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JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Data Backup Basics XII: Safeguarding Backup Systems Against Ransomware Threats

Excellent article that outlines the roles of technology, people and process in ransomware preparedness and mitigation.

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randyweis
27 days ago
mkevenaar
mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard, Veeam Legend
posted in Automation Desk

Announcement: new leader Jonah May

Welcome, nephew!

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Rick Vanover
1 month ago
marcofabbri
marcofabbriVeeam Legend
posted in Cyber Security Space

RANSOMWARE KILL CHAIN, MITRE ATTA&CK and ZERO TRUST DATA RESILIENCE: YOUR NEXT ULTRA-SECURE VEEAM SOLUTION

This an excellent resource. It provides the depth and detail needed to address objections and pointed questions about how Backup management can enhance information security. Thank you.

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marcofabbri
2 months ago
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MikeLeoneComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Will using jumbo frames help VBR 12 performance?

My experience with Frames is that a mismatch is not good, resulting in fragmentation and re-transmissions. Scenario 1: all frames set to standard MTU end-to-end the data path including NIC, all switch ports, and storage array, and beware that different switches have different MTUs - performance OK.Scenario 2: all frames set to Jumbo Frames end-to-end the data path including NIC, all switch ports, and storage array - performance should definitely improve for sequential IO pattern.Scenario 3: Frame mismatch - likely to be worse that Scenario 1. 

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MicoolPaul
3 months ago
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Sopheaktra.RaingNew Here
asked in Cyber Security Space

Vulnerability CVE-2023-38546

But there are two impornant notes in the KB.VDDK Library Must Remain on VMware Backup ProxiesDo not remove the VDDK libraries from VMware Backup Proxies. Removing the VDDK libraries from a VMware Backup Proxy will cause operations that attempt to use that proxy to communicate with VMware vSphere to fail with the error documented in KB2678.Veeam Transport RedeploymentIf the Veeam Transport package is reinstalled, either manually or as a result of an upgrade, the VDDK libraries will be reinstalled and will have to be removed again.

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randyweis
4 months ago
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Sopheaktra.RaingNew Here
asked in Cyber Security Space

Vulnerability CVE-2023-38546

The main problem with ignoring it (because Veeam doesn’t use SOCK5) is that scanners will continue to flag the vulnerability every time they scan, and that just doesn’t sit well security teams. I’m not sure what dips means when he says to “remote” the affected binaries”. Here is the KB article released last week about this:https://www.veeam.com/kb4523 

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randyweis
4 months ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Cyber Security Space

Four critical CVEs patched in VeeamONE (KB4508)

It seems that Chris is the only one so far to have issues with the upgrade. My updates came through the forums. That is the best place for further questions and to consult with any questions or concerns.

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Chris.Childerhose
5 months ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Cyber Security Space

Four critical CVEs patched in VeeamONE (KB4508)

I received word from the product management teams for VRO and Veeam ONE that it is safe to use these patches in VRO.

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Chris.Childerhose
5 months ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

New Platinum Backup Rule

Great reminder! 

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vAdmin
4 months ago
Julia F Morgado
Julia F MorgadoProduct Strategy
posted in Cloud City

Deploy Veeam Backup for AWS from AWS Marketplace

This is a great idea. Many enterprises have the expertise to do this, but many Veeam customers are just starting out in the cloud and this helps them get set up and ready for deployment.Please continue the series. You will save me a lot of work!😁

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randyweis
8 months ago
olivier.rossi
olivier.rossiVeeam MVP
posted in YARA and Script Library

Is this share already protected?

This is a keeper. I have a few accounts adopting NAS backups in a big way now, and I’m sure we will come across this.

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dloseke
9 months ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Cloud City

Want to get Microsoft Azure Certified? Now’s your chance!

Thanks for this. I’m on my way with AWS certs (got the Cloud Practioner, equivalent to this) and now I’ll start my Azure learning journey.

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HangTen416
10 months ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion Boards

Azure Immutablity - possible to enable it on existing container?

From the v12 User Guide: [Azure Blob Storage] Do NOT enable immutability for already existing containers in the Azure portal. Otherwise, Veeam Backup & Replication will not be able to process these containers properly and it may result in data loss.

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Michael Melter
1 year ago
vmali
vmaliComes here often
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Oracle CBT, RMAN and Veeam Plugin

Nice, clear explanation for sysadmins and backup admins that aren’t familiar with Oracle RMAN and database backup technology. I recommend this!

