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What is Veeam’s plan to address the newly discovered Cuba Ransomware exploit? Is there a patch forthcoming soon? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cuba-ransomware-uses-veeam-exploit-against-critical-us-organizations/

Hello,I'm trying to change the retention type on my VBM365 backups from Item level to snapshot, but it doesn't give me the option to change it if I select the same folder on the S3 bucket. Will I be required to initiate a new full backup?A second question: I want to understand how Item level retention works, as it's not clear to me. I have a 5-year retention on Exchange, how does it work in the background? Thank you

Hi to all.I am sorry as the question was asked already, but it is hard for me to understand the resolution.I've been working with Veeam Community Edition for some time and I'm generally satisfied when it comes to restoring virtual machines.But I have one server, which is also the the Veeam Backup server AND it has other applications running. I am aware that this is not a recommanded configuration.I have a big problem: On the Windows server 2019 where Veeam Community Edition (VeeamBackup&Replication_12.0.0.1420_P20230718)  is installed, I also back up the physical server.I can also create a USB boot stick in the Community Edition by right-clicking on the backup copy. This boot stick (Recovery Media 6.0.2) then also starts and you can search for your backup file. If you then selected the corresponding file, the following message appears: "Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is unable to open backup files created by Veeam Backup & Replication".So I have a backup, but I can't use it.

Hello Veeam Community (probably the best one)One topic came to my mind today when I was going a little bit deeper into FastClone with ReFS.The question is this:On the primary site, Plan is to have VM with ReFS storage connected with iSCSI Initiator to Synology.With that infrastructure we will enable Synthetic Full Backups which will have FastClone enabled.Now, because I’m referencing my Backup Copy Jobs to the main Backup Jobs I want to know how this will work in above scenario.Since FastClone creates Synthetic Full with only references to the previous backups in the chain, what will then I have on my secondary site when that Synthetic Full backup is transferred to the secondary site?Will I have only references to the backups that are located in the Primary site (that is probably something that all of us don't want) since that is what that file is consistent off or it will have references to the already copied Backups on the Secondary site? In case if we lose our Primary Site than our

HI I have installed K10 version 6.0.5 with helm on my k3s v1.25.7+k3s1. All the pods are running but I cant access the website and if I look on the logs of the pod gateway I See that it cant find severales kind resource:time="2023-08-21 10:39:31.9231" level=info msg="Started Ambassador (Version 3.5.0-dev.0.20230802031949-5128521c13df-dirty.1690961272)" func=github.com/emissary-ingress/emissary/v3/cmd/entrypoint.Main file="/go/cmd/entrypoint/entrypoint.go:96" CMD=entrypoint PID=1time="2023-08-21 10:39:31.9689" level=info msg="AMBASSADOR_CLUSTER_ID=b708b74a-8699-5c3e-abb6-58d61c57d229" func=github.com/emissary-ingress/emissary/v3/cmd/entrypoint.Main file="/go/cmd/entrypoint/entrypoint.go:110" CMD=entrypoint PID=1time="2023-08-21 10:39:31.9727" level=info msg="started command [\"diagd\" \"/ambassador/snapshots\" \"/ambassador/bootstrap-ads.json\" \"/ambassador/envoy/envoy.json\" \"--notices\" \"/ambassador/notices.json\" \"--port\" \"8004\" \"--kick\" \"kill -HUP 1\"]" func="github.com/da

Hello,I would like to get our backups to be efficient as much as they can be.Current situation in production is that we are sending our backups to Synology SMB share on main site, and over WAN Accelerator to our secondary site also to Synology SMB share using Backup Copy Job (immediate copying).Currently I’m testing iSCSI on main site. I created Synology LUN and connected it to the VBR server via iSCSI with ReFS and configured Synthetical Full because of the FastClone option. Need more time to see how it will perform.Now the question is where to implement Backup Proxies and how to use it in our case.I know that best option would be to have physical server’s both on primary and secondary location.How it will benefit our sitaution?And another question is do we need to configure iSCSI also for Backup Copy Jobs or it is okay to have it via SMB and WAN Accelerator from the Main site to Secondary Site.Best Regards 

HI, I have installed k10s 6.0.5 (free) with helm on my K3s v1.25.7+k3s1 k10s and all pods are running:NAME                                                                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGEaggregatedapis-svc-7fc774b7cb-rdtdt               1/1          Running            0            3dmetering-svc-5b6567d589-dx84g                      1/1          Running            0          3ddashboardbff-svc-7c76b85686-h5vjp                2/2          Running            0          3dcrypto-svc-5b97cc49bd-5lwvp                           4/4          Running            0          3dcontrollermanager-svc-9948b6cd7-dkwpn         1/1         Running            0          3dexecutor-svc-5d69fc59f9-r6lp5                          2/2         Running             0          3dlogging-svc-8f8dc78ff-9hxdk                             1/1          Running            0          3dfrontend-svc-56dd4fb8d6-fvqc8                        1/1          Running            0          3dauth-svc-55b5c5c9dc-z2g

