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I was thinking of using a bare metal restore into a VM and have actually made it work, but what I wasnt able to do successfully was resize/shrink the disks in the process. The physical server has lots of wasted space which I would like to avoid in the VM. Is it possible to accomplish a “disk shrink” using a bare metal restore?

Hola, tengo un job que hace bakup de solo de bases de datos de un servidor, lo configure para que lo haga con una retencion de 3 dias, osea solo necesito 3 dias de bakpPero de alguna forma hace mas copias de las que tiene confoigurada, en este caso llego a 6 copias. porque hace esto?  Como se puede arreglar o es normal que lo haga? Me pasa en los 3 jobs. que tengo. hace mas copias de las que les configuro. Muchas Gracias!!

Does K10 cluster-scoped resource backup include IngressClasses? Tried searching for an answer to this question but no dice.The reason is because our company re-installed an on-premises Rancher RKE2 cluster from scratch as part of a DR drill using Kasten K10 for data and application recovery. The recovery process was mostly smooth with a few minor gotchas but in particular, it seems that the cluster-scoped resource capture skipped the existing GitLab NGINX IngressClass despite having no resource filters applied - after restoring both cluster-scoped resources and our GitLab Chart, the IngressClass installed as part of the chart was missing causing the GitLab ingress controller to return NGINX 404 errors, which was solved with a manual Helm upgrade reusing the existing chart version and values.While this is a minor issue with a relatively simple workaround, we’d like to know whether K10 includes IngressClasses in its cluster-scoped resource backup by default, and if not, is there a way to

In my environment, all of my switches and all of my virtualization hosts support jumbo frames. as well as the Data Domain that is my storage infrastructure.  However, my VBR environment - 3VMs (the VBR server, 1 proxy, and 1 managed server used to mount restores) and the physical server that attaches to the tape library are not currently set to use jumbo frames. I am wondering if setting them to use jumbo frames would help, improve performance, reduce bottlenecks?I can’t imagine that it would hurt, right?Anyone using jumbo frames? What is your experience?

Hi all,I report that in the section: Microsoft Teams Veeam BOT Integration cannot proceed to the lab because starting Teams requires the demo account password.  

Hello,I want to recover one computer account password from Veeam B&R credentials, I followed the KB4349 article, but I was unable to locate the DATA key under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication to view the EncyptionSalt value. I didn’t found any article or guide for such case, can anyone guide me how to find the EncryptionSalt value if it is not available in registry?

Hello,if I understand it correctly, in Veeam 12 the backup health check is performed independently from the backup copy job.In my case that leads to a problem because the backup repository which is the target for the backup copy job is only switched on for the backup (powering on and powering off is done by job scripts in the backup copy job).Is there any solution for this?In my opinion there are several ways that would lead to a solution:Starting health check immediately after the backup before the after job script. But that could not be configured any more or I didn’t find it. Adding the functionality to execute scripts before and after the health check. Starting health check manually from the command line. Then I could execute a script which starts the repository, performs the health check and power off again. I found powershell commands to perform a backup health check, but that doesn’t work anymore. Or I used it wrong. Starting and stopping the backup repository by a windows job a

Hello - total newbie here,I installed CE 12.1.0.2131 on Windows 10 Pro (desktop computer type) I wanted to try creating a simple backup job to see how it works. I intend to chose just a single folder of files to be backed up. I am in Home > Backup Job > New Agent Backup Job > Tab = “Objects”I checked the box for “The following file system objects:” It displays a windows form with a single line text box, I do not see any buttons to open a file picker dialog box to be able to select just the single folder I want to backup.I see a similar constraint when I click “Next” to go to the tab labeled “Local Storage”. There is just a text box on a form and no file picker dialogs. I need to type the full path to the storage location where I want the backup to be written to. Is this intended behavior to not be able to use a file picker dialog box? Is this a limitation of the Community Edition? Thank you. 

Where do I see the warning logs? There are no errors but need correct warning messages.

