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NGPPENew Here
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Stacking of Veeam backup tasks

Hello All, I have a TAPE job that works well until one day is skipped, for example, due to a holiday. In such cases, it tries to back up the missed days as well, but then it no longer fits on the tape. Currently, there are 10 processes in the TAPE job, but if a day is skipped, it becomes 20 processes, and if two days are skipped, it becomes 30 processes.I can only fix it by deleting the TAPE job and creating a new one. This again only works well until a day is skipped. I am using the following: Veeam Backup and Replication 12.1.1.56, TAPE: IBM ULT3580-HH6 SCSIAny idea? Thanks,

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Chris.Childerhose
18 minutes ago
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Midnight2ssNew Here
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Veeam Backup for Windows recovery what am i doing wrong

so I am using Windows backup agent for Windows on my desktop stored on my NAS. however, I wanted to test it so I went to Virtualbox created a generic Windows 11 VM added some files and programs and installed Veeam for Windows, and created a backup. the backup finishes with no problem. I then created a different VM using the same settings as the first one. and tried to recover the test VM. but every time I attempt a bare metal restore I am faced with Restoring (C:) Error: Failed to decompress LZ4 block: Bad crc (origaal crc: e230c ...Restore failed: Failed to decompress LZ4 block: Ba Restoring (C:) Error: Failed to decompress LZ4 block: Bad crc (original crc:Saving restore logs Error: Unable to save recovery | e230c2bb, current crc: d7baf3cf). Failed to download disk'Volume[227052a4-8674-407e-9278-b900d454d9f3}'. Agent failed to processmethod {Data Transfer.SyncDisk}. Exception from server: Shared memoryconnection was closed. Failed to upload disk. Skipped arguments:[2714b7c9-3652-4f04-

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coolsport00
57 minutes ago
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Leo A.New Here
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Daylight Saving Time (DST) triggers Full Files to Tape backup of complete repository?

Hi there in Virtual World :)Running Veeam 11 - We experienced a complete full “Files to Tape” backup when the daily Tape job ran for the first time after entering Daylight Saving Time (DST) last weekend.ALL files in our backup Disk repository (xx TB) - that means UNCHANGED Veeam backup files from the last 4 months - was all sent to Tape once again - taking several job-runtime days to finish - and filling up a lot of new Tapes, which we needed to supply into the Tape library.Have anybody else experienced similar issues?As far as I have read  - Veeam operates in the UCT format - which should not be sensitive due Server time changes or DST - except changes in the local job time schedule:Daylight savings time - Veeam R&D ForumsDaylight saving switch changes job start time - Veeam R&D Forums We didn`t have any other issues running the usual VM Machine jobs to disk.This issue has been raised to the Veeam Support - and it has been escalated to their RnD engineers.So hopefully they wil

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3 hours ago
Stabz
StabzVeeam Legend
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Secure Restore / Sophos Endpoint Agent

Hello guys,I m trying to used the Secure Restore with Sophos Endpoint Agent.Is not an antivirus implemented by default in the configuration files. So I tried to edit the AntivirusInfos.xml but for the moment I got the following error message :Here the part added:<AntivirusInfo Name='SOPHOS Endpoint Agent' IsPortableSoftware='false' ExecutableFilePath='%ProgramFiles%\Sophos\Endpoint Defense\SophosInterceptXCLI.exe' CommandLineParameters= 'scan %Path%' RegPath='' ServiceName='' ThreatExistsRegEx='' IsParallelScanAvailable='false'>        <ExitCodes>            <ExitCode Type='Success' Description='Command executed successfully'>0</ExitCode>            <ExitCode Type='Error' Description='Error during command handling'>1</ExitCode>            <ExitCode Type='Error' Description='Unexpected error during CLI setup'>2</ExitCode>        </ExitCodes>    </AntivirusInfo>Does anyone have already implement Sophos Endpoint Agent with Veeam