Hi! We just recently changed our service account password that we use for Veeam services. So I went into Credentials and Passwords > Datacenter Credentials > Manage Credentials and made the change there after changing the account password in AD. I know Veeam processed the password change because the proxy servers and repo servers went back to online after being offline after the change. However, after a couple of nights, all the backup jobs failed. Long story short, the Veeam services using the service account did not get change so the services had to be restarted.What is Veeam’s behavior after a password change? I would tend to think that Veeam would at least pop a message stating that it is not changing the Veeam services credentials and this has to be done manually. What am I missing here?  

I’m having challenges getting a job creation script to work for creating VM backup jobs. The code has a switch to create a VMWare/Hyper-V job based on provided input. The job is created without needed customizations in three areas (1) setting the schedule, (2) setting the retention policy, and (3) setting an encryption key on the backups. I haven’t gotten #3 in the code yet, but open to thoughts. After I run the script, it succeeds but the settings for #1 and #2 aren’t fully applied.In the case of 1, the schedule is added but the job schedule isn’t enabled.In the case of 2, nothing is enabled. I couldn’t find any other approach to do #2 except with a JobOptions object. Any ideas why not?In the case of 3, I would use JobOptions if I could figure out for both but am contemplating just using Set-VBRAdvancedStorageOptions as that is straightforward. #After Job Creation, the $Job variable is applied with the job it just created. #$JobStartTime is created with Get-Date starting at 20:0

Hi folks, I have a little doubt about this kind of backup and I need to clarify it. Our client ask us what’s happens when there are users in multiple groups, and a backup job for single group. I know Veeam manages the backup to avoid unnecessary duplication and save storage space. Is correct to say if a user is in multiple groups and these groups include overlapping items (for example, the same mailboxes or SharePoint sites etc), Veeam takes an approach to avoid duplicate backup?But really question is: In these cases VEEAM send a warning for those backup jobs? I never tested it and I appreciate your experiences in O365 backup.Thanks all  

Hallo,gibt es bei Veeam einen Vergleich der Features der drei Veeam Editionen Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Data Platform Essentials und Veeam Backup & Replication CE?Ich finde nichts.VG, Chris 

I downloaded the Veeams Agent for Windows and went through the setup process for a full volume backup. I followed the online manual to set the options. However, there are some questions that remain, and I was wondering if anyone could help?The first question I have is that the backup file size is almost 1TB (or about 30%) smaller than the size of the volume to be backed up. And this is not just empty space, the volume had 3.6TB used space, of which only 2.7TB was backed up. What is the reason for this? Looking at the compression ratio, it doesn’t seem sufficient to explain the discrepancy. E-mail summary report​​​​​The second question is actually related. The backup I made was of my C: drive, and I want to know if I were to use the full volume backup for restoring to a completely new drive, would it restore the drive exactly including the boot sectors (i.e. I would simply be able to swap in the new drive and the computer would boot and run as before)?  Below I show a screenshot of the

Hello,Are there any advices on how to have better performance for our “air-gapped” or “immutable” backup on site.We have two locations, Austria and Serbia.VBR Server is located in Austria where our critical infrastructure resides also.Veeam is configured to do regular Backups to the Synology NAS located also in Austria.After that we configure to do Backup Copy Jobs (immidiate) from Austria to Serbia.In Serbia we have one main Synology NAS and other one also Synology for air-gapped.I would try to do something like this:1. Configure Power Schedule on NAS to be powered only on weekends.2. Configure Backup Copy Jobs and chose source as Serbia backups that are already copied from Austria and send it to the smaller NAS in Vienna. There is also few other solutions, to automate this with rsync if possible, to manual copy from one nas to another, or just to create regular backup jobs but then it will go trough IPSec and it will be a lot slower.Is there any option to connect them maybe directly

Hey all,We have Veeam (12.0.0.1420) backup jobs with a secondary target to tape.I noticed that the tape jobs were saying they took 21 hours to complete which is strange.  Seems that the tape job is starting before the backup job.We have the vm backups start at 9pm and they take about 2 hours to complete.  The tape backup starts at 9am.Example: I saw the tape backup start at 9am on a Monday, then wait until the vm backup that starts at 9pm that night finish.Not sure how it got out of whack.  The backups are still working I guess but is there a way to reset the timing?  Delete and re-add the backup job?  Maybe just re-add the secondary target to the backup job? thanksjc

Hello Veeam community 🖐🏻I have a question regarding Backup Job Encryption and Backup Copy Job Encryption.What is the general advices on this.I have different encryption passwords for each Backup Job.The question is here, do I need to enable encryption for Backup Copy Job or it will use the original encryption that we already have configured on regular Backup Job’s. 