Hi, We’re going to upgrade our vCenter to 8.0U1 and the process as far as we can tell involves creating a new vCenter with the same IP but different hostname (i.e. I can’t find an upgrade process that retains the same name for the vCenter). Just wondering what the impact of that name change would be to our existing Veeam backup jobs if they are all set to contact the vCenter on the old name. I’ve tried searching the community for “VCSA name change” and “vCenter name change” but have come up empty. Has no one else found this to be a problem? Or did we miss something and there is a way to retain the old vCenter hostname?

Hi, I am new to Veeam Backup.  On a Dell PowerEdge R7515 running Windows 2022 Standard, I have a 67 terabyte REFS volume where I store Veeam backups under a folder called “vault” (see screenshot below).  In Windows Explorer, when I check the size of the “vault” folder (by right-clicking on the folder name and going to Properties) it says the “Size on disk” is more than 67.6 terabytes (see below).  This folder contains one .vbm file and a few .vbk and .vib files.  However, when I check the properties of the physical disk volume under Disk Management utility (diskmgmt.msc), it says that I still have about 31.9 terabytes left on disk meaning that ONLY about 35 terabytes of data is used with about 48% free (see below).  Also, I do not have data duplication role installed on this server. Could someone shed some light on this extremely large discrepancy between disk volume size and folder size?  Thank you! Content of “vault folder”: Disk Management says:   

Hello,I’m a new Veeam Agent for Windows user and so far I loved it, just used it to backup and restore my system, went like a breeze!So I set up weekly system drive backups and what I noticed is that the first backup was full, and the 2nd backup is incremental.Can I set up the backup task so it will take weekly FULL backups and keep the last 2 full backups, deleting older ones?

Hi, built a new home server just in time to test the new 12.1 Community Edition.  Everything seems to work fine except I can’t seem to create a usb recovery stick.  When I click on Recovery Media, I get an error message that says “Cannot find backup file for <Server Name>”. I’ve created a backup on this server and it finished successfully.  Anyone else run into this issue?Thanks!

Hi, I'm a new user trying the Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition v12.1 for the first time. I’ve installed Veeam on a Windows 10 computer, and was able to make a backup of all the drives from a client computer also running Windows 10. But when I tried to restore a file from the backup, I got the error message shown below. I am initiating the restore via the Veeam console running on the same computer as the Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition. Restore failed Error: Neither Installer service nor Admin$ file share are available Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?

Hello Everyone,If the backup at SP is deleted, it should go to recycle bin, however restoration options is to restore it backup or copy it to removable disk to the tenent without meta data. how could copy it to removable disk and restore it without meta data? 

Hi, is it possible to backup an entire disk or clone a disk?  I would like to make a duplicate copy of my boot drive.  Thank you.

So I have an issue. We backup to disk (a Data Domain, in our case), and from there, copy to tape. So I have 2 jobs - a backup job that writes to the DD, and a tape job (set as secondary target). Backup job is set to make an active full once a week (usually on a Friday), and the other days are incrementals. Pretty standard so far.My issue: on the weekend, we ran out of blank tapes in the library. I had to cancel the running tape job (which was trying to write out the Friday FULL backup). I got some new blanks, and loaded them. But the Monday tape job went to write out the (missed) Friday FULL backup, instead of just doing the Monday incremental. The FULL job is like 4 TB, no way it will finish in time before the next night’s incremental backup will start up. I had to change the scheduled start to “Not scheduled”, just so it would have enough time to finish (else it would have been interrupted by that evening’s incremental job). I don’t want to hold the source backup job - I want it to w

Hello FolksI've installed the Kasten on my K8s cluster.When I go to the `Settings/System Information` section, I see that in `Storage Classes` section, it automatically recognizes my StorageClasses* One `gp2`* One `efs`---The `gp2` is in `Valid` Status, but, the `efs-sc` is in `Failed` Status.When I hit the `revalidate`, I'll see that it creates a Pod and a PVC.The PVC is stuck at the `Pending` and after a while, the task will fail again and delete those PVC and PodHere is the `describe` of that PVC:```shell$ k -n kasten-io describe pvc kanister-tools-rzbr6 Name:          kanister-tools-rzbr6Namespace:     kasten-ioStorageClass:  efs-scStatus:        PendingVolume:        Labels:        createdBy=kanisterAnnotations:   volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-provisioner: efs.csi.aws.com               volume.kubernetes.io/storage-provisioner: efs.csi.aws.comFinalizers:    [kubernetes.io/pvc-protection]Capacity:      Access Modes:  VolumeMode:    FilesystemUsed By:       <none>Events:  T