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4 hours ago
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A.HildebrandNew Here
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Upgrade issue from V11a to V12 - VeeamExplorerForSQL.msi_explorers missing

I am trying to upgrade 11a (11.0.1.1261_22020302) to V12.1 via iso and when it gets to step 3 (Upgrading Veeam Explorers) a popup says that it can't find VeeamExplorerForSQL.msi_explorers.  Error: The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.It is looking for that file in this location (which does not exist):C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Setup\Temp\80ca74a8-4c01-451b-b8df-3d76e7abf376\FixFiles\I can't find it anywhere on the machine.  I did find an old log file that references that file that references version 9.5.  I found that file inside an old 9.5 update.  I extracted it and put it in the location asked for, but it still does not like it. 

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Chris.Childerhose
12 hours ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Object First ACE and Veeam Superstar Karinne Bessette Webinar coming up May 29th!

Hi Everyone, Please sign up to see Karinne Bessette on Object First’s Webinar “Power Up Your Ransomware Protection with Veeam & Ootbi! https://www.linkedin.com/events/powerupyourransomwareprotection7196559316001132544/theater/ 

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Chris.Childerhose
15 hours ago
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HYF_JE
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Veeam Windows Agent Restore Confusion

This is probably a relatively complicated one, but also not a critical issue for us as there’s sufficient workarounds. Not something I want to go through the trouble of a support ticket with at this time. Hoping a community member can make the seemingly complicated uncomplicated. Veeam 12.1. We have a number of systems in our environment that we use the Veeam Agent for Windows to back up. We are primarily on Nutanix AHV for our virtualization. The backups seem to work just fine. When doing some recent restore testing, we noticed something. The goal of the restore testing was to test restoring these agent backups to our Nutanix AHV cluster. When using “Restore entire VM to Nutanix AHV...” option, during the wizard when I get to the storage container page, it shows the computer, but with no disks. What I then found was that this “no disk” symptom also occurs if I use the “Instant Recovery to Nutanix AHV”, but it actually gives an error message of “The following machines have no disks, us

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Iams3le
16 hours ago
MarkPolin
MarkPolinComes here often
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

NAS Backup from Storage Snapshot with Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade

Let’s say, for the moment, that you’re an IT storage administrator with several Pure Storage FlashArrays providing production block and file storage in your datacenter.  Every time you open an article with “storage integration” or “backup from storage snapshot” in the title, you come to find that it is referring to virtual or physical machine data.  You wait for, and you hope for, one of these announcements or blogs to be about doing file backup from storage snapshot. Your wait is over!Pure Storage has developed and delivered a GitHub community project that allows you to use Veeam Backup & Replication Unstructured Data Backup to backup both NFS and SMB shares on a FlashArray, or a FlashBlade, from storage snapshot.  This includes when you have Pure SafeMode snapshot immutability turned on.Why does backup from storage snapshot (BfSS) matter for FlashArray or FlashBlade file backup?Two main reasons:Open files Point-in-time consistencyOpen FilesTo successfully protect a file share, al

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randyweis
1 day ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

VBR12 Quick Migration | in love

Hi everyone,I want to share with y’all my experience with the VBR12 Quick Migration!Im in Love, its absolutely insain how good it works, and has facilitated my lab migration 1000%!Let me show you with some screeshots the process and the result!go to the inventory, right click in the machine you want to movehere is, lets get in to itchoosing destinyIf this is a cluster, you can use vMotion, if not, Veeam Transport modeChecking if doable….Boom!! time to go! Be careful! Delete source after move, I select it, use it at your own risk.​​​​​​Process startedDone! success!! lets check in the vsphere console, here is, in the new hypervisor, turned on, ready to go!here is, works great, with minimum down time, moved clean and easy!Do you like this functionality?My home Lab loves it!cheers.