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H
1 year ago
safiya
safiyaCommunity Analyst
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam V12 Launch x Community Hub Discussion Board

I’m looking forward to the following:Direct to Object, corollary to Cloud Protection Agents (the Veeam Repo can be very expensive to run in public cloud!) Support for VBAWS v6 and VBAzure v5 for my cloud customers Support for VB365 reporting Improved support for Immutability Reports and Alerts Backup Chain Improvements - so many reasons!

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coolsport00
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Veeam Legends - Veeam Backup & Replication Pocketbook v1

Really handy customer-facing reference, and good reminder/checklist for the Veeam engineer/admin!

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kristofpoppe
1 year ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards

Hypothetically - How would you go about restoring data with infinite retention 30/50/100 years from now

I worked as a storage and backup admin at a North Carolina state agency. We had backups on DAT (often unreadable), Optical Jukebox disk (delaminated often), reel to reel and Super DLT. Some of it was backed up with Arcserve (Cheyenne), NetBackup, Backup Exec, cpio, CommVault, and to JMeixner’s point, copies of documents. Email was backed up with Netscape (can you believe they had a backup solution?). You get the idea. Boxes of various media were stored in the state archives, without a clear plan or documentation of the software used to back it up (and needed to restore) nor the equipment to run that software and do the restore. I call it the “Bell Jar”: put your old backup server and tape/whatever equipment under a bell jar and hope it works in 5 or ten years. Long term management of long term archives is a significant problem and I don’t think there is a workable solution for it, other than the transfer every few years to new media and preservation of the software used to back it up.

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randyweis
1 year ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Underrated powerful features in Veeam Backup & Replication

I’m going to bookmark this for new customer conversations. Thanks!

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Moustafa_Hindawi
1 year ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in Blogs and Podcasts

V12 News HubV12 News Hub

The first two links take you to the same place:Security Readiness Best Practices with Veeam Platform v12

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Offsite backup as a Ransomware protection strategy

Well done, Joe. Clear, simple, easy to achieve.

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coolsport00
1 year ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards

Veeam - Physical or Virtual that is the question?

To add my two cents, I have seen a design where the Veeam environment (VBR and repo, VONE, BEM) are in a separate vSphere cluster under a separate vCenter, using a separate shared storage infrastructure (or VSAN). This comes from the same reckoning as the architecture of management clusters for vSphere environments. The same risks about compromise of the VMware components exist, and other complications may ensue if a management domain is used (as recommended by Edwin), but this design has some interesting advantages in terms of deployment and management tools. In my day as a VMware engineer, I was taught (and held to it by my first boss) to only recommended and implement a physical vCenter server, for many of the same reasons put forth in this post and in the Forums. That “caution!” has been washed away by the sands of time, it seems.No one size fits all, but as was stated in the forum thread, backup is all about risk management. You decide!

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
Rithesh
RitheshNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Simultaneously backup to Tape and Veeam Plugin backup to Veeam server

The DBAs should save a copy of their original script before installing the Veeam Plug-in. The thread referenced should answer their questions.

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randyweis
1 year ago
regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

VB365: Changes necessary for Teams backup in version 6a (New API)

it adds the perfect FUD topic for competing platforms to use right at the peak of the mass exodus from on-prem ExchangeWhat are the alternatives to M365? Seems like a monopoly to me (Bad Microsoft from the 90’s)...time for another antitrust suit? This kind of pricing strategy strikes me as supremely arrogant. Or, another way to steer users away from partner solutions like ours. Ugh. 💀

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johan.h
1 year ago
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drkmccyNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam Office 365 backup painfully slow!

The Backup Service Accounts only apply to the OD and SPO jobs. You can increase threads for the email job, but that doesn’t always allow for increased throughput.Regnor’s suggestion should be tried first.The other thing to do is to strategize backups. Don’t try to back up everything at once. If you don’t want to break the job up into groups, you can go to exclusion and exclude nearly every group. As each group gets the first backup completed, remove another group (or 2 or 3) from the exclusion list and let those complete. Rinse and repeat.Throttling is out of Veeam’s control, but double check your networking to be sure there isn’t anything misconfigured. Then turn off throttling and use exclusions. Finally, please read this document from start to finish. This has EVERYTHING you need.https://www.veeam.com/wp-guide-veeam-backup-microsoft-office-365-v5.html?wpty

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M
2 months ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards

How do you monitor Hardened Repository hardware?

Most of our hardened repository servers are VMs and we use Zabbix for monitoring on those.  If there is physical we still use Zabbix but also iLO or iDRAC. What about the risk of a takeover of vCenter, where the bad actor can just delete the datastore containing the repository? Gostev wrote about this in this morning’s Word from Gostev.The monitoring tool suggestion is good thought!

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BertrandFR
2 years ago

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