Author: Michael Paul | @MicoolPaul
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World Backup Day 2024: Being SMART and Predicting Hardware Failures
Hello again! Onto my second post for world backup day, this time looking at the moments leading up to a disaster. In this post we’re going to look at ways to proactively prevent failures. After all, the best backups are the (tested) ones that didn’t need to be used because everything is fine. Let’s kick…
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World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them!
Hi, for this year’s world backup day I’ll be providing two posts on topics that I believe are important for data protection, this is the first one: SLAs & Exceeding them! So, what is an SLA? An SLA (Service Level Agreement) is typically an accepted standard for a service. In the case of data protection,…
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VMware vCenter Update Manager: Unable to Import ISOs or Upload Patches
After working on a project recently where vCenter’s Update Manager wouldn’t import files, I decided to write up the troubleshooting steps and fix for my particular scenario.
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Google: Egress Fees Waived – The Reality vs The Marketing
Google Cloud Platform has been making news recently with many headlines claiming egress fees have been waived, but *spoiler alert*, they haven’t. In this article I’ve attempted to separate the marketing from the reality to explain how these changes will really impact you.
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Veeam & Veeam Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024
Times change, and software changes with them, until it’s no longer supported. At any point, a patch to an operating system, a .NET framework update, or anything else really, could end up with the software no longer being backed up properly, or not working at all in production. Without valid support there’s no process to…
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Veeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression Improvements
One lesser discussed improvement in Veeam B&R v12 is the compression improvements they’ve made when working at higher compression levels. Full benchmarks and details inside this blog post.
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Veeam B&R x Azure Storage: Failed to Copy Blob
If you’re using Veeam Backup & Replication and Microsoft Azure Storage and you find yourself with the ‘Failed to Copy Blob’ error, this post just might help!
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Veeam B&R – NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck
Ever had Veeam get stuck when attempting to migrate your NAS Cache repository data? In this post I show you how to gracefully resolve this stuck task, and another way of migrating the data.
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Veeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item Type
NAS Backups and Symlinks don’t have to be enemies, in this blog post I show you how to work around this within Veeam Backup & Replication!
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Veeam B&R: Performance Impact of Pending Tasks
Tell me if you’ve seen this situation before. You’ve got some servers & applications that need protecting. You create your backup jobs as necessary, there’s different backup jobs for your various application-integration requirements, backup frequencies, and retention requirements, it’s starting to sprawl. Inevitably there’s some job scheduling overlap. Backup jobs are waiting for other backup…
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