HelloFor testing Inmutable backups using ubunto server LTS 22.04.3 followingPart 1 - Build an immutable backup repository for Veeam Backup & Replication. | Experts Exchange (experts-exchange.com)Great expirience and working very fine on some spare PCs i had lying around.(doing bare Metal recoverys and testing different storage medias from internal HDD to usb 3.x to iscsi)  Now i tryed to replicate it on a Rasbery Pie 4 but when i try to add it as a Hardened respository  in Veeam i get:Only x86_64 (64 bit) Linux servers are suportend. lscpu shows 32bit, 64 bit and i used a 64 bit LTS version. Now im not the firmest on Linux so mayhaps im overlooking something trivial. Anyone got an idia? Sascha Wagner

Hi, I am new to Kasten. I am not sure, what I am doing wrong. Any help will be great. I Was testing backup and restore using Kasten on the same OCP cluster.Kasten installation details:Red Hat Openshift 4.12 3 master nodes 3 worker nodes VMWare vSphere 7.0.3 with k10 6.5. (free licensed version) 3 nodes in the cluster, 5 nodes licensed having these Kasten licenses - starter license and trialstarter license Kasten installed using helm based installation The Infrastructure location has been defined correctly for the vCenter. VMWare thin-csi driver based storageclass VMWare thin-csi based volumesnapshotclass having the annotation  k10.kasten.io/is-snapshot-class: "true"   Here are the other details if relevant. K10 Version 6.5.0 K10 Namespace kasten-io Kubernetes Version v1.25.14+bcb9a60 Kubernetes Release Type OpenShift Cluster ID 99160696-5a63-4afc-8e29-90d52f6c99ee  snapshot is fine snapshot based backups are fine snapshots based restores are also fine I can delete a name

Good morning, I'm trying to install VEEAM 9.5 on a WINDOWS 10 that is virtualized in VMWARE 8, but at the time of installation it gives me a certificate error with ID 110, according to KB2137, I would have to contact VEEAM support, the guy who helped me couldn't solve it, so I came to the community to see if anyone had experienced this problem. With VEEAM 10 AND VEEAM 12 we were able to install but 9.5 generates this error, but I need Veeam 9.5 because the others do not accept VCENTER 5.1, another detail when I install VEEAM 9.5 on VMWARE 6.7 it works correctly.

Hello, First of all Happy New Year! I have been working on a veeam implementation report using the AsBuiltReport framework created by Tim Carman @tpcarman see report here: Project Report: https://github.com/rebelinux/AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR Sample Report: https://technomyth.zenprsolutions.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Veeam-VBR-As-Built-Report.html Now the important thing, I would like to add to the report if the backup server is configured with an Enterprise Manager. Does anyone know if there is a way in powershell to identify which Enterprise Manager the Backup server is connected to? Thanks in advance!

Hello guys, I was looking the new Security and Compliance feature. In my lab the following recommendations are marked as passed :For the first one if I look in the configuration of my proxies the NBDSSL is not checked For the second, I don’t have configure encryption for the LAN backup networkSo I don’t know why by default Veeam mention them as passed. Any idea?​​​​​​​

Veeam released V7a of VB365 just recently (Dec 5th, 2023).https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-365-f47/current-version-is-1-0-0-860-ga-t39185.htmlThe KB for the patches to 7.0 has all the changes of 7.0.x: https://www.veeam.com/kb4425With a new major release (e.g. V7) we get the changes within the “what’s new” document: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_m365_7_0_whats_new_wn.pdfThere does not seem to be a “what’s new” document for 7a (7.1.x). Here I can only find the full release notes which makes it kind of hard to determine changes.Did anyone find the specific changes within 7a already?

I built a Hardened Repository using the ISO provided here many months ago.  Very happy with it, until I decided to upgrade Veeam to 12.1.  Now it wants to update components on the Hardened Repository end or it will no longer be usable, which it can’t.  Is there a workflow to deal with this or do I have to start all over again on the Hardened Repository side?