Hi All, Looking to check if my thinking is correct for this Invoking DR Scenario with the assumption that the Veeam console config backup is available to the IT Team outside the on prem issue. The solution is: on premises there is a NAS as VEEAM repo connected into a hyperv Veeam windows VM. Backups target NAS as performance tier in SOBR then tier to Azure BLOB via COPY every night. The Scenario is: the whole on premises has failed and we want to ‘Direct restore to Azure’ from the BLOB beam backups. My Solution: I believe you would need to deploy an Azure IaaS windows VM, install Veeam Console, then restore the Veeam config file. Enter credentials to connect to Azure account, then you would be able to see the Veeam backups in BLOB, right click and select to restore to Azure Is this correct? Thanks    

Guys,I’m trying to create a new content in the “Blog and Podcast” section, but looks like I reach some limit. I don’t know if it’s a characther limit (around 1650 words) or image (50 images).Anyone know if we have a limit in the platform to create a single post?

Hello Veeam community,Is there any best practices when implementing these two into work?Currently we have it setup as a SMB share folders and Veeam is sending backups to it.I did a little bit of research and saw that people are using ISCSI and connecting Synology drive to Windows Server and using it like that. As I can see they are using ReFS File System.What would be the best optimization when we have Veeam + Synology in our Environment.Veeam B&R and our main Synology are located in the same location within same subnet.After that main Backup is done we have a Backup Copy Job trough IPSec to our Branch Office where we also have Synology NAS with SMB share.With ISCSI I saw that people are using FastClone and I’m not familiar with it at all. What is the use of it?Any advices are welcomed 😀

I’m having an issue with VBR v12, after updating NAS server and the corresponding veeam backup gateway.All backups that are configured to use the NAS server take a really long time to complete. For comparison, jobs taking 5 minutes now take over 60 hours (!). I’ve tried to reconfigure the veeam gateway (which is a requirement for NAS repositories), installing a new linux distro, reconfigure backup jobs, created a few test backup jobs with small VMs and still takes a long time.The stage of “Initializing Disk” takes hours and then copying data takes ages. This is not a issue with NFS itselft as I can copy large files to and from servers, any direction, with considerable speed.As a note, NAS server is a simple Turnkey NAS (debian 10 based) and veeam gateway is a Ubuntu 22.04.

Is there any best practices when implementing these two into work?Currently we have it setup as a SMB share folders and Veeam is sending backups to it.I did a little bit of research and saw that people are using ISCSI and connecting Synology drive to Windows Server and using it like that. As I can see they are using ReFS File System.What would be the best optimization when we have Veeam + Synology in our Environment.Veeam B&R and our main Synology are located in the same location within same subnet.After that main Backup is done we have a Backup Copy Job trough IPSec to our Branch Office where we also have Synology NAS with SMB share.With ISCSI I saw that people are using FastClone and I’m not familiar with it at all. What is the use of it?Any advices are welcomed 😀

HelloReinstalling Veeam how do I get my license back as my license expiration date is in 2024. Thanks,

I have noticed that if I go to Veeam Backup and Replication and look at our SOBR’s Space Usage Graph under the Summary tab, it shows just one day (e.g. it shows just Sat 9x instead of different days). This happened when we upgraded to version 12.  Monthly Summary shows one set of datesWhat setting if any should I change? I have updated to the latest patch and still shows the same. Version 11 did not give me this issue.

I’m working on a server that someone else setup, so I don’t know much on it’s config sorry, but it’s Veeam backup & replication 12.I’m trying to restore an ad object, so i’ve found our AD server in the backup list, went to Application items and chose active directory.When it brings up our AD, I can find the deleted user, and when I choose to restore objects it asks for credentials to connect to: ad.mydomain.com.auI’ve tried all my credentials including the domain admin one, and it just keeps erroring with the message: The supplied credential is invalid.I’ve tried with just the username, with domain/username, with username@domain and it always shows credential is invalid.Any ideas?

Hello everyone!I am preparing a documentation in setting up the Veeam Self Service plugin for vCloud Director version 10.3, we will use it as a guide for our lab environment soon.  Can anyone please provide the port numbers and protocols required between vCloud Director, VEM & VBR. Thank you

Good morning, I’m new to veeam and my company would like to perform a health assessment on our existing veeam infrastructure. Unfortunately I’m learning veeam on production :) since our veeam engineer left the company.Do you have any consultants\companies that you can refer me to?  Again, our goal is to get an idea of our current backup infrastructure health\risks and get a recommendations of what needs to be reconfigured\improved\fixed.  thank you againSergey