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jos.maliepaard
1 day ago
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EMcSComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Significant increase in incremental backup size (Microsoft 365)

As of the 27th March we have seen a significant increase in incremental backup size for our Microsoft 365 backup… Peaking at 800GB+ on the 31st! We have different jobs configured for different sources, for example we have separate jobs for:User Mailboxes Shared Mailboxes SharePoint Sites OneDrive SitesLooking at the size of each backup job, I think the increase in backup size is primarily due to the user mailbox jobs; the other jobs look ‘normal’ in terms of their size. Is anyone else seeing a sudden increase in backup size in the last couple of weeks?  Does anyone have any tips for pinpointing where the increase is coming from? 

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1 day ago
pureben
purebenNot a newbie anymore
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

Unstructured S3 Object Backup with Multiple Accounts on Pure Storage FlashBlade

With Veeam B&R version 12.1 we have been given the fantastic ability to protect S3 compatible object storage buckets natively. This has quickly become a key request for Pure Storage customers that utilize FlashBlade for unstructured data, given its natural ability to simultaneously host multiple types of parallel streams of various unstructured data use cases. This includes NAS file systems supporting SMB and NFS, which @MarkPolin highlighted in his recent post about my scripts that can be used for backup from storage snapshot. It also of course includes native S3 Object bucket use cases, which is something FlashBlade has been best of breed for since its inception.With Veeam’s object protection, combined with FlashBlade security perimeters around “Accounts”, an interesting scenario arises where the fencing of bucket access to separate users in separate accounts conflicts with the need to protect said buckets with Veeam. How do you go about providing Veeam with the required access a

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MarkPolin
1 day ago
Daria_K
Daria_KComes here often
posted in Content Library

Welcome to Content Library

Welcome to your essential hub for all VeeamON materials. This comprehensive repository is to keep VeeamON materials. Stay tuned for updates on recordings.Home to Expert VoicesWe're proud to host a vibrant community of bloggers, content creators, and influencers. If you've crafted a blog post, engaged in a LinkedIn discussion, or created a video about VeeamON, this space is designed for you to share and promote your work. We welcome content in all formats,  and whether created before or after the event.Tools for Creators: Do you need resources for your projects? Our Bill of Materials includes logos, PowerPoint templates, and banners to aid in the creation of public and internal content. 

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vAdmin
1 day ago
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jdc29083New Here
asked in Discussion Boards

Migration of many VMware VMs

Looking to migrate hundreds of VMware VMs from one vcenter to another.  Different vcenter versions that don’t allow online vmotion.I’ve tried Veeam Quick Migration.  Works well but with one major hassle: you can’t select the port group mapping so after each VM is migrated you have to manually map each NIC of each VM, connect it, and power it on.I’ve tried Veeam CDP permanent failover.  Works great but with one major hassle:  All the backups are still referencing the old VMs rather than the ones you failed over to.  So now the backup chain is broken and must re-add all the VMs to the jobs.CDP is so close to being perfect but for that one flaw.  Anyway to avoid it? 

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coolsport00
1 day ago
allynz
allynzVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

KQL for Veeam SysLog in Microsoft Sentinel

I have been working on learning how Veeam SysLog can be utilized with the Azure SEIM tool Sentinel. This entry focuses on what I learned about KQL and an idea of how that can be useful when examining these events. I hope you find it useful, and if anyone wants to know more about the setup, just let me know. What is KQL?Kusto Query Language (KQL) is a powerful, read-only language designed to query structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It is primarily used with Azure Data Explorer for swift and interactive analysis of vast data sets.Why Use KQL?KQL is optimized for efficiently handling massive volumes of data, making it suitable for tasks like log analysis, telemetry data crunching, and monitoring applications and infrastructure. And is deeply integrated with various Microsoft services like Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, and Application Insights. KQL's syntax is easy to pick up, especially for those familiar with SQL. It includes familiar clauses such as where, summari

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dloseke
1 day ago
Mahmood.Alganadi
Mahmood.AlganadiComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam ONE only License !

