome, thanks for the information @Geoff Burke !

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Geoff Burke
27 days ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

New koolaid.info post on setting up PostgreSQL for Veeam

Great post Jim! I want to write a similar article, but using a docker container for postgres instead of a straight install. I’ve been thinking along the same lines but baby steps!

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coolsport00
1 month ago
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ArinComes here often
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Install 2nd VBR server in secondary site

@Arin for what it’s worth I’m a big fan of using a single VBR server in the secondary site instead and then leverage pools of proxies in each location to enable backups. This allows you to always have VBR in your backup site while maintaining a single instance.

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k00laidIT
2 months ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Fun Friday: What do you use to lab/test?

I use today work labs, my own home lab and then a couple of cloud platforms myself.

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Geoff Burke
2 months ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
posted in YARA and Script Library

Revised kb3067.ps1 script

Hi all, wanted to give a heads up that I’ve updated this and moved it to github. The latest version moves the logic to per job rather than per repository. https://github.com/k00laidIT/Veeam/blob/master/kb3067.ps1

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FrankCL2
6 months ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in Blogs and Podcasts

V12 News HubV12 News Hub

Here’s a post I wrote that just got shared on my company’s blog. https://1111systems.com/blog/veeam-12-preview/

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
mkevenaar
mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard, Veeam Legend
posted in Automation Desk

What Automation tools are you using?

Honestly most of what I use these days is powershell by way of VS Code. I also use the various swagger docs for Veeam products as well to help guide my calls and test capabilities. Enough that I keep them all as a pinned tweet!https://twitter.com/k00laidIT/status/1364586142025322499?s=20&t=vDeDsTvPY_G3ZfsOiPBcCA 

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vAdmin
1 year ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
posted in YARA and Script Library

Revised kb3067.ps1 script

Hey @Chris.Arceneaux this was tested with the latest build of v5 but should work just as well with v6. I think the Get-VBOUsageData cmdlet came in v5 so that would be the earliest version supported.

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FrankCL2
6 months ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Fun Friday: Which Common Sysadmin Tool have you seen do the Most Damage?

Microsoft SQL server ;)

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marcofabbri
1 year ago
SteveHeart
SteveHeartVeeam MVP
posted in YARA and Script Library

Powershell - VBO Health Check

Looks great @SteveHeart ! Please do get this into github, would like to build this into some automated testing.

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SteveHeart
2 years ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam VMCE 2021 Fast Track Now Available

Wonder what the criteria are for getting the email. That is why I wondered about already taking the VMCE course for v11. Hopefully I still get it.  According to @rhaslund it is holders of VMCE v9 or 2020 and those that have taken the v10 VMCE course. Ah see I didn't take the v10 course just wrote and passed the exam. 😂 Sorry, I should have said or, any of those 3 things should have made you eligible. I got it from ProPartner fwiw.

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regnor
2 years ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam VMCE 2021 Fast Track Now Available

Wonder what the criteria are for getting the email. That is why I wondered about already taking the VMCE course for v11. Hopefully I still get it.  According to @rhaslund it is holders of VMCE v9 or 2020 and those that have taken the v10 VMCE course.

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regnor
2 years ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

VMworld thoughts, what are you excited about?

Awesome, look forward to it!

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coolsport00
2 years ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

VMworld thoughts, what are you excited about?

Awesome man on the training, enjoy! I really need to buckle down and spend a few days studying so I can sit the exam. Who’s teaching your class?

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coolsport00
2 years ago
JustineP
JustinePComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Addtional Resources - CPU and RAM

@JustineP The BP guide is definitely the place to look for answers but one quick thing I will mention right off is in terms of proxy sizing. If you are doing an all in one VM with both VBR server and active proxy roles hosted together something to watch is “are you able to maintain your job window requirements?” While the textbook answer may well be to add resources or not add resources at a given threshold scale up and scale out is often the solution when you aren’t hitting your desired time frames. As long as you are meeting them I would be hesitant to dedicate more resources to it.

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
smarivoet
smarivoetVeeam MVP
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeamclick.be VBO-demos available

Seems like a neat project man, going to have to check this out!

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Nico Losschaert
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Fun Friday: What year did you first use Veeam?

2011, around the time that SureBackup became a feature.

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JMeixner
2 years ago
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
posted in Discussion Boards

Copyjob Best Practices: what are yours?

Hey @bp4JC one thing I always do that I haven’t seen above is to mess with the bandwidth throttle and leave the jobs in continuous mode. If you aren’t already letting them run all day every day you can set the jobs to continuous mode then go into your bandwidth throttle and while letting them run full speed over night set a window of your operation hours and choke the bandwidth down to a level that you are comfortable with. This will let your backup copy window be larger and hopefully complete.Regarding seeing this when you do the integrity checks there’s a couple things here. If your type of business can stomach it set the integrity checks to start right after the end of your job run on Friday night/Saturday morning then either turn off your weekend backup copies or maybe in your case a) go in on Friday morning of the day it’s supposed to do the integrity check and disable run on Saturday and Sunday and change the job settings to let it run for 3 days without timeout. Finally I was re

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bp4JC
2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Ready for Veeam B&R v11a?

As you may have read in Sunday’s digest from @Gostev Veeam is taking a new approach to early availability for 11a in that they aren’t going to use support as a barrier of entry. The related KB articles for both VBR 11a and VeeamONE 11a are now publicly posted with download links and early versions of the release notes. For any of you that may be using VBO on the same server, either in a lab, as a Service Provider, or by going against best practices (RTFM y’all) be aware that 5d is a requirement for 11a. If you have not upgraded to the 5d release yet it WILL break your 11a install. I’ve now seen or heard of this happening twice already.VBR v11a KB: https://www.veeam.com/kb4215VeeamONE v11a KB: https://www.veeam.com/kb4197VBO 5d KB: https://www.veeam.com/kb4197

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MicoolPaul
2 years ago
k00laidIT
k00laidITVeeam Vanguard
posted in YARA and Script Library

Restart-VSS.ps1 Script

Oops sorry @marcofabbri, I went a little dark there for a while. Exactly what @regnor said; often you’ll see errors when using App Aware In-Guest Processing (AAIP) that are to the effect of “VSS Write not responding,” this is especially true in my experience with the SQL writers. The script just goes through and restarts the services so your next run AAIP should complete successfully.

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k00laidIT
2 years ago
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Duke979New Here
posted in Discussion Boards

Is your Veeam Cloud Connect Provider Still Not Using Veeam 11?

@Duke979 there are a definitely a variety of reasons for VCSPs to hold off and not go at GA time but responsibility to customers is a factor as well. I’ll say that we will be done upgrading today here.

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k00laidIT
2 years ago
VMDK
VMDKNot a newbie anymore
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam Community Podcast is getting a reboot!

So great to see the community part of the community podcast return! Looking forward to this!

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regnor
2 years ago

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