Hi Everyone,I am wondering if there is a license for Veeam ONE only (not VUL for Data Platform Advanced) as this license can be used to monitor the Virtual Infrastructure workloads that are not protected by VBR as the VUL is for 10 instances which is covered the backup instances and VONE monitoring for them but what I want to achieve is monitoring the others in the virtual environment, is that possible ? as I read in Veeam Licenses documents but still confused.Appreciate your cooperation

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leduardoserrano
1 day ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

RDP Connection via HTML5 easy and free (LAB) FreeRDP

Hello everyone,Due to Im working in improving my lab a little bit, I dismatle the whole thing, and I started from Scratch,I already posted my Windows server 2025 Installation, and now, is time to connect to those machines in a “confortable” way. (Spanish)Also I had in the past Apache Guacamle, wich work great, but I wanted to give it a try to have more tools and experiences. I do like HTML 5 due to the compatibility with all my devices, Macbook, PC, iPhone, Ipad, etc…So, today, I want to show you this little tool:FreeRDP HTML5 proxy on WindowsIm going to install it, and then to connect to my Windows machines via RDP over HTML 5, very convinient and flexible. Lets download the msi file, then, lets trigger the installation.As always, installation is very straight forwardOh! it has OpenStack integrationLocal connection, 127.0.0.1:8000 connects to the clientAfter reboot, you can access from other machines to the FreeRDP Web Client on your networkHere is a test, Windows Server 2025 accessed

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leduardoserrano
1 day ago
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Keshav SawantComes here often
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how to show capacity or media in media pool?

We have configured tape server and rescan, and inventory completed. but insert new tape in tape library and rescan and inventory done but doesn’t show of capacity or media in media pool?while creating media pool, does not appear anyone media? is there any requirement or any process? please guide. already go through following link but not work.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_to_tape_hiw.html?ver=120 help us

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Chris.Childerhose
2 days ago
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jaceg23Comes here often
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Redundancy of Backup Data

I posted the below on Reddit, let me know your thoughts...We're in talks at work to make a new GFS repo where we keep X daily Y weekly Z monthly and maybe a single yearly on the Veeam repository and also take a copy monthly/yearly from said repo to tape and then off to the safe deposit box at the bank. What if I lose my repo and all that data. Yeah, I might have a few monthly/yearly at the bank, but I'm hosed on the daily/weekly side. All that history, lost. Is anyone have a redundancy approach they're using? We're thinking about using a couple Synology boxes in in HA mode basically where they basically stay in sync with each other. Let me know what you think. I also think we could use a second Synology box do do backup copy jobs and keep the same GFS retention points there...

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MicoolPaul
2 days ago
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jrhaakensonNew Here
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How to Select Volume Greater Than 64TB Veeam VSS Hardware Provider

I am trying to backup a physical server with a 81.7TB volume using B&R version 12.1.1.56 and Veeam VSS Hardware Provider version 6.1.0.349.  I have deployed the Veeam agent in managed mode and created a Backup Proxy of the physical server which installed the Veeam Backup VSS Integration and Veeam VSS Hardware Provider.  According to Veeam a volume greater than 64TB can be backed up using the Veeam VSS Hardware Provider.  I don’t know how to reconfigure the managed physical server and/or backup job of the server in the Veeam Backup and Replication Console to use the Veeam VSS Hardware Provider.  I do not have any option to Manage Volumes on my ribbon under this managed server as the Veeam instructions dictate.  I have run a Rescan on my managed server which successfully completes finding all disks and volumes but still no option to Manage Volumes on my ribbon.  How can I ensure my managed server and backup job are properly using the Veeam VSS Hardware Provider?  Everything else is w

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Chris.Childerhose
2 days ago
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cmurdaughNot a newbie anymore
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Support for XCP-NG and ProxMox (It's been fun VMWare)

With the recent VMWare licensing consolidation and Broadcom moving to a subscription/core model, it has caused many SMBs to explore new options for a hypervisor. (such a shame.. pouring one out for my years of VMWare experience.) XCP-NG and ProxMox keep coming up in various communities. I personally have tested both and they perform really well. My only issue with them is that currently there is no native Veeam integration for the two platforms. Are there any plans for Veeam to support XCP-NG and/or ProxMox?

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2 days ago
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damien commengeVeeam Legend
posted in YARA and Script Library

Get all malwares detections

Hello,With some people help me, I have this "script" to get all differents malwares detections based on date + VM name + Path.This is usefull to avoid read several files. $Path = "C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\Malware_Detection_Logs\"$Files = (Get-ChildItem -Path $Path).FullNameSelect-String -Path $Files -Pattern '^\[(?<Date>[^\]]+).+\s(?<VM>[^:]+):.+?:(?<File>.+)' -AllMatches | ForEach-Object { $match = $_.Matches[0] [PSCustomObject]@{ Date = $match.Groups['Date'].Value VM = $match.Groups['VM'].Value File = $match.Groups['File'].Value } } | Sort-Object VM, File -Unique 

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Mahmood.Alganadi
2 days ago
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PilotMarkComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards

Veeam Toolbar Not Showing For SQL Server Plug-In

We’ve installed the SQL Server Plug-in on a couple of test boxes, but the Veeam toolbar isn’t showing up in SSMS when we open it up. Is there a trick to get it to show up so our DBA can manage Veeam backups from within SSMS?We installed the plug-in with an account that was in the local Administrators group. We right-clicked and selected “run as administrator” when we launched the installer. We went through the Veeam Plugin Configuration application. But after all of that, when we open SSMS the Veeam toolbar doesn’t show up like it does in all of the demo videos. We’ve checked the “view” settings but Veeam plugin isn’t an option there.Any help what we are missing would be appreciated. Edit: Veeam 12.1.0.2131, SSMS v15.0.18369.0, Windows Server 2019 Standard

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Chris.Childerhose
2 days ago
Daria_K
Daria_KComes here often
posted in Content Connect

Guess Who's Back? Anton Gostev Takes the Stage at VeeamON 2024!

Exciting news from VeeamON 2024! After three long years, legendary Anton Gostev, our Chief Product Officer at Veeam, returns to the stage on June 4th for the Day 2 Keynote. Get ready for demo after demo as Anton dives deep into the latest and greatest Veeam innovations.Don't keep this awesome news to yourself—share it with your network! 😊 What groundbreaking updates are you hoping to hear?  

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Daria_K
2 days ago
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JestyrNot a newbie anymore
asked in YARA and Script Library

Need advice on speeding up retrieval Backup stats via PowerShell

Hi, everyone!   I have a PowerShell script that I use to retrieve some information about the daily backup sessions.  It works well, but I was trying to transition it from the Get-VBR-Job command to the Get-VBRBackup command.  Everything works but the newer script is very slow;  it went from a few seconds with the old script to 5-10 minutes with the new.  I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers on a more efficient way to get the session information or otherwise speed it up. Thanks in advance!!RobbOriginal script#backup JobsForeach ($JobObject in Get-VBRJob){ #write-host "loop number ${$jobobject.indexof()}" $session=$jobobject.FindLastSession() if (!($JobObject.JobType -eq "BackupSync")) { $JobOutput = New-Object -TypeName PSObject if (((get-date).AddDays(-1) -lt $session.Progress.StopTimeLocal) -or ($session.Result -in "Failed","None")) { $JobOutput | Add-Member -Name "Job Name" -MemberType Noteproperty -Value $JobObject.Name $JobOutput | Add-Membe

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2 days ago
coolsport00
coolsport00Veeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts

WOW! It's OFFICIAL - Proxmox Now Supported by Veeam!

I won’t say much more than my post title. For details, check out Veeam’s official announcement page. I love how Veeam keeps innovating and accommodating customers and adjusting to the ever-changing technical (hypervisor) landscape.Well done Veeam!https://www.veeam.com/news/veeam-extends-data-freedom-for-customers-with-support-for-proxmox-ve.html

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Chris.Childerhose
2 days ago

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